Daddy Warpig is posting on the scum who called themselves Futurians [http://www.castaliahouse.com/when-futurians-ruled-the-earth/] at Castalia house. This jumped out at me: > The Silver Age threw away heroics and heroism, the Bronze Age threw away decency and morality, the Iron Age forged tiny cages for people’s imaginations, and the Clay Age finger painted with their own poo, for there was nothing else to throw away. Of the “big three” who’d been considered such the last few decades, I have no…
I’d made clear at one point the intense dislike I’ve acquired for the play “Fiddler on the Roof” [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/the-fiddler-on-roof-and-throwing.html]. Mostly because it takes the trouble to show how important tradition is to Tevye and the community, yet at the end tears them all down, without really replacing them. A point can be made that many of the traditions would not survive the the journey to the new world, but that is actually irrelevant. They didn’t have to be. Some…
I overheard a conversation at an employee lounge where I was sitting to finish up some paperwork before setting off to my next job, related to the movie “La La Land.” The thrust was that they really, really, enjoyed the soundtrack (done by Justin Hurwitz, who also did the score for the alsojazz-centered Whiplash), but at first hadn’t “gotten” why so many people were so enthusiastic about the movie. Then they opined about how the music and tone were just sooo upbeat, and in these hard times, wit…
The verge. SJW central. I almost never – less than 1 in 100 times – read the articles that pop up in the feed because, for a so-called tech site, they are of course, SJW converged. Usually, instead, the headlines, and the hysterical (in at least two senses of the word) – first paragraph excerpt are more than enough to both assure me I’m not missing anything, andto give me a good indication of the “thought” trends in the liberal and SJW left of what we have insufficient representation of, etc..…
John C Wright just posted: > It appears that, unbeknownst to me, SWAN KNIGHT’S SON is up for the Planetary Award. If you maintain a blog, you can vote. I just finished *Swan Knight’s Son*, the first of the Moth and Cobweb books, and absolutely love it. It is easily as poetic and vivid as anything of his I’ve read. If anything, it has the deepest contrasts without pushing to extremes. For all that I love the Metachronopolis or Night Lands stories, they are about finding light in the darkness.…