If you haven't heard, Loompanics, the company that produced the yellow edition of Principia Discordia, is going out of business. Theirs was the first mass edition of Principia Discordia, and the most popular before Steve Jackson Games became the first company to get the book in bookstores. This is a sad day for Discordians, Conspiracy Theorists, Libertarians, Freedom Fighters, and those who believe in that archaic fantasy of "Freedom of Speech." The company was formed 30 years ago by Mike Hoy, and features the following categories: Loompanics Catalog - Paper Version Anarchism and Egoism Big Brother Is Watching You Computers Conducting Investigations Corporations Crime And Police Science Drugs Fake I.D. Gimme Shelter Guerrilla Warfare Guns Head For The Hills Heresy/Weird Ideas Intelligence Increase Locks and Locksmithing Mass Media Miscellaneous Money-Making Opportunities Murder, Death, and Torture Outlaw History Paralegal Skills Prison Privacy And Hiding Things Reality Creation Revenge Rock and Roll Science and Technology Self Defense Self-Publishing Self Sufficiency Sex Survival Tax Avoision Underground Economy Weapons Work Limited Stock The only good news is that they are selling the rest of their stock at 50% off. They have lots of great books and other products. While we don't usually do commercials, this time it's worth it. Without Loompanics, and the Steve Jackson Games version that followed it, most of us would have thought Discordia was only a character on TV's "Hercules" and "Xena." Visit the site before it's gone: (it was gone, now seems to be back, although we don't think the company is: loompanics.com) |
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| Goodbye Loompanics First publisher of a mass edition of Principia Discordia is going out of business 26 January 2006/26 Chaos 3172 |
| Loompanics is, sadly, gone. For a long time, so was the website, which continued for a short while after the company went out of business. But as of 11 May 2009 the websites back--or is it? We suspect you can't really order or submit anything from it, but don't know. Proceed with caution! |