Did you know that when there’s gloom in the gloaming, that’s when doom goes a-roaming? I recently dug up five chapters of a planned, but mercifully uncompleted, fantasy novel I was writing in high school. It was hopelessly derivative (my ringwraiths were called, um, ringlords), but hey, I was fifteen or thereabouts.
Feast your eyes on the deathless literary milestone that is Druidstone Quest: The Sword of the Highlands! 😮
I bet newcomers to LewRockwell.com will be baffled as to why this piece (which excoriates Hollywood for its pro-communist propaganda, denounces left-wing thuggery, and soft-pedals right-wing thuggery) and this one (which excoriates Hollywood for its anti-communist propaganda, denounces right-wing thuggery, and soft-pedals left-wing thuggery) are both featured favourably on LRC today.
Well, you see, kiddies, once upon a time there was a man named Murray Rothbard ….
67 years ago today, the Japanese naval air force launched a bombing attack against Darwin. I guess Japan’s creationists are even more fervent than ours.
In Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? (part 1 out this week), when asked “Are you Death?” a shadowy female figure responds “I don’t think Death is a person.”
(For those who don’t get the irony: one of Gaiman’s most popular characters is a female personification of Death.)
Chocolate + orange is a popular candy flavour. So why isn’t it more popular as an ice cream flavour?
As long as we’re on the subject of vampires, a quiz: