So to be clear, I have a laptop, but in the evenings its more convenient for various reasons to use my phone for most online stuff. But don’t let me get in the way if anyone wants to become a paid subscriber.
You can try the microphone - it sometimes works quite well. Also just a niggle but I keep seeing it all over Substack - probably the evil auto correct - but it’s “toeing the line”, not towing. As in, putting your toe on the line.
And yes, keep on writing it out, whatever’s in there
Thank you for that. I have never mastered the tow/toe distinction and fear I never will, but at least now I cannot say I did not know any better.
Such linguistic faux pas abound, which signal to me that language is dead and that the hieroglyph has triumphed.
There is a substack that features "protein wisdom," and it is not about food. It may be word play. I dare not ask and nothing on the stack gives me a clue. I dwell in hope that someone will discern the writer's intent.
That’s very kind, and I’m grateful for the existing support, but it wouldn’t help much, as the reason I’m on my phone typing is because I’m on the couch in an area where I won’t wake anyone when I type at night. A keyboard wouldn’t work in that space. If you wish to donate to further support my writing, perhaps consider a gift subscription to a reader who would like to patronize my work but is unable, or even better, subscribing to one of my supporters.
Thanks for the mention, we appreciate it and the high-praise. I'm most concerned for you and Alexandru, hope he finds new meaning in his work like you said, and you beat down that melancholy and find joy in yourself once more. You're a permanent fixture here, speaking honestly I could not have reached my current philosophical views, or point in fiction analysis or writing without you and your stuff. In some ways you've been as much a mentor and teacher to me as any of your students and when I think of the positive side of Substack when I sink into despair I remember you, Demi, Coleman and many others.
Alors que Dieu te béni et te garde mon ami, tu as fait une différence, et c'est grâce à toi que cette fraternité est ici. Tes enfants et ta femme sont chanceux de t'avoir, et tes élèves aussi alors prennent soin et que le Seigneur vous protègent.
Bienvenue, tes vraiment incroyable mon ami, et je veux que tu le sache. J’ai bien aimer cette article. Continue a être toi-même et espère que tu es en bonne santé et n’a que des bonnes choses dans ton avenir.
Merci, je vais continuer, j’apprecie tes douces paroles. Et ton francais s’ameliore Celaeno, et ta sincerite me laisse tellement emu que je ne sais pas que dire.
I must say, staying up to type this was worth it. I almost wept with joy at having read something that was so right-on-the-money, and expressed in such dazzling prose. Now I will go through the rest of my day with an inferiority complex, because my writing on the mundane reality of U.S. elections will never rise to such heights.
As Robert Schumann said of the young Frederic Chopin: "Hats off gentlemen, a genius!"
You rock! Thanks to the Substack app text-to-speech function, I am able to take in a great deal of the genius on this platform, failing eyesight be damned. You are an inspiration to novices such as I, so please don't let the detractors get you down.
I wish I had the wherewithal to support all the wonderful writers here, but at least I can offer my moral support.
I listen to Substack posts while walking my dog. I wish the text-to-speech option was available for all posts. I don't understand why some get that treatment and others don't.
I think it has to do with the number of subscribers one has. As I have only 102 beautiful, intelligent and highly appreciated people of refined taste that follow my humble ramblings, no such technological largess has been bestowed to my Subtackian real estate. That is my postulate anyway. I'm glad we share these two things that brighten up our lives.
Thank you! I have to get a post out ASAP before my laptop kacks out completely! I haven't posted lately because the old gray mare ain't what she used to be and is dropping programs with alacrity, so it's a race against time. I bought a replacement but the transition of files and protocols takes a lot of effort. I'm going to write about this and the cool folks like you today. Don't change that channel! 👍🌞
Striking and food for further discussion with respect to The Role of Weak-Minded, Yet Immoral, White Guys in a Civilization in Decline.
Anon would prefer that any such discussion as described above would be held, well, anon.
Much further anon.
However! Going forward I will never fail to see the VP candidate as other than in a skin suit of his own cut and tailoring. Unforgettable, and better still, hilarious.
A bit like drink & dial! My brother blew a couple of really promising relationships, because he had a tendency to dial-up his girlfriend after a few drinks. Substack is just the same!
Churchill called it the Black Dog. Personally, I prefer hitting the sauce every two to three weeks- it tends to be more fun (and epic) that way. As you get older, you realise that a once a week habit just makes you feel lethargic...
The paradox of Substack is that there is so much good to read that it keeps me from writing. I am more Catholic than Zen, but there needs to be a way to find the balance.
I find sometimes that there's too much good content to consume here on Substack. I can't keep up with all the pieces of my favorite contributors, and I enjoy your stuff. I just can't read it all. But I do read some of it which makes it worthwhile for both of us.
Yes - we write for ourselves. In my few pieces I have done I write for myself. I write to process, and I write to learn. I've got more tee'd up. I enjoy it. It is therapy, it helps me.
Tim Walz as a skinwalker. That's exactly what he is . you said "skin suit", but I like the Native American lore of the Skinwalker. Might have to do a little more research on the skinwalkers now that I'm thinking of it. fascinating lore. It fits Tim.
He's found a fit as a white proxy for the blob. They need this man, they need a white man that carries the message of white self-loathing. There's likely a place in that market for these white skinwalkers for some time yet.
btw, how did you publish this on August 15th? are there time travelers here also?
“There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.”
"There was an article in The American Mind recently that put forward the case that “the Right has a culture problem” and is itself, at least partly, to blame for a dearth of ‘right-wing art’. Why, he asks, is there so little on offer for that “beleaguered, and chronically underserved audience demographic- normal people”? I was not particularly persuaded by the “what we need to do is” type discussion that the article generated. [I am always slightly irritated by journalistic “we need to” rhetoric....because in reality there is no great mobilisable ‘we’. And especially not in our current hyper-individualist and socially atomised Western societies.] I did however come across one article – tangentially relating to the Klavan piece - that did hit the mark for me:
"What the Dissident Right desperately needs is to cultivate in itself is a spirit of joy and a zest for life. It is this energy that can bring about true change, not the moping and whining you see so often on Twitter. It is only in celebration of the good things—no matter how small they are—that you will find men willing to fight..... No one fights for a nihilistic cause that can offer only varying degrees of defeat...." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/art-will-keep-us-alive
It's not Art the Right is lacking. There are plenty of Right artists populating canvasses and typing away in the dark recesses of the web. What we've always lacked is production values and a distribution system, plus the investment capital in some fields to bring visions to life.
The British Film industry always used to suffer from the same disease. Some of our movies were great, but we lacked that special American genius for monetization, plus the distribution.
'The Dig' on Netflix was really good. Also, if you can get ITV X in America through a VPN, it's really worth a watch. They made some great dramatisations of true police investigations.
The two-part 'Code of a Killer' is particularly good.
I'm a Brit......and live in a kind of Miss Marple village in the English countryside! On the issues you have raised, I think you'd find my Art Will Save Us essay worth reading in full if you have the time.
"need to slice my crusty loaf "......very Miss Marple! The N. Norfolk coastal strip is one of my favorite places on earth....Burnham Market, Holt, Cley. I used to live in Cromer (55 years ago) . I think we've veered off Librarian's track a bit here!
The thing that amazes me most is that you typed all that ON YOUR PHONE.
With notn fat dingeding.
Yes, I do wonder why, it sounds like torture. Do we need to get a fund together to purchase the Librarian a new laptop?
So to be clear, I have a laptop, but in the evenings its more convenient for various reasons to use my phone for most online stuff. But don’t let me get in the way if anyone wants to become a paid subscriber.
You can try the microphone - it sometimes works quite well. Also just a niggle but I keep seeing it all over Substack - probably the evil auto correct - but it’s “toeing the line”, not towing. As in, putting your toe on the line.
And yes, keep on writing it out, whatever’s in there
Thank you for that. I have never mastered the tow/toe distinction and fear I never will, but at least now I cannot say I did not know any better.
Such linguistic faux pas abound, which signal to me that language is dead and that the hieroglyph has triumphed.
There is a substack that features "protein wisdom," and it is not about food. It may be word play. I dare not ask and nothing on the stack gives me a clue. I dwell in hope that someone will discern the writer's intent.
It must be a choice on his part.
Like medieval monks' self flagellation, a spiritual discipline, mortification of the flesh.
Right? Lol
Late to this party. Hey Librarian! You have a bluetooth keypad for your phone, correct?
No, I just type in the little keypad that comes up from the bottom.
I would like to buy you a bluetooth keyboard for your phone. Immediately. How do we arrange this?
That’s very kind, and I’m grateful for the existing support, but it wouldn’t help much, as the reason I’m on my phone typing is because I’m on the couch in an area where I won’t wake anyone when I type at night. A keyboard wouldn’t work in that space. If you wish to donate to further support my writing, perhaps consider a gift subscription to a reader who would like to patronize my work but is unable, or even better, subscribing to one of my supporters.
I have a tiny bluetooth keyboard for exactly that use case, so if you ever change your mind, just let me know.
Thank you so much, I will.
Librarian - next time a prospective boss asks "what do you coach" you can answer "oh, far right extremists, racists, Putin mouthpieces, the usual". 😂
Thanks for the mention, we appreciate it and the high-praise. I'm most concerned for you and Alexandru, hope he finds new meaning in his work like you said, and you beat down that melancholy and find joy in yourself once more. You're a permanent fixture here, speaking honestly I could not have reached my current philosophical views, or point in fiction analysis or writing without you and your stuff. In some ways you've been as much a mentor and teacher to me as any of your students and when I think of the positive side of Substack when I sink into despair I remember you, Demi, Coleman and many others.
Alors que Dieu te béni et te garde mon ami, tu as fait une différence, et c'est grâce à toi que cette fraternité est ici. Tes enfants et ta femme sont chanceux de t'avoir, et tes élèves aussi alors prennent soin et que le Seigneur vous protègent.
Merci.
Bienvenue, tes vraiment incroyable mon ami, et je veux que tu le sache. J’ai bien aimer cette article. Continue a être toi-même et espère que tu es en bonne santé et n’a que des bonnes choses dans ton avenir.
Tu es incroyable aussi, mon ami, et continue ecriver tes bien histoires en Substack. Ma Francaise est pauvre mais ma bienveillance, c'est sincere.
Merci, je vais continuer, j’apprecie tes douces paroles. Et ton francais s’ameliore Celaeno, et ta sincerite me laisse tellement emu que je ne sais pas que dire.
Yea Lib'C., me too, what the brothers said!
I must say, staying up to type this was worth it. I almost wept with joy at having read something that was so right-on-the-money, and expressed in such dazzling prose. Now I will go through the rest of my day with an inferiority complex, because my writing on the mundane reality of U.S. elections will never rise to such heights.
As Robert Schumann said of the young Frederic Chopin: "Hats off gentlemen, a genius!"
You may not have a doctorate, but your knowledge of history is easily the equivalent, my friend.
You rock! Thanks to the Substack app text-to-speech function, I am able to take in a great deal of the genius on this platform, failing eyesight be damned. You are an inspiration to novices such as I, so please don't let the detractors get you down.
I wish I had the wherewithal to support all the wonderful writers here, but at least I can offer my moral support.
Bless you and rest well, we need folks like you.
I listen to Substack posts while walking my dog. I wish the text-to-speech option was available for all posts. I don't understand why some get that treatment and others don't.
I think it has to do with the number of subscribers one has. As I have only 102 beautiful, intelligent and highly appreciated people of refined taste that follow my humble ramblings, no such technological largess has been bestowed to my Subtackian real estate. That is my postulate anyway. I'm glad we share these two things that brighten up our lives.
103
Oh dear! Don't look now, but your Awesomeness is showing!
104!
Thank you! I have to get a post out ASAP before my laptop kacks out completely! I haven't posted lately because the old gray mare ain't what she used to be and is dropping programs with alacrity, so it's a race against time. I bought a replacement but the transition of files and protocols takes a lot of effort. I'm going to write about this and the cool folks like you today. Don't change that channel! 👍🌞
'He’s a shell, a dull repeater benefitting from a system of DEI so comprehensive that he’s in demand as a milquetoast old white guy.'
This is arguably the best sentence ever written on substack.
As a whole this essay is a release of the kind of true and oceanic sentiment which can raise vessels run aground and fill their sails once more.
Striking and food for further discussion with respect to The Role of Weak-Minded, Yet Immoral, White Guys in a Civilization in Decline.
Anon would prefer that any such discussion as described above would be held, well, anon.
Much further anon.
However! Going forward I will never fail to see the VP candidate as other than in a skin suit of his own cut and tailoring. Unforgettable, and better still, hilarious.
Also, drunkStacking is always a terrible idea, which puts me out of the running a couple of days a week.
A bit like drink & dial! My brother blew a couple of really promising relationships, because he had a tendency to dial-up his girlfriend after a few drinks. Substack is just the same!
Churchill called it the Black Dog. Personally, I prefer hitting the sauce every two to three weeks- it tends to be more fun (and epic) that way. As you get older, you realise that a once a week habit just makes you feel lethargic...
I appreciate you. Please never stop fighting the good fight; or writing the good write?
The paradox of Substack is that there is so much good to read that it keeps me from writing. I am more Catholic than Zen, but there needs to be a way to find the balance.
I find sometimes that there's too much good content to consume here on Substack. I can't keep up with all the pieces of my favorite contributors, and I enjoy your stuff. I just can't read it all. But I do read some of it which makes it worthwhile for both of us.
Yes - we write for ourselves. In my few pieces I have done I write for myself. I write to process, and I write to learn. I've got more tee'd up. I enjoy it. It is therapy, it helps me.
Tim Walz as a skinwalker. That's exactly what he is . you said "skin suit", but I like the Native American lore of the Skinwalker. Might have to do a little more research on the skinwalkers now that I'm thinking of it. fascinating lore. It fits Tim.
He's found a fit as a white proxy for the blob. They need this man, they need a white man that carries the message of white self-loathing. There's likely a place in that market for these white skinwalkers for some time yet.
btw, how did you publish this on August 15th? are there time travelers here also?
Thank you very much for the kind words.
We may be in different time zones. I published around 11:00 PM EST.
and btw. really do appreciate your writings - unique, one of a kind. you have a brand. I do enjoy it, and it causes me to pause and think.
I figured. Even still it wasn’t quite the 15th. Just a funny observation I suppose.
“There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.”
—Thomas Moore
"There was an article in The American Mind recently that put forward the case that “the Right has a culture problem” and is itself, at least partly, to blame for a dearth of ‘right-wing art’. Why, he asks, is there so little on offer for that “beleaguered, and chronically underserved audience demographic- normal people”? I was not particularly persuaded by the “what we need to do is” type discussion that the article generated. [I am always slightly irritated by journalistic “we need to” rhetoric....because in reality there is no great mobilisable ‘we’. And especially not in our current hyper-individualist and socially atomised Western societies.] I did however come across one article – tangentially relating to the Klavan piece - that did hit the mark for me:
"What the Dissident Right desperately needs is to cultivate in itself is a spirit of joy and a zest for life. It is this energy that can bring about true change, not the moping and whining you see so often on Twitter. It is only in celebration of the good things—no matter how small they are—that you will find men willing to fight..... No one fights for a nihilistic cause that can offer only varying degrees of defeat...." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/art-will-keep-us-alive
I like to take the silverpill. You only find them in the dark clouds.
You'll have to fill me in on what silverpill means in this context. I've Googled it but all I could get was a redundant 17th c. word?
It's not Art the Right is lacking. There are plenty of Right artists populating canvasses and typing away in the dark recesses of the web. What we've always lacked is production values and a distribution system, plus the investment capital in some fields to bring visions to life.
The British Film industry always used to suffer from the same disease. Some of our movies were great, but we lacked that special American genius for monetization, plus the distribution.
'The Dig' on Netflix was really good. Also, if you can get ITV X in America through a VPN, it's really worth a watch. They made some great dramatisations of true police investigations.
The two-part 'Code of a Killer' is particularly good.
I'm a Brit......and live in a kind of Miss Marple village in the English countryside! On the issues you have raised, I think you'd find my Art Will Save Us essay worth reading in full if you have the time.
I'm already subscribed to you. I will check the essay out- my dinner is almost cooked, and I really need to slice my crusty loaf in preparation.
I live in a small village in Norfolk. It's paradise!
"need to slice my crusty loaf "......very Miss Marple! The N. Norfolk coastal strip is one of my favorite places on earth....Burnham Market, Holt, Cley. I used to live in Cromer (55 years ago) . I think we've veered off Librarian's track a bit here!
Loving your work.
A pleasure to read. and, more important, an inspiration for writers. Thank you.
And thank you for reading.
Concur. Our dear Librarian crushed this one.
Celaeno,
This might seen like a small thing, but
I loved this article.
You’ve won my respect, subscription, and a new admirer.
God bless you, and keep going.
Well thank you very much.