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Loss of Tradition and the Christmas Season
Christmas is one of my favorite times of year. Despite coming from a short line of godless folk, my family always made the most of…
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An Open Letter to Matt Leacock RE: Your Disgraceful Cartographic Blunder on the Fate of the Fellowship Board Game Map
Greetings from the blackest reaches of Ungoliant’s foetid etherwebs, it is I, Eugene Pendergrass, here again with a Middle-earth-sized missive aimed directly at you Matt…
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The Value of Value in Miniature Painting
Paint a couple hundred Warhammer miniatures, and you’ll start to have some opinions on how a miniature should be PROPERLY painted. For myself, I’ve dialed…
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Minor Key Music 94: Peer Rabin – So Much Tenderness
It is difficult to exactly pin down the style of today’s song. A melancholy ballad from Rainer Fassbinder’s 1970 disaffected “noir” The American Soldier, it…
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5 More Black Metal Cover Photo Cock Shots
In 2018 I did a post called “The Top 5 BEST Black Metal Cover Photo Cock Shots“–a tribute of sorts to a somewhat less rare…
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The Raw Black Metal case for The Beach Boys’ Shortnin’ Bread
I really don’t know much about The Beach Boys, beyond a general distaste for “oldies.” “Wouldn’t it Be Nice” seems like a fine song, but…
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My Favorite Movies 84 – Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant, 1947)
Westerns have been featured on My Favorite Movies™ many times, so today’s film making the cut despite being a fairly minor John Wayne western should…
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Minor Key Monday 93: Giorgio Moroder – I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
Despite my best efforts, I must admit that many of my musical tastes occasionally stray past the DISCO line in the sand that all metalheads…
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The Top 5 Features of Classic Male Movie Actors that Give the Ick
Classic films were a product of a different time. Different fashion, different hair styles, and different attitudes towards casual misogyny. So, when attempting to critique…
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The Masculine Urge to Die Hard
Certain motifs come up over and over again when one consumes a great deal of machismo drenched media. Whether it is an action movie, a…
