I always get a bunch of cheap, trashy magazines I normally wouldn’t read: gossip mags and such. I also throw in a Time or Newsweek so I don’t look like a complete idiot.
I like a good issue of GAMES magazine while I travel. If I can find it, I will always pick one up. My dad used to do the puzzles and such with me–especially when we went on vacation and he had free time. It brings back some nice memories.
I never buy magazines except at the airport, and then it’s Scientific Americanall the way. I keep meaning to subscribe, but I forget.
I always buy a book of puzzles to play with on the plane. That’s my leave me alone I’m busy thing to be doing on flights.
At the airport? Why would I buy a magazine at the airport? Once I’ve left the person I was bringing there, I just head home and don’t need any magazine.
If Og intended us to fly, we would have evolved wings!
Now, at the train station : I generally look, in this order, at history, sciences, travel/geography magazines, until I find one about a topic I’m interested in. I also buy one or two newspapers, and sometimes a sci-fi book I’m now every time dissapointed with.
I tend to stick with books when flying. If I’m on the train, I’ll pick up a Time or a Sports Illustrated. I’m also more of a newspaper reader when visiting an airport. I like to see what local news is like from place to place.
Rog…what fantasy league are you playing in, anyway?
Usually Time or Newsweek as fallbacks, since I usually have a subscription mag and/or paperback book with me. Unfortunately, the mags I’d like to buy impulsively (Film Comment, Sight & Sound, etc.) are usually MIA in airports.
Me, too. I rarely, if ever, buy anything other than these two, and I never buy just one; always both together.
Do ferries count? On the ferry or at the airport, I’ll buy Vanity Fair. It usually has three or four fairly lengthy and interesting articles, and also some silly stuff too.
Flying and Private Pilot. I only buy them at the airport.
The Economist, even though their worship of the market is a bit too fanatical and utopian. It’s more world-wide comprehensive than Newsweek or Time and doesn’t have a Jesus or Bible-related cover story more than three times a year.
New Yorker is my given plane reading. I also pretty much always bring a book and/or my latop with a movie or two. If I’m feeling particularly indulgent, I may pick up some sort of girl-ish magazine - Vogue or Cosmo or something.
Is it just me or is the Spectator getting samey. People striving to be funny or a la mode and not really saying much. The Eye made for a much better read. The St Albion’s Column (a piss-take of Tony Blair and his autocratic wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing approach) is priceless.
But this from the Spectator was so good I jotted it down for you guys. It’s from an interview with a sociologist tuned Anglican priest called David Martin - best sense I’ve yet read about the problems with Islam:
On violence:
“There is a deeply rooted ideology of violence in Islam - a military psychology…those few who do turn to violence are able to find a certain amount of justification in the Koran.”
"Islam seeks peace but on its own terms…it’s a fine religion, but it places a high premium on victory…I fear many young men will see violence as the means to that victory."
On autocracy/“monolithicism”:
'[The Islamic] tradition is based on a single right way of behaving and strong warnings against the Infidel."
On Christianity:
'What sets Christianity apart is its suspicion of all human power." [Unlike Judaism and Islam, he argues], Christianity “insists that faith is something other than successful violence for a cause.”
That league where I’m irrestible to women, Andy. A sad fantasy indeed…
Who buys something in the airport? They have the highest prices on the planet. You want to read, bring something. I never buy stuffs on the road. Bring it from home.
Round these parts, the paperbacks & magazines at the airport are the same price they are at the local newstand.
For some reason, I always end up getting something like Maxim, Stuff, or FHM. It’s weird. I don’t normally read these magazines, but for some reason, when travelling, they’re perfectly appropriate. I will often pick up a Time and Newsweek, as well.