DISASTER

It was on All Things Considered as I was driving home from the dentist this afternoon: Conde Nast, which I guess owns Gourmet magazine, is SHUTTING IT DOWN! along with a couple of bride magazines. Evidently it doesn't make enough money in advertising anymore.

I have only subscribed to Gourmet for about forty years. And I actually READ it. In truth, I ignore all or almost all of the ads, especially the ones for cars. This will once and for all totally wreck the rhythm of my life as I have known it.

I am continually annoyed with the cost-cutting measures happening almost monthly at the Lexington Herald-Leader (it continues to shrink, the type shrinks, virtually all the non-Lexington news is from the New York Times, which I get daily, too, and can easily read online, unlike the H/L), but will shed few tears when it finally bites the dust.

But Gourmet...no, that hurts!