{"id":65,"date":"2003-11-11T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-08-24T14:26:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T20:26:48","slug":"65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"It Was Fated"},"content":{"rendered":"

After letting my subscription lapse about three years ago, I have re-subscribed to Fate magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have to admit I missed it: the UFO sightings, the “True Mystic Experiences” from people who could not possibly be making it all up (this is not the Penthouse<\/em> Forum, folks).<\/p>\n

And the wacky ads: “The most frightening<\/a> book in print,” the Atlantean crystal headband (only $59.95), the “free” Tarot readings, and all the ads from world-famous psychics and mediums.<\/p>\n

In 1994 Llewellyn Publications<\/a> bought Fate<\/em> from the small company that had published it since 1948. Knowing better than the earlier publishers, they promptly changed its small, “digest” format to a fullsize 8 x 10-inch magazine. In fact, I had an article published in that first “full-size” issue on the archaeological anomaly of “Colorado ogham” inscriptions.<\/p>\n

But it looks now like the conservative readers won: Fate<\/em> is back in the digest format, only with some process-color pages instead of only black and white photos.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should buy the poster of the first issue cover, complete with flying sauces that look remarkably like compact disks with a notch cut out of them. Who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After letting my subscription lapse about three years ago, I have re-subscribed to Fate magazine. I have to admit I missed it: the UFO sightings, the “True Mystic Experiences” from people who could not possibly be making it all up (this is not the Penthouse Forum, folks). 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