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Things are changing. More and more people are turning their backs on established corporate offerings, and that includes the bigger social media platforms and news sources, to start their own. If you are into good fiction written from a classical American perspective, you should add UpstreamReviews to your daily...
Reclaiming the Culture, One Weird Hill At a Time
Wargaming. We don’t talk a lot about it here anymore. Not since I revived War In a Box and launched the best dang wargame channel on YouTube. But let’s go over my new focus a bit. Even those of you who aren’t interested in wargames might be interested to...
Confederacy Ascendant
Been thinking about A Confederacy of Dunces a lot lately. For those who haven’t read it, this picaresque novel by John Kennedy Toole is about a bona-fide dyed-in-the-wool gamma male who bumbles his way through life. He is the kind of guy who goes to movies specifically to hate on...
There Is Still Good In Them…
It’s just buried. Deep. They’ve been suppressed in the past. We can do it again. We can rebuild them. We have the technology. Better than before. ...
A Second Look at the Emperor’s New Clothes
The words hung in the air. “The Emperor has no clothes!” A stunned crowd waited for a heartbeat, then a second, and then swiftly turned on the small boy who dared cry out the seditious phrase. Fists fell, elbows jostled, voices shouted in anger, and feet kicked out with...
The Most Dangerous Account on Twitter
This guy: You’re a smart guy, so I probably don’t need to explain why, but here goes. Wholesome, positive, and uplifting. And worst of all, it’s uplifting men. Those horrible, no good, very bad villains who are responsible for every evil that ever befell man or beast. They come...
Levels of Fake That Shouldn’t Even Be Possible
On the fence about HoloJoe before? Now we KNOW it’s fake footage of the fake president....
Lost Cities of Pulp
P. Alexander, the man behind Cirsova Magazine, one of the best of the new breed of independent short fiction magazine and now one of the longest running, is something of an explorer of lost realms. Through his friendship with Michael Tierney, author of the Wild Stars Collection, he has...
True Detective Season Three: One Final Thought
Most of Hollywood’s offerings are dismissive affairs, driven in part by a desire to hack away at the roots of Western Civilization. And then you have True Detective. The third season features one of the most profoundly pro-Christian messages ever shown on TV. One of the threads that runs through...
A Testament to True Detective
There is a strange thing about the show True Detective that I haven’t seen anyone mention before, and it’s a good thing. These shows – each season represents a self-contained 8-10 hour movie than one episode in an on-going narrative – are at their heart mysteries on tow orders:...