Anime by Decade

Anime Ground Zero

You knew it was coming sooner or later. In another blow to the meme of Based Japan, I regret to inform you that anime did not escape the blast wave of Cultural Ground Zero. H/t to author JD Cowan, whose post last week inspired this one. To give an example…
December 26, 202229 Comments
Jesus Nativity

The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ

The Twenty-fifth Day of December, when ages beyond number had run their course from the creation of the world, when God in the beginning created heaven and earth, and formed man in his own likeness; when century upon century had passed since the Almighty set his bow in the clouds…
December 23, 202213 Comments
Christ's Birth

Defending December 25

Advent is back, so the Reddit atheists and pagan LVRPers have returned to display their historical and biblical illiteracy. That means it's time to republish this perennial favorite post so my readers can demolish internet atheists' cringe "Christmas is Pagan!" memes. December 25 really is the date of Jesus' birth.…
December 22, 20226 Comments
Star Trek IV

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

After the two-part tour de force of The Wrath of Khan and The Search for Spock, the challenge of producing a fourth film to top the second and third seemed insurmountable. And as things turned out, it was. That's not to hate on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It…
December 21, 20229 Comments
Christmas Toy

A Gen Y Christmas

A reader writes, Brian, My wife and I re-watched a handful of Christmas movies while wrapping presents for my side of the family last night. One section of our DVD library is just Christmas movies, most of which are now decades old, which I realize now is almost a physical…
December 20, 20222 Comments
A.I. Art 4

Anti-A.I. Astroturf

As I mentioned last time, the upsurge in anti-A.I. art sentiment doesn't seem entirely organic to me. People had been talking about art algorithms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for a while. My friend, author David V. Stewart, even did some videos on A.I. book cover design. Sure, these algos…
December 19, 20228 Comments
A.I. 2001

The Great A.I. Art Debate

As you read this post, a debate is raging on author Twitter about A.I.-generated book covers. Some are hailing these art algorithms as the best publishing innovation since Gutenberg. Others are ... denouncing A.I. as demonic? Or something. To be honest, I can't get a read on the most emphatic…
December 16, 202246 Comments
Synod Relator General

Synod Witches Madder

In another blow to the Death Cultists striving to impose witchery on the Church through synods, top officials within the current synod on synodality reasserted the Church's firm No Witches Allowed policy. The highest-ranking woman in the general secretariat of the Synod of Bishops has said that the ordination of…
December 15, 202211 Comments
KTH Weed Hair

Freedom Destroyed Liberty

Say you decide to go out for a burger. You hop in the car and hit the road, where at least three other drivers are drifting between lanes at ten miles under the limit, backing up traffic for blocks. You stop at a red light and soon feel like you're…
December 14, 202210 Comments
zombies

Sociological Zombies

If you were around in the mid-to-late-aughts, you were aware of the zombie apocalypse fad. Much like the shambling undead hordes it depicted, the trend was inescapable. As with most pop phenomena, a lot of ink has been spilled on why the zombie horror subgenre became so dominant when it…
December 13, 202215 Comments