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	Loompanics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Loompanics was an American book publisher specializing in nonfiction on generally unconventional or controversial topics, with a philosophy arguably tending to a mixture of libertarian and left wing ideals, although Loompanics carries books expressing other political viewpoints (including far right) as well as outspokenly apolitical ones.
		Loompanics did not fall into the categories of mainstream liberal, conservative, or libertarian politics.
		Loompanics' FAQ stated that the company's name is a play on words inspired by Hoy's fondness for National Lampoon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loompanics (641 words)

	The Best Book Catalog In The World
		Loompanics now carries over 800 titles, including 160 of its own publications, justifying Newsweek's description of it as "the biggest of the not-ready-for-mass-market publishing outfits." Because the marketing strategy is many titles mostly in smallish quantities, prices tend to be high.
		Loompanics reset and reprinted Ragnar Redbeard's Social Darwinist diatribe Might Is Right (1896) and The Autobiography of a Criminal (1807) by Henry Tufts, the earliest American career criminal to have published his autobiography.
		For Loompanics, victimization is voluntary insofar as it is avoidable.
	www.spunk.org /library/writers/black/sp001672.html (1858 words)

	Thinking about Loompanics going out of business \| End the War on Freedom
		Claire Wolfe - commentary on the announcement by Mike Hoy that Loompanics is shutting their doors.
		The Loompanics catalog itself was often as fun to read as the books it offered.
		The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.
	billstclair.com /blog/thinking_about_loompanics_going_out_of_business.html (475 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 01/18/2006: "Thinking about Loompanics going out of business" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But at the time I recall thinking, "Well, if Loompanics doesn't want it, it's dead." Because Loompanics had a well-deserved reputation as the most bold, eclectic, and in-your-face of all freedom-oriented book catalogs.
		Even when some of the books in Loompanics' catalog personally made me uneasy or grossed me out (as quite a few did), I was delighted to live in a country where such a publisher and such a free market of ideas could thrive.
		Even though I knew sales were declining and the Loompanics staff shrinking, never did it dawn on me that the company would just slam shut one day.
	www.clairewolfe.com /wolfesblog/00001917.html (1178 words)

	by Pat Hartman
		Loompanics is the apotheosis – a word I’ve always craved the opportunity to use – of free speech, the most perfect example of everything that’s right with our beloved country.
		Loompanics never hesitated to take a stand, announcing Jack Herer’s masterpiece The Emperor Wears No Clothes, as “the most important book we have ever sold!” Some of its offerings were pure philosophy, like William J. Murray’s Anarchic Harmony and Unconditional Freedom.
		Before accusing Loompanics of being a dreadful bad influence, pause and take a look at some of the stuff you can get at the most respectable giant chain bookstores: for instance, Writers Digest puts out a compendium of poison information, including symptoms, forms, methods of administration and reactions.
	earthblog.net /eb-articles/hartman6.html (1382 words)

	Hit and Run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As for many, many other libertarians, that introduction to Bastiat-inspired free-market economic thinking (its main message: always consider the secondary and tertiary effects of actions and policies, or, to sum it up, breaking a window isn't good for the economy) led me on the path that brings me to where I am today.
		Loompanics got its curious name from its first publication: an index to National Lampoon magazine, a deserved favorite of hipsters and heads of all varieties back in the 1970s, pre-Animal House.
		Comment by: DAX at January 18, 2006 09:26 PM Loompanics may be going away, but the venerable DAX remains at www.daxfax.com.
	www.reason.com /hitandrun/2006/01/more_loompanics.shtml (1958 words)

	Hit and Run
		Loompanics, R.I.P. Loompanics Unlimited, the self-proclaimed "lunatic fringe of the libertarian movement," is going out of business.
		Comment by: fishbane at January 17, 2006 08:36 PM Loompanics and bradford dead -- things may be looking up for the non-crank/human yet still decently radical wing of the libertarian movement -- now Vinny S. needs to croak...
		Comment by: anomdebus at January 18, 2006 02:36 PM Loompanics may be going bye-bye, but the venerable DAX remains at www.daxfax.com.
	www.reason.com /hitandrun/2006/01/loompanics_rip.shtml (2009 words)

	Loompanics R.I.P. \| MetaFilter
		Loompanics wasn't just a bookstore, they were a significant publisher of oddball stuff.
		I agree that the internet is probably behind this closure, as it has made this kind of fringe literature all the more accessible (viz totse.com, etc).
		Loompanic's not defunct, it's assuming a different alias in order to gain diplomatic immunity and enter Canadian lotteries.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/52680 (1012 words)

	Filmmaker Magazine: Blog
		In a time in which plans for building a nuclear bomb or engineering a bio-terrorism attack are scarily available on the internet, let's take a moment to note the closing of Loompanics, the Washington state publisher run by Mike Hoy whose titles were once deemed downright dangerous.
		Loompanics, which sold their books in underground bookstores, novelty shops, and through mail order and the internet, may have disseminated some questionable information, but their main stock in trade was a more generalized notion of societal rebellion.
		The Patriot Act may battle those who disseminate dangerous directives, but a look through the Loompanics catalog reveals the publisher to be something of a paper tiger, albeit a richly entertaining one.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /blog/2006/04/loompanics-rip.php (1216 words)

	loompanics
		The following feature article was published in the Spring 2000 Supplement of the Loompanics Books Catalog.
		Claire Wolfe, whose essays have graced these pages, and whose Loompanics books will soon be banned and burned, said in the foreword to 101 Things to do 'til the Revolution, "America is at that awkward stage.
		Loompanics -- along with hundreds of publishers, wholesalers, and retailers -- will have to withdraw a substantial portion of its titles if the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act survives the Supreme Court.
	www.nakedgov.com /loompanics.htm (2460 words)

	loompanics
		Loompanics straddle with glee the extremities of America's marginal milieu.
		The long awaited follow up to Loompanics Greatest Hits, and the usual huge compendium from the extremities of America's marginal milieu.
		Includes 40 of the best pieces Loompanics have published to date, alongside unpublished pieces from the likes of Bob Black, Jim Hogshire, Michael Newton, and fiction from a convicted murderer.
	www.obsolete.com /ak/distribution/loompanics.html (1643 words)

	New Zealand Seizes Books
		In 1997, Loompanics published The New Zealand Immigration Guide, which spoke very highly of the beautiful, secluded island-nation.
		The government of New Zealand has decided that publications from Loompanics are not welcome in the country, and it's currently persecuting a married couple for the "crime" of ordering some books.
		Through the Websites of Loompanics www.loompanics.com and the Dope Fiends.com Bookshop, www.dopefiends.com, they ordered several books on drugs.
	www.cognitiveliberty.org /news/nz_books_seized.htm (1863 words)

	mediageek » press freedom
		Loompanics is perhaps the only publisher in business for thirty years that has a disclaimer like, “Loompanics Unlimited cannot be responsible for any shipment of books seized by any government body.
		As I mentioned before, I was first exposed to Loompanics buying a copy of the aforementioned Outlaw’s Bible at a short-lived Anarchist bookstore in Paterson, NJ around 1991.
		It would be great if Hoy could release the Loompanics catalog into the public domain, though I suppose that would take getting the permission of all his authors, many of whom write under pseudonyms.
	www.mediageek.net /?cat=6 (1605 words)

	Interview With a Holocaust Revisionist
		There's a lot to say about why you were so respectful of it for so many years, however, and why you were so afraid to challenge it, and how much it costs you professionally and personally to say, simply, "I don't believe it anymore," and how many friends you lose and how isolated you feel.
		But then, Part II is growing substantially more complicated and dangerous than Part I. Loompanics.
		The effort to get the history of the Holocaust into accord with the facts, as we do with every other historical event that we remember taking place in the West and around the rest of the planet.
	www.codoh.com /occwrt/occloompani.html (3793 words)

	Archived Weblog Entry - 08/02/2004: "Liberty Post deletes Loompanics" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Removing not only the link but the very name "Loompanics," she (?) cited the case of Sherman Austin.
		The yarn this idiot spins (that if she mentions the existence of Loompanics that her webmaster would be arrested by the FBI) is so at odds with what actually happened--that there is no chance she is mistaken--she is deliberately lying and consciously trying to spread fear and ignorance.
		At the present time, our civil liberties are under unprecedented attack, and it is more important than ever for all boosters of individual liberty to be open and honest and accurate with each other.
	www.clairewolfe.com /wolfesblog/00000948.html (712 words)

	ÃÂ¢Ã¢âÂ¬ÃâSilence Is HealthÃÂ¢Ã¢âÂ¬ÃÂ -- Freedom Underground
		She claims that linking to Loompanics could put her and her webmaster in federal prison.
		Austin, a 20-year-old anarchist activist, served a year in federal prison on a plea bargain for violating the same 1997 Feinstein-Hatch sponsored law that prompted Loompanics and Paladin to pull books from their catalogs.
		The yarn this idiot spins (that if she mentions the existence of Loompanics, her webmaster would be arrested by the FBI) is so at odds with what actually happened that there is no chance she is mistaken.
	www.freedomunderground.org /view.php?v=3&t=3&l=14&aid=8923 (3817 words)

	LATE GREAT LOOMPANICS COMPILATIONS - Paladin Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Here it is, folks, the last gasp of Loompanics Unlimited at its rawest, raunchiest, radical best.
		These four compilations of articles and features from almost two decades of Loompanics catalogs (“The Best Book Catalog in the World!”) are the final repositories for the most far-out, in-your-face, “I can’t believe they can publish this stuff” information for which Loompanics was justly famous.
		The company was renowned and respected by freedom lovers, despised and feared by freedom haters, but one thing held true for all people who read its books: nobody emerged from the Loompanics experience unchanged.
	www.paladin-press.com /detail.aspx?ID=1402 (232 words)

	My Date With Jim Hogshire (Version 2.1)
		As authors, we agreed that Loompanics was a peerless publisher: "They always play straight with you," as Hogshire put it.
		With a triumphant cry that, frankly, from what I'd seen of his condition and physique, I would have thought was beyond him, he made a grab toward the wall for something I hadn't noticed: the rifle that was leaning against it.
		Hogshire left the impression that, as befits a Loompanics author, for him nothing was off-limits.
	www.spunk.org /library/writers/black/sp001654.html?source=zinebook (4818 words)

	Magnifisyncopathological: My Only Experience with Loompanics...
		When I heard about the Loompanics Unlimited going out of business sale, I thought to myself, "I oughta be able to find something in that kooky, oft-referenced, and yet never-perused-catalogue at 50% that I like."
		Combined with the $13 shipping charge, this would have cost me $227.45, but apply the 50% sale, and my final price for these 15 books was $127.02.
		Thing is, Loompanics titles are a massive red flag to the goons at Canada Customs.
	www.drizzten.com /blargchives/001449.html (784 words)

	Loompanics
		If Walden or Crown books aren't exactly your idea of literary pleasure dens, "Loompanics" might be for you.
		If you are a progressive thinker, this catalog and the books it sells will open more circuits in your nervous system; if you're closed-minded, it'll burn out what few circuits you have left and send you running to the mailbox with a letter to your congressperson.
		I've ordered several books through Loompanics (including Robert Anton Wilson's "Natural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy," and Mike Gunderloy's "How to Publish a Fanzine.") and the service has been great.
	www.streettech.com /bcp/BCPgraf/StreetTech/loompanics.htm (329 words)

	Hoy,Michael Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Loompanics' Greatest Hits has all the answers you need".
		For over a decade, the Loompanics Catalog has served as a kiosk...
		Every three years or so, Loompanics Unlimited lights up the desert landscape of American letters by compiling a collection of articles and stories, culled from the catalogs and supplements that we've published during that time.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hoy,Michael (574 words)

	Paladin Press Acquires Loompanics Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The news that Loompanics Unlimited had decided to close its doors after 30 years in business caught us as much off guard as it did everyone else.
		But when we heard the news, it didn’t take long for us to strike a deal to acquire the rights to publish 40 titles we considered good fits for the Paladin catalog.
		Paladin welcomes Claire Wolfe, Eddie the Wire, and all the other Loompanics authors to our house, and we extend our best wishes to our good friends Mike Hoy and the entire Loompanics staff.
	www.paladin-press.com /loompanics.aspx (219 words)

	23 Apples of Eris - Discordian Chaos
		If you haven't heard, Loompanics, the company that produced the yellow edition of Principia Discordia, is going out of business.
		Without Loompanics, and the Steve Jackson Games version that followed it, most of us would have thought Eris was only a character on TV's "Hercules" and "Xena."
		While I mourn for Loompanics, fortunately Apocrypha Discordia is available in printed form from www.poee.co.uk (at least I think it still is), and from www.cafepress.com
	www.23ae.com /index.asp?showo=1&post=259 (705 words)

	The High Weirdness Project: Loompanics Unlimited
		By now, most people are familiar with what was probably the most outrageous, envelope-pushing book catalog in the world.
		With books on how to commit armed robbery, build explosives, beat polygraphs and more, Loompanics was a natural target of people like Senator Diane Feinstein and others who serve the ideals of the Conspiracy.
		However, age finally caught up with Michael Hoy, who ran Loompanics until it went out of business in early 2006.
	www.modemac.com /cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Loompanics_Unlimited (230 words)

	Boing Boing: Loompanics going out of business
		In 1985 I showed a coworker my copy of the Loompanics book catalog.
		He took it home and returned it to me the next day and said he never wanted to see anything like it again, and told me he did not want to associate with me because he was sure I was on some kind of government subversives list.
		Loompanics is selling their existing stock at half price -- grab it while you can.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/01/23/loompanics_going_out.html (238 words)

	Disinformation :: Loompanics Unlimited Closing Its Doors For Good
		'Mike Hoy of Loompanics Unlimited, one of the grand-daddies of the alternative /underground book world is closing down his mail order bookstore and web presence after more than thirty years selling books.
		But all in all, the decision to close was made because founder Mike Hoy is ready to retire.
		My guiding principle was that freedom should be fun!" Hoy notes that he is in his sixties now and might be ready to try something completely new after he gets used to being away from the Loompanics daily business schedule.
	www.disinfo.com /site/displayarticle14794.html (420 words)

	Interview with Mike Hoy, page 1 of 5
		In preparing for our conversation, I read a quasi-interview on the Loompanics web site, but it reveals very little about you, the brain trust behind Loomps.
		The story behind the Loompanics name is amusing, and tantalizing with its mention of "all your publishing projects".
		MIKE: My pre-Loompanics catalog publishing projects included an index to National Lampoon magazine, a collection of paintings by the SF/Fantasy artist Stephen Fabian, and a little manual titled Slugs, on which foreign coins worked best in parking meters, and where to get them cheap.
	www.endervidualism.com /salon/intvw/hoy.htm (619 words)

	Posts tagged with Loompanics \| MetaFilter
		America's craziest bookstore has gone out of business.
		Loompanics, a libertarian publisher in Washington State, has gone out of business.
		Some blame the changed political climate after 9/11.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/Loompanics (115 words)

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