We call these the “grey issues” (not really, but we should), and they date back to a time before we had the layout software and consistency that we had today. For most of these, they’ve been laid out again, although the content is exactly as it appeared originally. Consequently, I’ve completely redone the Unnamed Journal… Read More Unnamed Journal Vol. 1 Available On Content Blues
Which observation occurred to me, gleaned from the Penguin “Great Ideas” anthology, which goes under the title of On Solitude. I’ve podcasted about the chap before. The following quote is from his “On Books”: It is always a pleasure to see things written about by those who had assayed how to manage them, but there… Read More Montaigne Prophesies Propaganda
I mentioned earlier that I was going to to be redesigning the site. The idea is for it to be a content hub as much as a blog. So if you click the button in the top corner, you will see some new pages, for the podcasts I am involved with: Shallow & Pedantic and… Read More Content Update and New Shallow & Pedantic Podcast
I don’t mean to be a Tolkien fanboy here, but I am tired of Twitter dorks with shallow intellects and electronic-addled minds pretending that they have anything useful to say. To be fair, Tolkien’s influence on the genre can be a touch overrated, and can lead to people ignoring other seminal writers. I myself only… Read More Everyone Who Says Fellowship of the Ring is Boring Should Go Back to Reading Books With Pictures
Of course I watched it. And I laughed really hard. Tiger King is the best mockumentary since Spinal Tap. All mockumentaries rely on filming the Dunning-Kruger Effect, the gap between someone’s perceived competence and their actual competence. All the principle characters are not in on the Joke: Joe Exotic is a lunatic, a narcissist, a… Read More When Humans Attack – Tiger King 2
See how far you can get into their marketing gibberish before you give up. There’s so many things wrong with this. First of all, Robert Oppenheimer was not an heroic figure, however poetic his turn to the Baghavad-Gita was upon viewing what his science had wrought. He was a lab coat surrounded by lab coats.… Read More Christopher Nolan is Making a Movie About Robert Oppenheimer, and Variety Wants Me to Care
Which is to say, we’re adding some features to the site to give Unnamed Journal and other publications a more prominent place on it. Swapping out the theme was part of that. I may or may not change it again. You know me, this place is an experiment. As of now, both podcasts associated with… Read More Your Eyes Don’t Deceive You; We’re Under Construction
I deserve to be whipped for writing about this, as it’s fairly reeks of 2014, but I’ve seen it pop up on Twitter, and recently. Most of the time this is discussed in typical internet gibberish, but within it is an attempt to analyze human behavior, so there’s something worth commenting on. If you’re not… Read More Star Wars and the Social-Sexual Hierarchy
Meant to have this up sooner, but once I sat down to put it together it flowed nicely, and in fact I was able to create some good thoughts on the fly, which is always gratifying. One of the things on my mind a lot of late is the extent to which fandoms and other… Read More Content Blues, the Podcast: Episode 5 – What is Indy Can Never Di
This is a fun issue. I brought back two recurring characters: Rand Thrax, starship captain two jumps ahead of the Empire and perpetual smartest guy in the room, for a Cantilever Jones story. I hit the Raymond Chandler in space aspects pretty hard. Also there’s Tygg & Drea, barbarian and witch, fighting their way through… Read More Unnamed Journal 28 – The Arms of Pulp
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