strange church

Strange Characters Showing up at Mass

A Twitter mutual and brother in Christ passes along this personal account. Spiritual battle, high strangeness, or flight of fancy? You decide. I had a very vivid dream last night. I dream fairly regularly, but every once in a while I have one that’s different from the rest & usually…
Religion Is Not Dying

Exploding the ‘Religion Is Dying’ Psyop

A reader offers his testimony after attending Mass for the first time since deciding to explore the claims of the Catholic Church. Editor's note: The following are SeekerAnon's own words, with some clearly delineated commentary from me and some light structural editing to give the original forum style posts better…
Lent difficult

Lenten Difficulty Settings

On this Ash Wednesday, let's take a page from up-and-coming Catholic streamer Pinesap. Over on X, he shares the basic fasting requirements and suggests additional ways to grow in holiness these 40 days by dialing up your Lenten difficulty settings: Fasting Rules for Lent all Catholics are obligated to observe:…
The Burned Book

The Burned Book Big Reveal

My upcoming dark fantasy epic killed it on Indiegogo. I'm hard at work fulfilling my promise to the dedicated patrons who made this project possible. Now it's time for the big reveal of a major milestone, courtesy of inimitable Soul Cycle cover artist Marcelo Orsi Blanco. Presenting the final full…
Generational Wealth

Millennials’ Generational Poverty

If you've witnessed intergenerational arguments online, it's a near-certainty you've seen Baby Boomers taking flak for hoarding their wealth and leaving their posterity in generational poverty. A while back, Business Insider backed up those complaints with data. The numbers show that not only have younger generations been robbed, the scope…
Sandman Cancelled

Sandman Canceled by China

Yet another controversy plaguing the scandal-wracked World Science Fiction Society refuses to die as credible allegations of censorship, and a subsequent cover up, swirl in the wake of 2023's World Con in Chengdu. The home of oldpub's once-prestigious Hugo Awards, World Con made its Chinese debut last year in a…
Hellblazer William Paquet

Comics’ Death of a Thousand Cuts

Yesterday's post on the death of American comics elicited its fair share of comments. One reader who decided to offer his two cents ended up contributing gold when he turned out to be an industry veteran. Consider commercial sculptor William Paquet's insider account of the US comics industry's collapse: Heads…
Comics Dead

Who Killed American Comics?

The recent post on who killed rock and roll attracted a lot of notice. It's taken a while to gain traction, but it seems like every day more people are noticing Cultural Ground Zero. As this theory's name implies, the destruction wasn't limited to popular music. Every form of mass…
Late Night HypnoJournoClowns

Late-Night HypnoJourno Clowns

If you were of college age back in the aughts, it was impossible to miss the late-night news parody show craze. Once Comedy Central's saucy puppet shows went off air for the day, the syncopated sounds of smug one-liners punctuated with mindless laughter would filter from dorm rooms, cheap apartments,…
Millennial Nonparticipation

Millennials’ Nonparticipation Trophy

The unemployable Millennial male has become a stock antagonist of Gen X managers and regime journos alike. While the former trade workplace horror stories of helpless yet self-entitled snowflakes who balk at face-to-face interaction, the latter whine about basement-dwelling incel NEETs failing to provide strong, independent women the lifestyle they…