The eDrama Egg Timer

The eDrama Egg Timer

The total conquest of all cultural institutions by the Death Cult has given rise to a robust counterculture, even as it presents dissenting artists with serious challenges. Chief among those challenges is the problem of discoverability. If you're a talented creator whose personal convictions make you anathema to the fanatics…
March 12, 20216 Comments
Death Cult Seminaries

Death Cult Seminaries

That's what Death Cult priest  R. Tolteka Cuauhtin is openly campaigning to turn California's public schools into.   Next week, the California Department of Education will vote on a new statewide ethnic studies curriculum that advocates for the “decolonization” of American society and elevates Aztec religious symbolism—all in the service…
March 11, 202136 Comments
Pacing Lessons from Fury Road

Pacing Lessons from Fury Road

Many writers labor under a common misconception about what makes a book feel fast-paced. Slamming chapters together with no space in-between doesn't necessarily give readers a sense of speed. In fact, it can do the opposite by bringing on action fatigue. Pacing has less to do with keeping lots of…
March 10, 20216 Comments
Aughts Nostalgia

Aughts Nostalgia

The accepted wisdom among creators in the new counterculture holds that there will be no aughts nostalgia movement as there is for the last decades of the 20th century. Western cultural development stagnated and finally started eating itself circa 1997. Therefore, the lion's share of media products after that point…
March 9, 202131 Comments
Robot Fighters Return!

Robot Fighters Return!

One big disadvantage that dissidents labor under is a strong individualist streak. This affinity for rugged self-reliance is often bandied about as a virtue, but in a social climate where the dominant opposition's M.O. is to isolate, polarize, and freeze targets, that virtue becomes a vice.A few of the more…
March 8, 20212 Comments
Cults of Conduct

Cults of Conduct

Dissident creators' invisibility to the movers and shakers in Conservative circles has hobbled right-wing advances in the culture war for decades. "Culture War" is frankly inaccurate, since a war presumes more than one side fighting. The wholesale capture of Western institutions by the Death Cult has been a cultural rout.Conservatives'…
March 5, 202114 Comments
Toys in the Attic

Toys in the Attic

It's high time we had another tale of high strangeness on this blog. Today's hackle-raising account comes courtesy of author David V. Stewart.This sort of thing actually inspired one of my books - Eyes in the Walls.At my old house one time the attic light came on by itself, and…
March 4, 20213 Comments
No Seuss for You

No Seuss for You

Conservatives catch a lot of flak for their failure to conserve pretty much anything. Now we can add Dr. Seuss books to the rapidly lengthening list.Predictably, the mainstream media are rushing to the book burning with jugs of kerosene and bags of marshmallows. Just as typically, their Conservative media camp…
March 3, 202126 Comments
How to Popcorn

How to Popcorn

Regular readers will be aware that I worked for a local movie theater chain in my dissolute youth. During my time there, I learned how to make professional-grade popcorn whose addictiveness one friend equated to crack. At least I think that's what he said. His mouth was full of popcorn…
March 2, 202113 Comments
Combat Frame XSeed: SS

Combat Frame XSeed: SS

The absolutely apocalyptic second book in the hit XSeed: S series is now live on Indiegogo!Space is a graveyardThey came to destroy us ...... Now they're humanity's only hopeThe Guardian Angels race home to confront a traitor. Instead, disaster forces them into a savage battle with an invincible enemy bent…
March 1, 20215 Comments