I love this! I'll definitely fork over $60 bucks (of course i also have to carve out some savibgs for whenever you get the next version of the Bystander launched! Hey maybe print isnt dead afterall? My heart swoons with positivity.
This is from my LinkedIn page. I can't attach the photo but you get the idea:
As part of my prep work for next week, I thought I'd organize my bookcase. That's when the following struck me.
"On the left is my bookcase - it holds over 200 books, mostly on chemistry, physics, and mathematics. It is a tad overpacked. On the right is my reference article storage HD. It holds over 6,000 articles, again mostly on chemistry, physics, and mathematics. And it is less than 2% full."
"All I know is that I never got a fresh idea from reorganizing my HD. Holding a book in your hands beckons you to consider it for a moment and perhaps revisit its contents. Perhaps that's why my bookcase is a mess and my HD is properly compacted."
I would imagine that if this is successful, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker will go the same route. May be a model for lots of important periodicals to stay alive and avoid the route National Geographic took...
Also, I note that the online edition of The Onion still uses THE EXACT SAME PHOTOS of a couple of people that they used to use back in the 90's! A blond lady and a middle aged guy. Look for them. Probably stock photo's from somewhere. But whoever they are (were) they live in perpetuity. How can I give them my photo??
I'll subscribe to the print version of the Onion. thanks for the tip. Natlamp's HS yearbook parody is a masterpiece of comedy, as is the Dacron Sunday Newspaper Supplement.
See this doesn't surprise me at all. A few months ago, the countercultural online Beatles community I'm part of put out it first-ever paper zine, and you bet I bought one and it came in a real envelope with a real stamp and you bet I kept it because it's one of a kind.
This is great news. I subscribed to the new CREEM print edition til my subscription lapsed and I realized I was broke! I hope ONION does something similar. Meantime, when my ship comes in maybe I'll revive MAD Magazine and bring what's left of the old band back together.
That’s the spirit! A friend had a connection into AT&T so when MAD announced they were going to reprints only, I reached out to try to keep MAD in business. It went nowhere because big companies convince themselves that they can somehow make money on the back matter without a vibrant mag keeping it alive in the culture.
I'm in! $60 for a really great laugh, actually a boatload, is A total bargain! As parent of Kate the Badger, I fell in love with the print edition while she and younger brother Mike were "studying" in Mad-town. We even subscribed to the print edition after their graduations (this was in the 90's) it was slightly pricey as I recall but I had to have it! Who remembers "Smovee B"? When we saw that the new owners were offering it online we Immediately signed up and it still rocks. Recently, they did a bit "send us a dollar or else..." so I bit. Yeah, I sent them a Whole dollar via credit card; I wonder how much they got! And their political parodies this year have been priceless.
Here's my Retired Guy's Day. Wake up (always a good start!). Make Coffee. Read advice columns in Chgo Tribune & Wapo (Thanking God none of my family is writing in - that I can recognize). Read Comics. Read Onion on-line. Read balance of newspapers on-line. Have lite breakfast. Play Handball. Seize The Day.
In ‘90, my girlfriend and I went our separate ways. I mailed her clippings from The Rocket, in Seattle, that predicted Nirvana would change rock and roll forever. She moved to Madison, sent me clips of The Onion’s little Man on the Street feature, and I knew she was in the coolest city in the country.
Excited to subscribe to the onion’s physical copy, once I subscribe to the bystander. Oh, and private eye. What are other good print humor mags to support?
I love this! I'll definitely fork over $60 bucks (of course i also have to carve out some savibgs for whenever you get the next version of the Bystander launched! Hey maybe print isnt dead afterall? My heart swoons with positivity.
Me thinks that half a jug of wine i drank might be influencing my hubris. Ah, what the hell! Continue the celebration!
I’m glad you followed up “my wife the badger” with “University of Wisconsin”.
I'm coursing with two different vaccines so it was a near thing, but I did remember :-)
Ugh, I’m gearing up for that too. I’ll be a blob of pudding.
This is from my LinkedIn page. I can't attach the photo but you get the idea:
As part of my prep work for next week, I thought I'd organize my bookcase. That's when the following struck me.
"On the left is my bookcase - it holds over 200 books, mostly on chemistry, physics, and mathematics. It is a tad overpacked. On the right is my reference article storage HD. It holds over 6,000 articles, again mostly on chemistry, physics, and mathematics. And it is less than 2% full."
"All I know is that I never got a fresh idea from reorganizing my HD. Holding a book in your hands beckons you to consider it for a moment and perhaps revisit its contents. Perhaps that's why my bookcase is a mess and my HD is properly compacted."
wow! who's the writer of this? Do they have a substack?
I would imagine that if this is successful, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker will go the same route. May be a model for lots of important periodicals to stay alive and avoid the route National Geographic took...
Your lips -> gods ears
Also, I note that the online edition of The Onion still uses THE EXACT SAME PHOTOS of a couple of people that they used to use back in the 90's! A blond lady and a middle aged guy. Look for them. Probably stock photo's from somewhere. But whoever they are (were) they live in perpetuity. How can I give them my photo??
I'll subscribe to the print version of the Onion. thanks for the tip. Natlamp's HS yearbook parody is a masterpiece of comedy, as is the Dacron Sunday Newspaper Supplement.
See this doesn't surprise me at all. A few months ago, the countercultural online Beatles community I'm part of put out it first-ever paper zine, and you bet I bought one and it came in a real envelope with a real stamp and you bet I kept it because it's one of a kind.
Ah I kept my copies of Beatlefan for years. May still have them in fact.
This is great news. I subscribed to the new CREEM print edition til my subscription lapsed and I realized I was broke! I hope ONION does something similar. Meantime, when my ship comes in maybe I'll revive MAD Magazine and bring what's left of the old band back together.
That’s the spirit! A friend had a connection into AT&T so when MAD announced they were going to reprints only, I reached out to try to keep MAD in business. It went nowhere because big companies convince themselves that they can somehow make money on the back matter without a vibrant mag keeping it alive in the culture.
I'm in! $60 for a really great laugh, actually a boatload, is A total bargain! As parent of Kate the Badger, I fell in love with the print edition while she and younger brother Mike were "studying" in Mad-town. We even subscribed to the print edition after their graduations (this was in the 90's) it was slightly pricey as I recall but I had to have it! Who remembers "Smovee B"? When we saw that the new owners were offering it online we Immediately signed up and it still rocks. Recently, they did a bit "send us a dollar or else..." so I bit. Yeah, I sent them a Whole dollar via credit card; I wonder how much they got! And their political parodies this year have been priceless.
Here's my Retired Guy's Day. Wake up (always a good start!). Make Coffee. Read advice columns in Chgo Tribune & Wapo (Thanking God none of my family is writing in - that I can recognize). Read Comics. Read Onion on-line. Read balance of newspapers on-line. Have lite breakfast. Play Handball. Seize The Day.
As a current resident of the LaCrosse Cinematic Universe, I will GLADLY shill, I mean, SHELL out the $100 to help proselytize the good word.
THE ONION IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE ONION!
PS Just for fun, I clicked on the Onion. Hadn't been there in years. Just scanning the headlines is making me laugh out loud.
I'm focused on the part about your Encyclopedia of American Comedy. Sounds like an immense project. How will this differ from Nesteroff's work?
In ‘90, my girlfriend and I went our separate ways. I mailed her clippings from The Rocket, in Seattle, that predicted Nirvana would change rock and roll forever. She moved to Madison, sent me clips of The Onion’s little Man on the Street feature, and I knew she was in the coolest city in the country.
So they are bringing back print and non-platformed subscriptions… sounds like it’s about time I changed that typewriter ribbon
8/29/88 first print I believe
Excited to subscribe to the onion’s physical copy, once I subscribe to the bystander. Oh, and private eye. What are other good print humor mags to support?