I dont think we have beat this pinata enough! lets string it up and beat it some more. Yeah the writing suckzzzzzzzz Yeah the photography suckzzzzzzzz Yeah the Karzzz suckzzzzzzzz This magazine suckzzzzzzzz That magazine suckzzzzzzzz This group suckzzzzzzzz That group suckzzzzzzzz This TV show suckzzzzzzzz That TV show suckzzzzzzzz Everything suckzzzzzzzz........
Boy Mike's mad now. Seriously, why don't you dingleberries create your own magazine? I buy it, it ain't perfect, but it does speaks to the home builder. It's so ridiculous that now that this shit's popularity is hitting the stratosphere, everyone's bitching about it. Would ya'll prefer to go back to the days when there were 30 cars at VLV? You're never happy. BTW, where the hell can I get a copy of CKD? I haven't seen it for sale anywhere. OSR's available everywhere.
Hey Nads, you can get CKD and lots of other mags from HAMBer Side Valve on his website www.thehotrodcompany.com Max
NADS - I ordered my copy thru Baracuda. I ordered on Thursday and got it on Monday, way fast service. Now there is a mag that needs proofreading.(but I still dont complain) They have Bo Huffs party pics mixed with Lonstar Roundup pics. I was trippin at 1st because i knew Bo did not go to the roundup, then I figured it out.
It appears old school rodz is the bottom end extreme the car magazine scale and Street Rodder is the top. I like most all of 'em but kinda lean toward the bottom, where I can relate more closely... And by "bottom" or "top", I don't mean good or bad....just different ends of the scale...si comprende? I guess I'm a bottom-leaner.
I don't think I'd ever buy an issue - for most of the reasons already mentioned - but my kid and his wife got me a copy of OSR, Custom Rodder, and one other pub that I can't recall, for my birthday. Then they let me choose between the three for a subscription as my gift. I had never noticed OSR before, but I picked it - mostly 'cause it looked like fun. That was back in mid August and I haven't seen anything in the mail yet. I sure hope they don't go tits-up, as I wouldn't be too happy if they switched the balance of my subscription over to The Horse (I'm just not that much into bikes). Guess I'll have to give them a call and try to find out what's up.
I still can't find the last issue, I've been wanting to see that chick's pink Chevy with the spiderwebs. She's rockalious, the car looked cool. I still want a job taking photos and not work at Wal-mart like a kool kat.
I don't think you can ever have enough articles about being 'kewl'- in fact, I was hoping some of ya'll would write some 'tech' posts on it I'm also caught in the middle- I like the fact OSR has cars that look like they were built by working guys for themselves not like CR, where you can tell it was built for some gold chainer. Can't one of you clever cats create a magazine in the happy medium? We waste enough typing skills here for free- let's get paid! (so I can buy some sweet, sweet billet
[ QUOTE ] Seriously, why don't you dingleberries create your own magazine? [/ QUOTE ] I don't write magazines, if I did they would suck. That's why I don't write magazines. I try not to do things that suck. Rob Fortier is great at writing magazine articles, but I suggest that he not delve into brain surgeory. Just my opinion.
I could write for a magazine, truly I could. I'm not bragging, but I could make a cold stab in the back seem like a warm cuddle. I'm sure I'll never get the chance. Read some English car mags and you'll understand what I mean. Their writing is so far superior to what we have here. There's really no excuse, but we get what we deserve. I'll say it again, I think David Snow's tenure at Iron Horse gave us some of the best writing in American magazine journalism in modern times. He's one of my heroes. He could not be bought or sold, I miss his writing a lot. Having said that OSR is what it is, I wish it was barbaric and cynical, but it's not. However it is grass roots and isn't a vehicle for its advertisers. I'll support it just because my good friend Mike Harrington is a photographer for them. BTW, The Horse magazine's tribute to Indian Larry issue is really good, good enough that I cried whilst reading it.
[ QUOTE ] Crease, your spelling of surgery sucks. [/ QUOTE ] Thats why he's a mechanical engineer instead of an editor/proofreader/magazine guy.
You know if the world was perfect some folks would still find something to complain about. I like it, the tough guy shit in the magazine just gives me a chuckle sometimes but the rest is okay. Someone posted asking if OSR went belly up then the " bitch about OSR" bandwagon started filling up and rolling down the hill fast! And yet no one has answered the fellas' question, not even me.
[ QUOTE ] Rob Fortier is great at writing magazine articles, but I suggest that he not delve into brain surgeory. Just my opinion. [/ QUOTE ] Can I practice on you? Shit, advertise your brain in one of our magazines, and I'll do a super-dooper tech story on how to "hop it up"!
No, I just want to "delve" into brain surgery! I'd ask you to volunteer, but I'm afraid I'd get drunk the minute I split open your skull!!!
How do people know they hate a magazine they don't read??...I don't read the magazine, so I find it impossible to comment on it....Must be a bunch of closet OSR readers around here...It's time to come out and proclaim your gayness in old school rodderdom.
ok,i cant keep quiet any longer!do you assses realize how much money it takes to start a magazine? if you guys who bitch and moan about it so much just email the staff and tell Them how you feel and what you feel should be different,then maybe they might listen. it is funny how some people here will bitch about the OSR mag but you all send email to the rag or do the OhOhOhO here is my car can you take a picture of it to put in your rag dance. you know my boss bitches about how the economy sux and he isnt making any money since 2001,but he didnt vote last week. that is exactly what some you guys do.bitch about something but wont do shit to change it...think about it.. and if you dont like what i said then F@#k you! oh,i called the rag and they told me they are not folding or have not folded.there see just a simple phone call and i got the answer! Sorry for the long rant,Squigy
I'll say it. I like it better than all the others out there on the news stands. In fact it's the only one I buy. I'll look at the others if someone gives them to me. I don't like everything about it but it doesn't seem to be filled with all the same stuff. It's like TV, if you don't like it switch the channel or turn it off. I guess I'm just a bottom feeder.
Hey Nads Mike Harrington just left OSR to go to Super Chevy.His photograpy was why I picked up that mag.
Thanks brother NADS for the compliment. Sweats is right. Im a muscle car guy now. But I did shoot enough stuff for OSR that they can run my stuff for about the next year.....It'll give people more stuff to complain about.
I have flipped through a few issues and do enjoy checking out the pics of the cars. Now, the whole rockabilly and Kewl factor stuff I could really do without, because I am no way a "Greaser" as the "rag" calls the people who enjoy this lifestyle. Anyway, the one truely positive thing that I think all of us should respect is that this "rag" deals with something that we all here on the forum truly love.............. cars!!!!! (aside from the whole attitude thing) Just my thoughts
i put a little grease in my hair. i'm a dick with an attitude ,and i like to fight. i wear boots. i drink beer. i drive a car that has been called a "rat rod". i look at the pictures in osr but dont spend the money on it because i dont have alot to spend. i think that what you guys that are whinning about it being a scenester mag should do is, think about something. we all have a love for cars. i'd rather my son look at osr than dubs or some honda tunning mag. pull your wet panties out of your vag, and let the mag know you dont like it if you want it changed. i'm sure they give a shit
say what you will about OSR, but we need it around. if for anything else, to keep all the cars out of a fine motorcycle publication. nads: my sentiments exactly on david snow. i remember the issue where he warned of an internal power struggle and wrote if he were to disappear from the pages, then the bad guys had won. anybody know what snow is up to these days?
Speaking of The Rodders Journal (Crease did) how come it's November and I have only got 1 issue this year? Did I send them $80 for 2 yr renewal & I'm gonna only get 1 issue? Shoulda subscribed to OSR.
[ QUOTE ] Can I practice on you? Shit, advertise your brain in one of our magazines, and I'll do a super-dooper tech story on how to "hop it up"! [/ QUOTE ] Hell yeah! My brain could use some hoppin up. I can't even spell brain surgery.
Hey other Bellm, whaddup? Back to the topic: Why the fuck do people give such a shit about what different magazines decide to run? Magazines are just one company's take on what's going on, presented within the restrictions of time/money/staff/location/potential readership. People talk like we elected them to speak for our hobby. Fuck no. It's just one editor's view of the world. Yeah, OSR is a bit hokey at times. But at least they're doing something. As someone said, it's damned hard to get a magazine out the door at any level of quality. The fact that the've done a half-dozen or so issues and can make some kind of economic case for it says something. And the fact that so many people here hate the only commonly-available magazine devoted to trad rods and customs makes me wonder just what the fuck this board is about anyway. If nothing else, I've found when you polish a publication too much, it loses some energy. (I know this firsthand. I worked for Publications International, one of the stuffiest, stick-up-its-ass car publishers on the planet.) I'm pretty confident that if OSR tightened up its stuff and started looking like Rodder's Urinal, then we'd see another four pages of posts bitching that it had "lost its edge." Don't like. Don't buy. Problem solved. Dave
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