One point for Forest Glen
Newspaper boxes for The Onion have sprung up in the last month all over town.
How nice, right?
Except that it's really just a tease.
These boxes are always empty whenever I come across them.
However, I've found one that has been chock full of the satirical weekly both times I've looked. It's at the Forest Glen Metro stop, among the other newspaper boxes there.
Do people in that neighborhood not find The Onion funny and are thus not picking it up? Or is the newspaper just giving that particular box extra copies?
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In the city at least, I think it's just very popular. I forgot to pick up a copy last Thursday from the two boxes near the Woodley Park Metro station. I couldn't find a copy in any other box around town until yesterday on Connecticut Ave around the Farragut North station and the Mayflower Hotel.
But I'm a much better person now for known about Jesus Christ is serious about getting in shape for the second coming.
I see them in boxes all over the place. I also see boxes empty all over the place. I guess that's just the way things go.
But my real story is - they were handing them out at L'Enfant Metro one day. The guy handing them out informed me, when I declined, that it would cost me "$2.50 on the news stand." I found it weird, so told him where I was from and that the Onion had always been free in the 20 years or so I had read it. He of course had no idea it started in Madison. I pointed out that the boxes all over had it for free.
Anyway, Joel told me that they sell it at Barnes and Noble for like $2.50. I didn't know that, and it was weird to me. Just sharing.
Barnes & Noble has sold The Onion for years. But this month's launch of the D.C. edition means we get a local AV Club section, etc. I just wish they'd do a better job of stocking the newspaper boxes around town.
Give it up for the Vanilla Suburbs, home of people too lame to pick up The Onion, making it plentiful for those of us using Forest Glen Metro! Huzzah!
The blog costs $4 at the newsstand.
They didn't last long in Pentagon City either.
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