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Uncommonly good
It is over fifty miles from home to a Barnes & Noble bookstore. You remember those corporate places generally in or around major shopping centers filled with dead trees, people, and the weird staff members… also known as bookstores? Yeah, well I was in one today wandering around drinking my decaffeinated Americano… Don’t start. Anyways, as I was perusing the shelfs for nothing in particular this caught my eye oh and am I glad it did!!!
It is big, hefty, slick, and so very well done that I immediately found one of the rag-tag comfy chairs and began to explore. This magazine is what Wired wishes they could have been - except if you depend on advertising, you gotta bend the knee. Frankly, I do not know how they got away with what they’ve done in here. Their satirical ads are brilliant! The design did take a bit of getting used to as it is a feast for mind and eyes alike, quite different than all my other current reading.
As I reviewed the contents I immediately felt seen and a bit less like a Don Quixote, alone tilting at windmill of technology in our modernity. That, and ever so slightly more hopeful that maybe, just maybe, there’s enough people aware of what is going on that - with some dedication… we might not all turn out like the Eloi from H.G. Well’s Time Machine - little more than witless snacks for the subterranean Morelocks.
Their website is here, but don’t expect much and they are sold out of copies of Vol 3. You probably wouldn’t want to pay the shipping costs on it anyways. I do recommend popping in to a B&N near you to at least flip through it, it’s worth a marginal coffee’s worth of time at minimum. And, if you buy it, you can take it to somewhere you can have a really good cup of coffee with your read.