Apropos of nothing, I have just finished putting (in order) all my LOCUS Magazines. I have nearly a complete run from 1982 to the present. They all but this current year fit in three 38 qt. Rubbermaid storage containers. Did I say I put them in order?
I’m keeping my LOCUS collection. I also have two other magazine collections I’m thinking of keeping (though I have no idea why, really). I have a nearly complete run of OMNIs from Issue One to about 1989, when the magazine got really too stupid. I also have a set of a magazine called GEO, which originally belonged to Earline, the woman who trained my as a photofinisher. They’re handsome editions, like a real high-end National Geographic.
Anyway, pack ratting is a disease which so many of us share that it is not considered a disease. I’m trying to get over it. It may sound morbid, but at 53 I’m beginning to ask myself just how much of this crap I’m ever going to actually use before I die.
