Ironically I was walking through a cemetery a few weeks ago when I looked at my phone and saw Greg Johnson’s piece about Jim Goad’s death. The Redneck Manifesto still ranks as one of my favorite books, somewhere in my personal canon alongside Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire. Abbey actually appears in The Redneck Manifesto’s bibliography. I won’t do a full rundown of Jim’s influence…
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ШԐЄҠԐИD LЇЙԞS: Waiting for the Barbarians, Strange Gods, Death Masks
COUNTER-CURRENTS: “[Robert E. Lee]’s bronze head was ripped from his body, his face was peeled from his head in the form of a death mask, and then it was super-heated to the point where it glowed…” HOW TO MAKE ART in NORTH KOREA: “[Laibach] are very, very unashamedly flirting with totalitarian aesthetics and the philosopher…
Q&A with @L0m3z: Wages of Fear, the Rejection of Falseness, and Navigating Hell
I first came across the @L0m3z Twitter account circa 2016 or 2017 and I was struck by how the things this person wrote in 140 characters were not simply tweets — they were great pieces of standalone writing. Fast forward to the current year and @L0m3z is one of the kings of anonymous Twitter. He…