A Ringing Endorsement
NB 1: Austin TX is home to a joke-telling robot effigy of Lyndon B. Johnson, which I describe below. Welcome to Ringing Endorsement, wherein Decider speaks to local people of note
Excuse Me While I Kiss The Dirt: An elegy for the dream tower
‘And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven…’ (Genesis 11:2) Nikolai Sutyagin’s tower, which I visited in STRANGE
Book Depository Interview
1) What gave you the ideas for Strange Telescopes? A combination of research, good fortune and quite possibly Divine Guidance. I had wanted to write about the Diggers of the Underg
A Top Ten
A semi-arbitrary list prepared for the Book Depository website. The top six are pretty much permanent features in my personal pantheon, the last four open to rotation… The Three
Questions about the new Christ asked by Neil Forsyth
Esquire Interview (Full Version) How did you find Torop—in those opening moments was he massively charismatic, was there a sense of an overpowering personality? At first he seeme
Going Nowhere
Lost Cosmonaut, a darkly humorous, haphazard tour around Russia’s dreariest republics has turned out to be a surprise hit for its author, Daniel Kalder. On a stop off in Lond
One small Steppe
Daniel Kalder is a shadowy figure, pale and slight. He warns me that he will be wearing black, that he has a beard and a long ponytail. I spot him instantly in the Edinburgh cafe w
Interview
What is the most quintessential anti-tourism site—the place it would be hardest for a travel agent to write an appealing blurb for? I think the planet Pluto is a pretty rotten pl