I wish I’d known about Sassy while I was becoming nauseated by the glossies instead! However, I can say the lowbrow idiot glossies made me what I am NOT today.

Um. Confession. I threw out all my old Sassys (they WERE cut to shreds) when I moved.

I have maybe half a dozen issues, and I’m keeping them forever! But if I’d had a whole set, it might have been a harder decision. I try not to have a Magazine Collection, though it’s hard to throw away the oldest ones and the ones with sentimental value. I’ve got a few classic Spys, some vintage and/or personally meaningful New Yorkers (but I’m trying to keep it under ten or twenty, tops) a ’60s Monocle, a very nice issue of Ezra Pound’s literary magazine The Exile, a few really excellent ’50s and ’60s movie magazines that unpack the whole Elizabeth Taylor/Debbie Reynolds/Eddie Fisher thing in extreme detail.

And…let’s see, some Mights, and a couple of the earliest issues McSweeney’s, though you don’t want to go too crazy saving that kind of thing. Hey, Dave Eggers, I know how you can raise money; put the first ten years on DVD! Really! I’d buy it. I bet he’s already doing that, too.