OMNI Reboot

Remember OMNI magazine? The one with the vvvveerrrryyyy late 70’s computer age affectation font used in its logo: I think I mostly encountered this magazine in the dusty corners of some of the more nebbish teachers’ classrooms in junior high (that’s middle school to you whippersnappers). I didn’t read it much then. I don’t even…

The new phonebooks are here!

To say I’ve enjoyed the Wool1 saga by Hugh Howey is an understatement. It’s probably the best long-arc dystopian fiction I’ve ever read. For a kid coming of age in Reagan’s America, I had nightmares of how living in fallout shelters might work. The numbers of generations needed to outlive the half life of nuclear…