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The Vampire of the Amazon

When most people think of vampires, they imagine insular Eastern European villages huddled in remote valleys at the wooded feet of craggy peaks. Or beautiful monsters haunting the inner rooms of gaslit salons. What almost nobody thinks of is the Amazon. Yet in the late 19th century, this Old World curse allegedly came to the steamy jungles of the new. And how was this ancient affliction…

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Spencer Klavan vs Conservative Art™

Why does every piece of “Conservative art” inevitably turn out to be cringe-inducing pabulum or hamfisted kitsch? Spencer Klavan, son of best selling author Andrew Klavan, takes a crack at the answer and suggests some solutions. Related: Conservative Creatives That audience sector has a name, and its name is Boomers. Related: Conservative NPCs There it is: Patronage.

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Original Net Animation: The Future of Anime?

Today’s post is a guest essay by author JD Cowan: Anime in the ’90s was being squeezed out during Japan’s economic bubble popping, but it was still being produced in the highest quality possible. Despite the downturn, anime was still growing domestically and abroad. And it was still aiming high. Where the damage was done was the ’00s. It wasn’t just the switch over to digipaint…

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Anime Ground Zero and The End of Gainax

Despite the overwhelming evidence collected on this blog that anime, like all forms of pop culture entertainment, suffered a fatal blow in the late 1990s, some still cling to that dead art form, hoping for a miracle. Well, if a miracle were to resurrect the Japanese animation industry, the logical place to start would be Gainax, the legendary studio behind cultural touchstones like Neon Genesis…

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The Metaverse Biopanopticon

If you were anywhere online two years back, it was impossible to avoid the revived hype surrounding virtual reality, particularly Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse. Like self-driving cars, AI, and solar-powered homes, you can throw VR on the pile of futuristic technologies that eggheads have been swearing since the 1980s were “just 20 years off.” The tech oligarchs seem to have gotten a bee in their…

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Get The Other Fellow on Kickstarter!

Newpub author William Hastings is bringing you a visceral spy thriller in the best tradition of Ian Fleming. And you can get The Other Fellow on Kickstarter! I edited this gripping espionage epic, so I can vouch for it. If you love tales of interntional intrigue, mistaken identity, and romance under fire, don’t miss out. Back The Other Fellow now!

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Adobe’s New TOS Makes You the Product?

As the state of technology gets worse and worse, observations by two dissident influencers become more and more relevant. The first is the Z Man, proprietor of the Z Blog, who has pointed out that if you don’t know what a tech company’s product is, then you are the product. Dovetailing with that remark, black pilled video blogger Devon Stack recently riffed on Steve Jobs…

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Eucharistic Pilgrimage Taking the West by Storm

Christians in the West must be doing something right. Or God has decided, in His infinite mercy, to give us a break. Because it seems like each new day brings fresh signs of renewal in the Church. Case in point: the Eucharistic pilgrimage taking the West by storm. Related: Eucharistic Revival That’s not even the largest crowd drawn by a Eucharistic procession in America.

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Remembering the Movie Theater

The movie theater I once worked at years ago closed for good recently. To anticipate longtime readers’ follow up question, yes. It was the location notorious for high strangeness that’s been featured on this blog before. But whether or not it really harbored ghosts, that defunct theater has joined other once-prominent institutions like the arcade and the mall among the specters of America’s…

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Pope Francis Is on a Roll

Despite having taken flak from certain vocal quarters of conservative and traditionalist Catholicism over the past decade, Pope Francis is on a roll when it comes to breaking Death Cult taboos. Following widely circulated stories of the Holy Father reaffirming Church laws banning homosexuals and women from the priesthood, recent reports have Francis warning priests against gossip as a vice…

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