# Periodical Subscriptions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 1999, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632 "1999-09-28T16:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![smilingjaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@smilingjaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingjaws)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/41 "1999-09-29T21:22:00Z")
Atlantic Monthly Vanity Fair Newsweek Prevention Forest Landowner some professional pubs Wish I could afford the Economist ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/42 "1999-09-29T21:47:00Z")
Let’s see … Subscriptions: Christianity Today Biblical Archaelology Review American Heritage Readers Digest Disney Magazine Highlights for Children (for my daughter) The ones I pick up every month at the newstand: Entertainment Weekly The Skeptical Inquirer Yahoo : Internet Life The Utne Reader * * * Saint Eutychus [www.disneyshorts.org](http://www.disneyshorts.org) ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 1999, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/43 "1999-09-29T23:29:00Z")
Thanks, Ike, for the tip and the link! I’lll try it out. I’d cruised through the Outlaw Cook site and enjoyed it. Your right, one heck of a writer. Of course MFK Fisher of beloved memory will always be first, but he was great. He was the first one who helped clarify my visceral reaction to Martha Stewart. I’ve decided to subscribe to CI. It may help the mail carrier overlook those “donated” subscriptions to mortuary science mags, catalogs for inflatable sheep, etc. that should be arriving soon! Veb ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/44 "1999-09-30T00:51:00Z")
Gourmet and American Family Physician are the only ones I get right now. I’ve been wanting to subscribe to The Nation. Anyone know where I can get a good deal? (Other than their web site, that is.) Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/45 "1999-09-30T02:46:00Z")
Newsweek Discover Creative Classroom And _Sigh_…Don’t lose too much respect for me: Cat Fancy. It’s a bit more silly than I thought, so this will be a one-year only subscription. I also will pick up People on occasion, when I’m wanting basically mindless gunk to amuse me. Usually when I’m sick–like now. Bleh. Dumb sinuses. But oooh, look what she’s wearing! ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/46 "1999-09-30T02:54:00Z")
Smithsonian I recommend this to all SDMBers. I’ve seen so many questions on here I could have responded to with info from past articles if I had just been able to lay my hands on the right issue. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/47 "1999-09-30T05:06:00Z")
A few regulars from the bookstore: 3D Magazine Games Magazine And a couple of British imports with good cover discs: PC Review Digit I finally dropped Wired; it’s getting more and more interested in making bunches of money by floating a stock issue, so you can buy more yuppie gadgets. These are all “bookstore subscriptions”. The bookstore (Cody Books here in B.C. - not that Californian one) sets your mag aside when it comes in, and calls to let you know. None of those big discounts, but it’s a family business and a good store. ## And I keep forgetting to sign up for Smithsonian … Bob the Random Expert “If we don’t have the answer, we’ll make one up.” ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/48 "1999-09-30T06:21:00Z")
Consumer Reports Reader’s Digest Writer’s Digest Smithsonian ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 1999, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/49 "1999-09-30T12:02:00Z")
Bon Appetit Gourmet Cooking Light Writer’s Digest Vanity Fair National Geographic Discover The Husband gets: Details Maxim And for the Kid: National Geographic Kids Wired (he likes the pictures) I also swipe my Mom’s People magazine so I won’t have to be seen buying it. I’ve also been known to peek at those soap opera magazines, but only for humor value, I swear… * * * “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Albert Einstein ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/50 "2000-06-20T15:27:44Z")
Smithsonian National Geographic Cook’s Illustrated I’ve been receiving CI for free for years now. It’s a great magazine, but the one thing that’s a little dopey about it is the “Quick Tips” section in the beginning, where they have cooking tips sent in by readers. Half of 'em are so obvious that it’s humorous - “After I’m done cooking, I often use a wet rag to clean the counter. It works marvelous, and you can also use it to quickly clean out dirty dishes for re-use!” You get a free subscription if you send in a tip that gets published. I figured, hey, I can do that! So I came up with what I thought was an obvious cooking tip, sent it in, it was published, and I’ve gotten the magazine free since. I tend to call the magazine “Anal Cook’s” since they really are completely anal about what they do. “We wanted to find the best way to roast chicken, so we bought 75 chickens and roasted them. The first we cooked at 200 degrees for 4 hourse, the second at 225 degrees for 3.5 hours…” etc. etc. And Uke, thank you SO much for that link to Simple Cooking. I’ve been searching for it on and off for years, ever since Jim Harrison recommended it in one of his columns. Yippy! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/51 "2000-06-21T01:40:20Z")
Scientific American and Discover magazine. I’m a geek. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/52 "2000-06-21T02:54:35Z")
My _New Yorker_ subscription has lapsed for the moment, until they once again come around with a subscription offer for less than $25 a year (this will be the third time we’ve performed this little dance – they send me an $18/year offer, I subscribe, at renewal time the price is upward of $30 a year, shortly after expiration I get another one for slightly less, followed by another bid, and so on until I convince my wife that I’m going to spend more than on buying individual issues during the coming year and she lets me re-up). In addition to the sort of things Ike mentioned, I’ve really enjoyed [Malcolm Gladwell’s](http://www.gladwell.com) articles over the last few years. Otherwise, the current crop in my household is down to: [ul] [li]_The Atlantic Monthly_[/li][li]_Harper’s_[/li][li]_Fast Company_[/li][li]_Software Testing and Quality Engineering_[/li][li]The Atlanta _Jewish Times_[/li][li]_Sesame Street Magazine_ and _Sesame Street Parent_[/li][li]a gift sub to _Family Fun_[/li][li]The Atlanta _Journal-Constitution_ (weekends only)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/periodical-subscriptions/8632/53 "2000-06-21T04:33:26Z")
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