Embarrassing Things vs. Time It Takes to be Funny [Click for more] This is the craziest job I’ve ever had: For three summers during college I worked for a porn magazine, and what struck me most was that convicts have decent grammar. Although, that sentence has several exaggerations. The first of which is the phrase “porn magazine.” I did work for a pornographic periodical, but it wasn’t an operation that hired models or took photos. It was a monthly collection of photos of celebrities being naked. That’s a genre of porn magazine and it feels slightly less sleazy because it doesn’t produce more pornography but simply gathers existing stuff and organizes it by starlet. Continue

Embarrassing Things vs. Time It Takes to be Funny [Click for more]

This is the craziest job I’ve ever had: For three summers during college I worked for a porn magazine, and what struck me most was that convicts have decent grammar.

Although, that sentence has several exaggerations. The first of which is the phrase “porn magazine.” I did work for a pornographic periodical, but it wasn’t an operation that hired models or took photos. It was a monthly collection of photos of celebrities being naked. That’s a genre of porn magazine and it feels slightly less sleazy because it doesn’t produce more pornography but simply gathers existing stuff and organizes it by starlet. Continue