I really don't need to add yet another magazine to my reading list, but when I see one with Will Demps on the cover...well really, what's a girl to do. This is the premiere issue of SET Magazine, the vanity project brainchild of Mrs. Samari Rolle. According to the website:
"Our mission is to provide an intimate look at professional athletes lives as they endure hardships, overcome failures and celebrate their success in their perspective professions. We get up close to take an in-depth look at otherwise classified information."
Anyway, one of the NBA's "nice guys" - Antawn Jamison - is profiled in the mag along with his wife, Ione. Jamison has a squeaky clean reputation, has been married to the same woman for 5 years, and has kids born well after the first 9 months of marriage. On paper, this seems like a model marriage, especially by NBA standards, so I was curious to read what SET unclassified. I should've just stopped at the pictures of Will.
SET: What's the last romantic thing you did for each other?
Ione: Antawn is the best gift giver ever. Just Monday, he upgraded my diamond earrings [from two to three carats]. He went to Vegas, and I didn't even know he'd taken them with him.
SET: How does she spoil you?
Antawn: She gives me little gifts all the time. I really wanted this Louis Vuitton backpack and I couldn't find it anywhere, and she went and got it made for me.
Seriously, is this what romance boils down to - a bigger pair of diamond earrings and a Louis Vuitton backpack? Regardless of the state of the economy, what the fuck? Groupies trade sex for material goods. Shouldn't marriage/love/romance go beyond groupie love? What is so romantic about buying shit when one spouse's yearly salary - $16,360,090 for 2007-2008 - makes buying shit limitless? Before you say, "But that just shows they don't spend their money on all that all the time so it is romantic when they do," let me stop you, future much-younger-second-or-third-wife-of-some-rich-man. Let me also discount the notion that I think money is bad or diamond earrings are bad. But if your romance is driven by the same accumulation of shit that drives groupie love, how is your love any different?
Photo/Article Source: SET Magazine
4 comments:
Agreed. But more than simple agreement, I'm glad to see an update to this blog. Will we get more on a more consistent basis? ;)
That depends on Blogger. This blog keeps getting blocked after I post something, and then I have to wait like 2 weeks for them to unblock it. So annoying.
LOL... That's hilarious. Hmm, IMO, Not romantic!!! I thought she was gonna at least he runs me a bubble bath, surprises me with flowers all the time...I mean anything, but that.
Not a good example of someone being romantic. And Willy... Love him, but secret weapon...yea, so secret the Texans didn't know about him.
i gues he has to give her gifts...he cheats on her left & right, doesn't claim her, forever saying he's "seperated or getting a divorce", that's the least he can do!
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