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June 18, 2022
The Analog Roundup
The Guardian: Photographing the ’60s
NYT: We’re Going to Save the Mall
Washington Post: EU Mandates Common Charging Port by 2024
Smithsonian: The Machine that Revolutionized Movable Type
The Atlantic: The Resurrection of Retail
CNN: The WWII Writer Who Forecast 2022
Jacobin: D&D Is a Case Study in How Capitalism Kills Art
60 Minutes: The Conspiracy Theory that Satirizes Conspiracy Theories
NPR: Once Quaint, ‘Stranger Things’ is Now Extravagant in Every Way
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Postcard Flash Fiction #17
David Michael Newstead | The Philosophy of Shaving
Behind those doors, there’s an underground world frozen in time. American culture (or some version of it) is still preserved there more than fifty years after the first bombs rained down from the sky. The fortunate ones work and eat and entertain themselves in a way that their grandparents might recognize. They live within a maze of subterranean structures, mimicking the bland normalcy of days gone by: confining, yet pleasant. But outside… Outside, desperate scavengers and a radioactive desert have replaced the idyllic landscapes of 1962. It was during those few precious minutes so many years ago that that entrance was closed and locked and what had been the United States bifurcated forever. Now, each half of the surviving population is left to wonder about the other and about the world on either side of a permanently sealed door.
