Compromise and Conceit

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An Australian statistician and role-player living in Japan, interested in the theory and practice of role-playing…

Category: Horror

  • What Kind of Vampire is Donald Trump?

    Today I read transcripts of Donald Trump’s post-midterms press conference, and I stumbled upon this fascinating quote: And Barbara Comstock was another I think that she could’ve won that race, but she did not want to have an embrace. For that, I do not blame her. But she lost substantially lost. Peter Roskam did not…

  • Neolithic England Adventure

    So watch the old world melt away A loss regrets could never mend You never miss it till it’s gone So say goodbye, say goodbye We’ll tell our children’s children why We grew so tall and reached so high You never miss it till it’s gone So say goodbye, say goodbye To seasons end It…

  • But unlike black women, centaurs do not exist: Revisiting the Tuvel Transracialism Controversy After a Year

    The New York Times reports on a sexual harassment scandal at New York University, with a bizarre twist: a lesbian feminist philosopher, Avitall Ronell, has been found guilty of sexual and physical harassment of a gay postgraduate student. As is typical of these cases, the graduate student waited until he got his PhD and a…

  • The Foundation for a Smoke Free World: Big Tobacco’s Latest Sleazy Trick

    In September 2017 Philip Morris International (PMI) – one of the world’s largest cigarette companies – introduced a new foundation to the world: The Foundation for a Smoke Free World. This foundation will receive $80 million per year from PMI for the next 12 years and devote this money to researching “smoking cessation, smoking harm…

  • Mutant Interlude: Visions of the Apocalypse

    And she will come from India with a love in her eyes That say oh how my dark star will rise In rented gear two thousand years we waited for a man But with a whispered plea she’d die for us all tonight. And she will come from India with a gun at her side,…

  • Mutant Session 6: Dark Castles

    Oh when there’s no future How can there be sin We’re the flowers In the dustbin We’re the poison In your human machine We’re the future Your future God save the queen We mean it man There’s no future No future No future No future for you   The Ark’s heroes have returned from pacifying…

  • Mutant Session 4: A Diamond in the Rough

    I screamed aloud to the old man I said don’t lie don’t say you don’t know I say you’ll pay for your mischief In this world or the next Oh and then he fixed me with a freezing glance And the hell fires raged in his eyes He said do you want to know the…

  • Dunkirk: Survival Horror in Limnal Spaces

    Dunkirk is not a war movie. It’s a movie about staying alive in the places between the world, a kinder of Stranger Things set in the strange space between France and England. This is why there are a million reviews comparing it to Brexit (or saying it has nothing to do with Brexit). Of course…

  • Mutant Session 3: A Bridge Too Far

    I wonder if my rope’s still hanging from the tree By the standing pool where you drank me And filled me full of thirsty love And the memory of water? I wonder if a king still fishes there His back towards the burned-out air His laughing catches singing loud The memory of water   Our…

  • Mutant Session 2: Radio Ga Ga

    And when I see a shooting star go flashing in the night, I often wonder if some other beings also see the light, And are they picking up our signals, As they spin off into space, Until the final act is over, Until every man has spoken, Until every summer’s gone, Until every battle’s done,…