(Do they still publish Penthouse forums? I digress …)
Dave at GoBackpacking.com was kind enough to tag me with a new meme asking what I’m reading offline. It’s a short list that, oddly enough, doesn’t include anything travel related. Nevertheless [drum roll …]:
- Motor Trend. I’m a big-time car geek. I have been since back in the day, when my father would hoist me up on his shoulders to watch the drag races in southern Florida. I’ve always felt there were two kinds of people in this world: Motor Trend readers and Car & Driver readers. You can’t be both! If I had a pick-up truck, I’d have one of those Calvin & Hobbes stickers in the rear window with Calvin peeing on an issue of Car & Driver cover. Okay, not really.
- Wired. This is the only magazine that I read virtually cover to cover. It’s the geek’s geek’s magazine. Brilliant, tragically hip writing. Not to mention, cutting edge graphic design and layout that more than tickles the web designer in me. If you’re a tech buff who prides himself on cutting edge [fill-in-the-blank], how can you not be reading this?
- Martha Stewart Living. What? Every man should know how to bake a good blueberry scone. I’m kidding.
Truth be told, I don’t read much anymore offline. My list of RSS subscriptions is more than I can handle on a daily basis. Plus, two things prompted me to cancel any other magazine subscriptions: money and the environment. I’m trimming any and all costs wherever I can. And though I’m not a card-carrying member of the ELF, I also figured, why waste the paper the real-world magazines are printed on when I can typically get the same articles online for free?
On a related note, I received an e-mail from Primedia (the company that publishes Motor Trend) the other day. They’ve set up a web page where – for only $10 – you can sent a gift subscription to an American soldier in the field. It’s nothing much, I know. But that’s just it – it’s nothing much: ten bucks. You won’t be saving him/her per se, but you will be saving them from boredom. You can check out the gift subscription page here.