Chad Eagleton's Blog, page 11
September 7, 2017
Le Secret Du Roi
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
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...
September 4, 2017
Jeff Bridges & Buddhism
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."
September 1, 2017
Political Post: More Fighting Fascists & Group 43
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.
August 30, 2017
August 28, 2017
August 25, 2017
Political Post: Fighting Fascists
However you may feel about it, answering the call of fascists with your fists is nothing new. Here are Londoners responding to notorious British fascist Oswald Mosley in 1962:
August 21, 2017
Death Wish? Ugh...
The trailer for Eli Roth’s new Death Wish remake with Bruce Willis looks awful. no wonder it's being labelled as racist and an alt-right-violence fantasy.
Someday it would sure be nice to see a close adaptation of Brian Garfield’s slow-burn novel about how a terrible but random trauma buries an average man under a mountain of grief and rage until he feels like he has no choice but construct an alternate morality that’s contrary to everything he's ever believed in simply to cope. The bulk of th...
August 18, 2017
Random Thoughts, Post-Charlottesville
Thoughts following Charlottesville:
Free speech—your right to free speech is about what the government can and can’t do to inhibit your speech. It has zero to do with your job, your friends, someone else’s Facebook page, or even your community getting together and saying you’re a dickbag and should just go away. And it does not now, nor has it ever protected you from consequences like getting arrested, getting sued, getting fired, getting unfriended, or getting punched in the face.
Quick to jud...
Random Thoughts, Post-Charlottesvill
Thoughts following Charlottesville:
Free speech—your right to free speech is about what the government can and can’t do to inhibit your speech. It has zero to do with your job, your friends, someone else’s Facebook page, or even your community getting together and saying you’re a dickbag and should just go away. And it does not now, nor has it ever protected you from consequences like getting arrested, getting sued, getting fired, getting unfriended, or getting punched in the face.
Quick to jud...
