GalaxysEnd

Galaxy’s End?

A bombshell dropped over the weekend that has the potential to shake indie publishing to its core. The troubling development involves mega best selling newpub author, and fellow Dragon Award winner, Nick Cole. This ongoing story broke on Sunday night when readers noticed the popular Galaxy's Edge and Forgotten Ruin…
January 17, 202214 Comments
diverse hollywood

Diversity Devours Hollywood

But like a snake eating its own tail, the film industry's autophagy can go on indefinitely. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences—the industry’s central nervous system—had been founded in 1927, and now it had 8,469 voting members. It had tried over the years, and especially since Donald Trump’s…
January 13, 202220 Comments
Modern Art

Modern Art Is No Object

We've discussed before how Millennials and Zoomers suffer from a peculiar aesthetic disability. Unlike past generations, many of them seem unable to engage with artistic works on anything but a subjective level. A Big Brand X viewer from Generation Y on back would say, "I want to be devoted like…
January 10, 202213 Comments
messiah

Incel Messianism

Yesterday's post on Pope Francis' stern rebuke against cat moms drew a number of critical comments--not just from the Child Free™ and loving it crowd, but from ostensible dissidents, too. That's not surprising, since the fallout from the Sexual Revolution has tainted every corner of modern life, even the counterculture.…
January 7, 20223 Comments
retro newton

Retrogression

As Western civilization crumbles, it's easy to forget that the errors which have ushered in a new dark age were sold to us as keys to a bright, shiny future. Progress undergirds the Death Cult's moral myth in a manner similar to how salvation informs Christian teleology. The Cult's evangelists…
January 3, 202221 Comments
Biden Retreat

Mask Slip

By now, most normal people have tuned out the constant stream of doom and gloom blaming everything from soaring suicide rates to chip shortages on the coronavirus. What gets lost in the shuffle is that most of the systemic failures shaking Western society to its foundations aren't attributable to the…
December 29, 202112 Comments
bank run

The Bill Comes Due

A week after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot decreed vaccine passport requirements, it turns out the Second City is broke. The city of Chicago apparently has no money in its employee Payroll account. An employee of the city has uploaded video showing the bank upon which a city paycheck is drawn,…
December 27, 20217 Comments
The Collective

The Collective

Just in case you needed more proof that the internet is dead and has been for a while ... I'm old enough to remember the initial push to get everyone online. The tech gurus promised us that once the web connected everybody, every idea would get a fair hearing in…
December 21, 202120 Comments
charizard

Milo v Beardson

This past Saturday, Trump-era provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos resurfaced on-stream with internet bloodsports veteran and inner circle groyper Beardson Beardly. The occasion was a debate on the spiritual ramifications of grown men pursuing children's hobbies--in this case, Pokémon cards. If you're wondering how the dispute started, one of the Groypers' wignat…
December 20, 202114 Comments
This Just In

The Internet Is Still Dead

And it's getting deader by the day, if the deterioration of YouTube I've witnessed in the past six months is any indication. How has my YT experience changed, you ask? Yesterday I received the following email: The occasion of that nuisance letter was the test stream I ran yesterday. Wanting…
December 7, 202112 Comments