First, the same chap who cheekily questioned Aragorn’s claim to the throne of Gondor lists the Most Metal Deaths in Middle-Earth. From the Feanor entry: While Ecthelion, Glorfindel, and Gandalf all bit the dust fighting individual Balrogs, Fëanor died in battle with a platoon of them. Not only that, his spirit was so fierce it incinerated… Read More And now, some Tolkien Nerdery…
Oh, Existential Comics, mashing up Jurassic Park with Ancient Greece. Does he look like Kermit? He looks like Kermit. Does he debate the nature of flies? He tries to. Does his incessant demand for ontological clarity come off as preventing other people from getting a word in edgewise? Yup. It’s just too good to pass… Read More Frog Socrates, Everybody
So, I was at the gym this morning, and in between sets I tend to gaze up at the TV. The one closest to me always has MSNBC on, which is fine, as it’s good to absorb the framing of the other side (for the record, I’m a declared Gary Johnson supporter, but I’m not… Read More Birther Trump is Not a Birther
German Neo-Nazis putting the boot to migrants. It’s not surprising that this happened. Nazis, neo- or otherwise, don’t like immigrants. That’s their thing. What’s surprising is this: But police said the asylum seekers started the confrontation – and later hurled bottles at the police trying to save them from a beating. The migrants picked the… Read More Welcome to the New Weimar Republic
Too Much TV is Not a Stranger Thing. The episode is short, compared to others, but I was able to get it written and out in a quick period of time. I find that meets the doability threshold that busy working folk need to actually create content. In any case, it’s free to listen. Here for… Read More The Podcast Returns!
In the midst of fisking the usual gang of idiots about raaaaaaacism, Larry Correia lets drop an interesting factoid: For a long time entertainment tried to lump as many customers as possible into one big box to provide dumb bland mushy product to. To make a living at this stuff you needed to sell to… Read More How ‘Stranger Things’ Got Passed Around Hollywood
Yep. This happened. Now, before we get all transphobic, and talking about how someone born biologically male can’t ever have babies, or some such hate-speech, (because biology is a patriarchal construct, okay?) we need to recognize that this is really about consciousness being elevated. “I would say ultimately all advocacy begins with elevated consciousness and… Read More The Great Trans-Female Reproductive Rights Debate
I’ve been reading Scott Adam’s blog throughout the election season, because his take on the phenomenon known as Trump has both a unique take and the volume turned down, at least so far as emotionalism goes. But lately he has worked himself into an insanity regarding buying a Chevy Truck, and reported that he cannot… Read More Car Buying Made Simple
A little while ago, I tweeted this: Has anyone considered not giving a shit about the new Ghostbusters movie? — Andrew J. Patrick (@ajpwriter) May 29, 2016 Apparently no one else has considered this. Because apparently this film sits across the cultural divide like the fulcrum on a teeter-totter, and everyone’s pushing it one way… Read More Ghostbusters Ghostbusters Ghostbusters blah blah blah blah blah
Or OP, as they call it. My first impression is that it sounds very Celtic, which is odd, as the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and their Norman overlords were none of them Celts. I must be wrong about that, then. My second is that the lines flow with a musicality that they do not with… Read More Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation
