Rock Band Records Inside Nuclear Cooling Tower
Hat-tip to Oblivious reader Ben for this (long-neglected) link. The Seattle-based rock band Thunderpussy have recorded a song or songs in an abandoned nuclear cooling tower.
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New Moon: The Second Act of the Unification Church
The latest news from the Unification Church reads like a perfect storm of American liberal paranoias: AR-15-toting theocratic Asian conservatives. As it turns out, they also have eschatological visions built into their day-to-day.
Introducing: Silica Magazine
Check out a new online magazine which self-describes as “a travel guide to the environmental apocalypse.”
“There Probably Won’t be Zoloft After Civilization Crumbles”
This brief essay about two women with intense anxiety falling in love (and joking about the apocalypse) is very sweet
New Fiction: “The Epidemic” by Dino Buzzatti
Originally published in 1965, Dino Buzzati’s short fiction collection Catastrophe and Other Stories has been republished for our calamitous times. The Italian author’s tales of everyday collapse resonated with the post-Mussolini, post-WWII readers, but their odd and foreboding stories still bite.
3-D Printing and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
With all of this international talk of sanctions and invasions and “decapitation strikes,” the aspiring and enterprising thermonuclear monarch might ask oneself, “Why not just 3-D print a bomb?”
The Thundering Doom of Eagle Twin
The blues-rock-tarnished doom metal of Eagle Twin takes the form of pagan cosmology.
The Serpent is Eating Itself: Art, Capital Economies, and Cannibalism
A controversial piece of performance art from Latvia critiques, quite literally, the “cannibalism” of the capitalistic economy.
Generation Why
New reporting about the retirement savings habits of young people has exposed an apocalyptic sentiment among left-leaning Millenials.
Break the Bank: The Doomsday Vault Meets Global Warming
In order protect the seeds of Estonian onion potatoes, black-eyed peas, and Bambara groundnuts from global warming, Norway’s “Doomsday Vault” will need some expensive defensive improvements . . . against global warming.