It's shady to have contacted me via PM on a site where I was on staff. Unprofessional, really....I thought very poorly of them after that.
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Actually, I just picked up a gig for a competing magazine. But...out of professional courtesy, I generally avoid posting where there's a staff who I compete with for readers.
Honestly, I think very poorly of most of MD's staff, and they have to do a bit better than having some 45 year old men who keep saying "Keep it real" to in fact, keep it real...
Right before MD was "hardcore" it was "All Natural" no lie...and their steroid expert was the "Muscle Gourmet" and his articles were about how to make low fat pizza, not using steroids.
No lie. Low fat Pizza.
It's just not a crowd I would like to be associated with, unless I want a low fat pizza, honestly. And I'm sure they wouldn't welcome my input, since I had their magazine name and url and half their staff banned on steroid.com.
Sorry...this is probably more explanation than you wanted...but I just don't like those dudes over there at all.
I could tell you some inside stuff about most of the staff there...it's just (mostly) a shocking collection of stuff that goes on there. Bake me a Prop-eroni Pizza...
No seriously.....As an example...you know those little pharmacies that used to advertise in the waaay back of MD? Guess which one of their writers owned a piece of that pie...