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Cosmic Aggressions

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My next story (fourth written, second accepted) featuring Miskatonic University's The Dunwich Committee on Student Safety will be in the Walpurgisnacht 2018 Issue of Lovecraftiana: the Magazine of Eldritch Horror . "Cosmic Aggressions" is my play on the higher ed concern surrounding the concept of: microagressions .

Le Secret Du Roi

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Been a while since I could make an announcement like this: I'm pleased to say that I'll have a story in an upcoming issue of Broadswords and Blasters . It's an action-packed spy tale of Le Secret Du Roi .

Political Post: Roter Frontkämpferbund

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The two branches of the corporate party that hold office here in the States are champions of the status quo. Why? Because the status quo keeps them in power, best serves their paymasters, and keeps us living paycheck to paycheck, laboring for a pittance under the looming fear of getting sick and going broke. The two branches of the corporate party are masters at constructing an alternate and mythic American history that services their status quo where the angels of the free market watch over reasonably-minded men practicing “pragmatic” solutions and the kind of “civilized politics” that keeps all change and progress moving slowly and incrementally, inch by inch, onward. This fiction allows them to ignore how change really occurs; the mechanisms of progress; undercut anything actually radical and prevent it from ever happening again by co-opting and commodifying it into something generic, saleable, lacking of legitimate change or rebellion; and paint everything else as illegiti

Jeff Bridges & Buddhism

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The interview is old but absolutely worth reading: "Right now you’re in my sangha. We’ve touched in that way. Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don’t know if that’s the proper definition, but that’s the way I’m going to hold it in my mind."

Political Post: More Fighting Fascists & Group 43

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Group 43 were a band of Jewish men who came back from WWII, saw Oswald Mosley organizing fascists in the U.K. and said, not on our watch.