My Semi-regular request for magazines

[browngirl]

So, I work in a hospital, which has a lot of waiting rooms, and I try to help keep those waiting rooms stocked with interesting and varied magazines beyond the latest issues of Huswyf's Heteronormative Fortnightly. So if you have any magazines which are lying around waiting to be donated or recycled, please toss them in an envelope and media-mail them to me (address on request) and I'll bring them in to work.

I'm especially looking for three kinds of magazines (though I'll take anything non-pornographic (well, you can send me porn, too, I just won't bring it to work): 1) literary magazines, especially science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative fiction; children's magazines ; magazines in Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, or Korean (we have a large
proportion of Asian clients, and I rarely see anything in their languages in the wiaitng rooms_. Whatever you send me, thank you a LOT, and I will do my best to send something nifty in return!

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

'Huswyf's Heteronormative Fortnightly.'

ROFL :o)

Shame I'm not closer to hand- we generally have a reasonable class of mag lying about indoors!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*grins* I'm glad you liked that. And hey, if I can inspire people to give magazines to their local hospitals, that's good too.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I really liked that as well. :)

[elrhiarhodan]

How about The New Yorker?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I would love some for this! I'll PM you my address.

[elrhiarhodan]

Terrrific - I have about a half-dozen back issues and if you want to wait for a few weeks, I'll send bit more.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Sure!

Also, your icon. SO LICKABLE.

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

Love your magazine name! Those were the magazines my mother subscribed to when I was a kid; they had real names like Ladies' Home Journal, which is not actually all that far from Huswyf's Heteronormative Fortnightly. :-)

We used to subscribe to several magazines, but we've dropped almost all of them; I think the only one we're still getting at this point is PC Gamer, which is a bit narrow for something as general as a hospital waiting room, and we tend to keep the back issues, anyway.

[redbird]

I am fairly sure there would be more readers in a hospital/doctor's waiting room for that than for some of the stuff I've seen, along the lines of Specialist Medical Monthly (though I have tried browsing the New England Journal of Medicine while waiting for a doctor's appointment).

Which has me wondering whether the Yale Alumni Magazine (which I have been getting since graduation, despite never sending them a nickel or a change of address notice) would be useful.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

From what I recall of Harvard's (they lost track of me two moves ago) there are general interest articles in the magazines, as well as entertaining school-spcific items like the occasional spoof obituary. I would certainly be able to use them if you sent them to me! *beams gratefully*

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I love the name, too. :) How well I remember my mother's subscribing to The Lady's Home Journal's cut-rate sisters, Women's Day and Family Circle.

browngirl, would you like Christian Century and/or the magazines of a variety of social justice organizations?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I would, so so much! \o/

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Actually, you might be surprised. I'm also going to give some magazines to the Volunteer Office, who handle requests from inpatients, which are often for specific genres, and who stock computer games among their wares. I'm sure they could use issues of gaming magazines as well (especially since they often can't retrieve the magazines)

That said, if you want to keep your back issues they're *your* back issues. But if you don't I would love them for this.

Re: Magazines

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! J & E would love that, I'm sure! They're 10 and 7 now.

[cappyhead.livejournal.com]

The only magazines we get are Consumer Reports and AAA's travel magazine for the Oregon/Idaho area. Would either of those be of interest to you?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I think it would be fun for Bostonians to read about Oregon. :D And consumer Reports is useful. SO, yes please and thank you!

[cappyhead.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll start setting them aside rather than sending them to the recycling bin. :)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

A word of caution - magazines don't technically qualify for media mail, unless they are educational journals that contain no advertising. (The rules are ridiculous and picky. I am still miffed I can't send my coloring books media mail.)

That aside, if I had any laying around, I would be sure to mail them your way.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Huh. They've never questioned me on all sorts of paper and magazines. You should totally be able to mail your coloring books media mail! That's not fair!

[ceo]

I've a bunch of back issues of Scientific American, National Geographic and maybe Smithsonian.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

ANd I need very much to visit your household sometime soon. :)

[ron_newman]

I was about to do this back in May, then my life got interrupted by eye surgery and activity restrictions. I still have the magazines (New Yorker, New York Review of Books, MIT Technology Review) and still want to get them to you.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I still want to receive them! We should figure ut when we can meet up in Davis sometime. I work 3 to 11, so could it be early afternoon?

[ron_newman]

Early afternoon would be great -- how about this Tuesday? I have a huge number of magazines to get ride of, and you can only carry so many, so let me know how many to bring you when we meet up.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I can't do Tuesday, but how about Wednesday?

I estimate I can carry 2 shopping bags full.

Also, no need to wait for me to dispose o the rest - all big hospitals have volunteer departments who would love to take magazines off your hands.

[ron_newman]

Wednesday would be fine. PIck a time and let me know soon. Also please tell me if you are bringing your own bags or need some of mine.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

PM on the way!

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

I don't have any magazines, but I can signal boost if you'd like.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

That ould be wonderful! Thank you!

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

Done! I hope it helps. ^_^

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about this the other day, because the art-museum magazines are stacking up. I even still have your address, but I'll have to get an envelope before I can send them to you.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I still owe you something nice in return. :D And I really appreciate it. Thank you. :)

I was just thinking maybe I oughta go ahead and recycle ...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

... the issue of Shambala Sun I totally got cuz it has a bit ol' pic of Pema C & k.d. l on its cover (and interviews with them inside). It's yours if you want it --- just get me your address again. :)

Re: I was just thinking maybe I oughta go ahead and recycle ...

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I would adore it! Address on the way!

Re: I was just thinking maybe I oughta go ahead and recycle ...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Magazine is on the way!

I meant big ol' above, not bit ol'. But you prob got that. :)