Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm

Aside from the Ringo book I mentioned earlier – and that the Didact took John to task about the lack of sequels [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/eye-of-stor.html] – I wanted to delve deeper into the Cruxshadows song “Eye of the Storm.” Actually, I’ll be going through a lot of their songs that I enjoy, and while the order will generally be somewhat chronological, in the order I ran into them more or less, this will be an exception. On the Goth spectrum they’re more dance, less whiney, “Darkwav…

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What is Art?

What is Art?

One of my guilty pleasures is a fun book that I enjoy, even if it is far from great, The Guns of Two-Space by Dave Grossman and Bob Hudson. One thing that shines through in that book and its predecessor are a love of poetry and beauty. From TGoTS – the second book – > It violates the First Law of Art, Carmack’s Law, which says, ‘If I can do it, it’s not art.’ How many years of art school did you have to go to to learn to splash paint on a canvas like that? If someone studies music…

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Music: March of Cambreadth (or, not-wimpy Filk)

Music: March of Cambreadth (or, not-wimpy Filk)

This is not going to be the last post that could be subtitled “damn you John Ringo, my wallet hates you.” Yes, the Didact [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-last-stand.html], and even Vox Day, have had an impact on my musical tastes above and beyond the classical, broadway and country and western (“both types of music”) I was raised on, the classic rock and metal I fell in love with, and the new wave, industrial, and goth scene I fell into. But few have been so consistently painful t…

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An Aside on Failure Scopes...

An Aside on Failure Scopes...

In my post on failure scopes [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/failure-scopes-continuation.html] I said the following: > Yes, there’s some handwaving about private entities – which in practice become de-facto small – scale governments of limited power and scope.  But if the US suddenly became a libertarian paradise, something would still have to act as a de-facto state to deal with the threat of invasion from places that were not. And immigration on a large scale, by people who are not willin…

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A Parable for the Dragon Awards (and Congratulations)

A Parable for the Dragon Awards (and Congratulations)

In his inimitable style, Dave Freer gives us a parable for the inaugural Dragon awards [https://madgeniusclub.com/2016/09/05/dragon-on-the-carpet/]. > A little parable for you: Once upon a time, some Bavarian beer fanciers set up a beer-fest in field outside their small town. Now, because nothing goes quite so well with good beer as good smoked and cured pork, soon there were people providing the same, and happy buxom lasses serving beer, eisbein, various pork sausages and ham. Then there was a…

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