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The Engines Of Creation

So there is this thing going on around twitter that says that what is sinking Disney is not wokness, it’s bad story telling.

Of course, my immediate reaction was:

But yeah. Indeed, it’s the storytelling. Or it’s mostly the storytelling.

Look, partly it’s that they used to have much better story telling skills, which means that we’d swallow more.

As some of you know, I’ve been re-reading a series, which I just realized must have been published in the eighties. I read other stuf...

The Plausible Decoy

This was going to be a completely different post. I’ve been reading about the culture war and how the preponderance of bad movies, books, comics, etc. etc. etc. is due to bad story telling, not wokeness.

This is not wrong, because we used to swallow a lot more preaching when the story was better. It’s just that I think both the preaching has got thicker and the story telling worse.

Let that idea rest. I’ll do it tomorrow. But as I was planning the post, while painting the new portion o...

Absolute Inalienable Rights

I put up a fun meme on twitter and facebook. Well, fun in so far as it’s also horrifying, considering the google searches portrayed. It was this:

This ah…. bronzing up of the concept of censorship, btw, is part of the push of the industrial-idea-complex topped by the international oligarchs of the WEF. Their latest shitfest love in symposium was all about how the speech of the peasants and the information the peasants (everyone but them, of course are peasants) should be censored. T...

This in fact is not a post

The posts are actually in the porch Sarah is building, with proper assistance, which she missunderestimated how long would take. Therefore, no posts for you for now, unless you install them yourself in the comments. See you later! (I expect all y’all have at least a dozen post memes.)

The Engineer And His Apprentice

I’m not going to tell me there will not be a post. I know your ways and am wise to your rebukes. You will tell me this is a post.

Instead I’m going to tell you why the post is this late.

Yes, there was another death in close friends, which I learned of in a phone call from mom. I have talked about it in a post on Sarah’s Diner on facebook, so some people would know I’d be unusually weird for a little while, but I’m not ready to discuss it in public.

Instead I’m going to talk about t...

FOLLOW THE LAUGHING MEME ROAD

There’s been entirely too much death this year already

PARDON ME FOR PINNING THIS. Today’s post is below. You guys wanted me to do a fundraiser again in December. I didn’t, partly because I spaced it. But consider this my fundraiser, and if you can, donate to these people who right now need it more than I.

THE DAY’S POST IS BELOW THIS.

We have two Emergencies going and one “I’ll do in all our names, okay?”

I really could use this another month, considering that right now we’re up to 10k for the main water pipe and 2k for Valeria, treating h...

The Tuna Equation

Jacques hands were trembling, as he reached for the can of tuna. His French accent was back full strength though he’d lost most of it over the eight months of living in the Schrodinger experimental interstellar colony in Alpha Centauri with all Americans and British colonists.

“Eh bien,” he said. “This is our last can of tuna. If this doesn’t work…”

Mike, aka Michaela Smith, who was American, redheaded and a full head taller than him but had kind feelings for the lone Frenchman put he...

With Open Eyes

Remember when it was given that no conservatives worked in the arts? Remember when it was a given that conservatives were uneducated and conformist? Remember when it was a given conservatives were just dumb? Remember when it was a given that conservatives were CONSERVATIVE instead of utter and complete rebels defying the status quo.

You probably still know a lot of people that think that way. Pat them on the head. They’re either old or so conformist that they’ve never examined their assum...