tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44598359965018553.post1438170053715385590..comments2023-08-25T02:32:26.411-07:00Comments on Hrafinstaad: Magazines part 1Roishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14960233101785516144noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44598359965018553.post-47697245563760653142010-01-03T12:55:08.493-08:002010-01-03T12:55:08.493-08:00I like magazines, and until my kids are out of mid...I like magazines, and until my kids are out of middle school we are stuck with a bunch because their school's biggest fundraiser is a magazine drive. I love The New Yorker and I really like Wired. I don't do fashion magazines either -- not since high school. I don't do the good housekeeping type either, a little too grandma, but my guilty pleasure is -- don't shoot me -- Martha Stewart Living. I like the recipes and the crafts and the gardening pictures.Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08668487489667818687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44598359965018553.post-83787935596759607682009-12-27T16:33:19.151-08:002009-12-27T16:33:19.151-08:00Y'know, when it first started out way back whe...Y'know, when it first started out way back when in the seventies, The Mother Earth News was kind of like that...useful helpful how to do it articles that assumed you would be foraging supplies and materials, and still had some desire to have your surrounding both pretty and functional. Lots of suggestions for ways that folks were finding to get by.<br /><br /> But over the years they have become a consume-ing based magazine like all the others, useless to those who don't live at the top of the economic food chain. I guess you can't sell advertising space if the folks who read your magazine don't compulsively consume.<br /><br />I think that perhaps the internet, through blogs and websites, is where the future of that kind of information sharing is right now.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01994300004330705947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44598359965018553.post-24628685763024032992009-12-27T16:07:55.823-08:002009-12-27T16:07:55.823-08:00I agree but I am hoping that one day a publisher w...I agree but I am hoping that one day a publisher will get it,the whole picture and then present it with out it sounding like it is some radical slightly distasteful thing.<br /> Every time I read an article in a magazine about urban chickens the tone leaves me thinking the author was wiping their hands with disgust. Kind of like ewww chickens how gross.Roishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14960233101785516144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44598359965018553.post-26627086110299692082009-12-27T16:01:47.682-08:002009-12-27T16:01:47.682-08:00elizabethm is probably right... but still... I'...elizabethm is probably right... but still... I'm right there with you.Joyhttp://therabbitrevolution.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44598359965018553.post-52615947390370207632009-12-27T15:40:19.217-08:002009-12-27T15:40:19.217-08:00I used to be a real magazine junkie too. I still ...I used to be a real magazine junkie too. I still read some but mainly gardening magazines now. The principal green message seems to me not to keep buying things, and that is so counter to the magazine world that there is no chance of seeing a magazine proclaiming the value of not consuming!Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.com