Irreverent musings and malarkey from a disillusioned dilettante
Straightforward - which swords should you purchase at the mall for you collection when you aren't boycotting Star Wars or investigating journalistic ethics in video games? I know, I know - you know all about swords, you have an awesome collection already, and the girl looking at the manga section of the comic store you... Continue Reading →
History is littered with an array of battles and wars that seem impossibly stupid - the Pig War between the United States and the United Kingdom, the Australian Emu War, the War of Jenkin's Ear between Britain and Spain, the Fourth Crusade where Christian crusaders sacked their own cities, the Battle of New Orleans between... Continue Reading →
Do you ever get tired of the same old conspiracy theories? I think people just got tired of trying to convince normal people we never landed on the moon or that 9/11 was an inside job, and that's how we ended up with a new brand of asshole who thinks the earth is flat. Personally,... Continue Reading →
Do you ever get pangs of regret? After many posts here, I sure do, be it embarrassing anecdotes that could have gone without being shared or the gratuitous typos or grammatical errors. Just come to embrace the fact I will never do anything to fix the latter and will ignorantly continue to subject myself to... Continue Reading →
Aleister Crowley is another one of these historical figures who's brief biography always lists an array of bullshit before getting to the thing everyone knows them for. Mr Crowley was identified as a mountaineer, a poet, a theologian, a spy, a traitor to the British people, a sex addict, a drug experimenter, a magician and,... Continue Reading →
HEAR YE, HEAR YE: This is an old post from Arch Stanton that I forgot to post. Slightly out of order. And here, we, go: Did you know Florida has an "Exotic Pet Amnesty Day" program? WELL YOU DO NOW, AND GUESS WHAT, WE'RE DIVING INTO IT. So I recently learned Florida has the most... Continue Reading →
- The nine best Queen songs are better than the five best songs of any other band in history ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "Save Me", "Don't Stop Me Now", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", "We Are the Champions", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Somebody to Love", "Another Bites the Dust" and "Killer Queen"). These can be swapped out for... Continue Reading →
Coheed and Cambria - "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3": If you are unfamiliar with Coheed and Cambria... well, I'm sorry you have lived such an unfulfilled life. But the good news is that now is the time to change that! Coheed and Cambria is hard to classify by genre -- they were a square... Continue Reading →
You know someone is an interesting historical figure when no one can agree on how to identify them. Abraham Lincoln - President. John Wilkes Booth - guy who shot the President. John Lennon - songwriter. Mark David Chapman - guy who shot Lennon. Let's get off this path. Describing William Walker's legacy is a tricky... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMMz2VwbhVI This is less something new I learned rather than perhaps my favorite bit of historical esoterica - the Papal Schism! (or the Great Schism) (or the Western Schism) (or the Schism of 1378) (or the Occidental Schism) (but not "Schism" by Tool, despite being a great song). Really, it's probably just because of the... Continue Reading →
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