A secret "benefactor"?

[rsc]

I have now received the three most recent issues of the Advocate. The mailing label indicates that the subscription runs through August of 2005. Now, my brain has developed a few holes here and there, but I think it would remember if it had bought a subscription to the Advocate. (Actually, if I thought my brain had done any such thing, I might decide it was due for trade-in for a more reliable model.)

So the only logical conclusion is that somebody decided that I needed the Advocate, and anonymously gave me a sub. I can't imagine who it might have been.

Comments

[bitty.livejournal.com]

oh, i dunno... the advocate is something you might actually read, so it can't be the usual suspects.

[jss]

Or they're desperate and giving away their own subscriptions. I intentionally let mine run out ('cause between the real news outlets and LJ I see everything of interest there at least 2 weeks before the issue comes out), got the warning letters, and got the "last" issue shrinkwrapped in a different color nonbiodegradable plastic sleeve with the THIS IS REALLY YOUR LAST ISSUE WE MEAN IT THIS TIME insert.

Followed subsequently by at least 2 more issues of the damned thing.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Scientific American may or may not have been doing that to me; I've lost track of the actual expiry date and can't be bothered to look it up. But, if so, it's actually been useful for them, because I really was waffling over whether to let my subscription... which I've had for 10 years, no less... lapse.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

It was suggested to me in email (thanks, YKWYA) that it might be the result of my giving money to NGLTF, which is plausible.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

once you're on a mailing list...

Recruitment....

[willyumtx.livejournal.com]

I think that the "Men in Pink" are trying to recruit more to the "Cause," but due to mishandling of information did not realize that you have already been "converted."

[photoglh.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's a good chance it's from A.Z. in California. He used to give me a subscription, but then switched it to Roy.