Magazines - Which ONE Do I Read
My apologies for answering this tag first. It ’s the last tag received, and the first I have actually properly answered - as of yet.
Let’s begin.
I am ecstatic about being tagged by Mike at perkonis (who was tagged by Jeff at My View of the World - BCA-nominee; rock on), since it will also, hopefully, be a quick one for us all. [Seriously, Mike - can I award you some kind of Best Tag Ever re: Timing award? Done! *unloads a handful of multi-coloured Stars onto ye!* 
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I also do not read. . . much of the dead tree editions (~mike) any more, either, when it comes to Magazines, and specifically, subscriptions to said Magazines.
Although I could wax eloquently, albeit ruminitavely, on the reams of Magazines I would adore to have lining the dented and beautiful (and oh YES, cost-effective!) graces of my Bookshelves, I must confess I am currently only subscribed to:
Moods Magazine, a hearty and refreshing Ontario Mental Health Support-type endeavour, which can be found (again), RIGHT HERE
[erm - at least I THINK my paper subscription’s still active; NOTE TO SELF to RENEW address with the mag].
On a slightly-related note, I am crying inwardly for reams of lost past editions of the old- and pre-school National Geographics. . . ;’(
And those AWESOME Highlights, Chickadee et al. magazines from “when we were kids. . .”
Wow, I love magazines more than I remembered! Unfortunately for me, I’m just very, very fickle :\ To a fault, even. And I don’t terribly fancy the idea of spending a lot of money on a magazine unless I really - REALLY - use it. I don’t normally source primary information on much from Magazines (at least, since School-days 
Mmmm; accounts from older books, magazines and microfiche repositories *coughsLIBRARIES* - nummy supposed old-school researchin’!).
[Regarding the fickle bits, I do have the book! Little Miss Fickle © 1984 Mrs. Roger Hargreaves (Price, Stern, Sloan, Inc. - LA, and so on.)! Thank you for that one, Claire, my astute and lovely engineer /fellow-femme-f1-geek /preschool-Friend!].
“Oh botherations!” she said.
[”I’ve read it before!”] ~Little Miss Fickle
Since this one had a lot of sparks for thought-food and with minimal effort (if you’re not OCD, that is!), I’m going to tag (erm, if I may. . . Naturally - if I’m esploding the Blogosphere in a Grand Act of Uncouthness, for the love of ZEN let me know - and gently, please?!) —
- Edvod (Beaman, that is!);
- The lovely Carol of the fantastically resourceful Our Hep Chat (another BCA-nominee, yay!);
- The Better Ray, at freshblogger.net;
- Sheri, at Matter of Faith;
- Rissy/Iris at Imperfect Perfections; and last (but hardly ever least) I would like to tag
- Moukers.
. . .with Magazines, as in “Which Magazines do You Read and/or Wish You Could?!”
Oh, and while I’m at it, I’ll tag You with it too, hahah!
Any queries, etc., please feel free to email yours humbly at you-know-where and I’ll do my best to answer to ‘em. And HAPPY oh-so-belated(!) MAY DAY Everyone - *repeats several little intricate and spasmodical dances*
May 5th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
I have no idea what I’m supposed to do about being tagged.
But, uh, yay! Thanks!
May 5th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Oh wow! I am tagged and at number 1!
First time I’m number 1 in something since I won the art prize at school. :p
I’ll email you soon!!, been having down time recently.
Thank you once again for tagging me! Number 1, wow, I’ll have to take a screen shot now, for prosperity…I mean…posterity. All these big words so late at night, gosh! (2:50 am here now)
May 7th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Rae,
I don’t much like magazines either. They seem so.. cumbersome. They gather. They cannot be stood upright in any conventional sense. Their glossy covers are usually an indication that the content within is simply “glossing” over the topics. Eye candy. At best, an instrument of exposure that can be used as a stepping stone to the actual substance elsewhere that is discussed briefly within the mag.
Hmm, was just overcome with a huge and looming feeling of hypocrisy. Blogging is rather like writing magazine articles. Well that was unexpected.
May 8th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Heheh - awesome, guys. (Shush, I currently overuse awesome!).
Adam - no prob; if you so desire. Just make an entry talking aboot which magazines you do or don’t read, etc. Feel free to include why, heheh. Tags I gather are, among other things, employed to ensure nobody around the blog-o-sphere erm, gets bored? Heheheh - or the opposite!
I’m sure you can read all about it on wiki somewheres, heh. JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION ahahah.
Beaman - You know it, Number 1! Heheheh. Naturally, get to it if/when you want to.
Dave - I agree completely with your poetry above re: magazines! The not walking the walk part, well… screw that; I figure as similar as the process of disseminating magazine articles seems to writing blog posts, the results can be, and are, wielded quite differently. Not to mention the greater potential for interactivity. Woohoo! Thanks for getting my gears grinding, Dave! (durn! I was going to say “this morning”, but it’s not morning anymore. . . ah well! Just means I actually got to sleep at some point last night.).
Thank you kindly again, guys, for responding!
Makes it feel more homey here with friends commenting.
I’m working on the Irks ‘n’ Quirks (mentally and site-wise, hah). Proof is in . . . der, I have no clue. Something which has yet to arrive. *Ominous!*
Peace, Magazine and non-Magazine Readers Alike!
~Rae
[guh, not to mention getting it working in IE again, ahah - buh].
May 8th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I am a pop culture junkie. I would be ashamed, but I am not alone in my infatuation with pop culture. It gives my brain something to do to keep it from spinning out of control. (And probably uses up useful brain space that -could- be doing something productive, like curing something… but… meh.)
As a PC Junkie, I subscribe to and read Entertainment Weekly, because it’s the first one magazine I ever got my VERY OWN subscription to in high school. Well, other than the Flare subscription from my grandmother, but that was more her attempt at trying to “feminize” me into a perfect, little woman. But EW has just stuck ever since, and it’s fun to read while waiting for things. (Waiting for what, you may ask? Probably nothing, but aren’t we all waiting in general?)
When I was a kidlet, I read Owl, Raccoon, Chickadee, Highlights, a science one called Flabbergast (that I will always sigh over the demise of) and Popular Mechanics/Science for Kids. As I got older, I rabidly devoured my father’s Readers Digests, Beaver (Cdn history mag)and National Geographic. Stopped reading RD after my father cancelled his subscription in protest of the mass mailings he would receive about contests and other junk. The only time I read magazines now, other than EW, is when I am in waiting rooms at Doctor’s offices, or I randomly happen to procure one from somewhere (usually the odd Ottawa magazine or NG stolen from aforementioned Dad.)
I love reading magazines, but I hate buying them. They are, as Dave commented, impossibly frustrating to store, easily mangled, and do not weather the test of time particularly well, be it in content or structural integrity. They are also maddeningly expensive for advertisement-funded publications ($5.99 for a copy?! Pfft. Gimme a book!) and their content is often available for free online.
Of course, I should really start reading some more worldly mags, though I do read Time or Macleans once in awhile. Must. Expand. Horizons. (And not just in the world of magazines…)
- Drowsy Def
May 8th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Awww yeh best comment evah! *coughs*
There are the names of all those mags I had as a kid.
I knew you’d come through and remember ‘em! Hahah - I remember fighting over many of them with my brother. Bah. He loses!! Erm…
Yeah, RD advertising spam, hah - too much fun. Erm. NO.
But their legal lady is stunningly awesome. *more beamin’*
WhatwhatWHAT? Did somebody say more Beaman?!
Woohoo!