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The Sorcerer’s Harem

Regular readers here know that the West is afflicted with a crisis of meaning, and we have been for a long time. It's a target-rich environment for clever con artists with no conscience and a penchant for spinning tall tales. Author JD Cowan brought up a Twitter thread by Lin…
March 7, 202212 Comments
Milo v Beardson2

Milo v Beardson 2

A few months back, I let readers in on the internet beef between professional gadfly Milo Yiannopoulos and curmudgeonly streamer Beardson Beardly. Many were surprised that instead of a slap fight, the two debaters arrived at a détente of sorts over the meaning and gradations of art. It was a…
March 1, 20223 Comments
Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan

Having fallen behind the anime scene some years ago, I didn't know quite what to expect when a friend lent me one of the most popular current series, Attack on Titan. Despite a title that sounds like it belongs to a forgotten A.E. van Vogt military thriller, this series based on…
February 24, 202231 Comments
Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero

It's often said that the mark of a good parody is that you could take out all the jokes, and it would still play well as a straight genre film. The best parodies start with that ingredient and add a deep love for the source material. Due in part to…
February 4, 20227 Comments
Repo Man Market

Market Cargo Cult

Over at the Z Blog, the Z Man documents how Conservatives are as mired in a market cargo cult as the Left is in the sway of the woke cult. One reason Hollywood has no fear of going broke is they know most people will find a way to look…
January 27, 202214 Comments
Green Lantern Black Skins

Denny Destroys DC

The illustrious Man of the Atom makes his long-awaited return to bring us more deep comics lore. Picking up from last time, the tireless chronicler turns his attention from Marvel to DC. At National Periodicals, Weisinger edited Superman- and Batman-related titles early in his career, and was the long term…
January 18, 202227 Comments
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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
economy

It’s Not the Economy

One encouraging sign heading into 2022 is that the counterculture has for the most part rejected the Conservative obsession with ascribing economic causes to social phenomena. Sad to say, this undead meme has seen a resurgence since Mister Metokur's New Year's Eve stream, so let's drive another stake in its…
January 4, 202217 Comments
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This Tube

Reader Rudolph Harrier writes in a comment on yesterday's post: I’ve been spending a lot of time with older relatives over the holidays and with the boomer-tier that always means the TV is on in the background, especially for the news (even if it’s the 9 o’clock news and they…
December 30, 20219 Comments
Comic Book Ages & Generations

Comic Book Ages and Lost Generations

Man of the Atom returns with the sequel to his previous enlightening post on the history of American comics. This time, MotA does a deep dive into the comic book generation gap. “There was a GENERATION GAP in the comic book industry. There were some people in their 50’s and…
December 28, 202113 Comments