must-have magazines

That is a fantastic blog site. I feel like a dork for not knowing of its existance before now.

 

Four Four Two
WSC (When Saturday Comes)
Shoot
Track & Field News
PC World
PC Mag
Texas Monthly, but it ain't what is used to be since the Yankees bought it. The political crap is a waste of print.
Dave Campbell's Texas Football, the bible of all high school specialty pubs. Used to be better before the corporate whores took it over, though.
2600, just to see how many ways those computer freaks can hose you. They have an obsession with payphones, too...

 

Sports Illustrated (started reading weekly in 1995)
The New Yorker (2000)
Esquire (2002)
Playboy (2007)
Runner's World (1997)
Running Times (1998)
Marathon & Beyond (2005)

I just cannot stop reading Sports Illustrated, though I am disappointed more often than I was 12 years ago ... The New Yorker is tremendous. As others said, you always learn something -- like the sexual habits of bonobos ... Esquire has been tremendous for several years. I have read every word of that magazine for the last two years ... Playboy remains a good read in some areas. I always enjoy the interview, 20 questions and at least one feature. Sometimes, every story is good to very good. And the party jokes are a must-read ... Runner's World and Running Times are dull compared to Track & Field News, but I enjoy them. Don't know what that says about me. Suppose I'm an apologist for friends who have worked there ... Marathon & Beyond is a bi-monthly that includes fascinating (for long-distance runners) features on, well, marathons. Not the greatest writing, but always interesting.

Ms. Bobcat picks up National Geographic (which I used to read every month) often enough that I should probably just purchase a gift subscription for her ... I used to read The Atlantic and, after leafing through a few recent issues, will probably add it to the lineup again here in a few months. It's just too important and well-written and reported to ignore ... Also, just flipped through a friend's copy of the new Harper's. I read it for a while during high school and will probably pick it up again soon. Excellent features and analysis in there from what I saw ... Ms. Bobcat, who covers education, also subscribes to The Chronicle of Higher Education, which I would never read otherwise but enjoy from time to time. But it's a weekly, so there is so much copy.

Oh, and we're planning a wedding, so she also has 600-page wedding coasters -- err, magazines, lying around the apartment. Can't say I enjoy reading those, but she does. That's enough for me.

 

Wow. Bobcat. Where do you find the time? It takes me an hour to read both of my morning newspapers. I had to give up most of my magazine reading because Mrs. Heinie didn't like the unread stacks of Sports Illustrated, Time and The New Yorker. I miss not reading in-depth pieces on the rise of the shopping mall, but I can't say that I miss SI or Time. The former was not what I recall from the '80s and the latter was altogether horrid.

 

I haven't seen it yet, but I think you might mean Scott Raab here, X. He's a great guy and a great writer.

Plus, he has a tattoo of Chief Wahoo on his forearm.

 

I got a subscription on eBay for 3 years and paid something like nine dollars total.

In retrospect, I got hosed.

 

Rick Reilly wrote a killer smackdown in SI this week. Good stuff, Rick.

 

Life is pretty well regimented right now, Hein. I sleep for about six or seven hours, then wake up and run (about 35 miles a week right now, trying to get it up to 40). Then I read for a good two hours in the morning, go to work for eight to 10 hours, come home and read for another hour or two. If I head to the Y, I'll read on the bike, elliptical or treadmill, too. Just have to carve out time for reading.

Also, I took a speed-reading class in college. When I'm browsing stories for concepts rather than ultra-specific content, I can usually take in about 400 or 450 words per minute. If I'm really reading and digesting it, it's about 250 or 275. That helps a ton.

 

You're right, Flip. Chris Raab is a girls lacrosse coach in down the road. She has built a strong program.

 

Jeff Howe wrote a strong article in the new Wired, about the current/future state of newspapers in relation to the Internets, using Gannett's forward-thinking and initiatives, based on its cincy-MOM (cq?) model.

In the penultimate graph he throws out a stat about profit margins for newspapers, hovering around 21 percent, which, he said, is twice that of most Fortune 1000 companies.

Worth the read.

 

I am behind on my SI and just read Gary Smith's article on the 1957 Little Rock football team. Amazing stuff.