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JAN/08/20 ‘A Declension Of Morality’ — Sade By Jonathan Bowden

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

DEC/19/19 ‘From A Frozen Sleep’ — A Dawn In Flanders By Robert E. Howard

DEC/16/19 'Super Position' — And Other Mythic Concepts With C8 And James

DEC/02/19 ‘Hesitation Is The Enemy’ — Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, By Jocko Willink

NOV/27/19 ‘A Warrior Be’ — Impressions Of Beowulf

NOV/26/19 ‘Flower Of Night’ — Scarlet And Gold Are The Stars Tonight By Robert E. Howard

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

NOV/20/19 ‘Of Auditory Rape’ — A Parting Impression Of Breakfast With The Dirt Cult By Samuel Finlay

OCT/31/19 ‘Over Deep Time’ — The Swordfish Hunters: The History And Ecology Of An Ancient American Sea People By Bruce Bourque

OCT/23/19 ‘The Burning Breath Of Azrael’ — The Shadow Of The Vulture By Robert E. Howard

OCT/16/19 ‘The Old Conductress’ — Candide Or The Optimist By Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

OCT/11/19 ‘Far From The Cradle Of Your Race’ — The House Of Arabu By Robert E. Howard

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/02/19 ‘From Kind Masters’ — The Perspective Of Henry “Box” Brown

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

AUG/13/19 ‘A Specific Paradigm’ — Exegesis Of Phillip K. Dick 4:16, Reading From Pages 16-18

AUG/07/19 ‘A Vast And Important Book’ — Exegesis Of Phillip K. Dick 4:13, Reading From Pages 14-16

JUL/26/19 ‘Destiny’s Exile’ — The Aeneid Of Virgil: Impressions Of A Migratory Epic

JUL/26/19 ‘The Sidereal World’ — Exegesis Of Phillip K. Dick 4:6, Reading From Pages 6-14

JUL/26/19 ‘With These Tongs We Are Held In The Forge’ — The Citadel Of The Autarch By Gene Wolfe

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/20/19 ‘Master Of The House Of Chains’ — The Sword Of The Lictor By Gene Wolfe

JUL/18/19 ‘In The Outside World’ — Impressions Of The Exegesis Of Phillip K. Dick: 4:1, Pages 3-6

JUL/18/19 ‘Under A Troubled Master-Eye’ — An Exegesis Of Ahab And The Whale: Or A Reading Of Moby Dick By Herman Melville

JUL/12/19 ‘Beyond The Shores Of Urth’ — The Claw Of The Conciliator By Gene Wolfe

JUL/08/19 ‘The Human Herd’ — Why Call Them Back From Heaven By Clifford Simak

JUN/15/19 ‘They Had Forgotten Her’ — You Can’t Win By Jack Black

JUN/13/19 ‘A Chorus Of The Winds’ — Damnation Alley By Roger Zelazny

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

JUN/09/19 ‘The Calculus Of His Under-Mind’ — Sleepwalker’s World By Gordon R. Dickenson

JUN/03/19 ‘This Holocaust Of Hate’ — Pirates Of Venus By Edgar Rice Burroughs

MAY/28/19 Preparing For Hell On Earth — By Doctor X: A Review Of Letters From The Fall; Civilization Decomposes

MAY/26/19 ‘The Plum From Mars’ — David Star, Space Ranger By Isaac Asimov

MAY/26/19 ‘To The Renascent Stars’ — Impressions Of Chapter 26 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer

MAY/23/19 ‘Winter In My Heart’ — The Door Into Summer By Robert A Heinlein

MAY/17/19 ‘A Dark Mist’ — Soldiers & Ghosts By J. E. Lendon A History Of Battle In Classical Antiquity

MAY/07/19 ‘Bloody, Stupid Things I’ve Done’ — Enemy Of The State By Tommy Robinson

MAY/06/19 ‘Corruption’ — Clinton Cash By Peter Schweizer

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/27/19 Reading On The Rails — Classic Science-Fiction And Fantasy Reviews

APR/27/19 ‘Lot’s Children’ — Wild Seed By Octavia E. Butler

APR/27/19 ‘The Path’ — Impressions Of Chapter 20 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer

APR/27/19 ‘All That Is Gone’ — Impressions Of Chapter 19 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer

APR/26/19 ‘In Ranks’ — A Reading Of The Miracle Of The Loaves And The Fishes From Mark And Mathew

APR/23/19 ‘Not A Single Christian Hand’ — Jasper Dankaert’s Journal Or Plantation Maryland, December 1779, Pages 114-137

APR/20/19 ‘Negroes And Servants’ — Jasper Dankeart’s Journal, October-November, 1679 Pages 65-114

APR/12/19 ‘Human Applesauce’ — McNamara’s Folly: The Use Of Low-IQ Troops In The Vietnam War By Hamilton Gregory

APR/12/19 ‘Dr. Talos’ — Impressions Of Chapter 16 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer

APR/09/19 Misleading Reading — Dear Mister President: John Quincy Adams: Letters From A Southern Planter’s Son By Steven Kroll

APR/09/19 ‘In The Cold Light Of Morning’ — Janissaries By Jerry Pournelle

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/02/19 Agememnon Was A Woman? — Crackpot Mailbox: Banjo And James Discuss The Iliad

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/23/19 ‘Our Poor Robyn’ — From The Journal Of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680, Pages 1-42

MAR/19/19 ‘The Fearful Song’ — Impressions Of Chapter 11 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer

MAR/12/19 ‘These Black Snakes’ — Pennsylvania Servitude In Light Of Peter Kalm’s Travels In North America, 407 Pages

MAR/09/19 ‘Clothed In Favor’ — Impressions Of Chapter 9 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer

MAR/07/19 ‘Dog-Brothers’ — James LaFond's Impressions Of The Cliffs Reel, Chapter 3, Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon

MAR/06/19 ‘Of The Living City’ — Impressions Of Chapter 8 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer

MAR/02/19 ‘The Real Deal’ — Writers Who Lived What They Taught: A Tardy Crackpot Mail Box Answer

MAR/02/19 ‘The Extinguished Ones’ — Impressions Of Chapter 7 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer

MAR/02/19 'Intensity' — Dan Carlin Hardcore History 62: Supernova In The East Podcast Review

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/16/19 ‘The Huron’ — The Quick And The Dead By Louis L’Amour

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

FEB/06/19 Bronze Age Myths — Crackpot Mailbox: Clued Wants To Know About Paleface Ancestry

JAN/16/19 ‘Of Fear And Night’ — James LaFond's Impressions Of The Hour Of The Dragon By Robert E. Howard

JAN/06/19 'Hugging' — The Crackpot Does A Video Book Review

JAN/04/19 'A Tocsin Of Alarm' — James LaFond's Impressions Of Conan Loses His Axe 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 ‘Morpheus’ — Dream Land: The True Tale Of America’s Opiate Epidemic By Sam Quinones

JAN/03/19 ‘Far-Seer’ — Prometheus An Atlas By Jason Reza Jorjani, 2016, Arktos, 416 Pages

JAN/03/19 ‘Why? Why Did She Dare?’ — Yankee Hobo In The Orient: Dollar Edition By John Patric

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/15/18 ‘The Hay Crop’ — The Impending Crisis Of The South By Hinton Rowan Helper: 1 0f 13

DEC/07/18 'Casting Solomon Kane' — What Actor Would You Cast To Play The Puritan Swordsman?

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

DEC/05/18 'My Sour Friend' — James LaFond's Impressions Of The Right Hand Of Doom By Robert E. Howard

NOV/29/18 ‘Playing God’ — Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water By Marc Reisner

NOV/27/18 ‘For God’s Sake’ — James LaFond's Impressions Of Skulls In The Stars By Robert E. Howard

NOV/21/18 ‘4GW’ — 4th Generation Warfare Handbook By William S. Lind & LtCol Gregory A. Thiele, USMC

NOV/20/18 'Each Deathly Eye' — James LaFond's Impressions Of Death’s Black Riders By Robert E. Howard

NOV/16/18 'Drowned Unearthly Things' — From A Well Of Heroes

OCT/26/18 ‘A Landless Man’ — A Writer’s View Of The Trajectory Of Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane By James LaFond

OCT/14/18 Kane Posting — Crackpot Podcast 47

SEP/29/18 ‘Captain Jack’ — Jack Hinson’s One-Man War: A Civil War Sniper By Tom C. McKenney

SEP/15/18 Manybooks — A Classical Reading List For A Postmodern History Buff

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/20/18 ‘Seeker Knows’ — Kissing And Making Up By Irvine Welsh

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/08/18 ‘They Prey On Us’ — Humpty Dumpty In Oakland By Phillip K. Dick, 1986, Tor, NY, 252 Pages

AUG/03/18 A Victory Of Essence Over Mechanics — The Internally Triumphant Conclusion Of The Worm Ouroboros, Chapters 26-33

JUL/31/18 ‘This Valley Of Quiet Night’ — The Worm Ouroboros, Chapter 25

JUL/25/18 ‘Fitbas Oan’ — A Fault On The Line By Irvine Welsh

JUL/23/18 ‘A Bird In A Cage’ — The Worm Ouroboros, Chapters 22-24

JUL/21/18 ‘Mrs. Grimes’ — Slaves On Horse Back, From The Adventures Of The Negro Cowboys By Phillip Durham And Everett L. Jones

JUL/18/18 ‘Old Cankered Malice’ — The Worm Ouroboros, Chapters 20 & 21

JUL/15/18 ‘Wanton Phaeton’ — A Chronology Of English African Race Consciousness: Antiquity To 1735

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 ‘How Do You Use Sources?’ — A Man Question From Brad On Researching Plantation America

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

JUN/15/18 ‘His Night Mind’ — The Dreams Of Albert Moreland - Fritz Leiber

JUN/11/18 ‘Slave Of The Greater Freedom’ — The Adventurer And Shadow Of Dreams By Robert E. Howard

MAY/15/18 ‘To Die’ — James LaFond's Impressions Of Two Men By Robert E. Howard

MAY/04/18 ‘The Technocratic Era’ — The Decline Of Heroism By Julius Evola 1 October 1950

MAY/03/18 ‘Hijacking The Image Of Their People’ — The Un-Civil War: Blacks Vs Niցցers By Taleeb Starkes

MAY/01/18 ‘A Smear Of Rage’ — THE SEINE VENDETTA By Ann Sterzinger

APR/15/18 ‘His Own Red Fear’ — Flight By Robert E. Howard, A Review By James LaFond

APR/08/18 ‘Silver Bridge In A Broken Sky’ — Dreams Of Nineveh By Robert E. Howard

APR/04/18 ‘A Sea Of Barbarism’ — A Glance At The Age Of The Diadochi

APR/01/18 From The Yarns Of Black Vulmea — Five Entries For The Robert E. Howard Lexicon

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/22/18 ‘The Blood Of Heroes’ — The Arуan Doctrine Of Combat And Victory By Julius Evola

MAR/21/18 ‘Honors Of War’ — White Devil By Stephan Brumwell

MAR/08/18 ‘The Devil’s Children’ — LaFond Reviews A Comic Book?

MAR/04/18 ‘The Typology Of Heroism’ — Soul And Race Of War By Julius Evola, 5-20 September 1940

MAR/03/18 ‘The Greatest Luxury Of Life’ — The Torch Of Life By Dr. F. M. Rossiter, 1932

MAR/02/18 ‘Ye Scum Of The Country’ — Introduction To Samuel Wiseman’s Book Of Record By Michael Leroy Osberg

FEB/23/18 'Red' — The Autobiography Of Malcolm X As Told To Alex Haley

FEB/14/18 ‘The Advantage Of His Civilized Mind’ — Robert E. Howard - Conan - The God In The Bowl, An Impression By James LaFond

FEB/09/18 ‘The Only Thing I’m Champion Of’ — The Bull Dog Breed By Robert E. Howard

FEB/05/18 ‘To That Divine Sojourn’ — Race And War: The Arуan Conception Of Combat By Julius Evola

FEB/01/18 ‘Provender Of The God’ — The Charnel God Part 1 - Clark Ashton Smith

JAN/29/18 ‘By The Jackal And The Viper’ — The Kingdom Of The Worm By Clark Ashton Smith

JAN/28/18 ‘The Night Of Dead Ages’ — The Treader Of Dust By Clark Ashton Smith

JAN/22/18 War Is A Racket — Smedley Butler Audio Recordings And Biographies

JAN/10/18 ‘The Child Asks’ — Robert E. Howard - Bran Mak Morn - Men Of The Shadows

JAN/07/18 ‘What Do You Mean By Peril?’ — Experiential Impressions Of Man Eaters Of Zamboula, Also Published As Shadows In Zamboula By Robert E. Howard

JAN/05/18 ‘Costigan Of The Sea Girl’ — The Pit Of The Serpent By Robert E. Howard

NOV/03/17 ‘The Victim Of Humanitarian Scrupples’ — The Metaphysics Of War By Julius Evola, 13 August, 1935

OCT/31/17 Anarcho-Tyranny Patrolling — On Masculine Axis By Eirik Bloodaxe

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