I Would Like to Say ‘Thank You’
Will the person who submitted my address to Teen Vogue please stand up? I’d like to give you a high five (or swift kick to the butt) for putting me on their mailing list. Now my mailman thinks I’m a nut job idiot who’s trying to relive the 7th grade.
Of course I’m a HUGE Miley Cyrus fan so seeing her shining face in my mailbox three times this week has been pure heaven.
Yes, I’ve gotten the same issue multiple times, along with a few back issues that feature other Disney or High School Musical people on the cover just in case I wanted to catch up on burning questions such as “Can I get an STD from a toilet seat at the airport?”; “Why doesn’t yellow look good on me?”; and the ever important feature article: Acne Ruined My Prom.
What, you couldn’t have signed me up for TIME, The New Yorker or even a magazine on gardening? So muchas gracias. You know if I find out who you are, you’re going to get lots and lots of literature about, well, I don’t want to ruin the surprise.
You have the most hilariously unusual life. Thank you so much for writing about it.
It is pretty out there.
Now THAT is hillarious… especially since you love teen publications so much. *wink* lol
Once upon a time I did indeed love teen pubs but that’s when the teen idols were cool. Back in the day… you remember.
That’s pretty funny – hope your mailman wasn’t a hot prospect – well I guess he’s not now
I once did a similar thing to my wife. At the grocery store there were the tear-off info requests on an announcement board so I sent in one with her name on it for people struggling with bed wetting 
!!! It was most hilarious the junk we got for the next year or so. She didn’t mind too much except when I would “accidentally” leave something we received with her name on it out on the table when our friends were coming over.
Adult bed wetting problems. Now THAT is a good one.
I wish I had done it, I’d love to take credit for it b/c it’s hilarious. Hmm, I’m going to start memorizing people’s addresses for this very reason. Thanks for the idea!
It might get a little expensive if you have to purchase a subscription or five. Should I have saved all the magazines for you?
Dagnabbit! I just got a green beauty buy for $21! If only I’d known you had this week’s issue… hehe. Lucky you.
I can’t wait to see what kind of literature your kids will be reading in a few years. You might not be laughing then.
So, can you get an STD from sitting on a toilet seat?
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) got arrested from sitting on an airport toilet seat, so there’s no telling what you could catch. I need a teen rag mag to let me know.
So what is the deal? Guy hot vs girl hot? Huh, is this a study in androgyny? Oh Miley, how long before your shaving your head, spitting babies like a pez dispenser, and strung out on Meth? It’s coming!
FYI boys, you can’t catch STD’s but you still gotta watch out Larry Craig isn’t scoping it out! Heads up!
Don’t boys have a magazine equivalent to this? If not, I nominate you to be the Senior Creative Director / Editor.
Ahh, I hate that you can’t edit comments! I meant You’re, not Your!!
I wonder if they’re any relation to the ‘Readers’ Digest’? They faithfully sent me a magazine for nearly 3 years, although I never paid for a single copy … or even ordered it!
(Also got a year’s worth of ‘Saga’ magazine … and all I did was ask if I could contribute to it!)
Really? That’s actually pretty cool.
I thought for a fleeting second that was YOU on the cover! Anyone else get that impression?
ME on the cover? Ah, no. Isn’t Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana hot stuff in the UK?
This is such a cool idea. I am goign to have some fun with this concept.
Brilliant.
My co-worker got in a fight with a someone and then signed her up to recieve lesbian cruise information. It’s an idea.
Ah ha ha… people are such assholes. Perhaps you can learn some good tips. I’m assuming they must be teaching teens how to give good blow jobs or somthing equally horrifying these days. I remember reading 17 back in the late 80s. So innocent back then.
Seventeen was like the Bible to me… and I have no idea why. I think those magazines actually HURT my already fragile teenage self-esteem.