Fencing Bear at Prayer

“For the oral man the literal text contains all possible levels of meaning.” —Marshall McLuhan Follow the further adventures of the dragons on Telegram — join my channel and surf the Light! For Milo’s reading of the Psalms , visit the Church Militant shop . If you haven’t guessed, I’ve been reading a lot of Marshall McLuhan to prepare for our journey into the City of the Dragon. Highly recommended for those who feel like their nerves have been stripped raw by the electric web.

The poets of the Dragon Common Room have a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT coming up.  In the meantime, we have been training for our next big adventure, a fairy story about alchemy and a dragon to be written in Spenserian stanzas .  Think The Faerie Queene meets Roger Bacon’s New Atlantis .  With spice.  And electricity.  All themes which came together recently when Milo learned to walk barefoot on the grass ... 1 Like Moses in the presence of the Lord,  ex-gay, he shed his shoes on holy ground. He flexed his toes and raised his arms, adored  by minions watching on his Telegram. Electrified by pixels in the cloud the ions of his body shed their charge, and all the negativity around his holy dance was suddenly discharged, while angels watched from heaven, now by joy enlarged. 2 He walked at night while barefoot on the green;  a swish of robe, Bermudas, orange, glowed, and spinning like a runway model seen  on catwalks where designers often show,...

We have a new and improved subscription portal at Unauthorized.tv !  Vox Day has details on his blog , if you have any questions about how the upgrade is going to work. If you are already a subscriber (and eagerly awaiting the next episode of The Forge of Tolkien ), you will want to update your subscription to support my channel, but as with the original subscription programs, you will get access to all the channels on Unauthorized.tv, whichever content provider you choose to support through your subscription.  The good news is you will be able to see all the episode thumbnails on the platform before logging in, along with blurbs, for all of the channels. Vox and Owen have already been doing livestreams from the platform, which feature should be available soon for the other content providers (including yours truly). The platform now also has the option to stream audio only, as well as to download MP4s and MP3s of your favorite episodes. If you have been a subscriber, we are gr...

It’s been haunting me. I knew I had read this story before, I just couldn’t put my finger on it... There was another thing that troubled me a little.   Those multitudes presently began to agitate for another miracle.   That was natural. To be able to carry back to their far homes the boast that they had seen the man who could command the sun, riding in the heavens, and be obeyed, would make them great in the eyes of their neighbors, and envied by them all; but to be able to also say they had seen him work a miracle themselves—why, people would come a distance to see them. The pressure got to be pretty strong... Next, Clarence found that old Merlin was making himself busy on the sly among those people.  He was spreading a report that I was a humbug, and that the reason I didn’t accommodate the people with a miracle was because I couldn’t . I saw that I must do something. I presently thought out a plan. By my authority as executive I threw Merlin into prison—the same cell I...

A meditation on the meaning of Kabul... THEN The Old Silk Road vs. the Empires of the Sea  NOW The New Silk Road vs. the Empires of the Sea Study Guide  

Once upon a time, there was a colony that revolted against its ancestral kings and established itself as a republic.  The people of the former colony constituted a government in which the men of the republic voted for their administrative officials by tribe, each of which was determined geographically, not ethnically or by kinship groups. Having established a government, the new state began extending its authority by conquest and trade, until eventually it controlled a vast region previously occupied by multiple peoples, including several older empires.  Although citizenship was initially limited to the members of the founding tribes, over the centuries, as more and more nations were absorbed (or coerced) into the empire, the franchise was extended even to those whose ancestors had no association whatsoever with the founding of the state. These new citizens saw themselves as fully “native,” regardless of where they came from, within or without the empire. They adopted the...

Stephen B. Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History Emeritus, Northwestern University School of Law, gives Milo Chronicles a rave review in Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture ! The adventure continues! Risus et bellum, infans! Follow my further adventures with Milo at Milo Chronicles . Visit the Dragon Common Room for tea, poetry, and trolling for Christ.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” In other words, it was ordinary time! Which means lots of ongoing projects which I would love to tell you about! First—and most important for those of you who follow me only here on the blog, particularly by email—feedburner is discontinuing its email service as of July 2021, which means you are going to need to sign up to follow me on social media if you want nudges about when I have posted on the blog.  Don’t worry! I am easy to find! Amazingly, I am still on Facebook, both under my personal and professional accounts, but I am also out there in the wild on a variety of other platforms, and I promise to let you know when new blog posts go up!  My Facebook Author Page, Twitter, and Gab are best if you just want notices about my blog posts and videos (see below). My Facebook Profile is best for ongoing social, cultural, and political commentary. Telegram is best for those who want to go out on the edge—and write poetry (see...