#owngoals: World Con Edition

#owngoals: World Con Edition

Courtesy of author Yakov Merkin Even before the Campaign to End Puppy-related Sadness was a glimmer in Larry Correia's eye, it was an open secret among normal SFF fans and authors that World Con had entered terminal decline. If you don't know what World Con is, you're not alone, and…
July 24, 201818 Comments
Gunn Control

Gunn Control

Leftists took vicious delight in ruining anyone who failed to celebrate their transformation of the West into NYC's 42nd St. circa 1974. And they could libel, deplatform, and disemploy with impunity while the controlled opposition of Conservative Inc. played the Washington Generals to the Left's Harlem Globetrotters. But now that…
July 21, 201821 Comments
Fat Kafkatrap

Fat Kafkatrap

Alpha Geek Daddy Warpig shares news of the latest SJW kafkatrap disguised as entertainment. Netflix's trailer for its new series, Insatiable, is facing a backlash across social media for its apparent "fat-shaming" plot. The series stars Debby Ryan as Patty, a high school teen who has been bullied because of…
July 20, 201821 Comments
Eat the Universe Indeed

Eat the Universe Indeed

Bleeding Fool reports that failing legacy comic book publisher Marvel Comics is ostensibly reaching out to fans by offering a slate of sub-G4 tier programming, including a barely Marvel-themed cooking show. The two on the right look like they just discovered Heather Antos' boiled bunny in that pot. Ever since Marvel…
July 19, 201830 Comments
EU vs Google

EU vs Google

ZeroHedge reports that the EU is doing the job America's DOJ won't do: bring antitrust actions against Google. Shares of Google parent Alphabet are in the red on Wednesday morning as European Union antitrust regulators unveiled a record €4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine against the tech giant for allegedly anti-competitive…
July 18, 20186 Comments
Kishōtenketsu

Kishōtenketsu

Lately I've been getting questions about Kishōtenketsu, the four-part story structure of classical Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literature. My Twitter friends sent along a useful post explaining the concept. Let’s start with the word itself. It’s made up of the names of the four different acts of the structure: Ki…
July 16, 20184 Comments
We Hate Our Kids

We Hate Our Kids

Last night I happened to tune into financial guru Dave Ramsey's show just as Dave was launching into a rant on the looming student loan crisis. He posts clips from his radio show on YouTube, and I managed to find a clip that contains part of his longer polemic. From…
July 13, 201827 Comments
The World Armada

The World Armada

This signal boost is a little late, but I wanted to give John's latest book time to accumulate organic sales before I promoted it to my readers. Without further ado, It's my pleasure to present Superluminary; The World Armada by science fiction grand master John C. Wright! Although the Lords of…
July 13, 2018
Very Different Personages

Very Different Personages

From time to time I still run into aspiring authors who dream of signing a Big Book Deal™ with a New York publishing house. Similarly, there are still cockeyed optimists who are convinced that Hollywood poz factories will go back to making wholesome entertainment as soon as a particular trouble-making…
July 10, 201810 Comments
Sculpture-on-Sculpture Violence

Sculpture-on-Sculpture Violence

In the wake of comics legend Steve Ditko's passing, reader Man of the Atom shares a Ditko story that's downright prescient in light of the culture war being waged in comics--and all media-today. The following excerpts are taken from the plot synopsis of Blue Beetle #5 from November, 1968. At…
July 9, 201816 Comments