San Diego Pix

Let it be said that there is no meaningful content in this free magazine that can be found around San Diego. No depth at all. It is just men looking pretty or drunk and lustful. It is catered to the gay crowd because you see plenty of guys in speedos hugging each other in pictures that were taken by a photographer sneaking around in San Diego’s gay night life. Most of the people in the pictures look like they are tweaking or just plain drunk. There are of course words in the magazine which is mainly comprised of advertisements for bars mostly and the specials that they have going on. A professional model is also slapped on the front cover and in the middle of the magazine as well. The magazine is fine if you want a shallow moment and just look at (mostly) pretty pictures. Don’t expect to think with this magazine, that is ok sometimes though. We all need to flat line our brains sometimes.

Have you ever spotted a skinny, hipster-​looking guy crawling around the Hillcrest and North Park nightlife, looking to photograph boys in compromising situations? Odds are that guy works for SD Pix, and he wants the world to know that YOU, my friend, are a man-​whore and an alcoholic. Not that there’s anything wrong with being a man-​whore or an alcoholic in this day and age, mind you.
It used to be that your compromising situations would only be published in print, on the salacious pages of San Diego Pix magazine, and then they would fade from memory once the next issue came out and the previous one was tossed in the recycling bin. But now, thanks to the magic of the internet, photos of you can be archived on the web… forever! Ain’t technology grand?
But enough philosophizing — what’s the real verdict on San Diego Pix? Let me put it this way: In the distinguished pantheon of freebie rags that you can pick up outside of metro San Diego coffee shops and alongside streetcorners, I’d place San Diego Pix below Citybeat, but well above the La Jolla Light.