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― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:47 (twenty years ago) link
I applied for a job at Bitch! ;)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 March 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link
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― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link
::falls off chair laughing at oxymoron::
OK, I'm done laughing now. I think we've still got 40,000 back issues of Archeology Today or something still in the spare room. Sigh. Not mine, HSA's mum's.
I haven't subscribed to a magazine since CTCL. Before that, is was Select. Every time I subscribe, the magazine goes out of business, so I've decided not to be the harbinger of doom.
― Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago) link
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― Psycho Kate (kate), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago) link
Select, one year (special offer, free kettle, 2 mugs and some coffee. Kettle got used loads, and is still 'reserve' for main kettle failure.)
Mojo (current), as freebie was Buzzcocks singles boxset.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago) link
Magazine subscriptions make very good gifts I think.
― Archel (Archel), Friday, 26 March 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
My wife happily subscribes to the Horrible Histories magazines, which her class of 10 year olds adore. I doubt I'll see any ILXers in there.
― Rob M (Rob M), Friday, 26 March 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
None. The problem with computing magazines is that they can't be more up to date than the news that's already announced and all over the web. I'd say just go to http://www.macuser.com if anything.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link
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― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
kyle are you spelling this "the gaelic way"?
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Just was given a subscription to The New Yorker for my birthday, really excited about this!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome!
― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i just started this too! we're getting vf and harper's and the new yorker if i get my act together and order it.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
some subs are so insanely cheap
― markers, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
new yorker subscription is something i can never imagine stopping, still amazes me they can put it out (almost) every week
― just sayin, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
my last magazine subscription was to gourmet (r.i.p.), but i've been thinking of subscribing to metropolis or good. it's nice to get real mail.
http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/
http://www.good.is/magazine/
― corn smut (get bent), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i've thought about getting saveur but i never read the food magazines or cookbooks i already own.
― corn smut (get bent), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
as far as other stuff, my bf and i get alumni magazines (binghamton and usc for me, macalester and calarts for him), i get a magazine from my toastmasters membership, and he gets something from the musician's union. up until last year, i got planning and japa, an academic planning journal.
― corn smut (get bent), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Cabinet magazine makes me so happy
― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
i get mother jones at the moment. good stuff.
― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
i spent a long time weighing up whether or not to subscribe to the new yorker, b/c it is an international subscription & so more expensive (though still a steal & an awesome investment), and after all my detailed financial considerations i would seriously pay them $500 to mail it first class instead of second.
but yes magazines are great, subscribed ones & newsstand ones.
― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
been wanting to check out lucky peach too:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/luckypeach
xp
― orinoco flowbee (get bent), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
haaaa one of those magazine subscription scam artists just came to my door. i told him i was broke and he went away, but not without a smooth-talking spiel.
― ms. c flat (get bent), Friday, 14 October 2011 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
My sister got me a gift subscription to Rolling Stone for the last two Xmases running! This year (without being an asshole about it) I'm gonna tell her thanks-but-no-thanks - I don't give a shit about their music coverage anymore (20 years ago woulda been OK); all I like nowadays is the political stuff.
(But yeah: in principle I like getting something to read in the mail every two weeks.)
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 14 October 2011 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
I get New Yorker and Decibel now. And I guess technically I subscribe to SPIN, but via my Nook for only 50 cents an issue.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 October 2011 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone else get magazines in the mail that they didn't subscribe to? We get a bunch of them like Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, Oprah?!?! and a few other ones. I guess they send them out so they can claim their circulations are larger than they really are, but we never paid for them. I usually cut my name off them and leave them on the bus or train.
― svend, Monday, 11 June 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, we kept getting Self sent to us for no reason
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Monday, 11 June 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
Did we ever sort these magazines
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 02:46 (eight years ago) link
do you need sorting out
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
there haven't been any magazines for years...years...years...years...years...years
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Some time a while back we bought an electric kettle to boil water. The clerk at the fancy store (Sur le Table) said we qualified for a FREE subscription to Bon Appetit magazine! I filled out the little card and gave it back to him. It has been coming regularly now for what seems like forever. Damn, is it a worthless rag. I'd stop it but I don't know how.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
my kids subscribe to loads of magazines
we just started getting the print nytimes again after years without, i feel like a chump for having gone so long without it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 03:56 (eight years ago) link
I got sort of psyched because I saw NY Review of Books copies in the recycling room in the name of the old dude who lives next door to me, kind of want to hang with him now.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 04:00 (eight years ago) link
We still get the print NYer and Nat Geo. While R does read the print edition, I mostly read it on my phone now, if at all, and generally both find most use as backing for doing the NYT crossword puzzle, which we print at home, and the privilege of doing so is the only thing we pay the NYT for.
Our print diet has led me to stop using adblockers online, but not to start signing up for microtransactions.
I feel like if I could sign up for an annual package that paid Balloon Juice, TPM, Eschaton, the entire Gawker stable, LGM, and maybe a few others that I dip into occasionally, and ILX (why not), we would gladly drop something in the upper two figures a year for that. Maybe there's a market gap in offering that kind of option. I don't want to just pitch $5 each to everything I like every few months or so, it's too much to think about. Basically I want eMusic for blogs.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 04:04 (eight years ago) link
I do prefer reading the NYer in print vs on my phone, never really get through longform articles on screen.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 04:08 (eight years ago) link
Bump!
$80 for one year sub for NY Review of Books. I really want it but that's pricey. I can't tell if it's weekly or biweekly?
I've been so bad about keeping up with my Scientific American and Harpers' subs recently (or not so recently - I'm more than a year behind in SA issues).
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
biweekly im p sure
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
biweekly. it's better than harper's.
you also get access to the archives
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 22:38 (eight years ago) link
so you can get further behind
― just sayin, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
i have v v v v complicated feelings abt harper's but it's so insanely cheap that it is sort of immune to evaluation
anyway subscribing to magazines rules
― bloat laureate (schlump), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 06:44 (eight years ago) link
It does. Don't think I could subscribe to LRB (although any of your gift one-year subscriptions to me will be gratefully accepted). NYRB is tempting for the archive (when I first had a LRB sub I was so glad I had a not very intensive job, could read the archives all day - and with guys like Perry Anderson you need all of your day)
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 09:33 (eight years ago) link
biweekly. it's better than harper's.you also get access to the archives― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, March 22, 2016 6:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkso you can get further behind― just sayin, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 10:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Haha, I big reason I keep falling behind is I started reading every Harper's issue from 1990 to the current day. This is what I do at work when I'm supposed to be working. Started about a year ago. I've just reached 1994, I think.
I would totally get lost on NYRoB's archives. *tempting*
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
nyrb is biweekly but then rather less so during the summer
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 March 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link