In today's issue of New York Press, we have yet another analysis of the demise of Cargo. Something about consumer porn and shopping and getting back to the "real man" stuff.

Cargo, along with Stuff, Gear, the defunct Vitals and all those other butch one-syllable names (why didn’t someone just go direct to the heart of the matter and call one Boner?) all chased after the same market—the dreaded media-made monster homo metrosexualis.

We find this paragraph extremely, extremely puzzling. First off, neither Vitals nor Boner are one-syllable names. Secondly, we don't know what to fear more: a 'butch' men's mag or a "monster homo metrosexualis?"

Especially when we're still working on being comfortable around straight guys.

CONSUMPTION PORNOGRAPHY [Steve Weinstein, New York Press]