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I got this note from your frequent correspondent, Bob Bateman, now on duty in Iraq. Perhaps some magazine editors reading the site could set him up with some complimentary subscriptions.
"Things that I cannot get here: Coffeemate or some other appropriate creamer. Powder, obviously. I prefer French Vanilla. We have hordes of coffee sufficient to wire the entire city of New York for a month, but we're damned short on creamer. Also a significant dearth of decent periodicals. Maxim and Stuff and other "lad" magazines abound, but I'm damned if I can find copies (even old ones) of the New Yorker, let alone The Economist. Everyone must be hoarding their copies and it seems that the local PX must sell out every day, as I never see them on the shelves of the magazine racks here. If you have spares laying about, please do send them along when you're done with them. Same with Esquire."
My address:
Maj. Robert Bateman
MNSTC-I, J5
Baghdad, Iraq
APO AE 09316
- DAVID CROOK, "The New Yorker (and other goods) for Bateman, pls.," poynter online - forums march 7, 2005
posted March 08, 2005 in politics, print. 20032001