Word: epilog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CoEvolution Quarterly reminds one of this bathroom wall style. Subtitled "A Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog," it is put out by POINT, some sort of non-profit subsidiary of Portola Institute, the wonderful people who brought you The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Epilog, and numerous other updates. The Quarterly shares the slapdash grafitti layout that made The Catalog great bedtime reading, interspersed with long articles on topics like saddles and trappings, space colonies, and what's left of the New Left. There are also interviews with at least nominally interesting people like Marlon Brando and astronaut Russell Schweickart...
...times change and revolutionaries mellow. So Brand has brought out a new volume titled The Whole Earth Epilog, which subtly reflects the greening of yesterday's rebels. "Five years later," notes Brand, "we find the counterculture is a lot more sophisticated. There are still a lot of our readers who are into communes, but many others are now interested in building communities and running for the town council. So we've got pages and pages on things like sewage...
...Epilog offers specific advice on consumer problems, business, computers, the women's movement and avoiding rape, as well as information on social issues involving prisoners and Indians. Instead of home building, the emphasis of the new volume has drifted to establishing such alternative forms of energy as windmill power and solar-heated houses. Rather than explaining the ins and outs of how to get and use drugs, Epilog provides the names of laboratories where its readers can have their drugs analyzed anonymously. To be sure, there is still a manual for marijuana growers, but beating inflation comes first...