"The Hat" A Magazine about hats! What speciality magazines or journals do you know about?

Glad to see they’re still in business. It’s been more than twenty years since I worked for the then-publisher of Supermarket News. I see that it’s changed hands since then.

Why does this thread make me think of Dave Attell’s line, “I was reading ‘Ta-Da!’ magazine, a magazine by and for gay magicians.”

Rats!

Farmshows are awesome. Imagine a county fairground full of funky homemade farmers proudly vending their funky homemade machines.

No. Batesville is the biggest maker of metal caskets. Mrs. Nott works for http://www.cjbootscaskets.com/ here in Anderson. Boots makes arch-top hardwood caskets (video on the website.) When there’s a picture of a funeral somewhere, folks ask Mrs. Nott, “Was that one of yours?”

I have this …er …friend who reads special interest magazines.

I dont like to talk about what I read,that is what he reads, when there might be children on this MB,but lets just say that it involves whipped cream,farmyard animals and winged flying boots that lace all of the way up to the crotch…

But already I’ve said too much.

Um, because of post #20? :stuck_out_tongue:

Because you read Post #20?:wink:

ETA: Ta-DA!

Any good hearing loss journals besides whatever HLAA’s/SHHH’s house organ is called now? Most of the hearing loss stuff out there is SO FREAKING dull…basily Hearing Health 101. What do you have on differently abled kids? Any magazines for teens/young adults with disabilties?

BATTERIES!!! LOL…that’s obscure.
I remember looking at my Writer’s Guide and there was a knife mag listed…I can just imagine how the articles go…" this one is really good for slitting your wrists. This one is better for killing people"

Years ago I worked for the trade association that published Parkingmagazine. And believe it or not, there was another group that published Parking Professional.

I subscribe to one magazine entirely dedicated to heirloom sewing, which hardly anyone does–it emphasizes the best fabrics, hand embroidery, etc. and you have to be slightly bonkers to do it (which is why I do :p).

And also to Australian Smocking and Embroidery, which is all about…smocking. Just smocking. They also publish a very tempting magazine all about very fancy and difficult embroidery.

I also subscribe to a new magazine called Secular Homeschooling. It’s about homeschooling and only homeschooling, let’s not drag religion into it at every turn–most homeschooling magazines are produced by evangelicals and if you’re not an evangelical it’s not for you. (Evangelicals aren’t really even a majority of homeschoolers, but they’re way more organized.)

Hey, thanks for posting–I’m on my way to subscribe to both of these :smiley:

I like Backwoods Home and the Countryside & Small Stock Journal which are of fairly broad interest in the way of self-reliant living… but my very favorite ag publication is Rural Heritage, a bimonthly journal for farmers and loggers who rely on real horse(mule, and ox)power :slight_smile:

ETA: Oh, and the North American Falconry Association puts out a journal, but as you have to be a club member to subscribe I’m not sure that’s applicable to the thread. Fantastic reading, though :slight_smile:

There is a segment of the program *Infomania *on the channel Current TV which each week highlights a magazine which is bizarrely specialized. There doesn’t appear to be anywhere online with a list of all these magazines.

I used to know a guy who edited model railroading magazines. He was an insufferable obsessive-compulsive with the social skills of a garbage can.

Mr. Sali’s somewhat hawt cousin was on the cover of “Hay and Forage Growers” magazine - sans shirt, perched on his John Deere in an alfalfa field.

Not a magazine, but I was surprised to see in someone’s home several huge doorstop books devoted to the pursuit of - don’t know how to put it, but when you make a fishing rod and the handle is decorated with intricate woven threadwork in different colors? There are books about it.

I have never actually laid hands on a copy of the twice-yearly publication, Bacon Busters, but the Babes and Boars section has quite the reputation if you like pictures of scantily clad women posed with recently deceased wild pigs. Apparently there’s an annual calendar, too.

Actually, I don’t find this magazine all that weird - people hunt boars, so why not have a hobby mag? But it consistently turns up in ‘weird stuff from down under’ reports. Mum used to work for the publishing company that put the magazine out, which is how I ran across it originally.

For specific true crime journals there’s Ripper Notes - The magazine for historical information and news about the Jack the Ripper case and The Hatchet - the same kind of publication but for the Lizzie Borden case.