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Written: Sep 15 '00 (Updated Sep 19 '00)
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Pros: America's Underbelly
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| psugrowler's Full Review: Gear Magazine |
Always surrounding a beautiful model, the copy on the cover of Gear screams out Sport, Crime, Adventure, Music, Clothes, + … This slightly oversized magazine is something you’d find in the clutches of a jet setting, vagabond, playboy buying temporary distraction while contemplating his next thrill. Either that or a teenage, urban slacker with a rich fantasy life, wishing his connected father would hand him a summer job.
Gear magazine is a little bit of everything. It’s Hard Copy and 60 Minutes thrown into a glossy magazine format. A coffee table magazine for the axle grease and Smirnoff set that’s best left between the mattress and the box spring. Gear is the magazine you would secretly wish they had on the stack at the local barbershop, buried between the Boy’s Life and Playboy’s. It’s the read you salivate for if you’re engrossed with the cutting edge, exploits of the modern day, suburban rogue. Gear doesn’t come in a brown paper wrapper but you’re sure to shove it under the pillow the instant your momma calls you to supper.
Oddly enough, I receive Gear for free. I found a special on mycoupons.com that guaranteed me 12 free issues with no obligation. How could I resist? I’d glanced at a few of the issues in the past. Very edgy, very pop, somewhat thin. I used to buy an issue here and there but mainly just leafed through the pages at the newsstand. Not filled with pictures, it’s mainly loaded with content suggesting topics on the fringe. Things you’ve never really wondered aloud but were always curiously tempted to find out a little something more.
Gear September 2000 rolls out with Jaime Pressly on the cover. If you don’t know the name then you’ve definitely seen her. Poison Ivy 3!! If that’s not enough to make you pick up the issue the copy underneath should twist your psyche a bit – “On nudity, surfers, and robbing gas stations.”
In between advertisements for cigarettes, liquor and ghetto kicks Gear covers a variety of alarming topics:
A startling tidbit: “A man who greeted a pilot friend, “Hi, Jack,” upon boarding a plane sparked a panic in Detroit. Air traffic controllers listening over the radio called in a SWAT team.”
One page topics profile a seductive, Ms. July, Olympian volleyballer. Another features New York’s black bikers named Gunsmoke, Nitro, Claw, Whisper and Spider. When they are not tearing up the concrete at 150 m.p.h. they are watching their women attack one another with razor blades.
If a few sentences can shock your senses imagine what the full feature articles will do. Aside from covering pop culture, movies, music, gadgets, books and the like Gear puts its striking cover stories out in the open like smelling salts for the masses.
I read about our cover starlet Jamie Pressly and how she used to distract gas jockeys with her hiked up shorts so her cohorts could rip off assorted snack fare.
I read about THE LOSER - a boxer who has lost count of all his defeats in between his leisurely cocktails of girlfriends and marijuana.
I read about a man who really sees dead people … mopping up blood and body parts at his job cleaning death scenes for a living.
I read about Ya Ba. A drug made for a few pennies. A combination of methamphetamine and ephedrine. Turning people in zombies, while mindlessly working at their day jobs. People love their hopeless addiction and it’s coming to America soon.
I read about porn and how it can enhance your sex life and some random snippets we all didn’t know about casinos.
Gear is a wake up to your conscious. I found myself thinking about many of the features long after I put the magazine down. From current culture to the inside lives of many of society’s deviants. How they survive and miraculously thrive in their own little subcultures. Gear takes you into the neighborhoods you couldn’t possibly have access to and in exchange it leaves an indelible, impression on your mind.
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