The Underground Road to Fame & Fortune: Let’s Buy Field & Stream…
By Tom Chandler on Sep 17, 2006 in Fly Fishing, News, Underground Entertainment
Ever wonder why you should actually fish and hunt in the wet, uncomfortable outdoors when you can simply write about it instead?
Well, here’s your chance. Moldy Chum reports that the venerable Field & Stream magazine is on the auction block, and with retro-mania the rage among the aging boomer set, my proposal is simple:
The Undergrounders pool their money (I know Sully’s pretty loaded, and Chris Raine owns a fly shop, so we know he’s got millions stuffed in his mattress), and we re-launch the magazine in retro-dress - like it was the 1950s and 1960s.
Viola! No controversial pollution or environmental stories, the equipment’s so cheap it’s almost free (I’m buying a truckload of Hardy reels for $35), and - best of all - we won’t waste precious advertising revenue buying new content.
We simply run all of the old stories under the old author bylines, thereby avoiding the modern - and inefficient - practice of running the old stories under new bylines.
It’s genuis like this that sets the Underground apart from the rest of the sniveling pack of fly fishing blogs. Arf!
p.s. - Click here to see Field & Stream’s entry into the bikini wars. Oy.
[tags]bikini, field and stream, magazine, Time[/tags]
yellowstoner | Sep 17, 2006 | Reply
.. Dowa mom really have four hands? No wonder she caught the fish!
Guy.
Tom Chandler | Sep 17, 2006 | Reply
Yellowstone, when you going to allow comments on your blog? I’ve got all sorts of material saved up for you… 8-)
Sully | Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
Count me in! Anglers could use another dose of Ted Trueblood, Ed Zern, Al McClain and- you saw this coming- Tapply’s pickerel tips.
Tom Chandler | Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
I couldn’t agree more. Back to the days when fly rods were (rightfully) bamboo or glass and real men wore flannel.
McManus. I read a lot of McManus too.