BTT: Periodicals

What magazines/journals do you read?

I do read some magazines on occasion, but mostly I just flip through them.  Let’s see:

• Bitch (Feminist Response to Pop Culture)
• Mother Jones (mostly economics and current events) — have a subscription
• National Geographic — have a subscription
• Entertainment Weekly — have a subscription; have to get my weekly dose of pop culture crap
• Us Weekly — read at the library during the boys’ Pokemon club; have to get my weekly dose of crap celebrity news
• People — see Us Weekly
• Discover — on occasion from the library
• Smithsonian — on occasion from the library
• Spin — parents have a subscription

Guess I do read more than my fair share of magazines.  It usually happens that I flip through them while watching a movie or television.  I don’t have to concentrate as much as when I’m reading a book, so they’re more like a small distraction.  And except for Bitch and Mother Jones, I don’t read them cover to cover.  I tend to skim, much like reading the newspaper.  For the sake of being all academic and nerdy, I must add that I do read way more books than magazines.  So I think my literary cred is still intact.