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Camille Paglia
Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
New York: Pantheon, 2018
“I don’t bake. My specialty is large hunks of highly spiced meat.” — Camille Paglia[1]
“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.” — Emerson, “The American Scholar”
6,426 words
Bronze Age Pervert
Bronze Age Mindset
Independently published, 2018
“This town needs an enema.” — The Joker
“This explains also why so many traps are obsessed with Hegel.” — Bronze Age Pervert (more…)
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Jay Black
Guttersnipe
Amazon kindle, 2018
“Suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one’s got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one’s freedom. It needn’t be much; kicking the dog will do.” – J. G. Ballard, interviewed by Thomas Frick[1]
It is easy to spot the Croatian team. They are the white ones.
It is easy to spot the Croatian team. They are the white ones.
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The ZMan’s Blog is always worth reading, and today is no exception. Avoiding the cliché post about or around Bastaille Day, ZMan digs into the game at the heart of the recent World Cup hoo-haw: football, or as you Yanks call it, “soccer.”[1] (more…)
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James Scott Bell
Manliness: The Robert Mitchum Way
Woodland Hills, Cal.: Compendium Press, 2016
“A man must defend his home, his wife, his children and his Martini.” — Jackie Gleason
As the direct descendent of one of England’s greatest detectives,[1] I have of course followed with interest the development of the genre, especially the rather more brutal American branch, so different from granddad’s genteel country house affairs.[2]
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Ann Sterzinger
The Seine Vendetta
Duncan, BC: Storm Rhino Press, 2018
April on the Seine is lovely. But revenge is a dish best served cold. And the forecast for Paris is a deep freeze.
As the scion of a famous detective, I’ve had an off again, on again interest in the whole gentleman detective genre. (more…)
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Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
Written, directed, and produced by Charles Martin
Music by Max Steiner
Cinematography by James Wong Howe
Stars: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor, John Hoyt, Tom Conway, Werner Klemperer
“He was the most hated man on earth, but he could have been one of the great men in history. He was a genius.”
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Jef Costello
The Importance of James Bond & Other Essays
San Francisco: Counter-Currents, 2017
“Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call Poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?”[1]
“This guy can’t possibly live up to the song they wrote about him… probably just an accountant named Wallace.”[2] (more…)
David Bouhadana, who somehow manages to be an award-winning sushi chef in New York’s East Village despite being a Florida native of French-Moroccan descent.
David Bouhadana, who somehow manages to be an award-winning sushi chef in New York’s East Village despite being a Florida native of French-Moroccan descent.
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“Libertarianism, like most libertarians, is all about someone else paying for their ethnic dining habits. It’s why they are no longer of any use to the Right.”[1]
“What makes America great is, therefore, less about productivity than about population, less about Google and Stanford than about babies and immigrants.”[2]
The last time I was in New York, in the mid-2000s, I heard that there was finally an answer to one of the most puzzling problems of the metropolis: why can’t you find good Mexican food in New York? (more…)
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Camille Paglia
Free Men, Free Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism
New York: Pantheon, 2017
“A very few have thought the problems through to the end and proposed constructive solutions . . . Such men are never popular with their ‘intellectual peers,’ since their very existence is an implied reproach.” – Colin Wilson[1] (more…)