ok here's one: what magazenes/periodicals to you subscribe to, or are thinking about that you might want to? or even one's that you have in the past if you want to mention them. currently my one subscription is to analog-sf. in the past i've been a subscriber to model railroader. and i think at one time i may have subscribed to mother earth news. or at least my dad did. i know he also subscribed to rodale's organic farming and gardening. i remember at one time in the 70s i had a subscription to byte, and all of its first year of publication. i've also considered f&sf, and asamov's. there was a sf ben bova edited, i forget the name of, i subscribed for one year to. ah, now i remember, it was called omni. then there was heavy metal, but i never subscribed to it, just bought it more or less regularly. that would have been sometime in the 80s. there's something called graphis that i loved, but it is/was a kind of expensive anual. we used to get when i was in high school in the 60s, mechanics illustrated and popular mechanics.
My Longest Subscription Was For "Time Magazine" Which Went For About 30 Years.... Then Comes The "Sydney Morning Herald" And Our Local Paper The "Western Advocate" Which Both Went For About 27 Years.... Nowdays I Read The Herald Online, But I Still Subscribe To My Local.... And Last But Not Least, The "Encyclopaedia Britannica" Which I Subscribed To And Received 2 Books A Year From For Roughly 20 Years... Cheers Glen.
Popular Science Popular Mechanics Science Omni National Lampoon Reader's Digest Game Magazine, or something like that Mother Earth News Computer Shopper Some Amiga magazine National Geographic Country Living Discover Boy's Life All in the past. Now I get AARP and AAA.
Zines Zines Zines Zines, god damn it!! In the age of the interwebz, magazines are more of a ripoff than ever before, especially when some of the ones that are actually good (usually the foreign ones) cost about $10 or more. I will still occasionally buy Mojo, Uncut and NME to have something to read at work. They're not worth the money, though, even when they come with a free CD that sometimes doesn't suck.
zines? none, currently, i got quite excited about one called "fuck steampunk" by a comedian i'm a huge fan of, but it never made it past issue one, im always on the lookout for some more though. magazines, i have a subscription to sight and sound, and i occasionally buy rue morgue, fangoria or the fortean times, looking for a good SF one though.
I agree with Rat. Have you seen Reader's Digest lately? They can't even get the jokes right anymore and they were the best part of the whole magazine. Popular Science and Mechanics are terrible. I can't even read a car magazine anymore. The only American cars they ever do an article on is the Mustang, Viper, or Corvette practically. Everything is some foreign car I'd never own or can't afford. Like I'm gonna buy an Audi R8 Spyder.
Macleans is the only hard copy I tend to read faithfully. There are a few that I read on line as I took a subscription to them that way. If I feel like flipping through something I tend to buy ones that are cooking oriented.
None at the moment. Waste of money. In high school, at one point or another I was subscribed to just about every popular teen magazine- YM, Teen, Seventeen. Before that it was Sesame Street, American Girl, and Nickelodeon.
