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Super Buster Keaton Bros
November 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: Games and Gaming · Geek History
In which our hero goes looking for the roots of roleplaying games, and finds the Lost Tribe of Israel instead.
Old, Weird Canada: The secret origins of Flin Flon, Manitoba, and my Mom.
All hail King Ludd.
Squirrel nut zippers and Necco wafers: the golden age of the Cambridge candy trusts.
The true story behind Boston’s Curse of the Bambino. Also: girly burlesquers!
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Tags: Games and Gaming · Geek History
As If
Prof. Hacker’s Jason Jones and Ayelet Waldman’s Michael Chabon on faking it as a productivity tip.
Now Go Fight Your Brothers
“Joe Kennedy Trains the President:” Another history comic from Kate Beaton–she just keeps hitting them out of the park.
The Dead Hand
P.D. Smith on the USSR’s (still operational?!?) doomsday device.
The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving the Future
Fun, smart post about green skyscrapers, sci-fi cities, urban futurism, and Jane Jacobs in Judge Dredd’s MegaCity-One. (HT)
How Anne of Green Gables Destroyed The World
An apocalyptic alternate history from my buddy Mark Rayner. Contains 100% of your CanCon RDA.
The Quack Doctor
Panacean powders, patent medicines, pills, potions, and pamphlets for all your historical ills.
Gorilla of the Gasbags
Pulp polymath Jess Nevins, of Fantastic Victoriana and Annotated League of Extraordinary Gentlemen fame, reveals the secret history of the Zeppelin pulps.
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
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
Fun with Canadian History (not an oxymoron!) from Sir Mark A. Rayner and HRH Kate Beaton.
© 2001–2009 Rob MacDougall

3 responses so far ↓
1 Frederic Sierra // Nov 7, 2009 at 10:10 am
Thank you! Retro and so New!
2 Colin Peacock // Nov 9, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Thank you for reminding me what a bizarre meeting place of the old and new the Internet can be.
3 Olivia // Nov 22, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I don’t get it! lol =O
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