Hello everyone! Welcome to another Hump. I just finished reading from a magazine, so today’s meme will be about magazines.
1. Do you currently subscribe to any magazines? If so, which ones?
I subscribe to Mad Magazine, Self, Allure, Weight Watchers, Glamour, Reader’s Digest, and The Ensign. My subscription to Mad runs out in November, and I won’t be renewing it–I like classic Mad better than current Mad. So I’ll save up, buy the CDs, and have all the old classic Mad in one place. The Reader’s Digest subscription was one of those “my kid’s selling magazine subscriptions for school would you please buy one” deals; the person who hit me up is a good work friend, and I’m a sucker for helping the kids. I’m not a huge Reader’s Digest fan, but it was the only magazine I could see myself reading that I didn’t already get and that wasn’t so expensive I couldn’t afford it.
2. What magazines have you subscribed to in the past?
Psychology Today, Rolling Stone, Time, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Lucky, Gourmet, Better Homes and Gardens, Us Weekly, History, Twilight Zone, A Taste of Home, More, Newsweek, The Smithsonian, National Geographic, Metropolitan Home, Scientific American. I enjoy all of them, but I’ve only got so much money. It’s kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I choose to spend my money on the frivolous magazines instead of the ones that actually have something important to talk about, huh? It’s funny–I didn’t realize how many magazines I used to get. I keep remembering one more magazine I used to subscribe to. My problem is that I’m a tremendously fast reader, so I go through a magazine like nobody’s business. And then there are all those stacks of paper. So I’ve limited my magazine subscriptions to the ones that (a) I can afford and (b) I read regularly anyway. The other ones I’ll read at the library or else do without.
3. What do you do with the little cards that always fall out of the magazine? Do you toss them, or have you found a use for them?
I usually toss them. I’d be interested in hearing what one could possibly use them for!
4. If you could start a magazine, what would it be about? Who or what would be on the cover of the first issue?
My magazine would be for medievalists, and would be about history, art, and literature from the Middle Ages. Geoffrey Chaucer would, of course, be on the cover of the first issue! It would be a hideously expensive little magazine, because there’s such a limited market for such a thing. But wow! What fun it would be!
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Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. If one of the questions doesn’t inspire you then simply “pass” it. Just use your imagination!
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falnangel7 // June 6, 2007 at 4:43 pm |
I saw someone’s answer that they used to put the magazine cards in the mail to send the publishers the message that they weren’t appreciated. I think its a great idea
It was Betty @ http://alphabetsoupmemes.blogspot.com/ that came up with it.
Happy Hump Day!