Just for Fun: Into Plutonian Depths
A peculiarity of popular culture, which is also commercial culture, is that it dislikes competing with its own earlier iterations. Commercial culture therefore tends to be dismissive or even hostile in...
View ArticleMore on Subscendence
It is a well-known implication of Darwinian evolutionary theory that one thousand monkeys, furnished with as many word-processing devices, and ensconced both gratis and in perpetuum in a mid-priced...
View ArticleSex, Movies & Traditionalism on Mars
Of possible interest to Orthosphereans, my essay concerning Sex, Movies & Traditionalism on Mars has appeared at Angel Millar’s invariably edifying People of Shambhala website. The essay concerns...
View ArticleThe Second Reality Crumbles — Short Take II
As the Left’s second reality collapses, the Lefties still believe that they can dig themselves out of the sinkhole of their abysmal expectations. The Left being a purely collectivist entity, it...
View ArticleIs There a Second Reality?
Yes, her name is “really” Reality Winner. (That’s what I would name my daughter.) When this, or she, or it, is the First Reality, it automatically produces the Second Reality; the process is akin to...
View ArticleAnd Now for something Completely Different
I offer — for comment — Murray Rothbard’s short play, Mozart was a Red. This one is worth watching, too!
View ArticleChristopher Mihm’s Cave Women on Mars (2008), Sex, & the Movies (Beta)
Christopher Mihm is a Minnesota-based producer and director of radically inexpensive, independently financed entertainment films whose maneuver is that they disguise the impoverishment of their...
View ArticleRed Mist and Ruins: The Symbolist Prose of Leigh Brackett
The French remember Leigh Brackett, comme une maitresse “aux space-operas flamboyants,” to quote the words of paperback anthologist Jacques Sadoul.[i] Stephen Haffner, of the Haffner Press in Royal...
View ArticleLectures d’Automne 2020 (Sélections d’Octobre)
W. K. C. Guthrie (1906 – 1981), Orpheus and Greek Religion (1952): Guthrie, a Cambridge classicist, regards Orphism – taking its name from the legendary prophet-singer Orpheus – as the first religion...
View ArticleRobert E. Howard’s Conan: A Paracletic Hero?
Robert E. Howard (1906 – 1936) faded rapidly into obscurity after his self-inflicted demise in 1936 following the death of his mother from tuberculosis. Ironically, Howard’s reputation had increased...
View ArticlePin-Up Art & the Metaphysics of Sex
Peter Driben (1908 – 1968) In an age, on the one hand, of renewed, anti-sexual Puritanism and, on the other, of freely available Internet pornography the names of Peter Driben (1908 – 1968), Gillette...
View ArticleSuperstition & Subscendence: An Essay in Honor of Tom Bertonneau
Bear with me here. I hardly know where I am going with this, although I feel I have caught the spoor of something Tom would find delightful – that he would join with me joyfully in this new hunt. I’m...
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