"tofuqueen" > wrote

> I get a lot of magazines monthly; it's the result of being a vagabond
> for so many years and being incapable of subscribing for most of my
> adult years. All of them are filled with advertisements and I guess
> I've learned to ignore them.

I love magazines, but not nearly as much as I used to. I used to
get scads of them. They certainly have their place and I have
learned many things on a myriad of topics by reading them.
For instance, there has been an advertising blitz about a virus
causing cervical cancer, I didn't know, did you know? tell
someone! Well ... Yeah, I knew, because I read magazines.

It's true, some of them have really gone overboard with the
ads. I used to get that fancy dancy decorating magazine, you
could hardly pick it up, then you were 1/4 through the thing
before you found any content. At least.

Gourmet got that way ... they kept prices down but man, page
after page of ads. Then I would get to an article and it was all
about some restaurant I'm not interested in visiting. Then a
travelogue overview of wines. It just wasn't for me. Unfortunately,
Bon Appetit seems to have tried their best to be like them. I don't
know why.

I'd rather pay a few more dollars a year and have it the way it
was. It's $10 a year now. That tells me they are struggling to
hold onto their subscribers.

nancy