In a word? Brutal [https://www.amazon.com/Last-Closet-Dark-Side-Avalon-ebook/dp/B0787XLK4H] . I finally finished it today. It’s not a fun read, a pleasant read, or an entertaining read – even if there are a couple moments of joy interspersed – but I think it is a necessary one. One I didn’t give up despite setting it aside several times to clear my mind doing or reading something else. It is the tale of a monster. Two of them. One that is still lauded by her peers despite defending a NAMBLA-…
A Channel I enjoy on Youtube is Yankee Marshall. I gather he’s a liberal though I haven’t seen his other show, and I disagree with him on a number of things, but he certainly is a no holds barred 2A activist and reasonably entertaining. I also enjoy Black Pigeon Speaks. So some thoughts on student activists and optics, and guns against governments.…
My very first post on this blog ages ago was on the soundtrack to Pacific Rim [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/08/pacific-rim-soundtrack-main-theme.html]. Described as “ the most awesome dumb movie ever made, or the dumbest awesome movie ever made [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWquPNoTc]” the movie, the editing, the feeling of mass given to the Jaegers and the Kaiju, it all just worked. I especially appreciated how tightly the opening sequence set the background for one of the main characte…
Quick and dirty post linking up some odds and ends with a common theme. Oh, and sorry for the reference toField of Dreams, in part because there’s no guarantee people will come just because you build something. Nevertheless, in response to this, – http://www.superversivesf.com/2018/01/28/all-art-is-propaganda/ – I saw this comment: > No, art is not propaganda. And just because refusing to bow the knee to a cultural revolution in the context of your expression is necessarily a political act,…
You may remember my tongue in cheek post here. [https://thelastredoubt.com/a-leftist-argument-for-gun-ownership/]Yes, it was snarky in tone, but the actual leftist argument – that power corrupts, that power imbalances encourage and enable oppression, that power flows from the barrel of a gun, and that handing capitalist oppressors or potential tyrants (where do you think all of the sociopaths who want power over others are going to go?) exclusive power to that given the rather dicey relationship…