Magazines

[Image: magazine stack]This is a post that I wrote in November of 2006 but left in the drafts folder. Given my current plans to launch Eat Sleep Publish on Monday I found it an interesting read.

I love magazines. I love the paper. I love the sound. I love flipping through the colorful plastic pages to the cover story. I love the surprising witticisms. I love the editorial columns.

Magazines are amazing.

My dad has subscribed to Wired for as long as I can remember. It makes me sad that they’re no longer printing on square paper, but I still think it’s a great magazine, and I’m sure I’ll probably get my own subscription before the end of the year [ I did not - jp ]. I’ve subscribed to PC Gamer since 1995, which is almost the entire time it’s existed, and it just keeps getting better (except their internet division - for some reason they’re a bit slow in that department).

For years I was sure that when I came down to school in L.A. I’d do my damndest to get an internship with PC Gamer - after all, I play more video games than I have time to, and I love to write, and I’m a geek at heart. What better place for me in the world?

But I’ve e-mailed PC Gamer several times over the past ten years (sometimes for contests, sometimes for letters to the editor, sometimes to yell at them for idiocy) and never gotten a response. So I haven’t ended up fetching coffee for Greg Vederman (or even Steve Klett).

So instead I blog maniacally about whatever I choose, write occasionally for my school newspaper about things that nobody in college should actually care about, and continue to subscribe to the magazine.

Someday I’ll do something for a magazine. I like writing too much to spend my entire life without making that kind of opportunity for myself. Maybe I’ll start my own magazine with a few friends. Maybe I’ll help a few friends start theirs.