What Magazines Do You Read?

[Mike in Seattle]

I became nervous about the recent posts concerning contacting ICONS magazine. I called them today and a nice woman informed me the first issue would ship within 2 weeks. Hooray!

So, it's apparently not out of business though they seem a bit behind in getting the magazine to subscribers.

Cheers!

BRS

Interesting that this post from one week short of a year ago echos what I was told in an email just yesterday. Now, a year later that the above post, they're still reporting that the first issue will be out "in about two weeks." Certainly doesn't bode well for their reliability.

 

[SamMarlowPI]

Hot Rod...wow it looks like im the only subscriber to that so far...had it so long they gave me a free hat and i just signed up for another year...i think that makes it 6 or 7 years now...used to get Car Craft but i quit...
off the rack once in awhile:
DuPont Registry-Autos
Luxury & Exotics
DuPont Registry-Homes
Robb Report: Vacation Homes
American Dream Homes

 

[jenny_dreadful]

I was once sent a free copy of a zine called Bloody Beautiful. It was all about 20s and 30s culture and it came with an album of 30s music! I have no idea if anymore were ever published. That would be ashame if not -- it was BLOODY BEAUTIFUL.

There were two issues of Bloody Beautiful, but that's it. My boyfriend has them----it really was the most (bloody) beautiful magazine ever!

The Chap
Fortean Times

I read those, too!

Other than that...mostly Japanese gothic & lolita magazines that I can't read, but I love to look at.

 

[scotrace]

A related ?

What do you do when you finish with a magazine? Do you store it? Leave it in the bathroom to read further (ahem)? Throw it out? Take it to the break room at work? Drop it in the waiting room in your office building?

They really do pile up. We had to buy storage boxes for issues of Victoria, Colonial Homes, Early American Life, Classic Auto Restorer, This Old House, Old House Journal and Martha Stewart Living going back to the first issue.


Classic Style and Historic Preservation are the only ones we get right now. Every time I buy a magazine at the newsstand, my wife gives me the Stink Eye!

 

[LizzieMaine]

I carefully hoard my National Geographics -- I believe it's against the law to throw one away or something, so I stack them neatly in the attic so that I can easily be distracted if I ever go up there to clean. My Atlantics I take to work and leave in the projection booth -- about the third or fourth time I'm running a film, it comes in very handy to have something interesting to read.

It's catalogs that accumulate in my bathroom -- I have a rack next to the convenience especially to store reading materials, and most of the catalogs I get eventually find their way there.

 

[SinatraStyle]

What do you do when you finish with a magazine? Do you store it? Leave it in the bathroom to read further (ahem)? Throw it out? Take it to the break room at work? Drop it in the waiting room in your office building?

The company I work for is very big on recycling. They have bins at multiple locations for employees to bring in their old magazines to be recycled. It is very thoughtful on their part.

Before I discard my magazines I use a razor blade to remove any articles that may be of interest to me at a later time. One of my co-workers typically peruses my triathlon magazines then they are recycled. I also recycle the catalogs that come in the mail (LL Bean, etc).

The only magazine I hold on to is Classic Style. I'm currently waiting for the next issue to add to my collection.

 

[pgoat]

I generally have three categories for old mags -

1. keep 'forever' (at least till I get sick of them or need more space). I still have all my Creems, bicycle mags and Guitar Players.

2. Clip articles or photos I want to keep, and file as only an anal retentive libraian can....I have tons of great articles on clothes from years of GQ, but kept hardly anything from many years of Motorcycle mags (subscribed back when I rode a bike but lost interest once I sold the bike).

3. read/skim once and toss immediately. Always in the paper recycle, naturally. If it is an interesting mag I might put it in our building's laundry room for others to enjoy.

 

[LocktownDog]

WoodenBoats, Preservation, Pipes & Tobacco

I store everything away, as I tend to go back and reference articles once in a while.

 

[Dr Doran]

For a fairly liberal perspective (and just great in general -- our favorites):
New Yorker
New York Review of Books

For the conservative Republican but anti-war and anti-neocon perspective:
American Conservative

General interest:
Martha Stewart Magazine

Occasionally, every few years, we'll subscribe to American Prospect for a distinctly Democrat voice, or Harpers until its smug sky-falling-ism gets annoying again. Once I accidentally took out a year subscription for Harpers Bazaar, which is not like Harpers at all! Once in a while, we'll take a year of London Review of Books. For a year, I got FHM, an unbelievably poor Men's Magazine of the Maxim type but stupid(er). For a short while we got Catholic Journal or Catholic Digest until we both got bored of it. Twice we subscribed to National Geographic but my wife started hating it. Twice also we subscribed to Archaeology; that was fun. Maybe we'll get that again.

Magazines I READ but don't subscribe to are Classic Style (of course) and some academic journals such as Journal of Roman Studies.

 

[scotrace]

Of course, it's fun to pull them out years later and say, "Well, my mind's shot, so it'll all be new to me!"

 

[Diamondback]

Professional:
Armchair General
Special Operations Report
SWAT Magazine
Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security Int'l
Combat Handguns
American Handgunner
American COP
International Air Power Review
(online) USAF Air University Review

Academic:
The History Channel Magazine
WWII History
Air & Space/Smithsonian
Airpower/Wings
Combat Aircraft
Friends Journal (Nat'l Museum of the USAF members' mag)
Air Force Magazine (USAF Association magazine, an old prof forwards me his copies after he's done with 'em)

Personal:
Boeing Frontiers
Guns Magazine
Handguns
Guns & Ammo
Model Railroader
Classic Trains

Don't ask a question if you can't handle the answers...

 

[trettiotals]

or Harpers until its smug sky-falling-ism gets annoying again. Once I accidentally took out a year subscription for Harpers Bazaar, which is not like Harpers at all! Once in a while, we'll take a year of London Review of Books. .

LOL!! I was about to ask you how you read darkness and sky falling into Harpers (thinking you were referring to the fashion mag).... I didn't realise there exists both harpers bazaar and harpers. I don't think Harpers (non-fashion) is distributed here (Australia).

Oh, and magazines I read (all intermittently - I don't have any subscriptions, so either read them in the library or purchase individual issues if I'm interested enough). I've also indicated where I've moved over to the new media in certain topic areas, primarily because I think the new media is well suited to certain subjects.

Literary (mags, broadsheets, periodicals)
* Bookforum
* Granta
* Meanjin
* Bookseller & Publisher (Au)
* London Review of Books

News/Current Affairs
* Weekly Guardian (selection of articles appearing in the Guardian during the preceeding week) (Complements Guardian online daily)
* The Diplomat (Australian-produced international affairs mag)
* The Monthly (Australian-produced current affairs mag)

Gossip/Fashion
* Vogue (UK or Paris editions)
* Australian Women's Weekly
* Blogs

Food/recipes
* Blogs

 

[pgoat]

Of course, it's fun to pull them out years later and say, "Well, my mind's shot, so it'll all be new to me!"

A good point. I used to fastidiously hoard and store everything, but now when I pull out old stuff I haven't looked at in years, it usually hits me in one of two ways - either stimulates renewed interest (hopefully with a deeper appreciation through increased maturity, experience and wisdom) or makes me realize I am no longer interested in that subject area.

Of course, If I had a big enough home, I'd probably still keep EVERYTHING!

 

[Matt Deckard]

The Economist
Newsweek
Esquire UK
GQ UK

 

[GeniusInTheLamp]

Quite a few:

Classic Style (say no more)
Cigar Aficionado
Reason
BBC Music Magazine
Goldmine
British Heritage
ESPN Magazine
Sporting News
Ancestry Magazine
National Paralegal Reporter

 

[Corto]

The Economist
Foreign Affairs
Soldier of Fortune (guilty pleasure)
Naval History
Leatherneck
The Surfer's Journal
Military Illustrated

 

[LaMedicine]

My subscriptions are all medical journals. They aren't acually subscriptions per se, I am entitled to them due to membership in the various medical societies and associations that publish them. Others, I get off the rack from book stores.

Subscriptions
Diabetes Care (ADA journal)
Journal of Japan Diabetes Society
Journal of Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
Journal of Japanese Medical Association

Newsweek (My father subscribed to it in my name for some reason, and used to pass it on to me--since his death, my mother now passes it on to me. For some reason, the subscription hasn't been canceled.)

From bookstores.
Every issue
Kimono Saron ( Kimono Salon--quarterly)
Utuskushii Kimono (Beautiful Kimono--also quarterly)

Read 'em monthly at the hair dressers
Katei Gaho
Fujin Gaho
Misesu (Mrs)

Occasionally
KIE : Katei Gaho International
This is an English magazine that introduces various aspects of both daily and traditional Japanese life.