Showing posts with label HOH Magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HOH Magazine. Show all posts

Friday, March 17, 2023

HOH Magazine: February/March 2023 Issue

HOH Magazine cover, featuring David not photoshopped onto Oprah’s body for a change — standing in front of a brick wall mural that says LOVE, wearing red pants and a plain caramel-colored sweater, posing with his hands out and down by his sides, semi-crouching a little. The first headline reads “Self-Esteem Engine: Due For Inspection!” Subtitle: “I need some regulation, just like all those train companies that keep derailing & causing ecological disasters Jesus Christ” Then there is a blue point-covered oval shaped seal that reads “Multiple Breakthroughs Inside!!” And a third area of text that reads: “Blue Buddies! David reprints his choice Letterboxd thoughts on the AVATAR movies! Page 2” which is just a little joke, the entire blog is on one page, technically.

First of all, I haven't shaved my beard yet. I am not exactly sure why. I know I said I would. It seems I have grown to like it this way. There's a significant charm to it now, and I know if I shave it off I won't get that back. Not for, you know, another thousand days. I'm not sure when I graduated from tolerance to affection, but I'm letting myself luxuriate in the big spindly bush before I take control of it. Which is itself a form of control.

Anyway, I wanted to jot down some personal thoughts, and hey that's what a blog is for. Why not just cut out the middle-man and publish it? This is supposed to be fun, not work. Let's see if I still vibe with that approach by the time I'm finished writing this, hah!

Saturday, September 24, 2022

HOH Magazine: Quarantine Day 900 Edition

The cover of this HOH Magazine edition is a selfie of David Hoh on the 900th day of his personal track of quarantine/pandemic/2020 in a gilded frame. What are we doing, people???? Big font reads “(900) Days of BUMMER” on the bottom of the image, above the frame border. Smaller text in the upper-right corner reads “A check-in issue about my current issues”

We're halfway there, folks! September 2nd, 2022, was the 900th day since I locked down for 6-8 weeks (42-56 days) and began counting the squares on the calendar (900 days.)

I've been on a sort of HOH Magazine haitus. I began, stalled, re-began, stalled, and re-began an issue of HOH Magazine for March of 2021, listing the names of the various humans whose lives were directly, literally threatened by a literal angry mob, and still decided to vote to not convict the man responsible for telling the angry mob where to go to find these very same people and inflict treasonous violence against them. That's weird!

Saturday, March 26, 2022

HOH Magazine: New Year 2022 Issue

Cover of HOH - The David Magazine. David's face -- wearing glasses and sporting an unkempt beard and whisked mustache -- is photoshopped onto Oprah's head -- hair tied up in a ponytail -- in this O Magazine parody for the January 2017 cover; standing arms wide against the backdrop of the Grand Canyon. Big font on either side of the hips reads LIVE BIG! Under that on the left side is "(Within the confines of your continuing quarantine...)" Up top a headline reads "How the CDC finally became dumber than me - PG. 100" and beneath that, another: "THE GRAND CANYON - Once the weather warms up going outside will feel good" and on a colored square in the lower right corner is "Two years and counting! Fuck all y'all, I'll coop up until YOU fix this mess"

Same year, new me! It's been two years to the Day (St. Patrick's that is) that I started officially quarantining. That's much, much more than eight weeks guys, come on, what's up?

So it's still 2020, and still 2016 as well. I don't make the rules of arrested development, I just serve my time. A lazy, knee-jerk inclination to alter that opening quip to say "same me" was escorted quickly out of my head, because I am still pushing against the ceilings of evermore chrysalis-tine chapels within me, trying slowly but surely to grow and change. Even if the world emphatically doesn't want me to. You will get your David's worth even if you have to choke on it.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

HOH Magazine: February 2021 Issue

HOH The David Magazine Cover - David's face on Oprah's body sits sideways on a director's chair that says HOH on the back, holding a cover of this very magazine, quite meta. The headlines: "WHAT THE HECK DO I KNOW ABOUT LOVE" - "Donald Trump: Yep! Still a loser! He should have lost in a landslide, but roughly 48% of Americans are brain-damaged, foolish, bigoted, idiot terrorists — more facts on page 69" - "Who's Hungry? Doctor Hannibal Lecter (NBC's 'Hannibal') shows us a few culinary secrets, revealing that his dishes are more than 'meats' the eye!" - Active Appreciation the craze that's not yet sweeping the nation!"

The Love Edition, whatever that means. Inside, this cold fish will dish out hot tips and outsider info on that crazy little thing called love. I'll help you understand what it is to 'be yourself' a little better. I even write a love letter to my 16-year-old self! Happy Reverse-Valentine's Day!

Saturday, February 13, 2021

HOH Magazine: January 2021 Issue

David Hoh's face on Oprah's body, with Eastern Tiger Swallowtail wings. Headlines read: "New Year, Fuck You! Aggressively anticipate the year's sneaky bullshit!", "BIGGEST LOSER: DONALD TRUMP - Wow. What a loser he is. He lost. What a dumb piece of shit. Dumb loser, that guy.", and ""Caterpillar into butterfly, a blooming canvas colored brilliant colors caught the eye' - Foxy Shazam's Gonzo keeps on being personally relevant!"
Welcome back, bitches!

New Year, New Issue!

Welcome back! I'm your new Oprah, yet again! Snatching the mantle for smithing my opinions and thoughts into self-help (or just media recommendations) once more! Read on for the new and renewed HOH Magazine!!

Monday, September 18, 2017

HOH Magazine: July 2017 Issue

A photoshopped cover of O, the Oprah Magazine changed to HOH, the David Magazine, with Oprah laying on her back in a flower bed, reading a book and holding a cocker spaniel in her lap, has been replaced with David's face in the same pose, and the book has been re-skinned to have the front and back covers of "Cookin' With Coolio, 5 star meals on a 1 star budget", with the spine of the original book colored purple to match the scheme of Coolio's book, with the word "Coolio" from the front cover pasted on the spine. The primary headline in big letters on this magazine now reads "Boobs, Glorious Boobs!" (as opposed to the original "books") and instead of "Pull up a cocker spaniel and start reading..." it says "Pull up a cock spanker and start Pulling..." because David practices all forms of humor. The other two headlines are left un-touched, but given added words by David: "6 Healthcare Musts Every Woman Should Fight For...(Hint: Viagra isn't one of them)" has the added parenthetical (OBVIOUSLY) in a font that looks like rushed paintbrush strokes, though it is the same white color as the other font. Up top in the right corner, "The U.S. of YUM: Our Favorite Food Finds from all 50 states" includes the extra text "Yes, even Ohio"

July. I'll begin by exclaiming that I've been in (and on) the water more times this summer than any summer for many a recent year. Partly for filming Detective P.I., partly for vacation, or at least vacation-adjacent, purposes. I've grown accustomed to swimming in lakes in the last seven years, even though I still dislike lakes for various reasons. Hey, let's make that the first topic: David critiques Minnesota's most popular natural resource! (Yeah that's right, get bent, iron!)

Sunday, July 9, 2017

HOH Magazine: May 2017 Issue


Well, it's June July but this is the May issue. This is how we work, until I figure out how to "indulge less." I strive to deliver good content, and I don't joke around: this is a hefty magazine. I've got a lot on my mind. Snuffles want to be understood; Snuffles need to be understood. But I never promised anything about being on time. This is something I make in the gaps of time I can fill, and I don't have many, as things keep cropping up every day. Like plowing through a field and you keep finding gold you gotta deal with. Anyway, we'll only cover May affairs. But maybe we'll group all of summer for expedience's sake? Or I'll just write less/phone it in. Who knows!!

Monday, May 15, 2017

HOH Magazine: April 2017 Issue


It's been a month, what's new? This is generally the 'know' which inquiring minds want to. But what if, even after basically 30 days of continued [thank God] living, I haven't solidly accomplished anything I wrote about wanting to accomplish last month? Well, read inside; this month's issue has a few new features, as well as a few more words going on about Reverse-Valentine's Day, even though I feel I competently covered the subject last month.

Sunday, March 12, 2017

HOH Magazine: March 2017 Issue (#1!)


I have been on a break, from many a project. Things I'll "do shortly" became "get around to eventually" because I'm prioritizing being with friends these days. Creatively I'm letting myself down, but it's all the same to procrastination. Procrastination is simply (or, put simplistically) the attention paid to distractions and diversions. This is even one of those. A distracting new project that isn't much worth prioritizing, yet feels like a thing I can bang out in a day, tapping away though, as I do now, when I have a moment of inspiration, a knowledge of what exactly to put down.
(And yet this paragraph is like a week and a half old now...More inside!)