Jeremy Maddux > Recent Status Updates

'4Chan is one of the last bastions of freedom. People of all types go there to talk freely about things they can't talk about anywhere else in their lives. While the United States technically has free speech, social pressure keeps people from voicing unpopular views. The United States no longer has trial by law. It's trial by media.'

“Trust me,” he said, “you haven’t heard of William Gay but that’s about to change when his first novel comes out in November. And you do want to have one of these chapbooks.”

Contrary to self delusion of writers, no one cares about chapbooks. They will always choose full length works over chapbooks if forced to choose. Chapbooking isn't an art unique to itself.

'Sokal's original plan was to wait two or three months after the publication of his article and then reveal that it was a hoax. But well over a year had passed since the submission of the article...'

Aww, that must suck for the 'facts, bro' types who think modern science isn't as bankrupt as modern journalism.

'That might be why movies had the lowest attendance in twenty years in 2017;3 if the public wants to be preached to, they’ll go to church, not the theater.'

Well said. Fuck movies, is what I say. Hollywood is dying, and I legitimately believe that.

'Hollywood excels at presenting the rare as the norm in the name of a liberal agenda. The percentage of transgender characters on TV, for example, exceeds any reasonable estimate of the percentage in the population at large by a factor of at least ten.'

'What once was left of center is now “Mao was a corporate sellout” crazy, and proudly so. Journalists are a few years away from wearing all-black Antifa uniforms and covering the Democratic National Convention as delegates.'

Can this man get an amen?

'But unlike real heroes, whose lives were on the line when they stood up to tyranny under that name, these “fighters” were facing off with shadows cast by their own imaginations. And it worked. Angry thousands took to the streets, demanding action, or inaction, or something. Their demands weren’t particularly clear, but they were serious, damn it, because they were under assault, or something.'

'But the next day, again in the name of justice, they broke out their crocheted “pussy hats” and chanted dried-up slogans in the Women’s March because, apparently, Trump had a secret plan to ban women, or something. Who knew that the only thing denying the masses justice was the lack of burning limos and some yarn?'

'On inauguration day for President Donald Trump, the professional demonstrator class took to the streets of the nation’s capital to express their deeply held belief that smashing store windows and burning cars was the best way to advance the cause of justice. Justice for what was never explained.'

He has a master’s degree in economics from Cornell. I have one in Russian literature from UConn. His degree produces tangible assets, while mine… Well, there’s really nothing you can do with a degree in Russian literature except bore the shit out of people at dinner.

'Sure, a man’s home is his castle, but if he shares it with a woman, he knows his rule is limited.'

This Israel/Palestine situation is really complicated. Everything that is decent and moral in me tells me that Israel should hand Palestine back to these wronged people on a golden platter. On the other hand, Israel keeps all the other countries in the Middle East in check and takes the battle to the radicals.

'This book is not a biography and there is a lot I will purposely leave out of my story, but it is important to understand why I come to the conclusions that I do about fighting and training. When I am writing, talking or teaching about self-defense, I know with confidence that I am firmly planted in my lane, having spent 25 years living and participating in the violent criminal underworld.'

"The Zionists say, in effect, 'Look here, God. We do not like exile. Take us back, and ifyou don't, we'll just roll up our sleeves and take ourselves back.' 'The Rabbi continues: 'This, ofcourse, is heresy. The Jewish people are charged by Divine oath not to force themselves back tothe Holy Land against the wishes of those residing there.'"

"There is nothing quite like the misery one feels listening to a 35-year-old [Palestinian] man whoworked fifteen years as an illegal day laborer in Israel in order to save up money to build a housefor his family only to be shocked one day upon returning from work to find that the house and allthat was in it had been flattened by an Israeli bulldozer."

Shit, who wouldn't be an anti-Semite after that?

Civilians caught inan area of military activity generally panic. But they have always been able to return to theirhomes when the danger subsides. Military conquest does not abolish private rights to property; 10 nor does it entitle the victor to confiscate the homes, property and personal belongings of thenoncombatant civilian population. The seizure of Arab property by the Israelis was an outrage. Sami Hadawi

The front cover says 'cosmic horror' but Old Man Lovecraft never wrote gorgeous passages like this: "Misery is a condition that we are all promised. On the screen, painted in light, that misery is very small. Little witches! Next time, we will go see wrestlers fighting vampires and maybe you’ll understand."

'Quam alibi, ex solis luce refulgens. Caro referta regia mundi et villae multa cubicula iure pretium, pretium clarissimae licet adhuc in atriis gallerys paris  .  .  . there are other worlds than these, and with the right payment, one can move through the universe’s rooms and halls. The pretium is dear.'

In the same way that J.F. Dubeau's God in the Shed thrilled me with its atmosphere and mood last year, this one is shaping up to make an even stronger impression in that regard. This book gave me the most awesome nightmares last night that I am still trying to process. I love the backstory of the character who identifies as 'The Eye' and his poetic histrionics.

'I wanted the translation to illuminate and expand upon the illustrations that sometimes felt like macabre cyphers. There was a man on a field with thirty coins and men with faceslike wolves around a corpse where a crowned man wielding a sword climbed out of the body cavity. There was the figure of a man with his hand chopped off, and a great serpent made from a great conglomeration of human body parts.'

'Either way, both the US government and the mob pulled off this well-planned maneuver and put both Elvis Presley, and more importantly, Tom Parker in their debt for years to come.   For many reasons, drafting Elvis Presley worked for both the mob and the government, and the two definitely weren't strangers. Drafting Elvis to soothe society’s uproar worked so well it was repeated years later.'

'...the US government knew that sending Elvis a draft notice while he was under contract and in the midst of filming a movie would put him in an obvious breach of contract with Paramount Pictures. It was designed to happen that way because it would pinch Tom Parker into a desperate move: he'd run to the mob and ask for powerful favors to circumvent the problem.'