What the hell, it’s Canada Day, I can re-recycle my alternate Canadian histories from six (egad) years ago.
From The Vault: Alternate Canadas
July 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Alternate History · Asides · Canadian Content · Paleoblogging
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An exhibit of photographs of top secret or highly restricted places. Reminds me of the late, great Ninjalicious and his zine Infiltration.From The Vault: Alternate Canadas
What the hell, it’s Canada Day, I can re-recycle my alternate Canadian histories from six (egad) years ago.Happy Dominion Day
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Michael Grasso // Jul 1, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I still say the Trudeau one is frickin’ awesome.
2 Rob // Jul 2, 2009 at 11:02 am
Thanks, man. That one did reward people like you with freakishly high (for an American) levels of CanCon Lore.
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