That's So Jane's

When I used to work at Jane's, the military equipment magazine, people regularly confused it with Jane, the women's magazine. Now someone, bizarrely enough, has riffed on that confusion. Jezebel, part of the Gawker/Wonkette/Deadspin network, has a new feature called "That's So Jane's". (Notice I'm using the British punctuation there, in honour of my days writing about armour programmes.) Their explanation:

Back by popular demand, it's "That's so Jane's," where we apply the snarky Valley Girl charm of our beloved dead magazine 'Jane' to questions pondered by the types of people who read 'Jane's', the "defence" publication that basically to the military industrial complex what WWD is to the celebrity sartorial complex.

(They say it's "back by popular demand," but I can't find any previous episodes.) Anyway, that's an ambitious goal they've set for themselves, and I don't know that they entirely succeeded, but there are funny moments. Their first episode is actually about Central Asia, which is how I happened upon it. They interviewed Joshua Foust, one of the guys from Registan, one of the big Central Asia blogs. My favorite bit is this:

Anonymous Lobbyist: Ok, anyway, do you ever get jokes about being part of the Military Industrial Complex, you know, because of your name?
Foust: You mean the Goethe play?
Anonymous Lobbyist: No I mean the "bargain" thing.
Foust: Um.

UPDATE: I found out that there was a previous episode to this series, and it was in fact a guy who has the same job I used to have at Jane's! How close I was...

Comments

[Joshua Foust]

I actually made a few jokes during the interview, but they were edited out for being "unfunny" or something (I dunno). But they've actually done this once before, with Nathan Hodge of... Jane's Defence Weekly (I'd post a link, but your comment section does not allow it).

This is amusing -- you're the fourth or fifth guy I've run across in the last few months who used to work for Jane's... none currently, all former. Is that weird, or do they have a really high turnover?