Nov
12
2007
Hey kids… Join the club!
Author:I always thought it somewhat odd that Amanda and I became such close friends while in high school, considering we were complete opposites. She, the lesbian liberal; me, a lapsed Christian heavily influenced by my stodgy, Republican parents. I always attributed it to be a shared teenage angst.
Now, I wonder if it was our morbid delight in cynicism that drew us together, because like her, I found her latest blog entry to be deliciously ironic and hilarious at the same time:
our library system – all 42 branches – circulates a children’s book series called the Magic Attic Club (different, btw, than the Magic Tree House — in case you were wondering). inside the paperbook editions of the book comes a little tear-out card to join the Magic Attic Fan Club (similar to those subscription cards in magazines). anyway, it has just come to our attention that the Magic Attic Fan Club had gone out of business some time ago, and that when kids are calling the 800 number listed on the card to join, they are being forwarded to the new owners of the phone line — a phone sex company!
