The Elder Scrolls is one of my favorite RPG series of all time (aside Shenmue). Some of the most elaborate and complex lore of any fictional series, it has greatly influenced my own work. This post, will contain the “corpus” of my own personal fan-lore (“lore-books”) written/published originally for the… Continue reading
This story is the whole truth as imagined by the legendary gunslinger Gray Lee. Of course, Gray has a tendency to get confused and so he forgets sometimes what was really the truth. That’s what legends are made of. The loan cowboy, dressed in all black stares down the barrel… Continue reading
In continuing the themes of my recent Joker and “Left populism” critique, Zero Books author Mikkel Krause Frantzen on depression and the ideological injunction to be happy: Continue reading
A brief trip through Uncut Gems with musical accompaniment (SPOILERS) Heart attack inducing anxiety, crushing you in sound waves, from a retro-futuristic apocalypse that happened yesterday. Black magic embodied in a “scared jewel”. One cannot serve both G-d and Mammon. From Africa to a colonoscopy, the tunnel into the diamond… Continue reading
(my 15 page grad school writing sample) In the year 410 C.E. the Visigoths breached the walls of Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, and preceded to loot, burn, and pillage their way through the city, leaving a wake of destruction in their path. It was the first of… Continue reading
SPOILERS AHEAD! I’ve been meaning to rewatch Joker for months now to write a little critique though I haven’t had the time. I did enjoy the film quite a bit though. It was a brilliant, tragic and necessarily disturbing critique of modern society from the perspective of the 80s and… Continue reading
In It, it is ultimately an evil force which brings friends together. If for nothing else, evil exists for this. If It Chapter Two doesn’t send the message that we should care for one another, I don’t know what does. It is only when we have seen our violent fate… Continue reading
At yer grind, at the bottom where it’s dirty—and you’re filthy as a cloud spawned galaxy—swirling about a muddy puddle. The backbreaking labor of the industrial working class. We are but yet another version of the past. Drink way yer merry soul, and forget the lies you knew were told.… Continue reading
As of the very moment I write this blog post I have yet to see Tarentino’s latest controversy, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As of now, I don’t plan on paying to see it either. I did however manage to see Django: Unchained hot off the presses, and loved… Continue reading
