# What's the most obscure general circulation periodical publication? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obscure-general-circulation-periodical-publication/706076 "2014-12-01T22:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obscure-general-circulation-periodical-publication/706076/41 "2014-12-05T02:17:57Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > [Grit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_%28newspaper%29)? I sometimes get free copies in the mail. It’s now a magazine about gardening and homesteading. Unlike some other mags of its ilk, it is totally apolitical. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obscure-general-circulation-periodical-publication/706076/42 "2014-12-05T05:08:52Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I sometimes get free copies in the mail. It’s now a magazine about gardening and homesteading. Unlike some other mags of its ilk, it is totally apolitical. Homesteading? You mean like in case you’re planning on traveling back to 1880? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obscure-general-circulation-periodical-publication/706076/43 "2014-12-05T07:12:24Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Homesteading? You mean like in case you’re planning on traveling back to 1880? 1880? That is way too modern for me. One of my favorite magazines since I was a child has been [The Mother Earth News](http://www.landsofamerica.com/landsconnector/mother-earth-news/index.cfm). If you thought no bullshit real commune living hippies died off 30 years ago, think again. They live strong in this publication. It isn’t a collection of fluff pieces either. They outline in detail about how to get off the grid, build your own waterwheel, raise your own sheep to spin wool and everything else. My favorite part is the in depth stories about people that just said ‘Screw it!’ and moved somewhere really remote to live on their own. There was one guy in Wisconsin who built his own beautiful log cabin by hand including digging his own basement and he lived in it full time with no power. When they asked him what motivated him go through so much effort to build a house by hand in the middle of nowhere, he replied that ‘Having all that electricity around makes me nervous’. You can’t argue with that. ---
**Author:** ![BaldDudePeekskill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@BaldDudePeekskill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaldDudePeekskill)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obscure-general-circulation-periodical-publication/706076/44 "2014-12-05T12:42:20Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Oh no. Not obscure at all. Verrrrry popular. (Can’t get it’s shit together and send us itself on a regular basis though.) I had no idea…even years ago, it never showed up reliably on the news stand ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obscure-general-circulation-periodical-publication/706076/45 "2014-12-06T17:36:35Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I recently heard about **Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot** , a magazine for home weavers. > > That’s people who weave at home, not people who weave _a_ home. [What, they’ve got something against weaver birds?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploceidae) > [@psychobunny](#): > > I vote for Garden and Gun. Neither topic is particularly obscure but they somehow don’t seem to go together that well. Not all that obscure - it’s on the front rack of the magazine display of most Barnes and Nobles and newsstands here. Keep in mind that it’s marketed to and mostly about the South, and you’ll see the connection. (Basically, it’s _Southern Living_ with guns; I suspect the idea was to draw a larger male readership.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obscure-general-circulation-periodical-publication/706076.md?page=2)