Periodical Pinings

Okay, so yesterday I think I subscribed to four magazines and it's all supposed to be free. It happened because I ordered tickets through ticketmaster. I filled out their survey thing and suddenly the screen said - "You can pick up to four magazines to subscribe to for one year for free and pay only $2.00 shipping!!!!"

I'm usually extremely skeptical about any "free lunches" as it were, but I kept on going. I picked four magazines (Time, Newsweek. National Geographic Traveler and Spin) and went to the billing page. And I think I read all the small print and I think it still said I was only paying $2.00 per subscription (but oh goodness small print is so small so maybe I did miss something) and I DID put my credit card info in (you know, so they could actually charge me the $52.00 for Time) and it went through and I think it still said $8.00 total.

I think.

So could this be for real? Has anyone ever done this before?

Am I getting the deal of the century here? Or did I actually just pay $130.00 for magazines I don't really want or need?

In other news, this is what I was reading this weekend:

Charles Isherwood confirms once again that what he likes best are directors and playwrights who keep their own damn hands out of the pot. I don't disagree with him - sometimes the best direction is the direction you don't even notice. And I for one am far from being an auteur. But this combined with all the other statements he has made this year just reinforces to me that he likes his theater artists to play nice. And sometimes, I think, that can be kind of boring.

A better than average Modern Love (which hasn't happened in a while).

The Times restates the obvious. When they got to the part where they were quoting twenty-year-olds about how much it hurt when their best friend started dating their ex-boyfriend in the eleventh grade my eyes started to ache from rolling so much. Really. Who cares?

Don't worry girls! There's hope for us yet!