Sometimes I *cough* download *cough* trade magazines to do pretty much the same thing (engineering, architecture, that sort of field), but I never thought of doing that as a date activity. Brilliant idea!
I've...acquired too many digital objects to throw stones at anyone else's acquisitions.
The girlfriend likes the idea as well, so we'll probably be doing it soon. I miss Borders, though. Barnes and Noble doesn't have quite the same breadth of magazine selection.
I do this to pick up the general 'culture' being portrayed,... especially in aficionado mags. Cigar, and car, and golf, and whisky, and wool. It is the only place where I don't mind ads, they tell you so much in context. Golf mags are a favorite... all the ads are for alcohol, luxury cars, status watches, and impotence meds. HA!
I also like surveying the basic grocery store magazine racks from far away, as if looking at an impressionist painting in an attempt to determine cultural cues and political news through subtextual clues. The week before we invaded Iraq in 2003, I walked by a stack and all the covers were lurid red. From Cosmo to Newsweek,... even the wedding mags and knitting mags seemed lost in that bleedin' sea. Very strange.
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I've...acquired too many digital objects to throw stones at anyone else's acquisitions.
The girlfriend likes the idea as well, so we'll probably be doing it soon. I miss Borders, though. Barnes and Noble doesn't have quite the same breadth of magazine selection.
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Cigar, and car, and golf, and whisky, and wool.
It is the only place where I don't mind ads,
they tell you so much in context.
Golf mags are a favorite...
all the ads are for alcohol, luxury cars, status watches, and impotence meds. HA!
I also like surveying the basic grocery store magazine racks from far away, as if looking at an impressionist painting in an attempt to determine cultural cues and political news through subtextual clues. The week before we invaded Iraq in 2003, I walked by a stack and all the covers were lurid red. From Cosmo to Newsweek,... even the wedding mags and knitting mags seemed lost in that bleedin' sea.
Very strange.
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