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RIP Ben Morea, founding member of the Motherfuckers, ad plures ire May 2nd, 2026.
This interview will give you a real taste of Ben’s Lower East Side, and all the dimensions of freedom one could explore there, now lost: https://illwill.com/the-ultimate-dilemma
(“So, like what are we going to do? Are we going to organize students? I couldn’t stand students”: lol lol.)
Kurious UAW/MF addendum for game nrrrds & grognards:
“In 1969, Columbia University history major Jim Dunnigan, who would later found Simulation Publications, Inc., published a simulation game in the March 11, 1969 edition of the Columbia Spectator named ‘Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker!’ The game was based on recent disturbances at Columbia University and allowed the players to play either as protestors or administration with victory determined by winning over various stakeholder groups.”
I’d buy that for a dollar! With an SPI hex-grid map, to be sure.
Some years later SPI would publish "The Creature That Ate Sheboygan", a silly game about giant movie monsters versus the police, army, etc.
Then one of their magazines published an article on how to convert it into a serious game about rioting and civil disorder.
@adamgreenfield wow I wonder if the rulebook is in some archive somewhere, I'd love to read it
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