Magazine-o-rama-rama
I'm taking an online class right now, Intro to Travel Writing. Writing is pretty fun (I actually wrote funny, which I guess is true too), travel is fun/ny, ergo travel writing is fun/ny, right? True enough. However, we have tapped a major weakness of mine, which is, that in the interests of researching possible clients, I get to buy magazines!! Lots! Of all kinds! Not just travel, because you can write travel for any type of magazine!
Here is my love/hate relationship with magazines in general: phony, shiny, lovely pictures excellent yet illegal for cutting out and putting into collages! Stupid fake beautiful women, men, and scenes! So very much paper! No, I do not buy magazines to read the articles. I want to write those articles I never read! Hmm....
But clearly I needed to buy InStyle Weddings, Travel + Leisure, 7x7, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Adventurer, Sunset, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Town & Country Travel, Martha Stewart Weddings, Make, Craft, ReadyMade, and Diablo. In addition to my regularly scheduled reading of Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Via, Art on Paper, and National Geographic.
Of these, Craft is the only magazine I actually feel any connection to, apart from the guilty pleasures mentioned above. Make is cool - too cool for me. ReadyMade is hip, yet silly and trendy. Just playing at it. Wedding mags, well you all know what they're like. (I especially love pictures of brides - so princessy and surreal.) Sunset, I grew up reading, but very suburban really. If you're not a homeowner, you're kind of left out. The travel mags... never really about me and my travel, are they? Or you and your travel? Obviously, what the world needs is a new blog, from me, on my travel. Our travel, if there is an our. Expect more on this soon(ish). In the meantime, give me your magazines. All of them!
Here is my love/hate relationship with magazines in general: phony, shiny, lovely pictures excellent yet illegal for cutting out and putting into collages! Stupid fake beautiful women, men, and scenes! So very much paper! No, I do not buy magazines to read the articles. I want to write those articles I never read! Hmm....
But clearly I needed to buy InStyle Weddings, Travel + Leisure, 7x7, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Adventurer, Sunset, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Town & Country Travel, Martha Stewart Weddings, Make, Craft, ReadyMade, and Diablo. In addition to my regularly scheduled reading of Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Via, Art on Paper, and National Geographic.
Of these, Craft is the only magazine I actually feel any connection to, apart from the guilty pleasures mentioned above. Make is cool - too cool for me. ReadyMade is hip, yet silly and trendy. Just playing at it. Wedding mags, well you all know what they're like. (I especially love pictures of brides - so princessy and surreal.) Sunset, I grew up reading, but very suburban really. If you're not a homeowner, you're kind of left out. The travel mags... never really about me and my travel, are they? Or you and your travel? Obviously, what the world needs is a new blog, from me, on my travel. Our travel, if there is an our. Expect more on this soon(ish). In the meantime, give me your magazines. All of them!