Inversion

[larryhammer]

When I moved here, a weekend subscription of the morning* paper was delivered Fri-Sat-Sun. Since the Friday paper had the weekend arts/shows/happenings section,** that made sense. But then they moved the weekend section to Thursday, to come out the same day as the free weekly paper*** -- and extended the subscription to Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun. This fall they decided, for the duration of football season, to toss in Mondays as well -- so we could get our coverage of Sunday's games.

So there are now two days of the week which are not part of the "weekend."

Feel free to apply your own symbolism to this story.


* We actually do have an afternoon paper.

** Called ¡Caliente! for a touch of southwestern flavor. Except, of course, the hot flavor is picante.

*** Which responded by moving to Wednesday.

---L.

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

"Come to the sunny Southwest, where even the weekends last longer!"

[janni.livejournal.com]

What's funnier is how they keep trying to get us to sign up for a week-round subscription for some very small amount more.

Why would we do that, when we already nearly get the paper week round?

In the past they've given us free summers of week-round service, too, to get their summer circulation up when the snowbirds leave as a special trial offer, making us even less inclined to actually pay for said service.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

There is an afternoon paper in SF. It used to be the rival morning paper. Once or twice a week someone leaves it, in its original wrapper, on my doorstep. They have taken to giving the paper away at the supermarket. Anything to convince the advertisers they have a circulation. This paper is the once proud Examiner. Hearst's baby.