Comments on: A Mozambique Drill For The Magazine Mafia

By: Keith "2 Mag" Karabin

Keith "2 Mag" Karabin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:08:25 +0000

Magazines end up clutter farms as a whole. And I say as a whole because there are a whole lot of them at my house. I won’t point fingers–coughWifecough–but we’ve had to cull as well. I applaud your periodical pogrom, Wendig.

Me? Game Informer and Family Handyman Magazine (the other FHM). I read both cover to cover every month, tear out useful articles and deliver them to the recycling box.

I need no more than that. Especially if they’re creepy about it like Hearst. GI is free with my GameStop membership and FHM is cheap and, well, handy.

Julie, great idea. Take the power back.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:14:54 +0000

Take all of the cards out and drop them in a corner mailbox without filling them out.

They’re postage paid.

Not that I’ve done this.

By: Will Hindmarch

Will Hindmarch — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:48:52 +0000

I love a good magazine. I still get Wired, Paste, and Good, though two of those are going away soon as I can't afford even that kind of overhead. But I miss getting National Geographic and The Believer into the house. I also miss dreaming about getting articles into such magazines. I'm still hoping something will bounce back, and that the appreciation of paper mags will save a few and keep a place for things like Meat Paper.

By: terribleminds

terribleminds — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:24:41 +0000

At the dirt mall I was just at, you can buy used porn mags.

For real.

Just avoid the ones with pages that, erm, stick together.

– c.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:23:25 +0000

I’m still getting Complex & GQ, and I have no idea why. Did I sign up for them when I was drunk?

Game Informer and Playboy are the only two magazines I’d consider hanging on to. Both of them have some good articles and pretty pictorials.

By: Pete Sears

Pete Sears — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:25:02 +0000

Crush your enemies.
Drive them before you.
Hear the lamentations of their Ho’s.

By: Marek

Marek — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:16:40 +0000

I keep hearing about crap all like this all the time from my American friends, whether they want to close a bank account, cancel a subscription or switch an ISP.

To that I say: this is what gung-ho deregulation does to you, bitches! In Europe we got laws against that, we have agencies against that crap. We got national agencies, NGOs and some EU agencies. The consumer protects his ass. You guys need to start, too.

Also, pay a subscription with a credit card? Fuck that noise! When we subscribed to newspapers, we just sent the money via mail transfer (remember those? The magazine gives you a blank form with the amount and the account info an you just go the post office, give the lady the money, write down your address and BAM! transaction and you even have a postmarked slip to prove it. Good times).

I am still extremely wary of paying with my CC because of that – if I could do it by mail and keep my account private to everyboy, why can’t I now?

By: Dave A.

Dave A. — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:06:59 +0000

I agrees page 45! I also agree about the most hated subscription cards. Oh how I hate them! Glad that you are telling them off for their shitty tactics. Wish there was more to be done… Oh wait page 45!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:39:18 +0000

I have suggestions for what you can do with your fingers to these people, all guaranteed creatively cathartic and all guaranteed to bring even stranger traffic to your blog through weird, discomfiting and downright disturbing search terms.

By: Rick Carroll

Rick Carroll — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:11:49 +0000

Page 45! Page 45! Do I need to use the random number generator in the back for this (ie, grid filled with numbers)?

I agree almost completely with magazines. The last magazines I finally got rid of were Playboy and American Cinematographer (AC because it is was becoming obvious my destiny equaled Canada, not Botoxia and Playboy because my wife was enjoying it more than me – which was getting creepy). I might subscribe to a few trade rags again eventually, just because their online presence is generally dick.