Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 1953, americana, coloring, puppys!, you know--for kids
Tommy's spaceship! From X-Ray Delta One!
Filed under: future history, history, science fiction | Tags: retrofuturism, technology and youth, ussr
anyways here’s a link for now: more TECHNOLOGY FOR YOUTH magazine covers!
Filed under: science fiction, teevee | Tags: bad sf, lost, stephen lang, terra nova, waaalt, we have to go back in time
being a brief review of Terra Nova
Filed under: music | Tags: dawn of correction, dawn of instruction, eve of destruction, everyone likes bob dylan, novelty music, nuclear songs, rhyming!, sixties
Sure, “Dawn of Correction” is pretty famous, but what about “Dawn of Instruction”?
It’s a marginally better song, but I think that’s just because it more closely plagiarizes the original–instead of that weird atonal thing the Spokesmen do in the chorus of “Correction.” And did the Spokesmen really think the thing that made Dylan popular was a lot of stereo effects and reverb? Well, I guess it might have been.
Plus Dave White (the frowny Spokesman) looks sort of like a pudgy Vincent Kartheiser, no?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: apollo, fire!, john c stennis sc, louisiana, saturn v
Static test fire, John C. Stennis SC, January 1, 1967
Filed under: future history, history, science fiction | Tags: a space-age tale, andromeda, Техник молодежи, ifan efremov, soviet science fiction, technical youth
Техник молодежи from 1962.
A cover for Technical Youth magazine! If I had to guess, it’s the same artist who did the cover for the English-language edition of Efremov’s post-Stalin ur-SF Andromeda:
Andromeda, as published in George Hanna's translation for Foreign Language Publishing House, 1959. Pretty dull caption, huh?
Filed under: history, paperback club, science fiction | Tags: mystery of the flying discs, remember that time krycek got infected with the black oil that was cool huh, russian, the x-files, ufology!, unreadable, ussr
Flying saucer fever, it would seem, hit the USSR too:
Mystery of the Flying Discs (1960), which are (apparently) showing up hovering over Moscow. Note the similarity to the classic "I Want to Believe"/Passaic streetlamp UFO!
Unfortunately, while I own this, I can’t actually read Russian well enough to tell you what’s going on in it.
Filed under: cinema, history | Tags: apollo 8, buck owens, for all mankind, merle haggard, wally schirra
And Jessi said country music doesn’t have anything to do with outer space!
(to 4:02 or so)
