Playing as much CK2 as I do, I took notice of this Netflix show when it first popped up. I love the Early Medieval Period as the Wild West of Europe, when kingdoms were new and ambition was the way forward. When I first tried to watch it, I was turned off by the low… Read More Quick Review: The Last Kingdom
My goal for this site is to be less of a blog (although it will remain that) and more of a publisher. By which I mean, there will be works published here, for people to read. Right now it’s a free-with-donations-accepted model. I’ve got the first volume of Unnamed Journal up in that way, I’ll… Read More New Content, Old Blues
I’m on my seventh or eighth rewatch of this show. It may be the only show from this era I was a fan of that I’m still a fan of (other than Breaking Bad, which I don’t rewatch nearly as much). In many ways it’s an anti-sitcom, that manages to have all the satisfaction a… Read More A Series of Thoughts on Community
A few years ago, you’d never see the words “Huffington Post” mentioned on social media without someone getting in a dig that they pay their writers “in exposure”. Larry Correia made a point of it when fisking a HuffPo author (as is right and just): I’m pretty sure the average HuffPo writer considers me a… Read More Larry Correia, Delicious Tacos, and Terror House: The Exposure Pay Conundrum
We typically regard the New Year as a let-down after the Holidays, and the Dark Heart of January usually gives us reason. The Solstice is a time of Hope, but a Hope against the winter that is still before us. But we know now that hope is always around the next corner. So let us… Read More Happy Christmas and Merry New Year
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
Content Blues 