Old Is The New New

“Believing as if rather than believing in“: Cthulhu fandom as postmodern religion, while the cephalopods enjoy a moment in the hipster sun.

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All that Y2K “where’s my flying car” shit is so over. The present is geekier and weirder than I ever thought the future would be.

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On Wednesday night, the reki-jo head to Watanabe’s bar to talk about warlords, sieges and assassins…

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At BLDGBLOG, a great guest post by Jim Rossignol on the imaginary architecture of enemy lairs in videogames.

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An interesting interview with Sid Meier. We may think Civ is about history, but it is really about psychology: a diabolical Skinner box of operant conditioning.

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Mark Rayner’s latest is a funny in-joke for recovering Civilization addicts like myself. Related: uh-oh.

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I generally mistrust blogs whose every post is a list of stuff from elsewhere, but this is a nice (big) collection of history lectures you can watch online.

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As my man Head 58 says, “I don’t want to live in a world where he didn’t.“

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At Hilobrow, for J. D. Salinger & Howard Zinn.

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BLDGBLOG on messianic architecture, by way of Tama-Re, the Egyptian city built by an Afro-supremacist UFO cult in rural Georgia.

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