It’s become a commonplace that streaming services are treacherous. You put your faith in them to provide you with content, and they pull it according to bean-counter whim and puritanical outrage. Physical media is the only way to preserve culture! Even directors are getting in the act: Christopher Nolan recently made headlines when he humorously urged fans… Read More Looney Tunes, Fandom, and physical vs. Streaming
I have never read anything by Brandon Sanderson. Not for any particular reason; I’m just not a very diligent reader of fantasy. I like certain authors, and dislike others. My taste runs to either high fantasy (Tolkein), or pulp fantasy (Brust). The mid-level stuff has always bored me. I think the problem lies in the… Read More The Laws of Fantasy Magic and Other Nerderies
My experience of this film, which I just went to see, perfectly mirror’s my experience with Oppenheimer: with the earlier film, I was bored with the idea and impressed with the result. For Napoleon, I was excited that it was made, and just spend two and half hours sitting through it, wishing I had done… Read More Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is a Dense hard Slog Through Mud
No Wave was a bunch of avant-garders in late 70’s-early 80’s NYC who decided that Punk Rock wasn’t obnoxious enough for them, so they made abrasive atonal music that no one cares about. Nobody even knows what it is. In 2023 most folk barely remember The White Stripes. You have to be a art-house historian,… Read More The Weird History of No Wave
Bluebird of Bitterness lays out the forgotten history of Guy Fawkes: In light of this history, Fawkes is a strange choice to be the face of hacker activists like Anonymous and other anarchist movements. We’ve all seen that stupid mask, the one that looks like Gomez Adams just did it with Morticia. Fawkes, after all, was… Read More Remember, Remember the Dorks of November
Behold. This is a collection of 5 stories, previously published on Unnamed Journal. The product description on Amazon goes as follows: Tygg is a Barbarian. Drea is a Witch. They sail the seas in a ship of freed slaves and dead men, hunting for magical artefacts. They encounter magical mysteries, cruel enemies, and occasional allies.… Read More Voyages of the Dread: The Tygg And Drea adventures now on Amazon
Perfectly, the track is called “Now and Then”: “Now and Then” has a similar provenance as “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love,” the other two “new” Beatles songs to have been released since 1970: All are rough Lennon home demos recorded during the late 1970s and provided by his wife Yoko Ono in 1994 for the… Read More The Meme Self-Regenerates: A New Old Song from the Beatles
Many spooky-ookies contribute to this issue. There’s a new Drunk Vampire Hunter story, Bloof You, a separate story of vampire hunting gone wrong, Are We Hunters?, plus Color Line, which is about what happens to the people who win the apocalyptic zombie war, and new chapters each of The King’s Ransom and The Long Summer.… Read More Unnamed Journal 36 – Ghoul Dinner
Which is to say, Ron DeSantis was absolutely right about Apple being a vassal state of the Chinese.(h/t: The Story’s Story) The reason for the shift? Stewart and Apple executives “had disagreements over some of the topics and guests,” the sources said. Specifically, they claimed Stewart told staffers that Apple execs took issue with planned… Read More Jon Stewart Discovers Who His Masters Are
The idea of art as a didactic thing, a thing intended to serve the community, was absolutely commonplace in the Renaissance: Of course, in order to have a society in which public art serves the good, true, and beautiful, it is necessary to have the following things: And the state is nothing more than the… Read More The Purpose of Art: School of Life discussing the Renaissance
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