Joker It's Not About the Money

Mark Kern: Calling All Gamers

Get get FREE books and first looks at my exciting new projects monthly! Join my elite neopatrons to read my new dark fantasy novel The Burned Book as I write it! Join on Patreon or SubscribeStar now. Just weeks after helping to kick off what some are now calling GamerGate 2, legendary game dev and CEO…
April 15, 2024No Comments
Stage Three Cancer

Nostalgic for Stage Three Cancer

A common obstacle to communication that can crop up between people with different outlooks and motives is the risk of talking past each other. This kind of miscommunication can arise on any subject. No topic of conversation is immune. Take Dunkaroos, for example. One man might point out that they…
April 12, 202425 Comments
Croglin Grange Low Hall

The Vampire of Croglin Grange

Readers have been flocking to posts about vampires lately. So here's an old favorite: The Vampire of Croglin Grange. Back in Cromwell's day, the Fisher family left their ancestral home in Cumberland and moved south to more spacious accommodations. Loath to sell their old farmhouse called Croglin Grange, they leased…
April 11, 20244 Comments
We Live in a Society

A Sane and Healthy Society

With Con Inc collapsing, its aging devotees sound like they've suffered a strange form of partial memory loss. They are smart, well-meaning people. Yet the mere utterance of certain buzzwords is enough to make them suspend their Christian morals and carry on like the market is a god. If one…
April 10, 202427 Comments
The World You Were Raised to Survive In No Longer Exists

The School of Hard Knocks

The recent post on Generation Y drew a lot of comment. One of the most prominent questions pertained to why so many members of generations after X are seemingly unsalvageable. As Bruce Lee taught us, understanding the problem points to the solution. So let's examine Gen Y's besetting vice: terminal…
April 9, 202415 Comments
Sanderson Mistborn Movie 1

Not Even King Brandon Can Get a Movie Made

Getting a movie adaptation of their books isn't just a perennial dream of writers. Spend any length of time in online reader circles, and you'll soon hear multiple fans asking when they can expect to see their favorite books by their top authors on the silver screen. As most of…
April 7, 20249 Comments
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Generation Video Grand Opening

OG readers will know that I have a soft spot for retro film review podcasts. Whether it's author JD Cowan's Cannon Cruisers or, to go all the way back, the late, great Drunken Zombie Podcast, listening in while a couple of guys talk 80s and 90s movies is a guilty…
April 5, 2024No Comments
Terrifying Plan

Gen Y: The Plan Is Terrifying

Longtime readers will know Generation Y as the gaslit generation. Baby Boomers instilled them with a false view of reality that left them unprepared to survive in the real world. As a result, the “mugged by reality” experience is a Gen Y touchstone. Now that Gen Y has hit middle…
April 4, 20249 Comments
Richard Dawkins by Tom Jamieson

New Atheist, Cultural Christian

The man who was perhaps the most notorious purveyor of the New Atheist movement back in the aughts has dropped a bombshell in a recent interview. A famous atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explained he identifies as a "cultural Christian" in an interview after learning Ramadan lights were hung…
April 3, 202413 Comments
Comic Book Guy

Growing out of Comic Books

If you had the fortune of being a kid back when we still had a coherent society, and if you'd developed a taste for comic books, odds were that at least one adult in your life warned you against the habit. If the warning went unheeded, the common wisdom held…
April 2, 202418 Comments