The Boys at RLM Recently did one of their “list” re:View episodes, about the films of John Carpenter. Let the record state that I’m not the biggest fan of this particular format. re:View works best as an opportunity to dust off an old/forgotten piece of cinema, turn it over backwards and front and make a… Read More Aesthetics vs. Prophecy: John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A.
Doing this fell by the wayside as I was wrapped up in bringing Caligula to market (The Kindle Countdown deal is going well, by the way). But having a few free evenings, I was able to clear out the notebook and talk about some stuff I’d meant to all summer. Here are the results.
Provocative idea found in an old Zero HP Lovecraft essay in The American Mind: What does the divine care for “new paradigms,” for gay portrayals of “the human condition?” Art which has Man as its object is folly, and this is the reason for its permeating ugliness; Man without God is ugly, and the only… Read More The True Audience of Art is God
Now that I’ve got good reviews/ratings, it makes sense to let more people know about it. The Author is Publisher and the Publisher is Author. So starting Thursday, September 16th, ebook copies of The Meditations of Caius Caligula will be discounted to 99 cents, for a few days time. If you’ve been on the fence… Read More Upcoming Kindle Countdown deal for Caligula
Varney the Vampyre, or the Feast of Blood, is everyone’s favorite example of a Penny Dreadful: a horror novel that goes on for the length of a Bible because the author is paid by the word and doesn’t care if it all adds up when it’s put into one volume (you know, kinda like George… Read More Vampyre Varney’s Voloptuous Vivisection
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.
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