Month: January 2024

The Pop Cult’s Pyrrhic Victory

Something unprecedented happened in America in the years between 1991 and 1998. Christian religious affiliation fell from around 90 percent to 75 percent among young adults of ages 18-35. As frequent readers know, something noteworthy happened around the same time. If you take the average of people who were…

January 31, 202410 Comments

Of Church Dogma and the Dogman

It hasn't escaped consideration that two of our favored topics here - high strangeness and demonology - might incline those of a more secular Modernist bent to dismiss the whole blog as unserious. To them I'd point out that a worldview based on empirical positivism is hardly the default baseline…

January 30, 20244 Comments

Bayou Bomber Contra Sam Hyde

Many of this blog's readers will be aware of comedian Sam Hyde. He's spent his career straddling the line between the rightward edge of the Overton window and the mainstream. He's also something of a Jack of all trades, having crashed a TedX talk, had a now-cancelled show on Adult…

January 29, 20246 Comments

Of Hip-Hop and Corporate Pop

Yesterday, over at the Z Blog, the Z Man took up the thread of this blog's posts on the death of rock music and Cultural Ground Zero. Approaching these related phenomena from an alternate angle, he gleaned some new insights. Not discussed is the culture of the managerial class. The…

January 26, 20246 Comments

The Black Pilling of the Masses

Every once in a while, I like to lower the velvet rope and give regular readers a sample of my premium material. Today's post previously appeared as a Patreon and SubscribeStar exclusive. If you like it, please consider subscribing. My cherished neopatrons and I were discussing how corporate studios' refusal…

January 25, 20248 Comments

More Millennial Than Millennials

This blog's ongoing project to beat the boundaries of forgotten generations has drawn a surprising amount of interest. Especially posts dealing with Gen Y and Millennials. You would think these observations self-evident, but Madison Avenue has consigned these cohorts to the memory hole since they're not longer profitable to ad…

January 24, 20249 Comments

Wizard Clip and the Reverend Prince

High strangeness enjoyers have had to endure a bit of a wait since our previous true tale of the paranormal. Today the wait is over, and fans of the weird and the miraculous alike will agree it was worth it. This account has its beginnings in the same era and…

January 23, 2024

Sanderson Is Not in Audible

Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson has established himself as the king of neopatronage with his record-smashing Kickstarter campaign. And while his secret novels project earned him four times more than his publisher pays him, the oldpub gravy train turned newpub mogul has a beef with an industry player that's not Tor…

January 22, 20247 Comments

Two Adventures Across Eternity

One of the biggest hurdles that newpub authors face is a lack of promotional support from influencers who are nominally on our team. That's why I do what I can in my corner of the internet to boost likeminded writers' signals. In that spirit of professional fraternity, it's my pleasure…

January 19, 20242 Comments

The Nostalgia Jukebox Effect

Nostalgia for pre-Ground Zero pop culture is a subject that comes up a lot on this blog. Pining for the awesome 80s and rad 90s is such a defining feature of Generation Y that this cohort is almost solely responsible for the glut of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles retro action…

January 18, 202416 Comments