Old Is The New New

Build your own alternate universe.

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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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Alert Greil Marcus! Bob Dylan bristles at the “old weird America” label.

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The somewhat true story of Moe Berg: major league baseball player, top secret OSS agent, and would-be atomic assassin.

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I haven’t explored this in depth yet, but you know I’m gonna: Blogging Harry Smith’s Anthology, one post per song. Downloadable bonus tracks too!

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American Memory archives + members of Skinny Puppy + multimedia + post-industrial music = some damn cool I don’t know what. (Douglas Rushkoff explains a bit.)

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An “alternate history theme park” in which dinosaurs fight in the Civil War. Where was this in 1996?

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Celestial Monochord goo-maps the Anthology of American Folk Music. What part of that sentence isn’t awesome? (See also.)

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Centrifugal steam guns and other strange weapons of the Civil War.

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“The definitive token of worth, money is intrinsically worthless.” Nice little article on hobo nickels.

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