Comments on: Magazines - Which ONE Do I Read http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/ Yours to Recover. . . Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:07:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Adamu http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-724 Adamu Sun, 06 May 2007 00:42:53 +0000 http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-724 I have no idea what I'm supposed to do about being tagged. But, uh, yay! Thanks! :D I have no idea what I’m supposed to do about being tagged.

But, uh, yay! Thanks! :D

]]> By: Beaman http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-727 Beaman Sun, 06 May 2007 01:51:58 +0000 http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-727 Oh wow! I am tagged and at number 1! :D 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) :P Oh wow! I am tagged and at number 1! :D 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) :P

]]> By: Dave http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-758 Dave Mon, 07 May 2007 12:27:21 +0000 http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-758 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. 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.

]]> By: ankakay http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-782 ankakay Tue, 08 May 2007 16:43:49 +0000 http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-782 Heheh - awesome, guys. (Shush, I currently overuse awesome!). <em>Adam</em> - 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! :D I'm sure you can read all about it on wiki somewheres, heh. JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION ahahah. <em><strong>Beaman</strong></em> - You know it, Number 1! Heheheh. Naturally, get to it if/when you want to. <em><strong>Dave</strong></em> - 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! (<em>durn! I was going to say "this morning", but it's not morning anymore. . . ah well! Just means I actually <em>got</em> to sleep at some point last night.</em>). Thank you kindly again, guys, for responding! Makes it feel more homey here with friends commenting. I'm working on the Irks 'n' Quirks (<em>mentally and site-wise, hah</em>). Proof is in . . . der, I have no clue. Something which has yet to arrive. *Ominous!* Peace, Magazine and non-Magazine Readers Alike! ~Rae [<i>guh, not to mention getting it <b>working in IE</b> again, ahah - buh</i>]. 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! :D 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].

]]> By: Defatigable http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-783 Defatigable Tue, 08 May 2007 18:24:41 +0000 http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-783 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 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

]]> By: ankakay http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-785 ankakay Tue, 08 May 2007 19:29:23 +0000 http://www.expired-convictions.com/2007/05/05/magazines-which-one-do-i-read/#comment-785 Awww yeh best comment <em>evah</em>! *coughs* <em>There</em> are the names of all those mags I had as a kid. I knew <i>you'd</i> come through and remember 'em! Hahah - I remember fighting over many of them with my brother. Bah. He loses!! Erm... :D Yeah, RD advertising spam, hah - too much fun. Erm. NO. But their legal lady is stunningly awesome. *more beamin'* WhatwhatWHAT? Did somebody say <em>more Beaman</em>?! Woohoo! 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… :D

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!

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