Hip hip hooray for my official domain and blog site! It’s still a work in progress, obviously, and I’m still toying with PHP changes and wading through all my various blog posts from other sites to import into this one. Stay tuned!
I’ve been thinking really hard about how to approach this site’s inaugural post. If my head was of a Futurama robot, then I already would have one of those exploding moments where the glass eyeball busts out of its socket and bobbles up and down to the oscillation of a very sad spring.
I figure I should just start this website off with my thought about magazine subscriptions.
Currently, New Media is well on its way to make Print its bitch, so why spend money on a magazine subscription when you can get the same information for free? A one-year subscription is fairly affordable and it sure is a lot more cost-effective than buying 12 issues every month from Walgreen’s where the pages are already covered in other people’s amino acids. I think it boils down to how consumers are apprehensive about commitment. If someone is willing to get through all these decision-making hurdles and willing to commit, then hell, they either are addicted to the intoxicating smell of new ink, or they really enjoy their magazines and what their magazines are about. Hence, my personal theory is that you can tell a whole lot about a person by perusing their magazine subscription choices, and figure out their general hobbies, lifestyles, and goals.
So since I subscribe to Esquire, GQ, WIRED, Rolling Stone, and Playboy, that either makes me a pretentious yuppie MBA bachelor or someone who enjoys hot men in a lot of sharp clothes, hot women in no clothes, music reviews laced with leftist statements, and shiny things.
That’s pretty darn accurate.
What do yours say about you?
I only subscribe to EGM which I guess makes me a Fucking Nerd. I also have a PCgamer subscription that started showing up at my house but it’s like the stoner friend who can’t take the hint.
I subscribe to EGM, PC Gamer, and get a whole mess-load of furniture and clothing catalogs… hooray?
Cabinet, Monocle, Granta, and a few way too expensive Euro fashion photo mags. But I don’t subscribe — I walk over to the bookstore every month and do the deal in person. I guess that means I’m a magazine snob. And a total wanker.
I subscribe to EW, EGM, Vanity Fair, Game Informer, Vogue and Interview.
What can I say? I like the pretty glossy pictures… a lot.
great name for a site btw.
I get all my magazines for free, which makes me a cheapskate. It’s nice to get magazines in the mail seemingly every other day, but I hardly have the time to read them anyway so I’m glad I don’t pay for them.
Hooray for Chu Chu Rocket.
There’s just no substituting for print sometimes. I mean, you can take a stack of printouts into the bathroom, but it just ain’t the same thing. BTW, my choices for mag subs: Harpers, Wired, Communication Arts, Luerzer’s Archive… oh yeah, and my decades-old subscription to EGM. Go print!
I also make sure that the magazines I get consistently deliver. Since I’m stuck with a physical issue, 90% of that book better be filled with something I find interesting. WIRED and Esquire have some of the most intriguing articles (to my taste).
Wait, you subscribe to Playboy???
Congrats on the new site! I like the name. The only magazine I get these days is EGM and that was because I was able to get a free subscription. Yeah just EGM and an assload of food and cooking magazines.
Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Wired, and EGM all show up at my door. What that says about me is I’m an unhealthily-political crazy person living in the nation’s capital, who desperately wishes to flee to the opposite coast in search of riches or at the very least a slightly more tolerable civilization.
Oh, and that I play a lot of video games, yeah.