Falling Into The Sky: Disappearance, Aviation, and ‘The Twilight Zone’

Classic episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) follow a simple formula. An ordinary person experiences something extraordinary, and we follow along as they figure out what is happening. Very often, the story ends with a twist: the cross-country traveler has been dead all along, the aliens are actually astronauts…

Smoke and Mirrors: Disney, Big Tobacco, and the Selling of American Unreality

By Grafton Tanner

Between 1955 and 1991, Disneyland ran a Tobacco Shop on Main Street U.S.A. A model of the wider American society outside the groomed insularity of the Anaheim theme park, Main Street boasted an assortment of shops that mirrored the small towns that would vanish over the course of the twentieth century…

We Are the Mutants

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Falling Into The Sky: Disappearance, Aviation, and ‘The Twilight Zone’

Smoke and Mirrors: Disney, Big Tobacco, and the Selling of American Unreality