well what magazines do you subscribe to Lori
well we have probably too many we've got not enough to keep up i mean too many to keep up with we get uh Forbes Fortune Newsweek
yeah
Southern Living Texas Highways and National Geographic i think i think i've got them all
oh gosh yeah
uh-huh well i i take um right now i've kind of a whittled mine down i just take Vanity Fair and uh Harper's and uh Houston City magazine
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but you know how i used to subscribe to Texas Highways that's one of the best magazines for the money going
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i mean it's such a bargain what what i mean what is it like twelve dollars a year
it is
something like that yeah
and then the photography's beautiful
it is
yeah it's matter that's i thought about it not too long ago that uh i had seen an issue and i thought gosh i ought to give my parents that for Christmas but i of course now it's Christmas i haven't done it so maybe next year
yeah
but i know i had i had uh found myself about i don't know two years ago
in the in a situation where i i literally had more magazines coming in than i could read and i thought this is crazy so i
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you know it's not so bad if they're monthly publications but like Newsweek which i really enjoy um comes out every week and so it's really hard to keep up with
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well i i took Time for i guess ten years
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and i enjoyed it and it and i it you know it has just you know a wealth of information i mean it's therefore similar to Newsweek
but whenever i got to the point that i just i just finally said this is just insane because i had so many magazines i let them all lapse
yeah
and then once they were all gone and of course that took a while i didn't realize how much i had paid up on some of them
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and uh then i decided well i you know Vanity Fair offered me a special thing to come back at a reduced rate you know
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and then Harper's did and so i you know little by little i've i've you know subscribed to a few more again but uh i take the newspaper everyday
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so i've got plenty of reading material
yeah well we get the newspaper on the weekends and that seems to be enough
yeah
yeah yeah
because we'll just turn on the news otherwise and see see what the latest is
well you sound though kind of like me though but i mean it's i'm i have
always plenty of reading material around my house
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and when i go to visit my brother and sister-in-law in Austin it drives me crazy because i i always have to be sure and put something in my suitcase to read because honestly i wonder these people don't ever read
oh is that right
yeah i mean their house just a you know it's just it's it's appalling to me they have nothing to read
well maybe that's what you ought to get them for Christmas
yeah really well uh well actually i think one year uh several years ago i did give them a a subscription to Time and they never said a word about it you know and so i thought well maybe they weren't
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oh really i'd
they're not into that
maybe they weren't into it you know that's fine but it's just it's so different than
yeah
you know i just i require reading material that's all that is to it
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yeah um
you know one thing i hate i don't know if this is really on the subject but when they call you the different places call you to sign up
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at this you know and they try to give you this big bargain and and you're like no we already subscribe to enough magazines at the time and
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so
yeah well i um you know i had as a matter of fact the the Vanity Fair whenever i let it lapse
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they had sent me all these you know final notice things and i just you know didn't send them back in
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and so finally once i did decide to subscribe again
i sent in a a thing that said hey you know i mean it was whatever the the uh subscription rate was i think like fifteen dollars
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and about a month later i got a thing in the mail saying well hey as a former subscriber you can now get it for twelve and they had a one eight hundred number i called up and i said hey i want three bucks back
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so they extended they said they were gonna extend my subscription for three months but they're pretty competitive
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yeah yeah
but um i find at times
i have numerous magazines piled up and i'll just sit down you know one weekend or something and try to catch up on them
yeah
but i mean i you know i enjoy it i guess you know um
as far as comparing that to other media it's so much easier to listen to either the radio or to watch TV to listen i mean to know what's going on rather than to read an article
oh it is it is and it just but at the same time you can you can get information i mean there there
in a magazine
the variety and you can get different types of information and and you know television is is geared so much to
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the average Joe Blow and quite frankly i mean there there are items of interest to me that you'll never find on television
exactly yeah that's true the other thing is um some magazines
