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Tyson Vs. Paul Youtuber Is The Future Of Football

So, it finally happened. The high-price-tag, cheap-content spectacle game of professional boxing cranked out its biggest dancing bear circus act to date. Mike Tyson lumbered out of retirement to patronize a rich boy bankrolling his own make-believe sports career. And why not? The same combat sports enthusiasts who used whine about Mayweather contemptuously putting upContinue reading “Tyson Vs. Paul Youtuber Is The Future Of Football”

Weird Jitterings in the AI Wasteland

FROM THE DESK OF RHL AI web scraping kicks up strange results for artists online, no matter how obscure. I’m no exception– so much so that it feels necessary to make a public service announcement of sorts. Despite being almost allergic to any personal online presence, I’ve received some emails in the past year fromContinue reading “Weird Jitterings in the AI Wasteland”

Please Watch Anything Other Than Megalopolis

You remember Branded? Probably not. It felt like more of a hallucination than a movie. It was a 2012 release featuring Max Von Sydow, and played like a Eurojank fusion of Paprika and They Live. Perfectly mental. It was a tentpole event for connoisseurs of misguided magical misfires, a raving screed of Russian eccentrism strewnContinue reading “Please Watch Anything Other Than Megalopolis”

Social Mythmaking Stops People From Understanding Art

Came across an interesting study here– not because it’s useful in any way, but due to its connection with some pretty common Western-world fallacies about ‘creative thinking’. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-94704-001 In an oblique way, it brings to mind the groan-inducing “A.I.” fad of the last few years. While the rapid advancement of chatbot technology is intellectually exciting,Continue reading “Social Mythmaking Stops People From Understanding Art”

No, Prometheus isn’t ‘Crucial’.

https://www.slashfilm.com/1644193/prometheus-crucial-to-ridley-scott-alien-franchise Oh, they always come back.  Another year, another would-be contrarian defending a dully normal movie like Prometheus, Transformers, or a Star Wars prequel or something. That’s understandable to a point. Those movies were expensive, fun, and stupid– you know, enjoyable. People enjoy talking about what they enjoy. This would be fine were it not.. Continue reading “No, Prometheus isn’t ‘Crucial’.”

And The Digitizing Continues

Well, our old workhorse is finally up in digital and print formats via amazon! And no longer under a pseudonym.Wow! And to think it only took a thousand years. In Warm Shallow Waters will be available in hardcover within the next couple of days, included in The Outer Freakwave Collection series. We’d prefer using anotherContinue reading “And The Digitizing Continues”

Building The Outlaw Timberlands

https://mobile.twitter.com/icicleteeth “Dimnonqua is a dirty place. What kind of dirty? Any definition that comes to mind is true, but none of them are said as an insult. Yes, it is dirty– in the way a scrapped-up and destroyed husk of a car is dirty… yet fascinating. It has character, a story to it. The bedrockContinue reading “Building The Outlaw Timberlands”

CyberLovecraft Fever Dream

Heya, folks! Do you like identities melting under the strain of waging endless war against repugnant horrors from beyond time and space, on behalf of dread unknown technomasters from which the only escape is your own ancient ancestral memories of sacrificial violence? Who doesn’t?! Introducing the inaugural book to launch our Amazon store, Transgalactic Thunderhead.Continue reading “CyberLovecraft Fever Dream”