Exceptional: While I rarely point to transactional news in magazine publishing (people changing jobs and who owns what is not among my interests), I’m making an exception to note that B2B Online is reporting that Watt Pubilshing has acquired Chartwell Communications. Watt, a publisher of poultry trade magazines, and Chartwell, which publishes magazines in the cabinet and upholstery industries, are owned by two of my favorite people in the B2B publishing world. I didn’t even know they were dating.

More Marthalogy: David Carr contributes to yet another analysis of the impact on Martha Inc. of her death spiral. Worth reading because of some clever quips about the magazine. Bottom line: She still has detractors and she still has fans. Fortunately for her company, her fans shop at K-Mart and don’t read the business sections of newspapers.

Just read this: As usual, the NY Post’s Keith Kelly has all the good stuff about which magazine person is doing what to whom. Of special note is the item about custom publisher Pace putting up for sale its only non custom published title.

Vaporzine update: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. JAQK is a long shot. It’s a luxury magazine for men. It also has something to do with gambling. And I guess it fits somewhere between lad magazines and GQ.

Categorama: I guess we are to believe there is a category between lad magazines and GQ that a redesigned Ramp Magazine can fill, according to Mediapost Daily. I’m afraid that anything more I would have to say on this would be deemed too politically incorrect by some readers of the rexblog.