BOB GUCCIONE IS DEAD ...

[defrog]

... And I’ve been trying to think of something relevant to post about him that doesn’t involve Penthouse (of which I was never a huge fan), Penthouse Comix (which was okay but Heavy Metal did it better), Caligula (which, let’s admit, was flawed) or a debate on whether the Penthouse Forum letters are real (I’m assured they are, though that doesn’t mean the anecdotes therein ever actually happened).

Then I remembered Omni magazine.



I actually liked Omni, and read quite a lot of it in the 80s. I liked the mix of pop-science articles, interviews and SF short stories. It filled my head with ideas and possibilities for the future.

Gizmodo sums it up nicely, which saves me a little work.

Future tense,

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