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yes, Mad Magazine!
spy vs spy and the tri-fold back cover |
Strange as it may sound, I will always have a fond association with Newsweek. My father had a subscription throughout my childhood, and from the time I learned to read I would browse through it, always going first to the Perspectives section to try to figure out why the quotes were funny or ironic. It was my first introduction to the idea that there was a whole world beyond my school and neighborhood, with crazy things happening pretty much all the damn time.
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Oh my, how could I forget Mad Magazine! I would spend hours upon hours trying to redraw all the Don Martin (rip) cartoons when I was in jr. and high school. What talent they had on that staff back in the early 70s: Jack Davis, Sergio Aragones, Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg, Dick De Bartolo, Al Jaffee... and, of course, the Usual Gang of Idiots :)
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I've never been a big one for consuming periodicals, but I do enjoy a SciAm on occasion, as well as some Photography stuff when my fancy is tickled.
A few years back there was a UK-based science magazine called Frontiers that kicked many flavors of ass. It just sort of disappeared from the Barnes and Noble racks after I'd been reading it for about a year, and I couldn't find anything about it online... stupid fucking entropy. |
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Maxim (not currently subscribed)
Motorcycle Cruiser (also lapsed) Omni (defunct) Consumer Reports (lapsed) Navy Times (currently subscribed) Flying (occasional reader) Guns and Ammo (occasional reader) Popular Mechanics (read mostly in barbershops) Mad Magazine (RIP) This is an incomplete list but that's all I can think of right now. I miss the Omni puzzles the most. Brian |
Current subscriptions:
Guns & Ammo Shooting Times American Rifleman Growing up, we always had a subscription to National Geographic which piqued my interest in photography....the, uh, animal pictures. Yeah, that's it. I also loved National Lampoon and had kept every issue. My mother tossed them all out when I joined the Army. :mad: |
Current Subscriptions;
Car & Driver Smithsonian National Geographic Rodder's Journal Custom Rodder Past Subscriptions; Fine Homebuilding Fine Woodworking Popular Science Popular Mechanics Consumer Reports Time Life Saturday Evening Post Watchtower Hot Rod Rod & Custom Yankee Mad Playboy Penthouse Pennsylvania Brooklyn Several NRA, 4-H, NHRA and other organization Rags plus too many car magazines to list. :eyeball: |
Games Magazine
Remember the photo quiz? Several extreeeemely close up thumbnails of ordinary things. Good variety of puzzles, including some I could solve. |
OMG BigV- I had EXACTLY the same 3 in mind- I was such a car Freak from the age of 12 to 22, I could tell you the stats about any production car from a Lada to a Countach, including the options available. I read those 3 mags from cover to cover, except for the rims ads...
And I also thought that the Countach was the coolest car of all time. The Anniversary Edition was a little tacky, but hey- I was in a dealer in Montreal who had six of them lined up in his basement, brand-new, only driven on and off the loader. The pictures of the Countach do NOT do it justice to standing beside it (Then on the other side of the garage were 6 Diablos- 'tis to dream....). I still think of that day (it was '95) like it happened yesterday! Each Countach and Diablo were an even $350,000 CDN. I also went through quite a phase of reading that mucho-expensive homes mag- I can't remember the title, but it was the one that had Kenny Rogers' estate for $9m in '96 or so- Maybe "DuPont Registry"? Now I read those three a bit but I now read Guitar Player and Guitar World a lot. |
I have been reading and subscribeing to Outside for years ,
I'll pick up a Guns + Ammo , Shotgun news , Amreican rifle man , or Mortor cycle , or Car and driver every now and then . I had a LARGE comic book collection , but my mother trashed them when i joined the USMC , she stoped throwing out my mags when she stumbled onto my Porn stash , I had gotten 3-4 guys hords when they got married , a whole LARGE steamer trunk of stuff ( I never did figuer out HOW she got that lock open ) , She made me burn it in the back yard . |
Damn, Zip, what is it with Mom's throwing out your cherished possessions when you go join the military? Not only did my Mom toss my National Lampoon collection, she chucked my mint condition entire set of 1969 baseball cards. (To this day I can't bring myself to investigate what those would have been worth now. :( )
Mom also sold all my darkroom equipment at a tag sale for dirt cheap. She did all that in the name of cleaning out old stuff and making room. :eyebrow: |
I hadn't considered this thread in terms of current and past magazine subscriptions ...
CURRENT America's First Freedom Women's Outlook Field and Stream (got this free because I ordered stuff from somewhere, won't be continuing) Whistleblower (wnd.com's magazine) NewsMax (yeah, they have a monthly print version) National Review TV Guide (I don't think I've actually really read this since I got digital cable with the onscreen program guide. I do enjoy Cheers and Jeers.) PAST (Many of these I will still pick up as single copies, but don't subscribe) Games Dell Crossword Puzzles (several of their monthlies) Guns and Ammo McCalls Needlework Magic Crochet Crochet on the Go Hooked on Crochet Annie's Crochet Just Cross Stich Beadwork Bead and Button Road and Track Motor Trend Scientific American Discover Smithsonian Starlog Consumer Reports Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Analog Omni Fantasy and Science Fiction Realms of Fantasy Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Elfquest Magical Blend Circle Network News Green Egg UTNE Reader Mother Jones Soldier of Fortune Spin Rolling Stone People Entertainment Weekly Newsweek Time Archeology Dog Fancy Funny Times National Lampoon Mad (never subscribed, but faithfully purchased every month) Vietnam (military history magazine) Dungeon Skeptical Inquirer |
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