<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Magazine Reader</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/columns/magazinereader?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><description>Magazine Reader</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Walt Whitman, Taking Poetic License With His Image]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45453-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45453-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>O Walt Whitman! Bard of America! Poet of Democracy! Singer of the body electric! Barbaric yawper!</em>]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stinky the Robot, Four Kids And a Brief Whiff of Success]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8429-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8429-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stinky is one ugly robot, a raggedy contraption constructed of crudely painted, cheap plastic pipes pasted together with gobs of the foul-smelling glue that gave the monstrosity its name.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a Doubt, This Believer Is Heaven-Sent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35471-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35471-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The  Believer sounds like the name of a religious magazine but it isn't. The Believer is a literary magazine. Or maybe not. Can you be a literary magazine if you run an article about a convention of people who collect '70s-era Mego action figure dolls and you tout the story with the cover line "Adorable Flaws, Goofy Charm, and Soft, Rubbery Heads"?]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Index, America's Funniest, Back of Atlantic Monthly]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61734-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61734-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Alley,  <em>Kirstie, circumference of, 109</em><br>   Bennett,  <em>Tony, digestive integrity </em><em>of, 162</em>]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Collar Of Money in New York Dog]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24726-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24726-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  At first, I figured New York Dog was an over-the-top parody of dog magazines, perhaps published by the folks who put out the Onion.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Snoop to Shrum, A Land of Second Chances]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52806-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52806-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you're  not yet convinced that the United States of America is the most tolerant, broad-minded and forgiving nation on Earth, then you probably haven't been paying enough attention to the amazing careers of Snoop Dogg, the gangsta rapper, and Bob Shrum, the jinxed Democratic political consultant.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guccione: Porn King Without a Penthouse]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16854-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16854-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Gooch is down but he's not out. <br>Bob Guccione lost Penthouse, the magazine that made him rich and famous, in a bankruptcy sale last fall. His pig-headed arrogance has caused most of his children to stop speaking to him. Throat cancer has left him with slurred speech and a feeding tube...]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resonant Distortion]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46034-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46034-2005Jan3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Guitar World magazine turns 25 this year, celebrating with an anniversary issue that's the literary equivalent of a shrieking guitar solo with the amp turned to 11.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathing New Life Into Dead Celebs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41893-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41893-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Lawyers are frequently mocked -- and with good reason -- as shysters, sophists and pettifoggers. So it is refreshing indeed to read Los Angeles magazine's celebration of two lawyers who worked tirelessly to win justice for an exploited minority group.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World Watch, Kicking Dirt on Three Big Greenies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6009-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6009-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Environmentalists around the world are buzzing over a controversial article printed in the November-December issue of World Watch, the magazine published by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington-based enviro group.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane, Dressed in a Plain Brown Wrapper]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35568-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35568-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Jane is  raunchy. Jane is randy. Jane is snide and sarcastic and self-centered. Jane is a little nutty and a little slutty. Jane is cheesy and sleazy and trashy. And I mean that in the best possible way.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside the Green Zone, Iraq Is More Midwest Than Mideast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25444-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25444-2004Oct11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In  Baghdad's Green Zone, mortar shells come flying in so regularly that the Americans working there run office betting pools on when the next will arrive.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a Ball: Sports Illustrated's 50th Birthday Issue]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55570-2004Sep27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55570-2004Sep27.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  As ceilings go, the one in the Sistine Chapel is right up there at the top, which is where a good ceiling should be.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Troubling Solution for Teens in Trouble]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16875-2004Jul26.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16875-2004Jul26.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Psssst!  Hey, buddy, wanna get rid of your kid?<br>Go ahead, admit it: The kid's a big disappointment. He was so cute when he was born but now that he's a teenager, he's a snotty little creep. His grades stink, his room is a toxic waste dump, his hair is purple, his friends are losers and he...]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncovering Naked Truths]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45428-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45428-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The  best thing about nudist magazines is that they give you a newfound appreciation for clothing.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bar Fights: Men's Journal  Reveals the Staggering Truth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13553-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13553-2004Jun28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With the possible exception of reality TV, nothing illuminates the comic pathos of the human animal better than a bar fight.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patti Wood and the Posture Phenomenon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42111-2004Jun14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42111-2004Jun14.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Patti  Wood is a sage. She's a savant, a scholar, a seer. Patti Wood is the perfect expert for our age. She is God's gift -- or maybe academia's gift -- to America's cheesy magazine industry.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embedded With the Resistance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5158-2004May31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5158-2004May31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When reporter Patrick Graham asked his Iraqi friend Mohammed why he was fighting against the Americans, Mohammed said he was inspired by the Mel Gibson movie "Braveheart."]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yakety Facts: The Word on Clinton in Vanity Fair]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34846-2004May17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34846-2004May17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  If you're planning a dinner party, take this bit of sage advice: Don't invite Bill Clinton.]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Gluten for Punishment]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64394-2004May3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64394-2004May3.html?nav=rss_style/columns/magazinereader</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 8:10:32 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Organic! All-Natural! Fat-free! Cholesterol-free! Gluten-free! Bromate-free! These days, ads are packed with scads of scientific-sounding claims. But are they true? Or are they 100 percent fact-free?]]></description><author> Peter Carlson</author></item></channel></rss>