[speaker001:] you an avid magazine reader
[speaker002:] uh not really I don't really read any regularly uh in the past I use to read some I use to read Time all the time
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] but I guess that was just it I don't know too much reading to do so I stopped doing it so
[speaker001:] um do you read for work or something
[speaker002:] yeah I do a lot of reading for work because I I don't know I just have a lot of research literature to keep up on is the thing so
[speaker001:] huh are you in the scientific field or something
[speaker002:] yeah I'm in computer science
[speaker001:] ah well uh my thoughts about magazines are uh that they're kind of a quick fix I watch very little TV and I I like to read a lot
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but if I'm feeling jumpy I kind of enjoy a magazine because everything's short and you can you know lay perhaps look at the pictures read an article for a couple of pages you don't feel like you've committed yourself to all the time it takes to read five hundred pages
[speaker002:] right it's just the thing is I I don't know I just have a tendency to want to read everything no matter what I buy what I buy so it's kind of weird
[speaker001:] oh yeah your pretty thorough if you're going to it right
[speaker002:] yeah I don't know it's uh just a weird thing about me so I try not to buy anything that I'm afraid of reading the whole thing so
[speaker001:] oh if you're in a doctor's office and they have all kinds of stuff what are you attracted to
[speaker002:] yeah oh I don't know um I I like reading up on the news um and sometimes I like some science stuff but not much actually so I mean because Popular Science type magazines aren't usually very uh I don't know yeah scientific so
[speaker001:] scientific
[speaker002:] how about you what do you read
[speaker001:] uh well uh in the magazine world I guess I'm kind of I hate to stereotype myself because I'm not all that girlish in the sense of girlish you know I I can solder and all of that kind of good stuff
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] but in my magazines when I think about it um I have a cooking magazine I like because I like to cook and there's some this thing called Country Home which has uh it's kind of a mellow thing with all kinds of American and uh you I don't know recipes and decorating and all kinds of girl stuff
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I'm almost embarrassed to say that
[speaker002:] girl stuff huh well it's not girl stuff it just you know good stuff that's all
[speaker001:] well the other day I was talking with a fellow about woodworking and and that's another thing I love to do
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I'm an artist and I'm into all kinds of crafts and things so I can I can saw and solder and all kinds of you know things that would make me not sound like the typical you know cutesy housewife type
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] but I guess in magazines I guess I you know I run the line I suppose that's true
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh at we have some Road and Track magazines around the house my oldest son likes and I'll pick that up too
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] I enjoy it I like to look at the stuff I'd love to have if I had all the money to buy it
[speaker002:] well yeah I I find it interesting to read just about anything that's lying around usually I mean it's always interesting stuff I don't I wouldn't normally buy you always just well I don't know like I had an old friend who use to read Cosmopolitan all the time and I thought it was the most ridiculous magazine but it was just so interesting to find out I don't know about the culture of people who read Cosmopolitan you know
[speaker001:] it's kind of like sneaking a peek at the other side I know what you mean
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I'm a big fan of the library I you know I I I don't really reread books so with the price of the paperbacks and even the hardcovers going up I just why not use the library they'll even get anything you ask them to find for you so you know why not do that but I am a big fan of the new book rack you walk in
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and they've got all the new books and to me it's like a little treasure opening this crispy you know covered brand new book and I'll come home with the strangest things that I'd never would have picked out
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] because you know they run through the whole Dewey decimal system and you know there was one on Alpine skiing that looked interesting and one on you know wood carving that looked interesting and you know you just find these things that
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] um well it's refreshing to pick up something that you would never go to a rack for I think
[speaker002:] um-hum right
[speaker001:] but I don't know that I have that much more to say about wood carving about wood carving I'm not even speaking thinking straight here about magazines um any other thoughts on your part
[speaker002:] uh not in particular no um so do you read you're an artist then so do you read a lot of art magazines at all or
[speaker001:] yeah um there are some um I'm particularly interested in the crafts and there is one called American Craft that lists all the shows and that kind of thing and um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] craft shows are a lot of fun to go to when it's not some some housewife in quotes who put lace on a pair of socks and sells that as a craft I mean that makes me crazy you know but if it's really truly beautiful pottery and and you know hand hewn wood stuff like that
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] then I really enjoy it and and I'm going to start taking up some pottery which I've never done myself I've gone from woodworking to silver jewelry making to stain glass
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and pottery turning clay on a wheel is something I've never done and I just discovered