Quarterly is a pretty neat idea: a little box of stuff will be curated by a person you choose, and four times a year (quarterly – get it?) a new box will show up in your mailbox. You can get stuff from awesome people like Bill Nye, Timothy Ferris, and Book Riot.
Last week, Quarterly asked me if I’d be interested in curating something for them.
“I’d love that,” I said, “but nobody is going to be interested in it.”
“We think you’re wrong,” they said.
“Your face is wrong!” I said. Then I ran away and told on them.
Anyway, if enough people are interested enough in subscribing to a box of stuff, curated by me, then we’ll do it. But the thing is, we need to know that you’re interested. So if you are, go to Quarterly and fill out the thing.
Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you.
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Answer: YES and I’m filling out the survey! 🙂 Anne has to slip a few her “Vandal Eyes” in though. 😉
Well dang, you are pretty much the only person who could get me to sign up for something like this. Off I go.
Exactly.
I like the idea, I just can’t find anything on that site that tells me a) how much I can expect to pay, or b) if it ships to Australia.
a) The price seems to vary by curator. If you follow the last link to “fill out the thing”, it is a specific page for Wil that says that “Each box will contain at least $100 worth of value…” So that seems to imply that his would be a $100 per box charge.
b) From the Help section:
“International Quarterly subscriptions—yes, we offer them!—require an additional fee, at the following rates.
All mailings: Canada +$20; rest of world +$30.
Note: We do not make a profit on shipping. These rates directly reflect our costs.”
Only if interaction with Henry Rollins is involved…. or, you know, beer.
why didn’t I say beer???
Why not both?
Done, filled it out, I said beer;) :-p actually recipes. But hey,it’s fun.
Done. Now the hard part….waiting.
The boxes are supposed to be a good value. So if they are suggesting the items are worth $100, then the price tag will probably be more like $50 which seems to be the more common price point on quarterly’s offerings.
Done and done. And now I’m regretting I didn’t mention beer. I assumed they couldn’t ship it, though. I know they couldn’t ship into the state I live in, at any rate.
SEND ME w00tstout!!! Ok, I know that’s not likely to happen because of shipping. But I signed up anyway.
I suggested a tabletop game paired with a beer or bourbon. Should have added music the play during the game…doh!
I am not doing it.
I would be quite interested to know what you pick, but I don’t actually want more stuff in my life. So hopefully after a no-spoilers appropriate amount of time, you could blog about what you picked and why.
‘What’s in the box?!?”
This must happen.
I know whatever you put in the box will be completely amazing, awesome (no pressure). We’ll love whatever you choose or we will learn to love it.
I hope you get to do it.
This is the most exciting and I wish I could subscribe right now.
If I had a spare $100 lying around, I would absolutely, positively do it.
Which, now that I think of it, is not a very helpful comment, so just ignore me.
What’s in Bil’s box?
OK. I hope this becomes a box. Actually, I’m surprised it took this long. Yes, I remembered beer.
I’m both fascinated and saddened by the idea.
It is fun to get a surprise, but some things will no doubt be quite useless. In an age where we now know we are consuming more than our share of the finite resources of the earth, do we really need to increase consumption of useless things? Would probably have tried if it was virtual stuff – games, movies, music, ebooks, images etc.
I said YES DO IT NAO. And that I hoped the boxes would be a tactile version of Radio Free Burrito. And include a bell.