Slog - Comments on 2007 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007 I've never in my whole life been without a subscription to the local daily. But today, I canceled my subscriptions to the PI and Seattle Times. It wasn't a protest. It's that I read both papers on-line, and the print editions were just piling up in my living room. 2007 is the year everything has changed. And really, this was on my To Do list months ago. After hanging up the phone, I suddenly felt I'd made a mistake. But that's just the human brain playing its tricks to save a comfortable routine.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:51:58 -0800 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:18:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Interesting.

I was going to let my Wall Street Journal subscription lapse and subscribe to the PI ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862488 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862488 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:50:49 -0800 Comment by Orv I've been tempted to do that, but I feel like if I'm going to be a regular reader I ought to pay to help keep them in business.

]]> Orv http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862489 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862489 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:51:48 -0800 Comment by Katelyn I've been reading the paper online for years. The only thing I really, truly miss about the hard copy is the daily Sudoku and Word Search. :(

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862497 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:54:52 -0800 Comment by Cale well if they go and offer it for free online.. durrrr.

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862504 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862504 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:56:37 -0800 Comment by left coast Please keep us up to date on your switch to virtual toilet paper. I'm fascinated to hear how that turns out for you Josh.

]]> left coast http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862507 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862507 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:59:08 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Nice try. They will still be delivered to your home. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862515 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862515 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:01:34 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO I thought 9/11 changed everything?

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862533 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862533 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:02:55 -0800 Comment by Dave Coffman I subscribe to the Financial Times (office) and we get the Sunday New York Times at the house but yeah, I wouldn't subscribe to a local broadsheet. As bad as Frank Blethen is, I don't wanna line his pockets. We'll probably stop the NYT here soon anyways cause it too is piling up.

There isn't really a daily paper in the US worth reading daily anymore.

]]> Dave Coffman http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862660 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862660 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:27:22 -0800 Comment by Jseattle DOUG @6 is right. I dare you to get them to stop delivering.

]]> Jseattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862663 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862663 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:27:31 -0800 Comment by david in wedgwood I subscribed to the PI starting when I moved back to Seattle in 1991. The year I canceled it for the very same reason you cite Josh. I don't feel like I've missed out on anything, thanks to the online edition.

]]> david in wedgwood http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862788 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862788 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:34:11 -0800 Comment by N in Seattle If I did that, what would I read on the bus?

]]> N in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862895 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c862895 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:39:20 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle And don't forget, the print version has the comix.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c863185 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c863185 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:11:36 -0800 Comment by June Bee I enjoyed ?Elaine Thompson's? photo of the Chehalis flooding on the P.I.s cover today. And the kayaker next to the road sign on page 7 or thereabouts was rad too.

Hey Fnarf, lately I've dipped into their blog under an alias, looks like I might be switching interests on a more substantive level, or cutely I type, "cancelled" "subscriptions" "made a mistake" "brain playing tricks" - fuck, this petty shit is wearing thin. Waddya say? check it out?

Oh I guess this might be sockpuppettry, or Flouting or Farting or whatever the powers-that-be term it.

]]> June Bee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c863953 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c863953 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:11:11 -0800 Comment by Will in 98103 "After hanging up the phone, I suddenly felt I’d made a mistake."

But it was too late. The seed had been sown.

The next day, I called Tim Keck and begged him to put a stop to the print edition of The Stranger. "What's the bloody POINT?" I sobbed. "It's all going down the shitter anyway."

I found consolation in the fact that Slog now had a higher readership than the Bible.

]]> Will in 98103 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c864313 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c864313 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:46:15 -0800 Comment by SDA in SEA I feel pretty much the same way about The Stranger.

I religiously (hah!) picked up a paper copy every week for years. About 2 years ago I switched to the online version. I only pick up a paper copy a few times a year now.

But at least I still read The Stranger (online) regularly. Can't say the same for either of the dailies.

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c864569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c864569 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:13:21 -0800 Comment by Ritual On Wednesdays ,as a matter of routine, I used to go to Dad Watsons in Fremont to read The Stranger and drink an IPA. I've had to give up this longstanding ritual because The Stranger has failed to deliver the paper to Dad Watsons before 7:00 PM of late. I've gotten so used to not reading The Stranger that I don't even bother to pick up a copy when I see it in the rack at Whole Foods on Saturdays.

]]> Ritual http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c864988 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c864988 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:09:58 -0800 Comment by Dr_Awesome Once a week, I get out the Wahl trimmer and shave my cranium. I stand, naked, on several spread out sections of The Pee-Eye to catch all the fallen hairs.

Were I to cancel my subscription, I would have to stop shaving my head. And really, can the world do without another middle-aged white guy with a shaved head?

I didn't think so either.

]]> Dr_Awesome http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c865245 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c865245 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:48:10 -0800 Comment by Yeesh OMG @17 can we please get the word out for men to stop doing that. Every guy at my gym is bald, and it is skeeving me out. Captain Picard is memory, and you guys just look like an extra from some horrific German gay porn flick (I'm guessing). I don't know what I'd do if I were losing my hair and I sympathize, but please stop with this bald thing. And for Christ's sake don't shave your eyebrows too (or don't do it if you're eyebrows are translucent).

]]> Yeesh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c865415 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c865415 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:13:24 -0800 Comment by SeattleBrad @3 - you can play Sudoku and other games on msnbc.com

]]> SeattleBrad http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c865428 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c865428 Life Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:21:49 -0800 Comment by lawrence clark The only times I have read a newspaper in the last couple of years has been on my days off work when the temperature has been over 70 degrees F. Twenty years ago, I would read up to three or four newspapers on my days off, even when it was cold outside.

Not that it matters so much, but 75 cents for the daily and 2 dollars for the Sunday paper(with hardly any coupons anymore)don't exactly inspire me to be a regular subscriber.

Plus, you can get comics online for free.

]]> lawrence clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c865863 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/2007#c865863 Life Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:18:28 -0800