I had a great time being interviewed on Brian Faye’s Ipse Dixit podcast about the casebook and teaching the course. Click here and you can listen!

I’m super excited that I’ve been invited to present about all this stuff at Nerd Nite Twin Cities on September 10. And I’m even more excited that it’s at The Black Hart of Saint Paul—the world’s best queer soccer bar. I’ll have about fifteen minutes to talk, so it’ll be quick and necessarily narrower in…

I’m genuinely surprised this case hasn’t been settled yet. Plaintiffs sought to move the case out of Garfield County (where Glenwood Caverns is located) due to local good will and the like. The judge denied the motion. (Plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in Denver; at defendants’ motion, it was transferred to Garfield County.) Chapter Nine of…

The book grew out of a course I taught that was framed by Action Park, the infamous New Jersey attraction where “you [were] the center of the action!” But the real home for anything about amusements—is Coney Island. There’s a reason these are among the first words in the Introduction to the book: We start,…

The Lakeside Cyclone is a favorite ride of mine; there’s a reason it’s on the cover of the book. I worked half the summer of 1997 in Denver (on the Terry Nichols defense team) and spent several lovely evenings at the neon-filled park in a Denver neighborhood. I was back a few years ago, working…

If you prefer Amazon, the book is available there now too. The list price is cheaper from the publisher but there’s shipping and stuff. Unfortunately, it won’t be on Bookshop.

Looks like Carolina Academic Press has turned on ordering for physical copies! Amazon also has a page up for it, but you can’t order there yet.

First, the book is at the printers now so will hopefully be available to order very soon! I also submitted the final of the teacher’s manual (which will be delivered in PDF) so that’s all sorted. Second, I went to Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park—which features prominently in chapter nine—today, and discovered the first update for…

The book is off to the printer, and Carolina Academic Press has updated their page for it to say it’ll be out in June. With all the opening stuff, index, etc., it’s right at 400 pages. List price will be $65 for the hard copy and $52 for the e-book, which seems modest for a…

Gosh, I love this. It’s not quite final, but close. The folks at Carolina Academic Press are so great.