Thursday, October 30, 2008

Magazine Gremlin Strikes Again

It happened again, and as you can imagine, the second time is even more unsettling than the first.

I'm talking about my mystery magazines. A few months ago, I wrote about receiving Outside magazine in the mail without warning, and no one came forward to take credit for a gift subscription or an accidental subscription or a fit of drunkeness or loss of sanity (other than my own).

And I swear, I didn't subscribe to it myself, though I've been enjoying reading the magazine, nonetheless.

Well, I come home from work yesterday, and Liz informs me that I've received the latest issue of Men's Health.

Say what?

And again, I don't recall ever even considering subscribing to Men's Health — not because I'm already healthy (far from it), but because I'm a geek, and geeks read the New Yorker and the Atlantic and maybe Outside (for the fantasy life), but not so much Men's Health.

That said, the latest issue has a nice cover article on Barack Obama. And it's billed on the cover as the "Special Wealth & Power Issue." I could get into that.

Hey, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, so I'll read the dang magazine. But it's time I got to the bottom of this crazy mystery.

Who is the magazine gremlin?!? Show yourself!!!

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