~ Book Reviews ~
MAR/12/25
‘Wigs To Harlots’ Conspiracy Against Mankind #8: The Babylonian Woe By David Astle, 1975, Pages 111-126
MAR/10/25
‘Resident Aliens’ Conspiracy Against Mankind #7: The Babylonian Woe By David Astle, 1975, Pages 102-110
MAR/07/25
‘Shaking-Off-Of-Burdens’ [0] Conspiracy Against Mankind #6: The Babylonian Woe By David Astle, 1975, Pages 94-102
MAR/05/25
‘To Bring Achilles Back’ Conspiracy Against Mankind #5: The Babylonian Woe By David Astle, 1975, Pages 83-93
MAR/03/25
‘Silver Or Slaves’ Conspiracy Against Mankind #4: The Babylonian Woe By David Astle, 1975, Pages 63-82
JAN/20/25
‘The Encrypted Syndicate’ Pill City By Kevin Deutsch, 2017, St. Martin’s Press, NY, 266 Pages
JAN/03/25
‘Your Stuff—Where Do I Start?’ #3: Vax Zombie DeDaulle Seeks A Reading List: Baltimore 9/13/24
DEC/23/24
Against The World Of Tradition Part 3: Impressions Of Strauss & Howe’s The Fourth Turning Concept: Utah 8/21/24
DEC/20/24
‘The Coming Saecular Winter’ Part 2: Impressions Of Strauss & Howe’s The Fourth Turning Concept: Utah 8/21/24
DEC/18/24
Mapping The Veil Part 1: Impressions Of The Fourth Turning By William Strauss And Neil Howe: Utah, 8/20/24
OCT/18/24
‘What Books Influenced You?’ #3 Mister Grey Asks About Crackpot Influences: 4/24/24, Baltimore
OCT/16/24
‘What Books Influenced You?’ #2 Mister Grey Asks About Crackpot Influences: 4/24/24, Baltimore
OCT/14/24
‘What Books Influenced You?’ #1 Mister Grey Asks About Crackpot Influences: 4/24/24, Baltimore
SEP/25/24
‘The Accident Of Standpoint’ Chapter 3: The Problem Of World History: The Decline Of The West By Oswald Spengler
SEP/20/24
‘This World Fear’ Chapter 2: The Meaning Of Numbers: The Decline Of The West By Oswald Spengler
AUG/02/24
‘A Sinking World’ Chapters 26-27: Of Edward Gibbon’s The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
JUL/31/24
‘This Dark Transaction’ Chapter 25: Of Edward Gibbon’s The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
JUL/29/24
‘Not Immune From The Contagion Of The Age’ Chapters 22-24: Of Edward Gibbon’s The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
JUL/26/24
‘The Consecrated Mask Of Zeal’ Chapters 18-21 Of Edward Gibbon’s The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
JUL/24/24
‘The Mortal Wound’ Chapter 17-21 Of Edward Gibbon’s The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
JUL/02/24
‘The Crown Of Martyrdom’ Chapter 16 Of Edward Gibbon’s The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
JUN/19/24
‘In Such Wilde Partes’ 1: These Detestable Slaves Of The Devill: A Concise Guide To Witchcraft In Colonial Virginia, By Carson O. Hudson Jr.
JUN/03/24
‘The Open Door’ #2 Impressions Of Tecumseh: Shooting Star, Crouching Panther By Jim Poling Sr., 2009, 184 Pages
MAY/31/24
‘His Eyes’ #1 Impressions Of Tecumseh: Shooting Star, Crouching Panther By Jim Poling Sr., 2009, Pages 1-96
APR/19/24
‘The Empty Places In Their Hearts’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 15
MAR/11/24
‘Sure And Dexterous Hand Of The Founder’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 13-14
FEB/04/24
Jason's Book The Master Of The Esoteric Cafe Has Translated A German Language Infoteric Classic
DEC/14/23
‘Masters Of The World’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 12
DEC/13/23
‘Rival Of The Scythians’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 11.5
DEC/12/23
‘Twenty Pieces Of Gold’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 11
DEC/11/23
‘Rage Of The Barbarians’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 10
OCT/24/23
‘Shemanese’ #3 Blue Jacket: War Chief Of The Shawnees By Allen W. Eckert: Reviewed In Portland, 3/10/2023
OCT/23/23
‘Shemanese’ #2 Blue Jacket: War Chief Of The Shawnees By Allen W. Eckert: Reviewed In Portland, 3/9/2023
OCT/20/23
‘Shemanese’ #1 Blue Jacket: War Chief Of The Shawnees By Allen W. Eckert: Reviewed In Portland, 3/9/2023
OCT/18/23
‘The Pain Of Thinking’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 9
SEP/06/23
'The Invariable Rule Of Their Conduct’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 8
SEP/05/23
‘The Fairest Scope For Ridicule’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 7
SEP/04/23
‘The Keen Eye Of Discontent’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 6
SEP/01/23
‘The Powers Of The Machine’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 5
AUG/31/23
‘Artificial Powers Of The State’ The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 4
DEC/04/22
‘I’ll See You Dead First’ Second Seminole War 1835-42, Seminole Warrior Versus U S Soldier By Ron Field
MAY/18/22
'The Dark And Profound Abyss' The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 2
MAY/17/22
Example And Precept The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire By Edward Gibbon: Summation 1
MAY/11/22
‘Switching From Jefferson To Marx’ Dark Agenda: The War To Destroy Christian America By David Horowitz, 2018
MAY/10/22
‘Man’s Eternal Relationship With Combat’ King Of All Things: A Guide To Man’s Martial Purpose, By Clark Savage: 2/10/22
MAR/03/22
The Hero, The Fool And The Distant One Part 2: Arуan Reflections In The Secular And The Sacred In The Epic Of Gilgamesh: 12/6/21
MAR/02/22
The Heroes Journeyed Part 1: Arуan Reflections In The Secular And The Sacred In The Epic Of Gilgamesh: 12/6/21
FEB/28/22
‘AllFather?’ Reflections Of Zeus, Jove, Odin, Thor, Loki Upon Past And Future War: 11/24/21
SEP/07/21
'A Community Of The Blood' Impressions Of Martial And Political Cohesion From Thucydides, Homer, Sophocles And Aechlyus
SEP/01/21
Considering Joseph Campbell Rusty And The Crackpot Are Slated To Discuss Our Most Syncretic Mythologist
JUL/30/21
Musings On Muggings The First In A Series Off Brief Videos Concerning Brian Jewell's Memoir Of Life As Pallid Prey
FEB/20/21
‘Ogres Of That Coast’ Black-Walled Khemi: Chapter 16 Of Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
FEB/06/21
'A Dingy Ill-Famed Den' The Black Hand Of Set: Chapter 14 Of Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
FEB/05/21
‘A Share Of Divinity’ Book II: Nature Of Germanic Art, Chapter 1. Racial Aesthetics By Alfred Rosenberg #4
JAN/27/21
Myth Of The 20th Century Nick Mason, Hans Lander, Adam Smith And James Discuss A Book That Got The Author Killed
JAN/22/21
‘The Box Of Zarothus’ The Fang Of The Dragon: Chapter 12 Of Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
JAN/11/21
'The Marks We Leave' Alarmingly Plausible: Lynn Lockhart Reviews King Of Dogs By Andrew Edwards
JAN/11/21
Blue Eyed Daughter Of Zeus A Counterculture Exposition Of An Unforgiven Book Paperback, January 11, 2021
DEC/23/20
‘A Kind Of Externalized Conscience’ Psychic Dictatorship In The U. S. A. By Alex Constantine, Feral House, 1995, 221 Pages
DEC/15/20
‘Why The King James Version?’ A Church Lady Asks Why The Crackpot Eschews The Latest Greatest Translations Of The World’s Most Read Book
DEC/08/20
A Handbook For Life Without A Rulebook
NOV/05/20
‘Crushed Underfoot’ The Warwolf: A Peasant Chronicle Of The Thirty Years War By Hermann Lons
OCT/27/20
‘The Job Of Killing’ Psychology For The Fighting Man, Committee Of The National Research Council
SEP/14/20
After Chronological Conan “I Finished The Lancer Conan Series, What Should I Read Next?” Plutonious Nimbus Wants To Know
SEP/11/20
‘From Within An Abyss Of Despair’ John Howard And The Fall Of The Champ, And The Sword Came Down By Samuel Finlay
JUL/17/20
‘A Lone Wolf’ Kill Them All: A Review Of Chapter 1 Of Licensed To Kill By Robert Young Pelton
JUL/08/20
‘Old Dick’ The Boarding Of The Loch Err And The Political Sanctity Of Sailor Enslavement In Post-Plantation America
MAY/27/20
‘Occluded From Our Understanding’ Conspiracy, Compliance, Control, And Defiance By Andy Nowicki
FEB/04/20
‘Boot And Shoot’ A Parting Look At Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup Of America By Thomas W. Chittum
JAN/19/20
Fort Parker Impressions Of A Lethal Paradise, From Empire Of The Summer Moon By S. C. Gwynne
JAN/15/20
Over The Eyes Of Men Crackpot Mailbox: Carlos And James Discuss The Iliad, Reading And A Life Of Action
JAN/12/20
‘To Some Third And Other Destiny’ Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness In The West By Cormac McCarthy
JAN/08/20
Physics: ‘Pale And Unwashed’ Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness In The West By Cormac McCarthy
DEC/25/19
'Combat, Baltimore And Women' Brian Jewell Reviews Various Cuneiform Tablets From The Dark Heart Of Maryland
DEC/22/19
On Book Reviews Outtakes From A Conversation With Brian Jewell And Tips For Building Your Own Readership By Posting
NOV/21/19
‘His Night Side’ The Teachers: Part 1 Of Eumeswil By Ernst Junger, Translated By Joachim Neugroschel
NOV/20/19
‘The Hand That Wields Me’ Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison Of Belief By Lawrence Wright
OCT/31/19
‘Over Deep Time’ The Swordfish Hunters: The History And Ecology Of An Ancient American Sea People By Bruce Bourque
OCT/11/19
‘In This Lonely Cell’ A Summation Of The LIFE, TRIAL, CONFESSION AND EXECUTION Of ALBERT W. HICKS
OCT/06/19
'Across The Rim Of Death And Decades' Crackpot Mailbox: A Dialogue With Poet Nathaniel Lucas
SEP/15/19
'The Iron Harp' James LaFond's Impression Of Dark Valley Destiny: The Life Of Robert E. Howard By De Camp, De Camp & Griffin
SEP/01/19
‘Progress And The Eternally Trapped Mind’ FOR MY PEOPLE And Other Poems By Nathaniel Lucas, 75 Pages
AUG/13/19
‘A Thousand Years And More Ago’ A Translation From The Chinese By Arthur Waley, 1919, Knopf, NY, 325 Pages
JUL/25/19
‘Silence Drank The Voices’ James LaFond's Impressions Of From What Hell Have You Crawled, Chapter 4 Of Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
JUL/18/19
‘Under A Troubled Master-Eye’ An Exegesis Of Ahab And The Whale: Or A Reading Of Moby Dick By Herman Melville
JUN/09/19
‘Concrete Killing Fields’ Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup Of America By Thomas W. Chittum
JUN/09/19
‘Soldier’s Heart’ Battle Fatigue - Did It Affect Soldiers In The Ancient World? By Lindy Beige
MAY/28/19
Preparing For Hell On Earth By Doctor X: A Review Of Letters From The Fall; Civilization Decomposes
MAY/17/19
‘A Dark Mist’ Soldiers & Ghosts By J. E. Lendon A History Of Battle In Classical Antiquity
MAY/03/19
‘Mighty Is The Proud One’ Impressions Of Chapter 21 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer Reading From Pages 130-135 Of Shadow & Claw
APR/23/19
‘Not A Single Christian Hand’ Jasper Dankaert’s Journal Or Plantation Maryland, December 1779, Pages 114-137
APR/12/19
‘Human Applesauce’ McNamara’s Folly: The Use Of Low-IQ Troops In The Vietnam War By Hamilton Gregory
APR/09/19
Misleading Reading Dear Mister President: John Quincy Adams: Letters From A Southern Planter’s Son By Steven Kroll
APR/06/19
‘A Far Broader Domain Of Existence’ Physics Reforged: The New Theory Of Parallel Universes, Hidden Dimensions, And The Fringes Of Reality By Julian Von Abele
APR/01/19
‘Of Snakes And White Folks’ Carnival Of Fury: Robert Charles And The New Orleans Race Riot Of 1900 By William Ivy Hair
MAR/12/19
‘These Black Snakes’ Pennsylvania Servitude In Light Of Peter Kalm’s Travels In North America, 407 Pages
MAR/07/19
‘Dog-Brothers’ James LaFond's Impressions Of The Cliffs Reel, Chapter 3, Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
FEB/27/19
'Death Stalked Grinning' James LaFond's Impressions Of A Black Wind Blows, Chapter 2, Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
FEB/20/19
‘This Warrior Of A Dead World’ Impressions Of Chapter 5 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
FEB/13/19
‘I Am To Some Degree Insane’ Impressions Of Chapter 3 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
FEB/11/19
‘The Faithless Door… Eternally Ajar’ Impressions Of Chapter 2 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
FEB/09/19
‘The Open Gates Of Hell’ Oh Sleeper Awake: James LaFond's Impressions Of Chapter 1 Of Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
FEB/09/19
‘In The Recesses Of My Mind’ Impressions Of Chapter 1 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
FEB/06/19
‘Before The Rising Sun’ The Shadow Of The Torturer: Part 1: Impressions Of The Book Of The New Sun By Gene Wolfe
JAN/16/19
‘Of Fear And Night’ James LaFond's Impressions Of The Hour Of The Dragon By Robert E. Howard
JAN/03/19
‘A Hungering For Great Things’ A History Of Strategy: From Sun Tzu To William S. Lind By Martin Van Creveld
JAN/03/19
‘The Wide And Easy Way To Hell’ SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating The Thought Police, Vox Day
JAN/03/19
‘Those Wonderfully Hard Things’ Be Like Water: Martial Words, Martial Wisdom By David Brian Lumsden
DEC/16/18
‘The Sissy-Fication Process’ The Modern Survival Manuel: Surviving The Economic Collapse By Fernando ‘Ferral’ Aquirre
DEC/07/18
'To Ease Various Evil Men Of Their Lives' James LaFond's Impressions Of The Blue Flame Of Vengeance By Robert E. Howard
NOV/29/18
‘Playing God’ Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water By Marc Reisner
OCT/26/18
‘A Landless Man’ A Writer’s View Of The Trajectory Of Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane By James LaFond
SEP/12/18
'Kindred To My Soul' James LaFond's Impressions Of This Is A Young World & The Ages Stride On Golden Feet By Robert E. Howard
AUG/11/18
At The End Of Arуan Time Sam Finlay And James Discuss A 1970s Update On The Classic Caucasian Hero
AUG/10/18
‘Hugging’ Wejumpka By Rick Bass From In These Loyal Mountains, Pages 77-86, Mariner Books, NY, 1995
AUG/03/18
A Victory Of Essence Over Mechanics The Internally Triumphant Conclusion Of The Worm Ouroboros, Chapters 26-33
JUL/21/18
‘Mrs. Grimes’ Slaves On Horse Back, From The Adventures Of The Negro Cowboys By Phillip Durham And Everett L. Jones
JUL/14/18
‘To Turne The Penie’ White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward The Negro 1550-1812 By Winthrop D. Jordan
JUL/09/18
‘Fishing With A Golden Hook’ The Babylonian Woe By David Astle, Impressions Of The Self-Published 1975 Book
JUL/02/18
‘To Build The Boldest Bridges’ James LaFond's Impressions Of The Forest Passage By Ernst Junger: Pages 67-97
JUL/02/18
‘The Zero Meridian’ James LaFond's Impressions Of The Forest Passage By Ernst Junger: Pages 31-67
MAY/03/18
‘Hijacking The Image Of Their People’ The Un-Civil War: Blacks Vs Niցցers By Taleeb Starkes
MAR/31/18
‘But Beautious Be’ The Lady Sirva’s Embassage, Chapter 16 Of The Worm Ouroboros By E. R. Eddison
MAR/24/18
‘The White Stranger’ Robert E. Howard - Conan - The Vale Of Lost Women Review By James LaFond
MAR/02/18
‘Ye Scum Of The Country’ Introduction To Samuel Wiseman’s Book Of Record By Michael Leroy Osberg
FEB/14/18
‘The Advantage Of His Civilized Mind’ Robert E. Howard - Conan - The God In The Bowl, An Impression By James LaFond
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In June 2018 James LaFond, an urban blight journalist from Baltimore, Maryland, was driven from his hometown by savage tribesmen. With a writing income of $230 per month, he was sustained by readers across the nation. The journals in this collection were written during that period.
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