Category: cultural analysis

Not sure I can recommend this flick, but it’s worth talking about why. First, the good news: It’s one of the most interesting character study films I’ve seen in a while.  For those who don’t know, a character study is a film whose overt plot is just an excuse...

Some of you people think way too small. Been following a series of threads on various sociable media platforms over the last few weeks that feature speculation about post-crack-up America.  A common strain among such threads are conjectures about what the looting of the American corpse will look like. ...

The following conversation, which happened in Minecraft, is real.  Only the names have been changed to protect the retarded. INT. DOCTOR’S OFFICE – A CALLOPE PLAYS SOFTLY IN THE DISTANCE Hello, Doctor.  Nice round red nose you’re wearing.  Really complements your rainbow wig. > Thank you. You must be...

Let’s talk about the parts no one else talks about, shall we? The people who deny the Real Presence – that is, the Catholic knowledge that when Christ held bread before the twelve and said, “this is my body,” he was not speaking metaphorically or symbolically – don’t really...

Spotted this at a little Mom and Pop diner in southwest Michigan. This is how they reserve tables to allow for “social distancing” in accordance with Dollar Tree Hitler’s diktats.  It was the only indication anything fake was going on in the world.  The table full of good old...

Can’t keep a good man down.  Though silenced by the smol brains who run “Big Speech”, Bradford C. Walker is still laying down broad swaths of cultural napalm. “The enemy sucessfully memory-holed the authentic American literary culture, and if not for a pair of accidents–D&D and Star Wars–that hole would have...

Madmen. They did it.  The really did it. Arkhaven is dumping massive amounts of comics onto the internet under a “pay what you want” scheme, and it looks fantastic. Confession time.  I was skeptical about Arkhaven’s latest venture.  For one thing, I’m not a big comics fan.  For another,...

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...

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...

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...