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[muchabstracted]

Does anyone Boston-area or DC-area have old, non-Jewish themed magazines they're not using? I will take them off your hands and REUSE them for a happier tomorrow. Though if you're DC area, I won't be able to take them off your hands until fall.

ETA: The following paragraph references the fact that I took an art therapy class this past week.

Also? I hate writing papers. Especially when I'm supposed to be packing at the same time (packing being an activity I hate more than writing papers) and especially when what I want to be doing is going through my notes and articles on art therapy and organizing what I learned this past week.

Comments

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

We got a subscription to Architectural Digest this past year that we haven't read and would like to get rid of. If that's the kind of thing you're looking for? *somewhat confused*

Maggie, DC area

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

If you have the old magazines still lying around when I next visit DC, and the timing works out so that I can pick them up, that would be great.

(But that's a lot of ifs, so feel free to just recycle them instead! It would probably be loads easier for you.)

In any case, just to explain, I'm looking for old magazines so I can do collages with clients. I've just learned that collage is a particularly useful way to engage people in art therapy, because clients might do collage even if they're overwhelmingly worried about a perceived lack of artistic ability.

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Try me again when you're here next. I'm feeling too guilty to recycle them (the susbscription was a gift). The art-therapy sounds interesting and, yes, I would do a collage where I too wouldn't touch pens or pencils! M.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Awesome, I will do so. That's exciting! I've never seen the magazine, but I imagine there's lots of pictures. *grins* AND I wouldn't have to censor it for the younger folk .

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

No, but you'll raise a whole generation that covets stainless steel fridges. *smile* The pictures are great. E-mail me when you're ready, magnetic-north at hotmail dot com. M.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'll be in touch when I'm arriving to the area, and hope the timing works out! (Given the publicness of this post, should I delete the comment now that I have the e-mail address?)

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Nah, don't worry about it. Just e-mail when you need to. M.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

*gasp* There are generations that don't covet stainless steel fridges? But . . . everything is better in stainless steel! Even my stainless steel skullcap . . .

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Stainless steel chocolate...

[kraada.livejournal.com]

...fondue fountain? That's what google seems to have. And the ones covered in chocolate look tasty enough to eat . . . thankfully it's hard to get your mouth around a 19" monitor, so I couldn't actually try and eat the pictures . . .

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

*laughs* M.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Come 'n get 'em. :) Mostly food magazines. Some Smithsonian Magazines. Work for you?

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Awwwesome. Sounds good. I'll be in touch when it's closer to the time, then?

(And if you decide to clean up and recycle it first, I do not at all blame you. I am moving in two weeks. I don't want to hold onto anything.)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Collages for clients is a fabulous idea, especially since you can teach the clients your fabulous Symbolic Collage Skills. I approve.

Alas, I don't think I have any magazines I can get to you.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

I feel that I am a person who proves the rule of Willing To Do Collage Even When I Draw Like A 13-Year Old!

Yeah, geographical distances interfere. Ah well.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

That would be fabulous. For me and the older folk, if not for the young children. I'll talk to my supervisor about appropriate ages. Um, the TV-Guide is probably not the most useful, but the others seem great. I don't know how many you have, but I don't think I'd want more than 5-6 of celebrity type mags at the very most. (Though I might hit you up again in a year.)

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Alas, I just gave a huge stack of magazines to my mom last week. We have subscriptions to Wired and The New Yorker that we never read, although having just purged we only have the newest to offer. Also, Wired inexplicably came this week with an issue of 'Fashion'. Once I finish with some of these Time magazines you can have those too, if you'd like.

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Time and the New Yorker sounds awesome. Just a few works better than a large stack anyway.

...Fashion, in Wired? I want to see that one just for my own sake.

Let me know when you're set to get rid of them. I'm in no hurry. (I know that most of my unread magazines are, uh, several months old...)

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Well, not *in* Wired. It just came bundled with it. Our Wired subscription was a free trial to begin with, so I guess they figure they'll try to get us hooked to other magazines as well.
When do you need 'em? I could give them to Justin next time we see him, or (even better) we could find a time to all get together and hang out. :)

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Ah, that sounds less eccentric. Too bad, I was curious about fashionable computers. The mental images were wonderful.

I'm in no particular hurry -- I'm moving next week, so pretty much anything would happen after that. Hanging out would be lovely, if timing works out, and if it doesn't, I could easily just drive by and pick it up. Oh, by the way, you might know my soon-to-be roommate; dushai's cousin, who I believe went to the same college.

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome! I think we've met very briefly, maybe. We should totally get together once you've settled in. You guys could even come meet my new bunnies. :)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I have a great many back issues of Real Simple that might work well for you. (The best therapeutic collaging I ever did was with jessruth's Oprah magazines, but that's me. :-) I just have to dig them out of their boxes and paw through them a little... how soon will you want them?

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Sounds good! Yeah, I have a soft spot for collaging with the Trashy Magazines myself.

There is no hurry for this sort of thing. It'll be a few weeks before I start trying to introduce any art therapy in session; and even if I do get started before the magazines appear, it's not like it won't be useful to replenish the supply.

Boxes, on the other hand...

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Bizarrely, despite referring to Oprah's magazine as trashy, I rather respect her. Probably that's because of where I work.

(*feels less inexplicably rude to Oprah, the Pillar Of Society*)

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Oh, I mean, that's why the magazine was so great for collaging: it was Chock Full of TherapySpeak. Within 10 minutes I was plainly fleshing out the Let's Explore My Intimacy Issues collage.

(Happily, when packing to move this time, I felt comfortable putting it into the recycling. 8-)

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Aha! I've always been rather fond of using Australian Aborigine Tarot Cards for that. Each card has a story attached! And they're circular! And I still kind of want to put them all on my wall as decoration.

Heh. I apparently feel the need to hold on to all my old Hadassah magazines this time. I blame the art therapy class.