Erm… thanks for the free magazine… I think.
Posted on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 12:21 pm
So, apparently I have been somehow randomly subscribed to Men’s Vogue magazine.
Those of you in America (and possibly those not in America… I dunno what kind of circulation this thing’s got) have probably heard of Vogue magazine, the general purpose guide to new fashion, or some such nonsense. My sister subscribes to it, or at least used to. From what I’ve gathered based on my sister’s copies, it usually consists of almost nothing but 400 pages of advertisements for shit most women can’t afford (and can’t fit into even if they could afford it). Well, apparently there’s now a version for men. And apparently someone thinks I need to be reading it.
Last Friday, I received in the mail the September 2007 issue. The very next day, I received the October 2007 issue. They are coming to my address, with my name printed on the label, so it’s definitely not the postman just dropping it in the wrong box or something. But I never subscribed to it. I’ve called my friends and family, to see if maybe someone I know sent my name in as a joke or something, but they all say they haven’t. There was no “Here’s your free copy, please subscribe if you want to keep receiving this” letter or anything attached to either copy. I am simply subscribed to this magazine for no discernible reason that I can think of. The only magazine I do subscribe to is Wired. And if perhaps this is some sort of cross-marketing gimmick or something, it’s one of the weirder ones. Wired is for nerds. And nerds, in my estimation, have never been all that entirely fashion-conscious. Not that I dislike getting all dressed up and looking good occasionally, but I’m simply much more comfortable in Levis and a t-shirt than in a suit and tie (let alone a $5000 suit and tie, which I’m sure is on the lower end of the spectrum for those advertised in Men’s Vogue).
On the plus side, there are quite a few advertisements for beautiful watches in the magazine. I’ve always had a thing for watches, so seeing so many good looking ones from brands I’ve never even heard of is nice – even though I know I’ll never be able to afford any of them. One of the watch ads even had something I’d never seen before in any advertisement for any other luxury watch (or, for that matter, most other luxury items of any kind). It had a price. The ad for two different Zenith watches was kind enough to inform me that one of the watches sold for “seventeen thousand three hundred dollars” and the other was a more robust “twenty nine thousand seven hundred dollars.” Yes, it actually was spelled out like that. So they were kind enough to give me a price, but too uppity to just say “$29,700″ or even “too expensive for you, you poor son of a bitch.”
Um, yeah, so that’s all I got, really. I just wanted to rant a little bit about my random magazine subscription for no apparent reason.
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Damn cat did it again.
Posted on Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 1:57 pm
So, Newo broke his damn hip again. His right one, this time. He hadn’t even grown all his hair back from the first surgery before he had to go in for the next one.
The vet told us it’s a genetic defect that affects 1 in every 1000 cats, where he was simply born with not-quite-finished hip joints. Thus, it was bound to happen eventually. But he’s assured us that the rest of his bones look good and healthy, so *crosses fingers* hopefully we’re done with this. Because it’s too damn expensive. I’m not entirely sure we can afford another round of this shit. (I’m reminded of one of the Weekend Update jokes on SNL last season: “Doctors have performed the first cat hip replacement, which was significantly more expensive than the alternative, total cat replacement.”)
On the plus side, he seems to be doing better after this round than he did after the last one. He’s not limping nearly as bad now as he was less than a week after the first surgery. Hopefully he’ll heal better this time around, so we won’t have to spend so damn long babying him.
