Danny Kaye in Knock on Wood
For those of you too young to remember Danny Kaye, he was a performer without peer. He could sing, dance, act, do comedy, do physical comedy. (Kaye was also a chef, a baseball team owner, and an airplane pilot.)
If you have never seen it, I recommend THE COURT JESTER, which is perhaps his best and funniest film. It is also the role model I use when devising plot.
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 28, Coercion Creature, is now posted on Patreon.
In this sad episode, Colonel Lost suffers woe, defeat, and humiliation before the very gaze of the dark-eyed beauty who has won his heart. Fate is a sadist.
I received perhaps the most pleasing Christmas card of my life.
A fan who is also a friend drew this illustration of Nerea from the book SWAN KNIGHT’S SON:
Why do I say what seems a simple greeting so pleasing? The wonder and thankfulness I feel that anyone takes time to read my books, much less takes time to draw a character, make a card, and send it to me, you must imagine. Seeing your own imagination come alive in someone else’s imagination is always a treat.
Nerea appears in The Green Knight’s Squire trilogy and Gilberec Moth, her land-based BF, makes a guest star appearance in the Dark Avenger’s Sidekick trilogy.
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An announcement from one of my (three) publishers:
SUPERVERSIVE PRESS
Submission call for “To Be Men: Stories Celebrating Masculinity”
If you are sick of today’s portrayals of men as bumbling idiots, of fathers as incompetents, of masculinity as “toxic” then I invite you to send us your best story featuring men at their best.
We want…
- Stories showing the masculine virtues in a positive light.
- Stories that introduce or reintroduce young men to the manly virtues.
- Stories that pay homage to men and masculinity.
Well-crafted, immersive stories (no present tense) in all genres (except horror) are welcome, but the manly virtue can’t depend on a speculative element, i.e. magic or superpowers do not make the man. You can have magic. You can have a superhero. But that’s not what makes him a man. It’s not what defines masculinity. Contact me at manlyantho@superversivepress.com if you’re not sure.
Submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2018
Short Story Formatting Checklist
Reprints by invitation only; no multiple or simultaneous submissions.
Send submissions to manlyantho@superversivepress.com with the subject line: Manly Antho – YourStoryTitle.
Rates: Royalties from the first copy sold (whether eBook or print).
‘The policy calls for the NASA administrator to “lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities.” The effort will more effectively organize government, private industry, and international efforts toward returning humans on the Moon, and will lay the foundation that will eventually enable human exploration of Mars.’
As time passes, my skepticism about the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution via genetic mutation producing new species (which was imparted to me as gospel truth in my younger days) is growing. My skepticism is evolving, so to speak.
That there is some variation within a species, and that even the unintentional selective breeding of blind nature might bring forth new breeds, I doubt not. Different breeds of dogs are still dogs, and have the same number of dog-genes.
What I doubt is the ‘just-so’ story I was told in my youth that cosmic rays (or something) would damage genes and produce mutations, and from these damages genes new species would spring forth, so that a fish mother would produce an amphibian child and a saurian grandchild, etc.
Now, my regular readers know that I hardly can produce a paragraph of text without a typo in it. Let us consider these as natural mutations. My question is this: how often does a naturally-occurring typo improve the sentence? How often is the mutation beneficial?
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I had to brave the snow and darkness to venture out after work hours to a late Friday Mass. Holy days of obligation being obligatory, donchaknow.
Today’s lesson: if a teen aged little Jewish girl in a conquered country before the invention of running water can be humble and faithful enough to move the mighty world’s crooked axis, so can you.
It is not too soon for Christmas music, is it?
My latest column is up on the Dangerous website. I address that perennial topic of conservative bellyaching the War on Christmas.
https://www.dangerous.com/37930/wright-not-just-decor-left-truly-hates-christmas/
In times past, four sabbaths before Christmas was the onset of Advent, a time when Christians prepared for the coming birth of the Heavenly King, and denied themselves some small pleasure to mortify the flesh.
It was not primarily a season of frantic shopping, but of solemn spiritual preparation for a twelve-day feast lasting past the New Year. It was a time for works of mercy and charity. But time is a strong, unmerciful tyrant, and now we have new traditions.
Every year, immediately after Thanksgiving, the War on Christmas begins. The sneering of the sick-minded, black-hearted (and small-manhooded) begins.
The colored lights, the festive kindness, the gay cheer that boldly defies the dark drear of winter, the singing of carols soaring starward, the love of family and friends, and, most of all the images of Saint Nicholas, the Star of Bethlehem, and the baby in the manger, all heap burning coals on the heads of our friends on the Left, and cause them pain.
Why does your friendly neighborhood Leftist war on Christmas? Why does he hate it so?
Since my pay from this website depends entirely on advertising, visit my column several times, and tell all your friends to do likewise, and pressure members who want to enter your World of Warcraft guild that whoever racks up the most click-through on my article is in.
I originally thought that this Dangerous column would take the place of my Last Crusade column, but the two are different in tone and purpose. Somehow, if heaven permits, I will find the time to do both.
But, sadly, this means I have to push back my date for finishing Nowhither, which is my current project.
Al Franken has resigned from the Senate. On the one hand, he stole the election, and is a weasel, and the world is a better place without him in any position of power. On the other hand, what he is accused of doing is stealing a kiss from a pretty girl, and snapping a photo where he pretends to grope her. This hardly rises to the same level as the rape allegations leveled against Bill “Slick Willie” Clinton or Harvey Weinstein.
In terms of the Culture War, the current inquisition into sexual misbehavior is a weakness in the enemy position that friendly forces should and could exploit if we are quick, singleminded, and clever, but, by the same token, the enemy counter-offensive will and must push back at the same position, and seek to further entrench the counter-culture.
The friendly position is that the Sexual Revolution has failed. The Revolution held out a false promise; it succeeded based on a false alliance, which is now breaking down; but the Sexual Revolution was an intellectually bankrupt and indefensible position to begin with, based as it was on two patently false assumptions.
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Here find all things from Lamplighter and Wright from this past year.
MOTH AND COBWEB
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You are invited to contributed to a discussion between yours truly and Max Kolbe on Atheism, psuedoscience, and corruption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-raoYweVykQ
I am beginning to lose track of all the win gushing forth from the news headlines these days. This is number 30 in columns devoted to this topic.
In times gone by, whenever I was feeling too cheerful, I would listen to the news, until a proper sense of cynical gloom and despair and bitter wrath would settle on me as I watched everything I hold dear slowly or quickly being deconstructed by morally perverted Morlocks. Now, whenever I am feeling blue, I flip the news on, and wait for something to send my spirits soaring.
Here is a partial list of victories and wonders gathered in the last forty days.
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 27, The Secret of Youth, is now posted on Patreon.
Episode 27 The Secret of Youth
In this episode, Colonel Lost learns his value is low and his time is up.
I am appearing yet again in a new book.
It is a book of Trump science fiction. Yup, it is space opera yarns all about the beautiful futures the God Emperor might bring to pass, now that America dodged a bullet to the skull.
It came out on election day, but there was no hooplah, and I did not hear about it:
https://www.amazon.com/MAGA-2020-Beyond-Milo-Yiannopoulos-ebook/dp/B075YF99P4
Generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. This was the moment – this was the time – when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals.
This was the moment we came together to elect Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America.
MAGA 2020 & Beyond tells the tales of a prosperous future where evil is defeated, the border wall is built, society has righted itself, space exploration is common and world peace has been attained. These aren’t just fantastical stories of a farfetched future, they are stories of a future that can be obtained.
