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The release of the new Jurassic World: Rebirth this week reminded me of the time in 2015 when a previous movie in the franchise was laughably smeared as being racist against Pakistanis. Simply called Jurassic World, some of the main celluloid baddies in this one were from a species named Pachycephalosaurus, [1] called Pakis for short by the blockbuster’s human characters. (more…)

Salvador Dalí, Perpignan Train Station

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

With Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by Her Own Chastity, Dalí returned to his paranoiac-critical concerns (i.e., autoeroticism), but now transformed. The paranoiac origin is Dalí’s obsession with Vermeer’s The Lacemaker, which in turn he believed to “consist” in rhinoceroses’ horns. (more…)

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The second half of last weekend’s broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio was a solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson, and it is now available for download and online listening.

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Marcel Duchamp, Mona Lisa with Moustache, 1919.

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I’m a recent transplant in this city. And as far as cities go, this one isn’t terrible. We live just over the hill from Erie, one of those giant inland seas carved from North America’s heartland, and it’s like having our own, muted stretch of coast for the quiet. (more…)