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My son is taking an art appreciation class in college and one of his latest assignments was to make a collage. We used to make collages all the time in school. All we had to do was grab some old magazines or newspapers and cut out pictures and bust out the glue sticks. Yall. I didn't have any old magazines. I have magazines but they are expensive/vintage/collector publications that nobody is looking through much less cutting up. We managed to find some old Time and Wired magazines from the Obama administration in a closet. He got his project done, but afterwards I was really bothered by the sudden lack of "disposable" magazines. In high school my entire bedroom walls were papered with cutouts and magazine pages. Stuff from Animerica and Gameinformer. Anything I found that I liked in a magazine got cut out and thumb tacked to my wall or stuffed into the front clear pocket of a 3 ring binder. When I worked at Gamestop in 2003 we had a whole corner section of just gaming magazines and…

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