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WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. “IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there INVENTING SCI-FI NOIR: JIM STERANKO’S ‘OUTLAND’ Object Name: Graphic adaptation of Outland Maker and Year: Jim Steranko, Heavy Metal, 1981-1982 Object Type: Graphic novel Description: (K.E. Roberts). When Heavy Metal published 1979’s stand-alone Alien: The Illustrated Story to coincide with the release of Ridley Scott’s now-canonical sci-fi horror, no one knew what a “graphic novel” was. The adaptation, with frequently gruesome art PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. “IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there INVENTING SCI-FI NOIR: JIM STERANKO’S ‘OUTLAND’ Object Name: Graphic adaptation of Outland Maker and Year: Jim Steranko, Heavy Metal, 1981-1982 Object Type: Graphic novel Description: (K.E. Roberts). When Heavy Metal published 1979’s stand-alone Alien: The Illustrated Story to coincide with the release of Ridley Scott’s now-canonical sci-fi horror, no one knew what a “graphic novel” was. The adaptation, with frequently gruesome art PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do “YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
“IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war USBORNE’S ‘WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: UFO’S’, 1977 The mandate of British publisher Usborne Books was to produce beautifully illustrated children's publications, designed and written by its in-house team. The first wave of books Usborne released in 1975---which included the popular Spycraft---had sold well, and in 1977 the company followed it up with the World of the Unknown series: a triptych that included WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. THE ILLUSTRATED RAPTURE: ‘THERE’S A NEW WORLD COMING’, 1974 The Illustrated Rapture: ‘There’s a New World Coming’, 1974. Hal Lindsey’s bestselling The Late, Great Planet Earth, originally published by the Zondervan Corporation in 1970, revolutionized the Christian publishing industry and introduced the mainstream to rapture or “end times” terminology and imagery, which took root in America “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there THE EYE, THE PYRAMID, THE MAP: THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF ‘THE The gameplay appears quite simple on the surface: the box contains instructions, a map of the world (with America and Europe detail insets), two boxes of questions, a “Rubicon Reticule,” a pair of dice, and bases for pyramids to be built in the manner of the Trivial Pursuit pie wedge game pieces. Each player rolls the dice and answers a riddle-like question starting with the titular word DON SIEGEL’S ‘THE SHOOTIST’ AND THE PROBLEM OF JOHN WAYNE The Shootist is one of the greatest Westerns ever made, although it is rarely named as such. It is John Wayne's final film, and possibly his best performance. Wayne, of course, essentially invented the on-screen American cowboy: swaggering, gritty, terse, self-contained, charming,relentless
THE ALAN GODFREY ABDUCTION CASE, 1980 The flying-saucer-shaped Futuro House was the brainchild of Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. In 1980, policeman P.C. Alan Godfrey saw a spinning, diamond-shaped object in the sky. Under hypnotic regression, remembered a strange room containing a large black dog and a WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. “IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there INVENTING SCI-FI NOIR: JIM STERANKO’S ‘OUTLAND’ Object Name: Graphic adaptation of Outland Maker and Year: Jim Steranko, Heavy Metal, 1981-1982 Object Type: Graphic novel Description: (K.E. Roberts). When Heavy Metal published 1979’s stand-alone Alien: The Illustrated Story to coincide with the release of Ridley Scott’s now-canonical sci-fi horror, no one knew what a “graphic novel” was. The adaptation, with frequently gruesome art PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. “IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there INVENTING SCI-FI NOIR: JIM STERANKO’S ‘OUTLAND’ Object Name: Graphic adaptation of Outland Maker and Year: Jim Steranko, Heavy Metal, 1981-1982 Object Type: Graphic novel Description: (K.E. Roberts). When Heavy Metal published 1979’s stand-alone Alien: The Illustrated Story to coincide with the release of Ridley Scott’s now-canonical sci-fi horror, no one knew what a “graphic novel” was. The adaptation, with frequently gruesome art PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do “YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
“IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war USBORNE’S ‘WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: UFO’S’, 1977 The mandate of British publisher Usborne Books was to produce beautifully illustrated children's publications, designed and written by its in-house team. The first wave of books Usborne released in 1975---which included the popular Spycraft---had sold well, and in 1977 the company followed it up with the World of the Unknown series: a triptych that included WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. THE ILLUSTRATED RAPTURE: ‘THERE’S A NEW WORLD COMING’, 1974 The Illustrated Rapture: ‘There’s a New World Coming’, 1974. Hal Lindsey’s bestselling The Late, Great Planet Earth, originally published by the Zondervan Corporation in 1970, revolutionized the Christian publishing industry and introduced the mainstream to rapture or “end times” terminology and imagery, which took root in America “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there THE EYE, THE PYRAMID, THE MAP: THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF ‘THE The gameplay appears quite simple on the surface: the box contains instructions, a map of the world (with America and Europe detail insets), two boxes of questions, a “Rubicon Reticule,” a pair of dice, and bases for pyramids to be built in the manner of the Trivial Pursuit pie wedge game pieces. Each player rolls the dice and answers a riddle-like question starting with the titular word DON SIEGEL’S ‘THE SHOOTIST’ AND THE PROBLEM OF JOHN WAYNE The Shootist is one of the greatest Westerns ever made, although it is rarely named as such. It is John Wayne's final film, and possibly his best performance. Wayne, of course, essentially invented the on-screen American cowboy: swaggering, gritty, terse, self-contained, charming,relentless
THE ALAN GODFREY ABDUCTION CASE, 1980 The flying-saucer-shaped Futuro House was the brainchild of Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. In 1980, policeman P.C. Alan Godfrey saw a spinning, diamond-shaped object in the sky. Under hypnotic regression, remembered a strange room containing a large black dog and a WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
“IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there INVENTING SCI-FI NOIR: JIM STERANKO’S ‘OUTLAND’ Object Name: Graphic adaptation of Outland Maker and Year: Jim Steranko, Heavy Metal, 1981-1982 Object Type: Graphic novel Description: (K.E. Roberts). When Heavy Metal published 1979’s stand-alone Alien: The Illustrated Story to coincide with the release of Ridley Scott’s now-canonical sci-fi horror, no one knew what a “graphic novel” was. The adaptation, with frequently gruesome art PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
“IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there INVENTING SCI-FI NOIR: JIM STERANKO’S ‘OUTLAND’ Object Name: Graphic adaptation of Outland Maker and Year: Jim Steranko, Heavy Metal, 1981-1982 Object Type: Graphic novel Description: (K.E. Roberts). When Heavy Metal published 1979’s stand-alone Alien: The Illustrated Story to coincide with the release of Ridley Scott’s now-canonical sci-fi horror, no one knew what a “graphic novel” was. The adaptation, with frequently gruesome art PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do “YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
“IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. USBORNE’S ‘WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: UFO’S’, 1977 The mandate of British publisher Usborne Books was to produce beautifully illustrated children's publications, designed and written by its in-house team. The first wave of books Usborne released in 1975---which included the popular Spycraft---had sold well, and in 1977 the company followed it up with the World of the Unknown series: a triptych that included THE ILLUSTRATED RAPTURE: ‘THERE’S A NEW WORLD COMING’, 1974 The Illustrated Rapture: ‘There’s a New World Coming’, 1974. Hal Lindsey’s bestselling The Late, Great Planet Earth, originally published by the Zondervan Corporation in 1970, revolutionized the Christian publishing industry and introduced the mainstream to rapture or “end times” terminology and imagery, which took root in America THE EYE, THE PYRAMID, THE MAP: THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF ‘THE The Eye, The Pyramid, The Map: The Psychogeography of ‘The World According to Ubi’. As a child, I spent a lot of time in the manageable, organized worlds that board games offered. Rules, a sense of order and fair play, and brightly-colored game pieces and boards appealed to me: they were a safe haven from the uncertainty of theoutside
“DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there DON SIEGEL’S ‘THE SHOOTIST’ AND THE PROBLEM OF JOHN WAYNE The Shootist is one of the greatest Westerns ever made, although it is rarely named as such. It is John Wayne's final film, and possibly his best performance. Wayne, of course, essentially invented the on-screen American cowboy: swaggering, gritty, terse, self-contained, charming,relentless
THE ALAN GODFREY ABDUCTION CASE, 1980 The flying-saucer-shaped Futuro House was the brainchild of Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. In 1980, policeman P.C. Alan Godfrey saw a spinning, diamond-shaped object in the sky. Under hypnotic regression, remembered a strange room containing a large black dog and a WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
“YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war “IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
“YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war “IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do THE BOMB THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER: RICK VEITCH’S ‘THE ONE’ The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together: Rick Veitch’s ‘The One’. In 1985, the first issue of an unusual new title hit the shelves of North American comic book stores. Part of Marvel Comics’ short-lived creator-owned imprint Epic, Rick Veitch’s The One stood out because its cover was an obvious visual reference to the red, orange, and BETWEEN MUSHROOM CLOUD AND MONASTERY: DOUGLAS COUPLAND’S Eve Tushnet / May 12, 2021. I came to Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, thirty years after its 1991 publication date, expecting sharp sociocultural observation and maybe some economic critique.After all, Coupland, who said that his generation was “sick of stupid labels,” inadvertently coined the self-effacing generational moniker under which my “BEYOND HUMAN CONJECTURE”: CHARLTON COMICS’ ‘CREEPY THINGS’ The 1970s witnessed the rise of what is known today as folk horror, and Creepy Things was one of the first comic book series to represent the genre, which works by contrasting the modern world’s scientific arrogance to the timeless forces of magic and mysticism. “The Star Of Siva,” an action packed Joe Gill/Rich Larson work from Creepy Things no. 6, presents a deadly clash where earthly USBORNE’S ‘WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: UFO’S’, 1977 The mandate of British publisher Usborne Books was to produce beautifully illustrated children's publications, designed and written by its in-house team. The first wave of books Usborne released in 1975---which included the popular Spycraft---had sold well, and in 1977 the company followed it up with the World of the Unknown series: a triptych that included “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later RUBIK’S CUBE IN ‘SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN’, 1981 Rubik’s Cube in ‘Scientific American’, 1981. In the early days of 1981, a new toy made its way to the West over the Iron Curtain. A few years earlier, a Hungarian architecture professor named Ernő Rubik had developed a “Magic Cube” while tinkering with WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. REVELL ‘SPACE AGE’ MODEL KITS, 1957 Southern California-based Revell started as a plastics company in 1941, established by Lewis Glaser only weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. After a series of British-made "Highway Pioneer" replicas (including the Ford Model T) sold well in 1950, Glaser decided to try his hand at plastic model kits---soon-to-be competitor Monogram had been doing the DON SIEGEL’S ‘THE SHOOTIST’ AND THE PROBLEM OF JOHN WAYNE The Shootist is one of the greatest Westerns ever made, although it is rarely named as such. It is John Wayne's final film, and possibly his best performance. Wayne, of course, essentially invented the on-screen American cowboy: swaggering, gritty, terse, self-contained, charming,relentless
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SR-52 PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATOR, 1975 Texas Instruments SR-52 Programmable Calculator, 1975. As the microchip revolution took root in the late 1960s, one of the most obvious uses for the new miniaturization was in the field of mathematics. Digital computers’ original tasks had, of course, been related to calculating much faster than deskbound human beings. WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
“YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war “IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
“YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war “IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do THE BOMB THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER: RICK VEITCH’S ‘THE ONE’ The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together: Rick Veitch’s ‘The One’. In 1985, the first issue of an unusual new title hit the shelves of North American comic book stores. Part of Marvel Comics’ short-lived creator-owned imprint Epic, Rick Veitch’s The One stood out because its cover was an obvious visual reference to the red, orange, and BETWEEN MUSHROOM CLOUD AND MONASTERY: DOUGLAS COUPLAND’S Eve Tushnet / May 12, 2021. I came to Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, thirty years after its 1991 publication date, expecting sharp sociocultural observation and maybe some economic critique.After all, Coupland, who said that his generation was “sick of stupid labels,” inadvertently coined the self-effacing generational moniker under which my “BEYOND HUMAN CONJECTURE”: CHARLTON COMICS’ ‘CREEPY THINGS’ The 1970s witnessed the rise of what is known today as folk horror, and Creepy Things was one of the first comic book series to represent the genre, which works by contrasting the modern world’s scientific arrogance to the timeless forces of magic and mysticism. “The Star Of Siva,” an action packed Joe Gill/Rich Larson work from Creepy Things no. 6, presents a deadly clash where earthly USBORNE’S ‘WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: UFO’S’, 1977 The mandate of British publisher Usborne Books was to produce beautifully illustrated children's publications, designed and written by its in-house team. The first wave of books Usborne released in 1975---which included the popular Spycraft---had sold well, and in 1977 the company followed it up with the World of the Unknown series: a triptych that included “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later RUBIK’S CUBE IN ‘SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN’, 1981 Rubik’s Cube in ‘Scientific American’, 1981. In the early days of 1981, a new toy made its way to the West over the Iron Curtain. A few years earlier, a Hungarian architecture professor named Ernő Rubik had developed a “Magic Cube” while tinkering with WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. DON SIEGEL’S ‘THE SHOOTIST’ AND THE PROBLEM OF JOHN WAYNE The ShootistDirected by Don SiegelParamount Pictures, 1976. The Shootist is one of the greatest Westerns ever made, although it is rarely named as such. It is John Wayne’s final film, and possibly his best performance. Wayne, of course, essentially invented the on-screen American cowboy: swaggering, gritty, terse, self-contained,charming
REVELL ‘SPACE AGE’ MODEL KITS, 1957 Revell ‘Space Age’ Model Kits, 1957 – 1959. Southern California-based Revell started as a plastics company in 1941, established by Lewis Glaser only weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. After a series of British-made “Highway Pioneer” replicas (including the Ford Model T) sold well in 1950, Glaser decided to tryhis hand at
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SR-52 PROGRAMMABLE CALCULATOR, 1975 Texas Instruments SR-52 Programmable Calculator, 1975. As the microchip revolution took root in the late 1960s, one of the most obvious uses for the new miniaturization was in the field of mathematics. Digital computers’ original tasks had, of course, been related to calculating much faster than deskbound human beings. WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
“IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. INVENTING SCI-FI NOIR: JIM STERANKO’S ‘OUTLAND’ Object Name: Graphic adaptation of Outland Maker and Year: Jim Steranko, Heavy Metal, 1981-1982 Object Type: Graphic novel Description: (K.E. Roberts). When Heavy Metal published 1979’s stand-alone Alien: The Illustrated Story to coincide with the release of Ridley Scott’s now-canonical sci-fi horror, no one knew what a “graphic novel” was. The adaptation, with frequently gruesome art PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSON Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war SEEING THROUGH THE AIRWAVES: THOMAS DOLBY’S ‘WINDPOWER’ Seeing Through the Airwaves: Thomas Dolby’s ‘Windpower’. It starts as it always does, with the sound of a cold, synthetic wind, whistling tones, and the nervous twitch of a Morse code signal. There’s a short intake of breath, a low om-like hum. A message needs to get through. And then our singer steps up to the mic: “Switch offthe
“IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. INVENTING SCI-FI NOIR: JIM STERANKO’S ‘OUTLAND’ Object Name: Graphic adaptation of Outland Maker and Year: Jim Steranko, Heavy Metal, 1981-1982 Object Type: Graphic novel Description: (K.E. Roberts). When Heavy Metal published 1979’s stand-alone Alien: The Illustrated Story to coincide with the release of Ridley Scott’s now-canonical sci-fi horror, no one knew what a “graphic novel” was. The adaptation, with frequently gruesome art PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do “IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
“YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
USBORNE’S ‘WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: UFO’S’, 1977 The mandate of British publisher Usborne Books was to produce beautifully illustrated children's publications, designed and written by its in-house team. The first wave of books Usborne released in 1975---which included the popular Spycraft---had sold well, and in 1977 the company followed it up with the World of the Unknown series: a triptych that included THE EYE, THE PYRAMID, THE MAP: THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF ‘THE The Eye, The Pyramid, The Map: The Psychogeography of ‘The World According to Ubi’. As a child, I spent a lot of time in the manageable, organized worlds that board games offered. Rules, a sense of order and fair play, and brightly-colored game pieces and boards appealed to me: they were a safe haven from the uncertainty of theoutside
THE ILLUSTRATED RAPTURE: ‘THERE’S A NEW WORLD COMING’, 1974 The Illustrated Rapture: ‘There’s a New World Coming’, 1974. Hal Lindsey’s bestselling The Late, Great Planet Earth, originally published by the Zondervan Corporation in 1970, revolutionized the Christian publishing industry and introduced the mainstream to rapture or “end times” terminology and imagery, which took root in America WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. THE ALAN GODFREY ABDUCTION CASE, 1980 The flying-saucer-shaped Futuro House was the brainchild of Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. In 1980, policeman P.C. Alan Godfrey saw a spinning, diamond-shaped object in the sky. Under hypnotic regression, remembered a strange room containing a large black dog and a AVALON HILL’S OCCULT RITUAL KITS, 1974 Avalon Hill’s Occult Ritual Kits, 1974. Avalon Hill, known for historical wargames like Blitzkrieg (1965) and PanzerBlitz (1970) at this point, released the Witchcraft Ritual Kit and Black Magic Ritual Kit on the heels of The Exorcist, the occult blockbuster that saw demon “Captain Howdy” enter the material world (and eventually a12-year
DON SIEGEL’S ‘THE SHOOTIST’ AND THE PROBLEM OF JOHN WAYNE The Shootist is one of the greatest Westerns ever made, although it is rarely named as such. It is John Wayne's final film, and possibly his best performance. Wayne, of course, essentially invented the on-screen American cowboy: swaggering, gritty, terse, self-contained, charming,relentless
“ONE LONG DISCOMFORT”: THE LEGACY AND FUTURE OF DAVID And this is a book that counts Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, and Jeff Vandermeer among its admirers. C.S. Lewis called it the “real father” of his Space Trilogy.Pathological anti-genre lit critic Harold Bloom’s sole piece of published fiction—ever—is a pseudo-sequel to Arcturus called The Flight to Lucifer.Colin Wilson, who became a literary sensation with publication WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION123MOVIES THE NEW MUTANTS We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSONTHE POINT SOUNDTRACK HARRY NILSSONTHE POINT HARRY NILSSON YOUTUBE Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! THE BOMB THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER: RICK VEITCH’S ‘THE ONE’ The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together: Rick Veitch’s ‘The One’. In 1985, the first issue of an unusual new title hit the shelves of North American comic book stores. Part of Marvel Comics’ short-lived creator-owned imprint Epic, Rick Veitch’s The One stood out because its cover was an obvious visual reference to the red, orange, and “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. TURNING THE WHEELS OF TIME: RASA’S ‘EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS Turning The Wheels of Time: Rasa’s ‘Everything You See Is Me,’ 1978. This album full of spiritually-minded pop-funk was the product of a pair of teenage artists—vocalist/drummer Chris McDaniels (then 16 years of age) and elder brother, guitarist, producer, and arranger London McDaniels (all of 17 in 1978). The brothers had grown up in PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION123MOVIES THE NEW MUTANTS We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSONTHE POINT SOUNDTRACK HARRY NILSSONTHE POINT HARRY NILSSON YOUTUBE Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! THE BOMB THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER: RICK VEITCH’S ‘THE ONE’ The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together: Rick Veitch’s ‘The One’. In 1985, the first issue of an unusual new title hit the shelves of North American comic book stores. Part of Marvel Comics’ short-lived creator-owned imprint Epic, Rick Veitch’s The One stood out because its cover was an obvious visual reference to the red, orange, and “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. TURNING THE WHEELS OF TIME: RASA’S ‘EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS Turning The Wheels of Time: Rasa’s ‘Everything You See Is Me,’ 1978. This album full of spiritually-minded pop-funk was the product of a pair of teenage artists—vocalist/drummer Chris McDaniels (then 16 years of age) and elder brother, guitarist, producer, and arranger London McDaniels (all of 17 in 1978). The brothers had grown up in PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there THE BOMB THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER: RICK VEITCH’S ‘THE ONE’ The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together: Rick Veitch’s ‘The One’. In 1985, the first issue of an unusual new title hit the shelves of North American comic book stores. Part of Marvel Comics’ short-lived creator-owned imprint Epic, Rick Veitch’s The One stood out because its cover was an obvious visual reference to the red, orange, and “YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war “IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
“SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later ‘MAN, MYTH & MAGIC: AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE Object Name: Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural, Part One Maker and Year: BBC Publishing, Ltd./Marshall Cavendish USA, Ltd., 1970-1971/1974-1975 (Pictured: 1974 U.S. edition) Object Type: 112-issue, 8-volume encyclopedia Image Source: The author Description: (K.E. Roberts). Man, Myth & Magic, dubbed “the most unusual magazine ever published,” was the first THE BIG KITCHEN AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, 1981 The Big Kitchen, one of the country's first large-scale food courts, opened in 1977 in the underground concourse of the World Trade Center complex. Conceived by famed restaurateur Joe Baum and designed by Philip George and Milton Glaser, the Big Kitchen comprised 8,000 square feet and offered, among other things USBORNE’S ‘WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: UFO’S’, 1977 The mandate of British publisher Usborne Books was to produce beautifully illustrated children's publications, designed and written by its in-house team. The first wave of books Usborne released in 1975---which included the popular Spycraft---had sold well, and in 1977 the company followed it up with the World of the Unknown series: a triptych that included DON SIEGEL’S ‘THE SHOOTIST’ AND THE PROBLEM OF JOHN WAYNE The Shootist is one of the greatest Westerns ever made, although it is rarely named as such. It is John Wayne's final film, and possibly his best performance. Wayne, of course, essentially invented the on-screen American cowboy: swaggering, gritty, terse, self-contained, charming,relentless
WONDER BREAD’S ‘BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’ TRADING CARDS, 1978 Recollections / October 5, 2017. It sounds ludicrous now, but the neighborhood grocery store was once an exciting destination for kids. Along with a serviceable “toy section,” where you might find an overpriced Micronaut or Metal-Man, dinosaur and army man playsets, Presto Magix “dry transfers” (the paper had a distinctive and delicious smell), die-cast mean machines like Dyna-Flytes WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION123MOVIES THE NEW MUTANTS We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSONTHE POINT SOUNDTRACK HARRY NILSSONTHE POINT HARRY NILSSON YOUTUBE Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! THE BOMB THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER: RICK VEITCH’S ‘THE ONE’ The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together: Rick Veitch’s ‘The One’. In 1985, the first issue of an unusual new title hit the shelves of North American comic book stores. Part of Marvel Comics’ short-lived creator-owned imprint Epic, Rick Veitch’s The One stood out because its cover was an obvious visual reference to the red, orange, and “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. TURNING THE WHEELS OF TIME: RASA’S ‘EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS Turning The Wheels of Time: Rasa’s ‘Everything You See Is Me,’ 1978. This album full of spiritually-minded pop-funk was the product of a pair of teenage artists—vocalist/drummer Chris McDaniels (then 16 years of age) and elder brother, guitarist, producer, and arranger London McDaniels (all of 17 in 1978). The brothers had grown up in PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there WE ARE THE MUTANTSABOUTREVIEWSMARK SHERIDANSPORTS, GAMES & TOYSNOAHBERLATSKYART & ILLUSTRATION123MOVIES THE NEW MUTANTS We Are the Mutants is an online magazine focusing on Cold War-era sci-fi, fantasy, genre, pulp, cult, occult, and anti-establishmentmedia.
WHAT’S ‘THE POINT!’?: THE FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF HARRY NILSSONTHE POINT SOUNDTRACK HARRY NILSSONTHE POINT HARRY NILSSON YOUTUBE Mandy Leetch / May 14, 2018. As a little girl in the 1980s, one of my favorite movies was the weird and wild animated adaptation of Harry Nilsson’s folk rock concept album The Point!.I had a well worn VHS copy that my mother had recorded off of the TV when she saw they were airing one of her favorites from the ’70s. The Point! THE BOMB THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER: RICK VEITCH’S ‘THE ONE’ The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together: Rick Veitch’s ‘The One’. In 1985, the first issue of an unusual new title hit the shelves of North American comic book stores. Part of Marvel Comics’ short-lived creator-owned imprint Epic, Rick Veitch’s The One stood out because its cover was an obvious visual reference to the red, orange, and “SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later THE CORVIALE HOUSING PROJECT The Corviale Housing Project. Known colloquially as the Serpentone (“big snake”), the Corviale is a vast housing development on the outskirts of Rome originally intended to collect some 8,500 inhabitants in three structures dominated by a single, kilometer-long, eleven-story block. According to architect Mario Fiorentini’soriginal
“IT’S FUN, IT’S YOU”: STARSCROLL, 1972 Object Name: Starscroll Maker and Year: XII Signs, 1972 – 1996(?) Object Type: Monthly horoscope and vending machine Description: (Michael Grasso) In the 1970s, public belief in astrology and adherence to horoscopes rose to somewhere between a quarter and a third of Americans, but awareness of one’s own sun sign was quite high, at over 75%. Even those who did not believe Western astrology WHITLEY STRIEBER’S ‘COMMUNION: A TRUE STORY’, 1987 Whitley’s Strieber’s Communion is another formative object for me. Well, maybe “formative” is a bad choice of words. After all, I was 12 when the shelves of every bookstore I frequented groaned with the weight of the uncanny Grey staring out at me from the book’s cover. TURNING THE WHEELS OF TIME: RASA’S ‘EVERYTHING YOU SEE IS Turning The Wheels of Time: Rasa’s ‘Everything You See Is Me,’ 1978. This album full of spiritually-minded pop-funk was the product of a pair of teenage artists—vocalist/drummer Chris McDaniels (then 16 years of age) and elder brother, guitarist, producer, and arranger London McDaniels (all of 17 in 1978). The brothers had grown up in PHOTO FROM ‘ANOTHER PAGE’ BY CHRISTOPHER CROSS, 1983 Photo from ‘Another Page’ by Christopher Cross, 1983. Christopher Cross was faced with a tall order in trying to follow up his colossal hit debut LP, Christopher Cross (1979). The album spawned four Top 20 singles and dominated the 23rd Annual Grammys, and Cross hit again in the fall of 1981 with “ Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do “DARNDEST THING YOU EVER SAW!”: BEST PRODUCTS AND HOUSTON Claire Sewell / September 17, 2018. BEST Products’ Indeterminate Facade in Houston, Texas, circa 1975. Drive down a fairly benign, suburban road in southeast Houston, Texas, and you’ll pass the parking lot that once housed the BEST Products showroom known as Indeterminate Facade. Located at 10765 Kingspoint Road, the still-hanging-in-there THE BOMB THAT WILL BRING US TOGETHER: RICK VEITCH’S ‘THE ONE’ The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together: Rick Veitch’s ‘The One’. In 1985, the first issue of an unusual new title hit the shelves of North American comic book stores. Part of Marvel Comics’ short-lived creator-owned imprint Epic, Rick Veitch’s The One stood out because its cover was an obvious visual reference to the red, orange, and “YOU’RE NOT GONNA LIKE THIS”: THE MANSON FAMILY CONSPIRACY But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.”. —Charles Manson, post-arrest interview with occult underground newspaper Tuesday’s Child, 1969. “You’re not gonna like this,”I wrote
MUTATING EMPIRE: BRITAINS’ ‘SPACE’ TOYS Mutating Empire: Britains’ ‘Space’ Toys. Of all the weird remnants to have filtered down into British popular culture of the late 20th century, the toy soldier was one of the most pervasive. The British Army had long been an important element—read facilitator and enforcer—of the country’s imperialist culture, and the total war “IT MUST NOT HAPPEN HERE!”: ‘IS THIS TOMORROW? AMERICA The humble comic book. This artifact from the beginning of the Cold War, Is This Tomorrow? America Under Communism, was published in 1947 by the Catechetical Guild of St. Paul, Minnesota. (A catechism is a religious educational primer and, among Catholics, the word “catechism” is often used as a metonym for Catholic religiouseducation itself.)
“SHE NEVER FAILS!”: HAVOK SUPER AGENT DOLL, 1974 Object Name: Havoc: Super Agent doll Maker and Year: Model Toys Ltd., 1974-1975 Object Type: Doll Image Source: Havocdoll, Jaselles Daisy Passion Description: Amy Mugglestone. The ’70s was a decade of action figures. In 1972, the Mego Corporation bought toy manufacturing rights for both Marvel and DC comics, along with several popular TV and movie franchises, and two years later ‘MAN, MYTH & MAGIC: AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE Object Name: Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural, Part One Maker and Year: BBC Publishing, Ltd./Marshall Cavendish USA, Ltd., 1970-1971/1974-1975 (Pictured: 1974 U.S. edition) Object Type: 112-issue, 8-volume encyclopedia Image Source: The author Description: (K.E. Roberts). Man, Myth & Magic, dubbed “the most unusual magazine ever published,” was the first THE BIG KITCHEN AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, 1981 The Big Kitchen, one of the country's first large-scale food courts, opened in 1977 in the underground concourse of the World Trade Center complex. Conceived by famed restaurateur Joe Baum and designed by Philip George and Milton Glaser, the Big Kitchen comprised 8,000 square feet and offered, among other things USBORNE’S ‘WORLD OF THE UNKNOWN: UFO’S’, 1977 The mandate of British publisher Usborne Books was to produce beautifully illustrated children's publications, designed and written by its in-house team. The first wave of books Usborne released in 1975---which included the popular Spycraft---had sold well, and in 1977 the company followed it up with the World of the Unknown series: a triptych that included DON SIEGEL’S ‘THE SHOOTIST’ AND THE PROBLEM OF JOHN WAYNE The Shootist is one of the greatest Westerns ever made, although it is rarely named as such. It is John Wayne's final film, and possibly his best performance. Wayne, of course, essentially invented the on-screen American cowboy: swaggering, gritty, terse, self-contained, charming,relentless
WONDER BREAD’S ‘BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’ TRADING CARDS, 1978 Recollections / October 5, 2017. It sounds ludicrous now, but the neighborhood grocery store was once an exciting destination for kids. Along with a serviceable “toy section,” where you might find an overpriced Micronaut or Metal-Man, dinosaur and army man playsets, Presto Magix “dry transfers” (the paper had a distinctive and delicious smell), die-cast mean machines like Dyna-FlytesWE ARE THE MUTANTS
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KILL! KILL!’
By SAM MOORE
It’s easy to spot an exploitation film by the cover of the poster or DVD. Maybe more so than any other type of art, you _can_ judge it by its cover: a woman, often barely dressed, holding some kind of weapon. Think Pam Grier on the cover of _Coffy_ or _Foxy Brown_… Continue reading → Film & TV / Music &Sound
THE THRILL IS WORTH THE PAIN: HELL AND SURVIVAL IN DIO’S ‘THE LASTIN LINE’
By MIKE APICHELLA
The first music videos to air on MTV and broadcast television were chaotic blurts of arty nonsense defined by pastel colors, cheesy dance party theatrics, and avant-garde visual effects…Film & TV
HELL IS FOR CHILDREN: THE REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS OF ‘THE OMEN’By NOAH BERLATSKY
_The Omen_ is generally considered a bleak film because the devil wins. But it’s even bleaker as a picture of who the devil is supposed to be, and what kind of measures are needed to defeat him…Film & TV
TUBULAR TERRORS: ‘INVITATION TO HELL’By MICHAEL GRASSO
_Invitation to Hell_ definitely follows on well-trod thematic ground, examining the American nuclear family’s impulse to conform and keep up with the Joneses in suburbia. But it’s on the execution, in the casting, and in a few of the left-field plot developments that the film really shines…Film & TV
TUBULAR TERRORS: ‘CRUISE INTO TERROR’By K.E. ROBERTS
World-weary Captain Andrews (Hugh O’Brian) never smiles, but he is especially not smiling today. The company’s luxury liner was overbooked, you see, and he’s been ordered to take eight passengers 800 miles to Mexico on a busted up “battle wagon” (in fact a midsized pleasure boat decorated with ferns)… TUBULAR TERRORS: ‘THE HOUSE THAT BLED TO DEATH’ AND‘SNOWBEAST’
By RICHARD MCKENNA
Apologies in advance to any fellow child of the UK who might be reading this, because for a Brit of my generation, choosing _The House That Bled to Death_ as exemplar of British TV horror is a bit like announcing that your favorite novel is Moby Dick or your favorite foodis pizza…
October 26, 2020
in Film & TV .
DEAD SHELLS AND BLACK PLAQUES: ‘THE ENGLISH HERETIC COLLECTION’By MICHAEL GRASSO
Using as its inspiration English Heritage, who preserve the very bones and sinews of English feudal hierarchy in the form of the nation’s stately homes and historical sites, Sharp’s _English Heretic_ project seeks to _détourne_ these edifices of authority…October 26, 2020
in Books & Literature.
SISTER LOVERS: THE CURSE OF QUEERNESS IN ‘GINGER SNAPS’By NOAH BERLATSKY
The tragedy of _Ginger Snaps_, in fact, is that patriarchy makes queerness unspeakable and unthinkable. As a result, the film can imagine no future for women in patriarchy other than death…October 8, 2020
in Film & TV .
IMPOSSIBLE ANIMALS: BERNARD HEUVELMANS AND THE MAKING OF CRYPTOZOOLOGYBy DANIEL ELKIND
Impossible animals—animals that do not, should not, or cannot possibly exist—have been part of human iconography and myth from the art of cave paintings to medieval bestiaries. Their absurd anatomies have been used to symbolize and subjugate, to parody and portend…October 6, 2020
in Occult & Paranormal.
THE JEWEL IN THE SKULL: ‘JAMES CAWTHORNE: THE MAN AND HIS ART’By RICHARD MCKENNA
Stuff has to happen when it has to happen, I suppose. Back in the summer of 2018, I’d pre-ordered a copy of _James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art_, but by the time it was released, the family health issues that had been increasingly dominating my life over previous years had consumed it completely…September 17, 2020
in Art & Illustration.
PORTALS AND PRESENCES: THE SURREAL LANDSCAPES OF HIPGNOSISBy MICHAEL GRASSO
“Album covers… defined you,” says Hipgnosis founder Aubrey “Po” Powell in his “Welcome to Hipgnosis” history in 2017’s _Vinyl . Album . Cover . Art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue_, a 300 plus page full-color hardcover monster that reproduces the collective’s entire album cover output from 1967 to 1984…September 16, 2020
in Art & Illustration.
A COKE AND A SMILE: TSUNEHISA KIMURA’S ‘AMERICANISM’ Unlike his younger compatriots Shusei Nagaoka, Hajime Sorayama, Eizin Suzuki, and Hiroshi Nagai, who broke into the American illustration market with glistening airbrushed futures and breezy, pastel-colored beach scenes, Tsunehisa Kimura’s output was absurd, darkly surreal, and often apocalyptic…September 15, 2020
in Art & Illustration.
“GOD LIKES WINNERS”: CATHARSIS AND COMMUNITY IN 1970S DISASTERMOVIES
I started watching (mostly rewatching) disaster movies old and new about a week into lockdown, which I suppose makes perfect sense. The genre turns on spectacle and catharsis, but it also pacifies: no matter how bad the real world gets, it could always get worse—so be grateful that it’s not worse…August 28, 2020
in Film & TV .
MILLENNIALS ARE THE GREATEST GENERATION: IRA LEVIN’S ‘A KISSBEFORE DYING’
By NOAH BERLATSKY
Tom Brokaw popularized the term “The Greatest Generation” in 1998 to describe the Americans—and especially the American men—who survived the Depression and fought against Nazism in World War II. Brokaw saw this cohort in valedictory, heroic terms…August 25, 2020
in Books & Literature.
THE ROT AT THE ROOT: ACTIVISM AND AGENCY IN ‘CAPTAIN PLANET’ AND‘FERNGULLY’
By M.L. SCHEPPS
At the break of dawn upon the beach, a thousand representatives of the “Female Planet”—ranging from white-clad Canbomblé, damp in honor of the ocean goddess Yemoja, to realtors from Anchorage—raised mirrors to the pallid sky, seeking to reflect the light of their hope towards the sprawling Riocentro Convention Center…August 6, 2020
in Film & TV .
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