Roll up, roll up to my carnival tent of wonders! Failed experiments! Miraculous near-inventions! Some things that actually exploded! Ladles and gentlemen, I present to you the Museum of Right-Wing Gadgets & Sundry Devices*!
Each episode will feature a device, invention, or work of cunning artifice devised either for or by a figure of right-wing proclivity…or on the whole they will. There are a number of criteria in play:
- There needs to be an invented THING. It can’t just be an idea or a way of behaving nor can it be something that was promised but never made. There should, at minimum, be a prototype. The prototype doesn’t need to work though…
- It should be a reasonable size that you could have in the home (in principle, but it might not be a wise idea to have one in your home…)
- It should be a solid thing, not say a liquid or a virus etc.
- There should be a particular individual directly connected with the thing who is of clearly right-wing ideology of one kind or another. It might not be the inventor as such but the person should be directly connected with the thing coming into being.
- It should ideally exemplify some sort of messed up quality of the right. THERE WILL BE A MORAL to these stories of the creative urge used for evil.
- I’m going to limit to no more than one example of a. Nazi superweapons/weird stuff and b. perpetual motion devices.
- I resevere the right to play a JOKER🃏 on each of these criteria to make up the numbers.
Point 7 means that I will break these rules for some exhibits. Specifically, rule 2 will be broken with an aeroplane, rule 3 will be broken with a piece of software and rule 4 will be broken by an inventor/originator who was avowedly left-wing.
Exhibits have been drawn from across the decades and this series will run for about 10 episodes on a less-than-weekly basis.
To ensure a neat segue with a more regular topic of this blog, here is your required reading before visiting our first exhibit (coming soon) https://web.archive.org/web/20110903015109/http://store.warmouse.com/
*[Not all exhibits are guaranteed to be right-wing or gadgety nature]
9 responses to “The Museum of Right-Wing Gadgets & Sundry Devices”
WarMouse!!!!!
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The page you linked to is just a lot of broken image links, with no clue as to what it used to look like or why you linked to it.
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*grabs the popcorn* Oh, I can’t *wait* until the CueCat episode.
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Please tell me this series will involve MyPillow at some point.
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Ooh, and LuLaRoe leggings.
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Oh! I hadn’t thought of that one! I’ll consider it…
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Having just read The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, I must advice caution when it comes to making a museum of odds and ends. Be aware of the willows!
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