Magazines (lets Plunket Breeze)

Everything can be so happy, then you can recieve one email and get a bunch more work to do! I was thinking and decided the world of magazines is an excellent place to cheer oneself up. _____________________

Magazines come in every shape and size and there's pretty much one or more for every subject. In my personal experience, I haven't actually read all that many so I have a lot to learn! There's my mum's Good Food and Good Housekeeping, my brothers PC Gamer, my younger brother's Spongebob Suarepants. I've dipped into Vogue at friends houses and National Geographical at the doctors, other fashion ones at the opticians. But that's not even that many, in the giant world of mags.

I used to get Mizz, which is a teenage girls magazine, and then I got Sugar (a slightly older teenage girls magazine). I currently get the free Duke of Edinburghs magazine that I kinda want to unsubscribe to, because it's a waste of paper, but I don't know how.

Yes, my area of expertise is definitely teen girl magazines. Lots of pictures, fashion, cringes: a simple formula that I'm sure would be easy to re enact to great advantage. Everyone has surely dreamt of their own magazine, and it would be different for everyone - their own little world. Perhaps you could even argue that a blog, similarly to a magazine, is a way of publishing oneself.

But I've gone off on a tangent. When I was younger, a friend and I used to make our own magazine for fun. We'd write articles and cut out pictures from other mags. The first ones we made were called Lipz. Each of the issues had different names like "Flamin' Hot" Lipz and "Peachy Plum" Lipz and we wrote little articlesand stories and made adverts - they were amusing and kinda satirical.Last year me and that friend we doing some reminising and decided to make another magzine - bigger and better (A4) than ever before! It would be called "Plunket Breeze" and would be an alternate, satirical teen girls magazine. "Cos a girl just gotta have something to plunket breeze with". I remember loving the front over - we cut out pictures of lipgloss from loads of other magazines and made this funky colourful mess on the front.

There are articles such as "10 ways to get Beaten up in Britain" and really outlandish embarassing moments and a quiz entitled "How Close are you and your Best Mate?" where questions go like

"2. The reason you spend all day at her house is:
-U've got no other friends
-Her mum is so beautiful *sigh*
-It makes you realise how much nicer your house is
-Find a nu best mate"

"8. Your best mate stood you up, what do you do?
-Find a nu best mate"

Good times, good times.
Actually I just read the magazine again - it's hilarious - way better than any actual published magazine.

Well anyway, magazines are pretty great. I know in America the subscriptions are ridiculously cheap - when I bought a copy of seventeen when on holiday this year I remember it being something like $10 for one year. Shocking no? You could pay a good £15 easily for a 12 months subscription in the UK. Lap it up, you lucky guys.

So enjoy your magazines, in their different shapes and, their different minds and prices. Don't cheer yourself up with a book - roll over the floor reading a funny mag instead!