Posted on 04/03/2009 3:53:50 AM PDT by mattstat
Crap. Some kind of psychobabble how-to. Crap. Romance novel, romance novel, something in a plastic binder—and it’s sticky!, ah geez—crap, crap, crap.
Wait…what’s that one. With the psychedelic cover. Do I read that right? These two guys babbling in German, holding a Huckleberry Finn, are in my way again.
I duck behind their backpacks and make a grab. Yes! The Omni Interviews. What a great score.
It’s a collection of the best interviews the magazine did, up until about 1984. And I found it at a PTA sale in a milk crate on the West side of Manhattan (foreign country to an Eastsider like me).
Ernst Mayr is in there, Francis Crick claiming that life here was seeded from beyond. Richard Leakey, Jonas Salk, Hans Bethe (who once almost ran over me in the parking lot behind the Big Red Barn). Freeman Dyson is saved until the end, naturally.
What luck to be able to find that book—Would you buy that for a quarter?. I did, for four of them.
Omni magazine! I can hear Dion Warwick singing “I’ll Never Love This Way Again.” It’s hot, humid, and I’m sitting on the stoop of my grandparent’s house in Dearborn, Michigan. It’s 1979, August...
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
scifi ping
I loved OMNI, and bought it for the pictures as much as for the fiction. Later, I read the nonfiction.
Still have years’ worth stored in my mom’s house.
Too bad it failed. We could use a magazine that printed in-depth interviews, tidbits of science news, fiction and speculation from scientists, etc.
The magazines out there these days are so slanted. OMNI’s only slant was pro-science. Have you seen NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC lately? Very political.
I still have them from the mid 60s through the 70s and they have steadily declined to this date.
Reflecting on the decadence of American eduction (sic) I would say that this experiment is over.
Scientific American is the same way- it has totally converted to the Global Warming religion
>>Have you seen NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC lately? Very political.
I dropped my multi-decade subscription about a decade ago due to their incessant Leftist political tone.
I’m sure it hasn’t gotten any better since.
Just last week, while helping my parents move, I found a box with my old Omni Mag collection.
I haven put them down yet.
Not only are the articles fun to read, the ads are hilarious!
“Free month of Compuserve”
“Columbia House Laserdisc Club”
“...Powerful 486sx/25MHZ computer”
Lazy summer days and reading about far-off worlds. Sure beats my daily migraine from reading the news!
remember the issue with the predictions of the future?
It would be fun to compare those predictions with what is happening now.
I remember it predicted an ecconomy that was not capitalism not communism...
magazines are going through the same effect as the record album.
you no longer need to overpay for one good article. with the internet you can read JUSt the article you want.
Those leftwing leanings of the magazines will cost jobs.
USnewsandworld report is gone, internet only.
I think the only thing that will sustain magazines is the outside world where internet illiterate dominate.
Omni was the first magazine subscription I ever owned. When teens my aged rushed to a clothing store to get the hottest fashion I rushedto the convenience store so I could get a money order to pay for it off my first check. I wish I kept some of the old issues.
You can still buy those issues. used of course.
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