We’ve Passed Peak Pop Star

We’ve Passed Peak Pop Star

In recent Decline of the West news, record sales have fallen off a cliff. Record sales are being touted these days as on a comeback. All you hear is: streaming will save us. But things are pretty dire. For example, Justin Timberlake’s “Man of the Woods,” touted so highly on…
March 15, 201833 Comments
How Publishing Companies Die

How Publishing Companies Die

Over at Jeffro's blog, veteran author, editor, and publisher Jeff Duntemann delivers his own Blood in the Streets prediction for the Big Five New York publishing houses. Ebooks have *not* plateaued. Perhaps ebooks published with an ISBN–something of less and less usefulness as time goes on–but you can sell ebooks…
March 6, 201819 Comments
Gen Zed Perspective

Gen Zed Perspective

Reader and high school student Eliza offers her informed commentary on yesterday's post about the Left's efforts to normalize obesity. As part of Generation Z, it is interesting to read about the excuses that people have for "letting go." At the high school level I think everyone knows that being…
February 14, 20181 Comment
Reason #1,000,001

Reason #1,000,001

The following FaceBook post found its way into my feed yesterday. Names and faces are concealed to protect the innocent. Anon is right on the money. Body positivity/#HealthyAtAnySize is pure rhetorical snake oil for all the reasons listed. Furthermore, it's downright evil for ulterior reasons not-so-subtly hidden in this comment…
February 13, 201814 Comments
What’s New Is Old

What’s New Is Old

A curious phenomenon I started noticing about fifteen years ago hit me as a sort of jump-cutting in time. The effect wasn't internally consistent, though--like when I sit down to write at 7 PM, get into a groove, and suddenly it's midnight. The temporal anomaly I'm referring to is oddly…
February 9, 201826 Comments
Could Thrawn Have Saved Star Wars?

Could Thrawn Have Saved Star Wars?

Gamespot, of all places, just ran a story by Christopher Gates that made the same assertion I've been making since The Force Awakens came out, viz. that film adaptations of Timothy Zahn's legendary Thrawn Trilogy should have been the official Star Wars Episodes VII, VIII, and IX. It's hard to imagine…
February 8, 201825 Comments
Fake Journalists vs. EVS

Fake Journalists vs. EVS

DC Comics artist Ethan Van Sciver is no stranger to controversy. As one of the few openly conservative professionals working in a heavily converged industry, he's attracted the ire of the SJW mob before. Matters took a sinister and bizarre turn when Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by…
January 30, 201810 Comments
Ground Zero

Ground Zero

Often of late this blog has turned an unflinching eye to the rapidly accelerating meltdown of popular Western culture. By now we all know that movies are watered-down retreads mostly produced for overseas markets by people who neither understand nor care to understand their former core audience. Top 40 radio…
January 23, 201826 Comments
Nerd Culture Is Dead

Nerd Culture Is Dead

Over at the Emperor Ponders blog, the Frisky Pagan charts the decline of Western culture using the highest-grossing films of each decade as a benchmark. Since there’s a lot to rant about this, I will focus on a single hypothesis: since the late 90s, there has been a divorce between…
January 17, 201817 Comments
Twitter Shadowbans Confirmed

Twitter Shadowbans Confirmed

In light of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe's investigation proving that Twitter does in fact wield shadowbans to censor users, I thought it worthwhile to repost the well-documented account of my own deep shadowban. Having written before about Twitter's nasty penchant for censoring and outright banning users who deviate from…
January 16, 20185 Comments