1. One of my co-workers has a sticker on his computer that says ‘Danger: Free Thinker’. I don’t want to jump to conclusions, and he seems like a decent guy, but in my experience legitimate ‘free thinkers’ (to the extent that such creatures exist) do not proudly identify themselves as such. ‘Free thinker’ or ‘think … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Free Thinking, a Review, and the End of the World
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Talking the Eternal Trio at the Everyman
No, not that Eternal Trio. Not that one either. I mean the eternal trio of romance: the hero, the princess, and the dragon: Chesterton explicated on this while discussing Charles Dickens' novel Nicholas Nickelby, as the most basic form of romance: a princess is menaced by a dragon and a hero fights the dragon to … Continue reading Talking the Eternal Trio at the Everyman
Channel Update Video
I've been meaning to get this up for a while: just a quick video for my YouTube channel giving a channel update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR33SrUWvv8
Adventure Stories for Young Readers or I Have Been Negligent
Alas, in the hurry and burry of moving I missed that another anthology was published with me in it! Please help rectify my mistake and immediately go purchase a copy of Adventure Stories for Young Readers Quoth the Blurb: These tales of family, discovery, and virtue bring the thrills back to reading. Derring-do, hope, and … Continue reading Adventure Stories for Young Readers or I Have Been Negligent
Tolerance and Totalitarianism at the Everyman
Another post up at The Everyman, here explaining why the diversity, inclusion, tolerance ideology is naturally and inevitably totalitarian. We moderns have a bad habit of not defining our terms. We like ideas that sound good and tend not to dig in deeper to try to pin down what they are actually saying. So we … Continue reading Tolerance and Totalitarianism at the Everyman
Alice at the Everyman
Finally got my internet back today, and just in time to find that one of my essays has gone up at The Everyman! It's one where I get to talk about classic Disney and apply it to the decline of civilization, so...pretty much pure me. Enjoy! In short, the book presents Alice’s dreams as places … Continue reading Alice at the Everyman
Mauler vs. Black Widow
A melancholy step: I was really hoping this movie wouldn't be horrible. And I would say that it was still possible Mauler's being too harsh on it, except...the prison break scene. How the heck did that make it through production without anyone saying "wait, our heroine just condemned hundreds of people to horrible deaths..."? And … Continue reading Mauler vs. Black Widow
Interpretive Tech Companies
I somehow keep thinking about The Transformers: The Movie lately. In particular, I found myself rewatching the attached clip more than once, mostly for the sheer joy of Welles's performance. But today it occurred to me that it isn't just a scene of Orson Welles turning Frank Welker into Leonard Nimoy for marketing purposes (though … Continue reading Interpretive Tech Companies
Friday Flotsam: Tribalism and Boomers
1. I started my new job this week, which was pretty much just all orientation. A little irksome, but if they want to pay me to sit in a room and listen to someone talk for eight hours, I'll take it. No idea how my actual job will work out, since I've not done anything … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Tribalism and Boomers
Kaiju Appreciation: Sanda & Gaira
For those who don't know, one of my hobbies is editing together music videos, particularly ones celebrating the various Godzilla and other Toho characters. My latest one (first in nearly a year for one reason or another) is for Sanda & Gaira, the gargantua brothers from War of the Gargantuas. For those unfamiliar with Kaiju … Continue reading Kaiju Appreciation: Sanda & Gaira
Serpent's Den 