Someone put me onto this dramatic footage of a lion trapped by a large clan of hyenas, which comes with an unexpected conclusion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5V6gdu5ih8
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Livestreaming About Disney
Last night I had the pleasure of going on the Sunday Superversive live stream with Ben Wheeler, Anthony Marchetta, and Caroline Furlong to talk Disney movies past (mostly past) and present, while also touching a bit upon my book, The Wisdom of Walt Disney. Two hours is really too short a time for such a … Continue reading Livestreaming About Disney
Low-Effort Blogging: Thomas Sowell on African Geography
In all the various and sundry talking points that touch upon Africa to a greater or lesser degree, it often seems to me that the place itself tends to be neglected. Africa is just 'the poor place', or the place where atrocities are happening, or the place where slaves came from. The victim continent, if … Continue reading Low-Effort Blogging: Thomas Sowell on African Geography
‘Lovely People’
A friend put me onto this graphic novel / webcomic, all about the workings of a social credit system as experienced by a trio of bunnies. It's really quite well done and an excellent dissection of, well, just how horribly abusive such a system is or would be, and the power and dangers of horizontal … Continue reading ‘Lovely People’
Detective Philosophy at ‘The Everyman’
My latest essay (first in a little while) is now up at The Everyman, this one critiquing our tendency to insist that this, that, or the other fact 'doesn't matter' by applying the analogy of detective literature. I read a lot of detective fiction (I also write it, though I’ve written much less than I’ve … Continue reading Detective Philosophy at ‘The Everyman’
Words of the Saints: A Prayer of St. Bede
(A little late on this: taken from this excellent article on the Saint by my sister, which I recommend you read) Lord God almighty,open wide the door of my heartand illumine it with the grace of the Holy Spirit,that I may seek what is pleasing to your will.Guide my thoughts and my heart,and lead my … Continue reading Words of the Saints: A Prayer of St. Bede
Friday Flotsam: Cars, Alignments, and Age
1. I am thinking I am going to have to find creative ways to avoid driving places for the near future. $70 for a full tank is rather much. Looks like I may be self-identifying as Albanian for a while (there’s a very beautiful, but also very ethnically definite Albanian church within walking distance of … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Cars, Alignments, and Age
Low-Effort Blogging: More ‘Real Crusades History’
Because I'm very tired and this has been a large part of my YouTube diet recently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfMXxYO89-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjTpGmOyfw&t=641s (Makes the excellent point: Medieval society does not fit onto the pattern of the modern state) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnnHXtbct1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqjR-YK9LA
When H.P. Lovecraft Met Samuel Johnson
Well, this is a find: it isn't often you encounter two of your favorite writers meeting face to face, especially when the one (supposedly) was born over a century after the other died. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson is one of Mr. Lovecraft's earlier works (published in 1917, the same year as Dagon), in … Continue reading When H.P. Lovecraft Met Samuel Johnson
A Quick Primer on the British Aristocracy
So, you're reading a classic regency novel and wondering why the slimy cousin is due to inherit the estate. Or you're writing an imitation regency-romance and are wondering how the plucky, impoverished heroine ought to address the darkly handsome, yet trouble count (hint: if he's a an English peer, he isn't a count). Or you're … Continue reading A Quick Primer on the British Aristocracy
Serpent's Den 