# "The Hat" A Magazine about hats! What speciality magazines or journals do you know about? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921 "2009-09-13T16:46:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/1 "2009-09-13T16:46:52Z")
[The Hat](http://www.thehatmagazine.com/backissuesgallery.htm) [Here’s a knitting magazine](http://www.knitnstyle.com/). [Here’s a catfishing e-magazine](http://www.procats.com/) What speciality magazines do you know about? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/2 "2009-09-13T16:49:05Z")
My local grocery store never has the newest knitting magazines. But they’ve got [The Dairy Goat Journal](http://www.dairygoatjournal.com/), without fail. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/3 "2009-09-13T19:08:36Z")
I remember reading Heeb, a very snarky secular Jewish magazine, and an article on gay Jews. They mentioned there is a zine dedicated to the Jewish transgender community. Now that’s specialized. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/4 "2009-09-13T19:25:13Z")
> [@installLSC](#): > > I remember reading Heeb, a very snarky secular Jewish magazine, and an article on gay Jews. They mentioned there is a zine dedicated to the Jewish transgender community. Now that’s specialized. Thanks for the heads up! [Quench](http://quenchzine.blogspot.com/)is more LGBT than transgender, but still that’s a pretty narrow cohort. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/5 "2009-09-13T19:54:26Z")
I once bought a bearclaw from a vending machine at work and noticed that it had a big ribbon on the packaging stating that it had won “Vending Pastry of the Year” from some vending machine trade magazine. Sure enough, I looked it up and it existed. I used to work for a construction company and they had a huge array of trade magazines in the bathroom, including one devoted solely to demolition. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/6 "2009-09-13T19:56:53Z")
[Modern Drunkard.](http://www.drunkard.com/) ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/7 "2009-09-14T06:44:27Z")
Anyone know if Spatula City has a trade journal? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/8 "2009-09-14T07:22:11Z")
Not a magazine or journal, but a friend of mine just published a book about gay and lesbian ghosts. If you search for “gay ghost hunting” on Google, there’s a bunch of groups and Web sites devoted to it. Never thought of that as a niche market, but there you go. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/9 "2009-09-14T08:38:34Z")
[Pig International](http://freemags.magazines.com/tradepublication/details/47342) Useful link, if you are qualified, that magazine and 150 others are free to subscribe. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/10 "2009-09-14T08:57:18Z")
There’s a BBC panel game called “Have I Got News For You” which often features a “guest publication”, from which amusing headlines are taken for the teams to complete. Highlights include: International Car Park Design Water and Effluent Treatment News Hot Dip Galvanising Magazine Potato Abstracts Modern Ferret Magazine American Taxidermist Egg Cup World Full list here - all genuine publications 🙂 > **[User:Pseudomonas/Guest Publications on Have I Got News for You](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pseudomonas/Guest_Publications_on_Have_I_Got_News_for_You)** > > This article has been nominated for deletion here. Whilst I agree it's not encyclopaedic, it is pretty damn cool, so I'm just putting it here until I get round to putting it on an external website for posterity > The final round on Have I Got News for You (HIGNFY) is usually "Missing Words", where the panel has to complete partially obscured headlines of national papers from the past week. > Since the second episode of Series 6, it has usually featured a "guest publication", an obscure magazine or... ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/11 "2009-09-14T09:04:04Z")
When I was in high school drama, we got to use the cafeteria lounge as a green room. I was always so excited to read the copies of school cafeteria trade journals. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/12 "2009-09-14T09:13:25Z")
Also, when I was in high school I worked for a newspaper who pretty much only existed to list job openings with the State of California. Their main market seemed to be state offices who felt like they had to have copies of these things, the occasional go-getter looking for a promotion, and average joes looking to get on the government work bandwagon. Very strange company ---
**Author:** ![cdsilv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cdsilv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdsilv)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/13 "2009-09-14T12:38:00Z")
Solid Waste Magazine. > **[Home - Waste & Recycling](https://www.wasterecyclingmag.ca/)** > > Serving Canada's collection, hauling, processing, and disposal industries ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/14 "2009-09-14T19:18:29Z")
I’m a periodicals librarian, so I know 'em all. We don’t get any of the really weird ones, but we get your Bassmaster, we get your American City and County (for those of you who are in local government) or your County Focus, just for South Carolina county… people. Want Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly? Let me show you it. We have at least three different Catholic magazines just off the top of my head. We have exactly two synagogues in town and there’s a local Jewish newspaper for 'em. We got magazines on every disability you can think of - we got yer autism, we got yer hearing loss, we got yer differently abled children. We have your arthritis, too. Dear god do we have your antiques and your collectables - stamps, coins, what have you. We have QST for your ham radio needs. How about some Ex-POW Bulletin? No? Military Spouse, then? Government Technology, maybe? We have a quarterly magazine about Lithuanian people. Seriously. We go Inside Kung Fu AND Inside Smithsonian Research. Can you say the same? My favorite? Garden and Gun. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/15 "2009-09-14T19:43:14Z")
I thought [Ducks Unlimited](http://www.ducks.org/) was pretty weird. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/16 "2009-09-14T20:06:08Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I’m a periodicals librarian, so I know 'em all. We don’t get any of the really weird ones, but we get your Bassmaster, we get your American City and County (for those of you who are in local government) or your County Focus, just for South Carolina county… people. Want Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly? Let me show you it. We have at least three different Catholic magazines just off the top of my head. We have exactly two synagogues in town and there’s a local Jewish newspaper for 'em. We got magazines on every disability you can think of - we got yer autism, we got yer hearing loss, we got yer differently abled children. We have your arthritis, too. Dear god do we have your antiques and your collectables - stamps, coins, what have you. We have QST for your ham radio needs. How about some Ex-POW Bulletin? No? Military Spouse, then? Government Technology, maybe? > > We have a quarterly magazine about Lithuanian people. Seriously. > > We go Inside Kung Fu AND Inside Smithsonian Research. Can you say the same? > > My favorite? Garden and Gun. “[Bassmaster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Anglers_Sportsman_Society)” sounds niche but it’s actually a pretty huge outdoor and fishing magazine and organization with over half a million members. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/17 "2009-09-14T20:13:28Z")
I know, but it sounds funny. Which is the point. Can I interest you in “More News About Talking Book Services”? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/18 "2009-09-15T01:24:20Z")
Isn’t there a law-If there’s an interest, there’s a magazine for it? Rule 33, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/19 "2009-09-15T13:05:57Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I thought [Ducks Unlimited](http://www.ducks.org/) was pretty weird. Why? they conserve wetlands, so ducks can land on them, so they can shoot them. Seems pretty straightforward to me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921/20 "2009-09-15T13:10:51Z")
I’m reading _Ta-Da! Magazine_, the magazine by and for gay magicians. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hat-a-magazine-about-hats-what-speciality-magazines-or-journals-do-you-know-about/509921.md?page=2)