MetaFilter posts tagged with postapocalyptic

Bang Barstal

Pope Guilty — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:01:34 -0800

The now-defunct Bang Barstal tells the story of a man and his baseball bat after everything went wrong at once.

... Do not look to the horizon of the eye drops.

permafrost — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:44:08 -0800

Pictures from an epic Russian Fallout LARP. English translation via Google.

Barack Obama vs. the Pirates of Witchita

Biblio — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:35:38 -0800

A cry went up. The Audacity had pulled astern of us, and dropped anchor, and pinned us with her swivel guns. I heard a snap of cording, and a thump, and then the man Obama stood on our deck, still gripping the rope he had swung over on. Join the protagonist as he travels with the man Obama, does battle with the Ronpaul and meets such figures as Lord Nader the Beltway Lord, Brother Sharpton, Greenspan the Green and Schwarzkopf the Bear-sark. There are a few stories posted and an update with a promise of more to come!

the refrigerator convulses and dies with a great shudder, causing several pheasants to take flight

takeyourmedicine — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:02:50 -0800

A World Without Me. Not Us. "Wolves roam freely, scavenging for food and drinking out of the toilet. An antelope buries its snout in a half-empty box of Cheerios. A mountain lion knocks over the milk, rendering the entire kitchen and part of the connecting hall uninhabitable for several months."

"Nasty, brutish and short" indeed

dersins — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:03:20 -0800

Urban Scout. Sincere crusader for sustainable living or poseur hipster douchebag? [last link is google video]

Survival of the Fittest?

elendil71 — Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:37:16 -0800

On Sundays West Coast Live I heard an interview with Adam Johnson, the author of Parasites Like Us, a post-apocalyptic novel with a decidedly (if somewhat spurious) anthropological bent. Literary criticism aside, as an anthropologist myself (and die-hard sci-fi reader), it got me thinking of what our vaunted Western culture may have to offer the survivors of whatever catastrophe may befall our civilization in the future. From classic novels like Earth Abides, or even The Stand, writers and storytellers have tried to discern what may be the surviving aspects of culture once all else fails; what it is that has made and defines us as modern humans, and perhaps what it is that will sustain us. So, what is it that would sustain you? What would separate you from the crazed and the mad that seem to populate the annals of post-apocalyptic literature? Or perhaps more specifically, what is it that you value of your culture and your technology that makes it worthwhile to maintain and perhaps fight your way back to?

rory — Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:48:25 -0800

One kid's mission to watch every post-apocalyptic movie ever made. Conveniently, he sorts them by cause of the apocalypse: cyborgs; plague; zombies; nukes; and 'misc'. (The sixth link on the page - 'working' - turns out not to be one of the causes of the apocalypse, at least in Hollywood.) How would you like the world to end?