Charlie Watts died, and the articles about him were pro forma: great drummer, great bloke, much miss, wow. I briefly considered that this would be the end of them. Charlie was a founding member: how can you have the Rolling Stones without him? How silly I was. On August 4th, the band announced that Watts,… Read More The Branding Stones Roll On
I had forgotten that Wheel of Time was being made into a TV Series by Amazon. I assume it’s going to be lame and full of “epic” tropes, so I probably won’t watch it. If it’s as good as Witcher, I will count that success. Long before I was disappointed in George R.R. Martin, I… Read More The Wheel Keeps on Spinning: Robert Jordan, Prologues and World-Building
No, I’m not talking about the Saucy Nugs guy again. That meme sadly failed. I am disappoint. No, this is a link to a long post by a fellow calling himself Monsieur le Baron, who is some manner of Red Monarchist (which is not absurd, the Soviet Union was a series of Tsars, and anyone… Read More The Aesthetics of McNuggets, Or Brooklyn Status Panic Drugs
This may be the nerdiest thing we’ve ever done, which is why it’s the longest. The topic is Tabletop RPG’s, and we hit it hard. One of the more interesting things we discuss is why RPG’s keep getting updated, when other kinds of tabletop games don’t. That’s the YouTube Channel above,
Choose from a multitude of availabilities, gentle readers: On the Amazon.com: Or, if you prefer, you can get a fancy .pdf of the issue on Gumroad. You get the same .epub as you’d get from Amazon thrown in, and for the same price.
Behold, snippets. While it isn’t all the way factual, it does provide you with enough historical detail to satisfy pretty much all interested parties. There is plenty of name dropping to keep it interesting A look at the life of Caligula, maybe… -mint tea The meditations of Cauis Caligula is a short book written in… Read More Caligula Gets Reviews
Somewhere on I-81 in Virginia, there’s a billboard for Cracker Barrel, because of course there is. If you find yourself on the interstate and there isn’t a Cracker Barrel within 30 miles of you, then start taking pictures of the alien plants and the non-Euclidean geometry, because you’ve slipped into an alternate dimension. Anyway, this… Read More The Reproducibility Trap, Or Why Everything Original and Curated Becomes Re-Heated Crap
Summer is an odd time. I should be filling the blog with posts, but somehow, other projects take precedence. To be fair, I’ve definitely fallen from my 10-post-a-month threshold I was hitting in the fall and winter. That means something, but I’m not sure what. The point is, I’m behind on posting stuff. It happens.… Read More Unnamed Journal, Caligula and Punk Rock: Big ‘Ol July Update
Will not explain. Just kidding. I first read Brave New World while in college, and it remains both more plausible than 1984 and less terrifying. There are those who say that Brave New World should be more terrifying, precisely because it’s a seductive dystopia. Which, I get. But both of them are prophetic in their… Read More Aldous Huxley is Cool
As promised, a new episode of friendly rambling. I plan what I talk about with these, some notes I want to make, and then I just let the ramble happen. It gives me ideas and let’s me talk out loud about where my thoughts are. This one covers new readings and old movies. Available on… Read More Content Blues, The Podcast – Episode 3: Poems, Prose and Princes
Content Blues 