Playboy is in the news. The magazine’s website stopped featuring nude women last year, and the magazine itself will follow suit soon. By way of an explanation, the World Wide Web fills the demand already. And not only for nude women, it goes without saying. Nude everything under the sun can be found on its pages. But there is little in the news concerning the magazine’s next trick. Art and entertainment it will surely be, but what else? Stories by famous authors and interviews with celebrities are old hats by now. As Hugh Hefner, still the editor-in-chief, is now eighty-nine years of age, sex for the elderly readily comes to mind. The babyboomers are all over the place nowadays. Besides, they are well endowed financially. And the old codger would know them pretty well as a generation of renown. Indeed, they would be his best bet at this juncture. With some luck, Playboy for the elderly would be a smashing success. At least financially.

Addendum (October 14, 2015)

According to Google Analytics, there was a spike in the number of visitors to my Residua website yesterday. Judging by the search words and phrases used, the only plausible reason for the spike is this spoof on the vaunted magazine. Now, what does this tell you about the human species? Or the babyboomers, for that matter? Anyhow, the best we can do is laugh and laugh about our collective predicament. Everything else is for the birds.