The Northwest’s official strangest book publisher, and one of the strangest in the world, is finally calling it quits after some three decades. Loompanics Unlimited (named for its first title, an unofficial index to National Lampoon back issues) spent most of its existence pursuing a very specific niche. It commissioned genre-specific nonfiction and how-to titles “with a ‘beat the system’ slant,” as mentioned in its authors’ guidelines (which are still up on the firm’s web site). Its outlaw lifestyle guides covered such useful topics as Dumpster diving, fake ID, weapons, drugs, living “off the grid,” and fighting the IRS. Its target audiences included “mountain man” militia members, Libertarians, old and neo hippies, and young adults just out to laugh at the weirdness. In Loompanics’ ’80s heyday, when most of Wash. state’s small presses hewed tightly to a square-baby-boomer aesthetic of nature poetry and self-congratulatory smugness, Loompanics particularly stood out as a brand, shouting crass commercialism and rock n’ roll rebellion as two notes of the same chord. It’ll be missed.