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:...
The Two Kinds of Twitter D&D
Here is a handy scientific reference chart, to help you track which one you encounter in the wild:...
Regressing Harder: Post-Colonial American Lit
Those Americans who paid attention in high school carry around in their head an understanding of early American literature built upon a foundation of two works: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter (1850), and Edith Warton’s, Ethan Frome (1911*). Both fine works, but both on the heavy side for high...
Around Masks, Don’t Relax
“Masks on in public,” is a common refrain in my household. Oh, the subtext. Subtext so thick you could stir it with a spoon. Let’s stick with the surface level interpretation of that phrase for today, shall we? The drawing of the lines around the Masked Eloi and the Maskless...