The Labor Mix

I took the day off yesterday :P

My RSS feed to Shirley’s facebook notes is acting stupid again. Why won’t it update when I need it to!?

I don’t know how I exactly did it, but I got myself a years subscription Business Week magazine. I thought I was signing up for a sample of lip gloss, and I ended up getting the magazine. When I called customer service they told me I can’t cancel the subscription because it was free. According to what she explained to me I had some kind of rewards points, and I used them to get the magazine. It’s really a shame because they wouldn’t stop it for me even though I told them I didn’t want it. All those magazines are just being wasted and it hurts my heart in an environmental way.

It’s the start of fall or so the marketing machine says. Just because Labor Day is over doesn’t mean it’s fall. Fall starts when it’s the equinox. Just like summer doesn’t start after Memorial Day. Summer starts on the solstice in June, and not earlier. Why would summer start in May anyway? That is still spring!

I came up with a great name for a Labor Day mix. “The Labor Mix”. Ok maybe it sounds like something you listen to while you are giving birth or while you are working. You know when it’s a holiday radio stations do some type of countdown, play a continuous mix, or have some type of weekend. I don’t know why but for some reason I don’t like continuous mixes.

Speaking of Labor Day weekend programming on KROQ is having a “Labor Day to Z” weekend. Anyway the DJ said you could request songs that would be coming up. You know like if they are on “F‘s” you could request a “G” song. Oh yeah the songs are played in alphabetical order of song title. Anyway I was listening during the “M‘s“,“N‘s” and “O‘s”. I requested 4 songs and they played NONE OF THEM! Here are the 4 songs I requested: “Novicane for the Soul” by the Eels, “Never Say Never” by that dog., “New” by No Doubt “Only Happy When it Rains” by Garbage. Ok so the first 2 songs aren’t usually played on KROQ anymore. I think KROQ hasn’t played that dog. since about 1997. But “New” and “Only Happy When it Rains” are pretty popular songs. (or at least I thought they were)

Their holiday weekends use to be good now they are just a joke! During this countdown they play the same old tired Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Linkin Park songs they always play with a few lesser played songs thrown in. Well it least it wasn’t like when they would have a 90s weekend and play “Bathwater” by No Doubt which is obliviously a 2000s song. The album came out in April of 2000. They eventually stopped playing it when I wrote an angry email to the station through one of their surveys.

At least this year my dad didn’t make me watch the beginning of the telethon. I think it’s really boring. My dad is still hoping it was like the way it was in the old days. I have nothing against Jerry and his charity. I know a lot of people say he steals from it and stuff.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Price Guide

This is another blog about my reporter teacher. Disclaimer: All opinions expressed about this teacher are solely my own.

For the magazine chapter of the book my teacher decides to give the class an assignment to bring in a magazine for niche audience into class. Her assignment requirements were to either bring in an English language niche magazine or a foreign magazine like the Italian version of Vogue.

The problem with this assignment was that she gave it to us on a Friday, and expected us to have a magazine in class by Monday. I didn’t want to use a magazine I had at home since I felt they were general interest magazines.

It was Sunday and I still hadn’t gotten a magazine. My dad told me to buy a Lowrider magazine, but I wanted to spend money on something I wouldn't read later. I’m not into lowriders.

My mom took me to the Sav-on to get a magazine. I really wanted to get a wrestling magazine, but they didn’t have any. Instead I bought a Yu-Gi-Oh! price guide. That magazine set me back $6!

My dad told me I should have gotten something else because everybody would make fun of me because I brought a Yu-Gi-Oh! price guide to class.

I remember that in the beginning of class people were complaining that they couldn’t find a magazine, and that she should have given us more time. One person said they just bought some magazine they found for sale at the bookstore. I think it was a magazine about dogs.

You had to go up to the front of the class and explain who the target audience was. I had a hard time doing that. I mean wouldn’t it be anime fans, Yu-Gi-Oh! fans, people who play the card game, and collectors/buyers/sellers?

When a Japanese student brought in a Japanese fashion magazine the teacher got so excited about it. A lot of people brought very general magazines like Playboy, Maxium, and YM. Two people brought in magazines similar to mine. One person brought in a comic collector one, and somebody presented a gaming one.

When I saw The Simpsons “Margical History Tour” episode. It made me think about the Yu-Gi-Oh! price guide I bought for class.

Maybe I should write a blog about the balding Yu-Gi-Oh! enthusiast, or about the silly bootleg Yu-Gi-Oh! comic I have.