Category: Odd
DIY Dungeons
An archive collects the invaluable outsider “art” that a generation of gamers created in their parents’ basements.
Wired magazine, October 2012 Continue reading
My Second Life as a Muckraker
Inside the tabloid that rocked the virtual world.
Wired magazine, April 2006 Continue reading
Land of Our Father
The Holy Land Experience has brought the best bits of the Bible to Disney World. Florida’s theme park pilgrims love it–local Jews aren’t so pleased.
Financial Times, weekend magazine, The Business, April 14, 2001 (2,733 words) Continue reading
Drama Unfolds of a Little Empire
In the centre of Manhattan, Mark Wallace talks to the ruler of a 350-year-old model nation that he calls ‘total theatre’.
Financial Times, weekend section, January 20/21, 2001 Continue reading
Crackpot Authorities
From Wilhelm Reich to Julian Jaynes to H.W. Fowler, I sing of the brilliant, the ambitious and the just a bit mad.
Salon, August 17, 1999 Continue reading