It's not just the intarwubs...your people are out there

A conversation that I've had several times with several different groups of people (sometimes multiple times) goes like this:

"Hey, did you see [enter weird niche site here]? Freaks."
"Man, you can find anything on the internet."

So I was at Barnes and Noble (one in a building, not on the online) this morning, and was wandering around the excessively large magazine section, and it turns out it's not just the internet. Apparently, there are crazy niche magazines, too. Some were niche but not, you know, weird: Russian Life, Handguns Magazine--incidentally, there were several magazines of this type and a guy studying them intently, which I found a little weird and creepy. I'm not against handguns per se, but I think I might be against people who read lots of handgun magazines--lots of craft, home dec, entertainment, photography, etc. etc. and so on. But then there were some that were just weird. My two favorites in this category were Pirates Magazine--for some reason located in the Wicca section--and Meatpaper: Your Meat Culture Magazine, located in the, I kid you not, art magazine section. The pirate thing was surprising mostly because I just didn't know there was that much demand for a pirate magazine, but Meatpaper was a beautifully done, glossy, slick, well-photographed and laid out journal of meaty goodness. And really, it looked like it was all about meat and nothing but meat. They're on issue 6. Crazy. And now I want bacon.

posted by Laura Y. @ 11:47 AM