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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 13:53:33 GMT -5
Yes, it was Teja Gerken, Andrew Dubrock, and Paul Kotapish who got the ACG forum going to complement th Acoustic Guitar Magazine. I see Teja once a year or so, and Paul when I go see his band, Wake the Dead.
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Post by Hobson on Jul 13, 2014 14:22:07 GMT -5
There were no magazines in my house, unless I count my mother's "True Detective." I spent a lot of time at the library.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 15:39:46 GMT -5
Starting n the 4th grade, I was in the library every Thursday. Now, I go every three weeks and plow through 2-5 at a time. Our current magazines are New Yorker, Sunset, and Fzbzj.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 13, 2014 15:57:10 GMT -5
What caught my eye was how many of us read (past tense) Mad.
How many of youse went on to the hard stuff, National Lampoon?
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Post by drlj on Jul 13, 2014 16:02:20 GMT -5
Crazy to think about, but we wouldn't know each other if not for a magazine. True. Acoustic Guitar and the magic of the internet introduced me to a great group of friends. Sure, I have had to bail a couple of them out if jail a time or two, but what are friends for? I was a big fan of National Lampoon and I even used to have a copy or two of The Harvard Lampoon from which it evolved.
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Post by billhammond on Jul 13, 2014 16:15:50 GMT -5
Crazy to think about, but we wouldn't know each other if not for a magazine. True. Acoustic Guitar and the magic of the internet introduced me to a great group of friends. Sure, I have had to bail a couple of them out if jail a time or two, but what are friends for? I was a big fan of National Lampoon and I even used to have a copy or two of The Harvard Lampoon from which it evolved. They pioneered some innovative marketing techniques, too.
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Post by epaul on Jul 13, 2014 17:09:32 GMT -5
My Mom got my brother and me a subscription to Mad Magazine as soon as we could read (sixteen, seventeen, I can't remember. It was when I finally graduated from sixth grade and got to go to welding school.)
We also got Highlights Magazine and a regular supply of comic books. She was a good mom.
The folks always had Time and a rotation of others, such as Life and NG. We usually had lots of magazines, as one or the other of us kids would be selling subscriptions for an unending succession of school fundraisers.
First magazine I ever subscribed to for myself was Sports Illustrated.
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Post by patrick on Jul 13, 2014 18:12:29 GMT -5
The one I remember most was Aviation Week and Space Technology. Seriously. My dad worked for Hughes Aircraft.
And my mom's nursing mags.
Also, Nat Geo, Reader's Digest books, Time, Life, some others.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 13, 2014 21:48:56 GMT -5
We had the obligatory shelves groaning with decades of National Geographic, which inspired me to wanderlust as well, and planted the impossible dream of someday working there. The dream came true, and believe me, it was every bit as good as I'd thought it would be.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jul 13, 2014 21:50:17 GMT -5
Oh, I also read Boys Life and Mad. As I recall, the very first issue of Mad was made to look like a textbook, complete with boring cover, to make the teacher think you were studying.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2014 21:55:26 GMT -5
My National Geographic collection was from the 30s to the 90s. I finally gave them all away.
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Post by dradtke on Jul 13, 2014 22:14:00 GMT -5
Mad in jr high and high school, National Lampoon in college.
Readers Digest and Boys Life. When my kids were in scouts and I was a scout leader and Boys Life was back in the house, the jokes on the back page were the same damn ones I read 40-some odd years before. I suppose they only need 5 years of jokes in rotation, then start over with a brand new audience.
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Post by Tamarack on Jul 14, 2014 0:01:28 GMT -5
I had forgotten about Highlights. Remember Goofus and Gallant? I always sympathized with Goofus.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 6:17:55 GMT -5
I remember Mad and a similar one called Cracked. We also had Boys Life, Highlight, Weekly reader, Outdoor Life, and Sports Afield.
I don't think any of them were continuous; just whichever happened to be in the school fund raiser rotation.
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Post by Bassman on Jul 14, 2014 7:14:47 GMT -5
Does the National Enquirer and Star count as a magzine or newspaper?
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Post by factorychef on Jul 14, 2014 7:50:34 GMT -5
I have Mad mags all the way back to 1955.
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Post by Doug on Jul 14, 2014 8:01:48 GMT -5
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Post by billhammond on Jul 14, 2014 8:22:54 GMT -5
OK, that is damn funny right there.
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Post by Doug on Jul 14, 2014 8:29:37 GMT -5
People that can't laugh at themselves live humorless lives.
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Post by dradtke on Jul 14, 2014 8:46:59 GMT -5
People that can't laugh at themselves live humorless lives. That's not funny.
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