Rock Faucet

Can’t Stop the Rock Faucet

We've spent a lot of time charting the crisis besetting the modern music industry. And one of the best professionals who's undertaken the project of plumbing the problem is Rick Beato. Now, the veteran producer and studio musician does a deep dive into why music has gotten worse since Cultural…
July 1, 202410 Comments
Arkwright Cycle Book I - The Burned Book

Pick the Cover of Arkwright Cycle Book 2!

Book 1 in my new dark fantasy series The Arkwright Cycle is already on its way to Indiegogo backers, and the official launch drops soon. Yet my awesome cover artist Marcelo has already delivered four initial sketches for the cover of Arkwright Cycle Book 2! Which is your favorite design…
June 28, 20249 Comments
Morality

The Source of Death Cult Morality

A lot of well-meaning normal people still make the mistake of thinking the Death Cult are moral relativists. But scratch a Death Cultist, and you'll find a moral absolutist, as a recent exchange on X illustrates. Every once in a while, a poll comes out showing that growing numbers of…
June 27, 202418 Comments
Julian Assange Released

Julian Assange Released on Bail

With never-before-seen poltiical upheavals already swirling around the upcoming US elections, a new bombshell development has added to the already raging firestorm of controversy. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a man widely credited and vilified for helping Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016, has spent the better part of a…
June 26, 2024
Clock - Safety Last

The Clock Is Ticking for Boomers

A series of comments on yesterday's post by neopatron Bayou Bomber struck a chord with multiple readers. In the interest of giving the people what they want, here are his insights on the successive deaths of hipsterism and nerdery, slightly rearranged for ease of reading. A couple of thoughts: 1)…
June 25, 202431 Comments
Nerd vs Hipster

Did Nerds Destroy Hipsters?

Where did all the hipsters go? You may have noticed, as author JD Cowan did, that the hipsters who once infested the cultural landscape seem to have vanished overnight. So did writer Sam Kriss, who has an interesting theory as to where all the mustache wax-sporting, Pabst Blue Ribbon-drinking oddballs…
June 24, 202423 Comments
Phantom Whispers

Phantom Whispers: Volume 1

Want to have fun reading again? Here's a way to get hours of fun from a fantastic stable of newpub authors for less than a standard month of Netflix, minus the commercials: Spaceships, tanks fighting pig men, shapeshifting forest monsters, inter-dimensional cartoon characters, and psychic ghosts abound. Heed the whisper…
June 21, 20243 Comments
Presidential Alien Debate

Presidential Alien Debate?

Some people want the major parties' presidential candidates to debate aliens now. It's par for the course here on Planet Clown. The next president of the United States should be asked if he will release UFO-related documents, the New Paradigm Institute says. A once-taboo subject that essentially forced whistleblowers like…
June 20, 202411 Comments
Time Machine

We All Have Our Time Machines

Getting my new dark fantasy novel The Burned Book ready for launch is demanding more of my time of late. So here's a blast from the past that didn't get enough love the first time around. Did you know that you own a time machine? As a matter of fact,…
June 19, 20248 Comments
Traitor to Tradition

The Boomers: Traitors to Tradition

Every generation since the dawn of man has passed hard-won knowledge down to their posterity. That may seem like stating the obvious—and in any other age it would be—but something unprecedented happened to the West in the 1960s. Wht happened was the parents of gens X and Y decided not…
June 18, 202412 Comments