New Yorker, National Geographic, The Sun, Cook’s Illustrated [am thinking about dropping it, though I do love it], Saveur, and I’m thinking about subscribing to Gourmet. I used to get Consumer Reports, and I should re-up there.
Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest and Redbook (boring!). I mourn LIFE magazine. Not the one that’s inserted, the monthly that ceased publication in the mid 1990s.
Another Reason reader here. Also Fine Cooking (suck it, Bon Appetite!). I’m one of those annoying bastards nobody will play trivial pursuit with more than once, so my naturally very favorite magazine is Mental Floss. Check it out at http://www.mentalfloss.com/
I subscribe to newsweek, but when in the john, I tend to look at a Thomas Brothers map book. Looking at mysterious squiggly lines, grids, and numbered highway symbols has a very laxative effect on me.
Paste, Horticulture, Organic Gardening, Spin(because it was free), ESPN, Cooking Light and National Geographic, plus what ever catalogs showed up recently.
I gave up reading books in the bathroom. Sitting too long with your sphincter stretched out is a leading cause of hemorrhoids. My butt feels much better these days. Wait ’til you’re 40 or so–you’ll understand.
With that said, here’s my reading list these days:
Magazines: The Sun, Motorcycle Consumer News, and Consumer Reports. Strangely enough, all are totally subscription-based and free of advertising. (You need to subscribe to The Sun, Brittney. It’s the best literary magazine ever. As a matter of fact, you should try submitting something for publication!)
Books: Well, I’ve got joint custody of my six-year-old daughter. The only books I have time to read are Hop on Pop and Go Dog Go.
Ok…first of all this is sure as h-e-double-hockey-sticks some kind of new world when the wimmin folk are readin’ whilst doin’ the bizness. I was a janitor for a university for a bit and would never ever find reading material in the women’s room but piles of newspapers in the men’s. My wife has taken to using my bathroom more often than not due to the superior reading material. Which is: Oxford American, Southern Culture, Rolling Stone, Spin, No Depression, + a stack o’ books piled on the back. .. Narcocorridos by Elijah Wald, the new new Cormac, and a couple others.
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Reason magazine, Cook’s Illustrated..
Wired, Business 2.0, Rolling Stone and Kiplinger’s. Thinking about trying Fast Company.
New Yorker, National Geographic, The Sun, Cook’s Illustrated [am thinking about dropping it, though I do love it], Saveur, and I’m thinking about subscribing to Gourmet. I used to get Consumer Reports, and I should re-up there.
Vanity Fair, Outside, Entertainment Weekly.
But I read them in bed, thankyouverymuch.
Civil War Journal
Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest and Redbook (boring!). I mourn LIFE magazine. Not the one that’s inserted, the monthly that ceased publication in the mid 1990s.
New Yorker, Bon Apetit, Gourmet
er, pardon my French. That should be Bon Appetit.
Another Reason reader here. Also Fine Cooking (suck it, Bon Appetite!). I’m one of those annoying bastards nobody will play trivial pursuit with more than once, so my naturally very favorite magazine is Mental Floss. Check it out at http://www.mentalfloss.com/
I think you’d really dig Real Simple. It’s by far my favorite mag.
rolling stone, but I’d rather have a shape/usweekly magazine.
Fast Company, Wired, Inc., Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fortune, Rolling Stone, Utne Reader
The Economist, Foreign Affairs, National Geographic, and an on/off relationship with Running Times.
Harper’s. In my bathroom I used to have the official transcript of the Nixon Tapes. It was bulky, but amusing.
I subscribe to newsweek, but when in the john, I tend to look at a Thomas Brothers map book. Looking at mysterious squiggly lines, grids, and numbered highway symbols has a very laxative effect on me.
http://www.thomas.com
Paste, Horticulture, Organic Gardening, Spin(because it was free), ESPN, Cooking Light and National Geographic, plus what ever catalogs showed up recently.
Print, CA, Believer, Make…I’m probably leaving a few out. Dunno.
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What’s the point in having an iPhone if you’re not going to surf Dirty Freakin’ Hippie websites on the john?
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Real Simple and Southern Living for me. If I subscribed to everything I like, I’d be broke.
American Journalism Review,and I got Fangoria for awhile.
I know, I have different, very odd interests.
I get Digital Scrapbooking, TV Guide, and Photoshop Elements magazine.
Wired, People, and Entertainment Weekly. The spouse enjoys Communication Arts and Pastel Journal.
Maxim.
Stuff for Men and Spin. But I read Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers while in the john. I read the mags at work.
I gave up reading books in the bathroom. Sitting too long with your sphincter stretched out is a leading cause of hemorrhoids. My butt feels much better these days. Wait ’til you’re 40 or so–you’ll understand.
With that said, here’s my reading list these days:
Magazines: The Sun, Motorcycle Consumer News, and Consumer Reports. Strangely enough, all are totally subscription-based and free of advertising. (You need to subscribe to The Sun, Brittney. It’s the best literary magazine ever. As a matter of fact, you should try submitting something for publication!)
Books: Well, I’ve got joint custody of my six-year-old daughter. The only books I have time to read are Hop on Pop and Go Dog Go.
My subscription ran out, but I always really liked The Week. Excellent bathroom reading because it’s all in digest format.
Ok…first of all this is sure as h-e-double-hockey-sticks some kind of new world when the wimmin folk are readin’ whilst doin’ the bizness. I was a janitor for a university for a bit and would never ever find reading material in the women’s room but piles of newspapers in the men’s. My wife has taken to using my bathroom more often than not due to the superior reading material. Which is: Oxford American, Southern Culture, Rolling Stone, Spin, No Depression, + a stack o’ books piled on the back. .. Narcocorridos by Elijah Wald, the new new Cormac, and a couple others.
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