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April 6, 2022
FROM AMANDA S. GREEN: Foil of the Gods: Sword of the Gods 3. #CommissionEarned
Evil has taken root in the Adrean Imperium. Soon it will rise up, destroying everything in its wake. If Balaar wins, the world will fall to a darkness the like of which it has never before seen.
Aimsir, to the west of the Imperium, is the birthplace of the Order of Arelion, enemy of Balaar. Cait Falconer—Knight-Cleric and heir to Queen Maeve Porgisl, ruler of Aimsir—knows danger draws near. Aimsir’s borders have been safeguarded but at a great cost. Now Cait and the Order work with the Queen and her military to make sure Aimsir never falls to the coming evil.
Then the unthinkable happens. Allies fall. Others become enemies. The followers of Balaar march inexplicably toward Aimsir. If it falls, all will be lost.
WHEW! SOMEBODY’S A SLOW READER! Darwin notebooks return to UK library two decades after vanishing.
FOR CERTAIN VALUES OF “BETTER”: Author of UN Climate Report says climate problem is getting worse but ‘solutions are getting better’.
Or, in other words, the problem is non-existent, but the communism they intend to impose on that excuse is to die for.
THEY THINK THEY’LL GET TO WEAR IT: For Love of the Boot.
YEARS LATE, TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS SHORT: Washington Post Admits What We Already Knew.
THE RETURN OF THE LITTLE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE: Third Wheel: Awkward For Biden As BMOC Obama Returns To White House.
I DO NOT REGRET SUPPORTING ROMNEY, ONLY BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE WAS OBAMA: Tone-Deaf Mitt Romney Supports Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
But it is time and past time for Pierre Delecto to get over himself.
WITHOUT RACISM THE LEFT WOULD HAVE NOTHING: NYC Health Official Says White Women Are “Birthing People”.
WE REPEAT, PEASANT! Salon: Parents Should Shut Up, Deliver Kids to State.
OBEY THE KARENS, PEASANT: Say Anything In NYC, But Do NOT Question Mask Mandate!
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH FREE SPEECH:
● Shot:
● Chaser: Angry mom who confronted Adams on toddler mask mandate fired from city job.
—The New York Post, yesterday.
UPDATE: Christina Pushaw, Ron DeSantis’ press secretary, notices the hypocrisy emanating from Fun City:
(Updated and bumped.)
SURE. BUT THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING: “Politics is downstream from culture”.
… After all, if they had managed any penetration in the population, they wouldn’t have needed to cheat in front of everybody, at the last minute in 2020.
WE’VE NOTICED: Reality Is The Real April Fools Joke.
April 5, 2022
OPEN THREAD: Push the Tempo.
HOW’S THAT WELCOME WAGON PROGRAM COMING ALONG? Here Are the Five Most Socialist Governors in America.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! How Bad Was Biden’s Warsaw Gaffe?
WASHINGTON POST HITS AVANT-GARDE ARTIST FOR VACCINE DISSENT:
Even people who have never heard of Evan Parker and wouldn’t care for his music should note the ominous precedent that was embedded within the Washington Post’s review of his latest album, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) with the Natural Information Society, a group of far-out jazzmen from Chicago. The Post’s popular music (a category in which the master saxophonist defiantly does not belong) critic, Chris Richards, was full of praise for “the tenacious British saxophonist Evan Parker,” and said that the album “felt responsive, propulsive and alive.” However: “Parker is 77, musically collegial, but a covid-19 denier.”
Richards went on to note with unconcealed lemming outrage that “in an interview published in April,” Parker “described the pandemic as ‘a sham’ designed to ‘harvest DNA and sell vaccines.’ Just like that, his remarks threatened to make his deeply empathetic new music make no sense at all.”
Wait a minute here. This is not vocal music. Neither Evan Parker nor anyone else says a word on the album, either about the COVID hysteria or anything else. Yet the Washington Post would have us believe that Parker’s COVID and vaccine skepticism “threatened” — threatened! — to render his new music meaningless.
This is pure Maoism: if your political views are not aligned with those of the elites, then everything you do is tainted and worthless. Like virtually all avant-garde artists, Parker has been reliably socialist up to now, but the Left doesn’t give out lifetime achievement awards. Chris Richards loves the music and waxes poetic about it: “this new album that Parker has made with Natural Information Society sounds like life, as if the band’s signature groove might be a growing, changing, living, breathing thing.” Parker’s astonishing technique is “inherently dazzling.” But Richards can’t let go of the fact that Parker is also a dissenter from everything he thinks is good and true: “So how could someone this attentive on the bandstand, this empathetic in song, this worldly in his playing come to the conclusion that a decimating global pandemic isn’t real? It baffles and burns.”
Richards also includes a veiled warning: “It’ll be a shame if Parker’s denialism ultimately fouls this band’s great art.” How could it, unless smarmy little fascists such as Chris Richards work to get Parker canceled and discredited because he has dared to enunciate politically unacceptable opinions? Parker’s music has nothing whatsoever to do with his politics: I myself have been entranced with it and fascinated by it for decades despite the fact that Parker has always been a man of the Left.
It’s the same playbook the Post ran on (the infinitely better known) Eric Clapton last year. “It’ll be a shame if Parker’s denialism ultimately fouls this band’s great art” sounds a bit too close to the rhetoric of Monty Python’s resident Mafioso characters Dino and Luigi Vercotti: “Nice career you have. Shame if something were to happen to it.”
