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About Atompunk the cultural period 1945-1965,

Atompunk is a strictly pre-digital period, but it includes mid-century Modernism, the "Atomic Age," the "Space Age," and, especially, lots of Communism and communism paranoia in the USA. Communist analog atompunk is an ultimate lost world.

Sovjet styling, underground cinema, Googie architectuur, Space and Sputnik, moonlanding, superhero-comi, art & radioactivity, the rise of the US military/industrial complex & the fall-out of Tsjernobyl

(((Can I just say here how much I love the very idea of "Googie architectuur." I mean, Los Angeles Googie architecture is sorta okay in its chemospherish way, but Googie ARCHITECTUUR, wow, the sky's the limit.)))

Reallife Atompunk Projects will be March-Aug 2009 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Sept 9-13, GOGBOT festival in Enschede www.gogbot.nl

more info/agenda: www.planetart.nl

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,594007,00.html

*Angela was more popular than apple strudel when the economic skies were blue, but now DER SPIEGEL has rounded up all of the Chancellor's doubters and they're ritually putting the boot in.

*It's a thankless task to be a national leader in a global recession.

"...she's the one who looks pale, who is under fire.

"It's not just Germany that's mired in crisis, it's Merkel's government. She had hoped to cruise through to the September 2009 general election and win it on her strong opinion poll results. All she had to do was stand by as the rival Social Democrat party wore itself down in perennial infighting. That was her campaign plan for next year.

"Strategy of Silence (((the local journalists have got to fill that news-hole somehow, Angela)))

*The current Administration? Why no!

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/02/1202debris.html

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

SMITH POINT — A 30-mile scar of debris along the Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local officials say is FEMA's sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane season. (((Okay, great, blame the feds, but what about the next storm surge?)))

Two and a half months after Hurricane Ike blasted the shoreline, alligators and snakes crawl over vast piles of shattered building materials, lawn furniture, trees, boats, tanks of butane and other hazardous substances, thousands of animal carcasses, and perhaps even the corpses of people killed by the storm. (((Can anyone wonder why I blogged this?)))