Truth and Beauty Bombs

i subscribed to mad magazine for a long time

although to be honest the only actual decent thing they had was sergio aragones

also i read consumer reports in jr. high cause the library had em
if you need some early nineties computer equipment come talk to me

I am always in need of early nineties computer equipment.

my girlfriend got me a subscription to the new yorker

it ownes

also i like wired, and psychology today even though it is ridic, and the wire is the best music magazine, and i like to buy painting and architecture magazines sometimes

there's no better reporting than New Yorker out there
also I used to like GOOD but am tired of their snark/ridiculousness
Elephant is a really great art magazine in English but from Belgium I think?
My gf gets Artforum but the occasional added bonus is Bookforum
I keep meaning to get a subscription to Believer
Also if it counts, Cook's Illustrated has helped my cooking a whole lot.

Cook's Illustrated is great (beautifully illustrated, really informative re: principles of cooking).

I like Popular Mechanics sometimes if there is a good project in it (I always check it out in airport stands, buy an issue maybe 1 out of four times). I like really old copies of it, and used to read them in the university library when I was putting off studying.

I used to read JAMA the same way, but I have to confess a lot of it was beyond my ability to read critically.

I used to really like Paintball Games International when I wrote articles for it, but that has a lot to do w/ narcissism. The editors were really smart about the game, although I am not sure if any of us were smart about the sport. It is sad the magazine folded, but I had gotten out of paintball by that time anyway.

Soldier of Fortune is a pretty fun read once in a while. It is fucked up how it leads to murder so much, but I love that there is a magazine for adventurers.

cook's illustrated owns but k expensies ):

but i want those secrets i want them in my mouth

I get the New Yorker, Private Eye and the LRB. Usually use the magazines as productive procrastination to stave off unproductive procrastination. If we're talking journals (if JAMA is what I think is it?) then I read like 20 of those, but on an RSS feed, and it's not interesting so I don't know why I mention it. JACS and Angew are obv the main journals, but anyone who cared would know that.

think the weirdest thing I saw in England was Private Eye

In what way is Private Eye weird?
Holding your politicians up to the steely scrutiny of ex public school boys and cartoonists?
Or the not exactly fabulous attention to design quality?
Or the sheer quantity and arcane nature of the running jokes?

mostly the thing where they put speech bubbles in photographs in a very 90s internet sort of way
also the classified ads in it

Eye Need always makes me sad.