Wasteland Wrap-up #2

This week I posted several posts to Doomsday Machines, in an effort to "prime the pump” (there is nothing sadder looking than an empty blog). If you haven’t had time to read them all, don’t worry, I get it, and the posts will be at a more sustainable rate going forward.

In case you missed them (and miss that you missed them), the posts were:

• The end of The Road — on Cormac McCarthy’s bleak novel, the early 2000s, and Oprah

• Dr. Strangelove’s War Room — on the making of Kubrick’s most famous set

• A Possible Chapter in American History — on a fascinating graph from a bizarre 1970s Department of Defense publication on Civil Defense

• The fate of cities — on the model for city destruction/contamination that I developed for the Oregon Road ‘83 video game I am working on

Phew! For part of next week, and the week after that, I will be out of town (on official business/research), but I am planning to have a post about World War Z, and possibly another Kubrick follow-up.