i think i have read just about every issue of the mercury since it began being published (don't make fun of me...i'm a shy and sad person who doesn't talk to other people at pizza shops/bus stops/brew pubs/free health clinics and therefore needs something to occupy themselves with...i said don't judge me!) and yet i don't remember any one of these covers...

does that mean that every one of these is the worst mercury cover? no, because i remember the worse mercury cover. i don't remember the exact issue or year. but man did that fucking cover suck.

Just when you thought the Mercury couldn't get any more self-referential.

I've got to respectfully disagree with the comments on the cover for The Baby Issue: as a person who's childless (but has many friends with children) those three questions are the ones I ask myself pretty much constantly.

Also: Sean Tejarachi was the bomb, yo. I originally started picking up the MERC just to see what he'd write in that Office Monitor column.

Blah,blah,blah.

I liked the one that had fruits and vegetables in sex positions. I thought it was quite clever.