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Author: Will Greer

Wendy’s Created a Role Playing Game… and I Don’t Know How I Feel About That

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Will Greer discusses the most epic fast-food quest since Harold & Kumar went to Arby’s.

Will Greer October 15, 2019 capitalism, food, food studies, gaming

America Needs a Definitive History of Dead Kennedys… And Here’s Why It Won’t Happen

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I pledge to laugh At the Flag Of the United States of America And to the lies for […]

Will Greer July 30, 2018 1980s, capitalism, Dead Kennedys, historiography, music, politics, Popular culture, punk, radical politics, Rock, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco, Uncategorized

The Nazi “Miracle”: Germany’s Unlikely Conquest of France

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On August 23rd, 1939, as war between France and Germany loomed, a French soldier named Daniel Barlone confided […]

Will Greer July 17, 2018 France, Germany, military history, World War II

Got Revolution? Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow, the Summer of Love, and Hippie Commercialism

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Don’t underestimate the Airplane, even if it’s easy to do. Sure, none of their other music exceeds the […]

Will Greer August 17, 2017 1960s, 1970s, dog days classics, music, radical politics

World War Without Reason? Passchendaele & the Lacuna of Purpose in Public Memory of WWI

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3:50am, July 31, 1917 was Zero Hour. At that moment, artillery shells fell upon no man’s land. “The […]

Will Greer July 31, 2017 memory, military history, WWI

The Mirage of the Desert Fox: Erwin Rommel and the Whitewashing of the Nazi Past

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Erwin Rommel comes as close to being a household name in America as a Nazi general can get. […]

Will Greer July 20, 2017 Germany, military history, World War II, WWII

Nerdland Diary: Three Days in the Tropics of MegaCon

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Sci-fi and fantasy conventions are typically a sensory overload of cosplay, celebrities, merchandise, “geek-themed” entertainment, and overwhelming crowds. […]

Will Greer June 12, 2017 Florida, gender, nerd culture, sexuality

Dog Days Classics: Harry Turtledove Goes to War

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Harry Turtledove has written more than fifty alternate history novels, and has been described by one book critic […]

Will Greer September 7, 2016 Civil War, dog days classics, military history
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