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Magazine Subscriptions

Yes

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No

8 votes

metirish Aug 11 2011 02:03 PM

BG mentioned he has 18 months worth of unread Newsweek magazines in his house , he's a subscriber. I used to subscribe to Time but it was just a waste even though I think I was paying not even $10 a year.I think I subscribed for over four years but even in that time the changes were dramatic, and not for the good. I currently subscribe to National Geographic which I really like and always have and Popular Photography which is nothing special.

Edgy DC Aug 11 2011 02:05 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Subscribe to Atlantic. Sending a resume to National Geographic tonight.

seawolf17 Aug 11 2011 02:07 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Kids subscribe to "Highlights" and "High Five." Those count?

Benjamin Grimm Aug 11 2011 02:07 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I'm actually a former subscriber. There are a lot of magazines I used to subscribe to at one point or another, going all the way back to Sport (does that even still exist?) when I was a kid. Currently, though, I'm not a subscriber to anything. Lately I've been reading books and newspapers, but not magazines.

metirish Aug 11 2011 02:07 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

seawolf17 wrote: Kids subscribe to "Highlights" and "High Five." Those count? sure they do, you are probably paying right?

Frayed Knot Aug 11 2011 02:10 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 11 2011 02:57 PM

The first magazine I ever subscribed to was when my sister and I pooled our money for regular delivery of 'MAD' Don't have any currently though. Over the years I've subscribed to Newsweek, Sports Illustrated (that's probably my longest one), Baseball America, and a handful of others I can't think of right now.

Vic Sage Aug 11 2011 02:18 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 11 2011 09:54 PM

i used to subscribe to the Comic Buyer's Guide (when it was in newspaper format), but cancelled when it became a ridiculous fanboy glossy. I've also subscribed to Fantasy & SF Magazine (a digest-sized short story publication) from time to time, but not currently. I also subscribed to Sporting News, in its early days, before internet sports sites made it irrelevant. But now... nothing.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 11 2011 02:27 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I've gotten Wired every month for the last 4 or 5 years. Good sense of humor, ocasionally a good thought-provoking article, regular stuff on robots and murders I like. Wifey gets the New Yorker and I read that sometimes too. In the crapper of course.

Ceetar Aug 11 2011 02:39 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

none. Although my wife was offered a year subscription to Cosmo for like $8 so we do get that this year. It has pretty girls on the cover.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 11 2011 02:40 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I'm sure that most of those pretty girls are just heavily Photoshopped pictures of Nancy Pelosi.

Ceetar Aug 11 2011 02:51 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm sure that most of those pretty girls are just heavily Photoshopped pictures of Nancy Pelosi. could be. They're usually talking about sex too.

metsguyinmichigan Aug 11 2011 03:09 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I used to subscribe to Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and Everyday with Rachel Ray. Dumped Time after its redesign, dumped Newsweek when it abandoned all pretense of being objective, dumped SI because it was just too expensive. Ray was a gift -- that keeps on giving.

TransMonk Aug 11 2011 03:29 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I receive Newsweek, Tape Op and The Believer, my gal gets Smithsonian, Eating Well and Vegetarian Times. Our mailguy is pretty busy.

metirish Aug 11 2011 03:45 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Been thinking about getting Smithsonian, similar to Nat Geo I'm guessing . The missus rates it highly ?

TransMonk Aug 11 2011 05:06 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Loves it. It's not quite as informational as Nat Geo. A little more travel-ish.

Fman99 Aug 11 2011 06:58 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I get Wired and Runners' World. I read them in the shitter.

themetfairy Aug 11 2011 07:17 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I don't currently have any subscriptions.

Kong76 Aug 11 2011 08:33 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Baseball America is an annual xmas present from KB and the only one I get. It might be technically a newspaper.

Willets Point Aug 11 2011 08:55 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I don't subscribe to anything. I found that I never read any magazines when I did. I think I need the deadline of a due date at the library to get me to read anything.

Frayed Knot Aug 11 2011 09:09 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Fman99 wrote: I get Wired and Runners' World. I read them in the shitter. I had FMan pegged for a very different reading list.

MFS62 Aug 11 2011 09:30 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm actually a former subscriber. There are a lot of magazines I used to subscribe to at one point or another, going all the way back to Sport (does that even still exist?) when I was a kid. Currently, though, I'm not a subscriber to anything. Lately I've been reading books and newspapers, but not magazines. This. And, I'm not sure Sport is still around. Later

Rockin' Doc Aug 11 2011 09:40 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I have subscribed to Sports Illustrated on and off over the years, but I haven't subscribed to it for about 10 years. My wife subscribed to Southern Living for years, but I think she let her subscription lapse last year. My office receives Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Southern Living, Travel and Leisure, People, Highlights, and Readers Digest. I don't see the need to subscribe to any for home. I can easily look at them at the office if I see something that interests me.

Edgy DC Aug 11 2011 09:46 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Sport went down in 2000. It saw the internet and threw up its hands. Once the Mets lost the World Series, said the editors, what was the point? National sportsweeklies and sportsmonthlies back in the day had me spoiled for choice: Sports Illustrated Inside Sports Sport The Sporting News Baseball Digest Baseball America

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 11 2011 10:08 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

A lot of formers in my past-- including Playboy and Popular Mechanics and The Economist... all of which I initiated while sauced and surfing (drunkscribing?). Now? Just Time Out for Kids and The New Yorker, both as thank-you gifts for donations.

sharpie Aug 14 2011 06:53 AM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Same as Grimm. Books and newspapers. Enjoy them in doctor's offices.

themetfairy Aug 14 2011 09:19 AM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

So here's something funny. Yesterday a Woman's Day magazine appeared in our mailbox, with indications that it's part of a subscription that expires next July. What's even funnier is that it was addressed to D-Dad. WTF?

Benjamin Grimm Aug 14 2011 09:25 AM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I'm sure he just reads it for the articles.

metsmarathon Aug 14 2011 09:30 AM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

i get runners world, though i haven't really read them in a long time. i can't drop them thought because, well, i'm a runner. i need to have a subscription to rw to maintain my status as such. plus, ever since they ran a photo of me and mrs.mm, i've felt rather obligated to continue on with them. mrs.mm also gets one of the martha stewart magazines, living, i think, as well as cooking light.

Fman99 Aug 14 2011 10:50 AM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

metsmarathon wrote: i get runners world, though i haven't really read them in a long time. i can't drop them thought because, well, i'm a runner. i need to have a subscription to rw to maintain my status as such. plus, ever since they ran a photo of me and mrs.mm, i've felt rather obligated to continue on with them. When were you in RW? Do you have a digital copy to share?

bmfc1 Aug 14 2011 01:32 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

SI, Entertainment Weekly, and ESPN sends me ESPN: The Magazine as an "Insider" (half the time it goes right into the recycle bin).

TheOldMole Aug 15 2011 11:02 AM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

The New Yorker, which I now also get as an iPad app. Moulinet, a quarterly journal of stage fight choreography, put out by a friend, and which I find consistently fascinating.

seawolf17 Aug 15 2011 11:23 AM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

TheOldMole wrote: Moulinet, a quarterly journal of stage fight choreography, put out by a friend, and which I find consistently fascinating. That does sound fascinating, actually!

Willets Point Aug 15 2011 11:29 AM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

My mother-in-law gave my wife a subscription (I think jokingly) to Garden & Gun a magazine that claims to represent the soul of the New South. Flipping through an issue, it appears that the New South does not have many black people except for a blues musician, a cook, and two fishing guides who had their faces covered with bandanas.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Aug 15 2011 12:00 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

seawolf17 wrote: TheOldMole wrote: Moulinet, a quarterly journal of stage fight choreography, put out by a friend, and which I find consistently fascinating. That does sound fascinating, actually! Was thinking the same.

bmfc1 Aug 15 2011 12:52 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Willets Point wrote: My mother-in-law gave my wife a subscription (I think jokingly) to Garden & Gun a magazine that claims to represent the soul of the New South. Flipping through an issue, it appears that the New South does not have many black people except for a blues musician, a cook, and two fishing guides who had their faces covered with bandanas. I enjoyed this WP. I stumbled upon an issue and half way through looked at the cover to see what year it was from. Incredibly, it was the current issue.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 15 2011 01:57 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I like the centerfold in that Guns & Gardens book.

Ceetar Aug 15 2011 02:04 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

i found an issue of SI Swimsuit (well, it wasn't all swimsuit at this point) Edition from 1993 yesterday.

metsmarathon Aug 15 2011 07:58 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

Fman99 wrote: metsmarathon wrote: i get runners world, though i haven't really read them in a long time. i can't drop them thought because, well, i'm a runner. i need to have a subscription to rw to maintain my status as such. plus, ever since they ran a photo of me and mrs.mm, i've felt rather obligated to continue on with them. When were you in RW? Do you have a digital copy to share? august 2007. see the 'book, until i get my ass caught back up on flickr

Edgy DC Aug 15 2011 09:31 PM Re: Magazine Subscriptions

I haven't bought anything by Guns 'n' Garden since Izzy Stradlin quit.