Love me - just for a bit...

Lately, my New Yorker subscription has been causing some problems again with my list project. I had been in a bit of a dry spell with it, which is sad in some ways but great for the list. Recently, though, there have been so many articles that I've wanted to read:

• Endurance for long-distance running as a metaphor for approaching life
• History of the cliffhanger
• The Zetas/drug trafficking
• The University of Chicago scavenger hunt
• Recent developments in hip hop
• Forensic linguistics

Among other fascinating topics.

This all reminds me of a conversation that I once had with someone before I subscribed to the New Yorker. To help set the stage, he was driving me around southeast DC during this conversation and quizzing me about my media consumption habits. At the time I had a free subscription to The Economist, but that was the only periodical to which I subscribed.

My not subscribing to the New Yorker shocked him, since according to him I am the kind of person who would subscribe to it. To me, what was shocking was that I had any magazine subscriptions at all; I mean, this happened in 2010, people.

I think that he eventually came to terms with this deficiency on my part, though I think it was a grave disappointment to him. Of course, this is the guy who doesn't believe that I love action movies, so his picture of who I am may not be the most accurate.