A hot, slow, still month, the only social event of any note a sad one (more later). I trimmed my hedges, mowed my lawn, walked my dog, paid my estimated taxes, showed up for my annual physical. Concerning that last, I went over all the numbers with our family physician. You know the numbers I... Read More

Earlier: The NYT's "Banned Books" List: Grossly Misleading As A Measure Of American Close-Mindedness I spend most of my time in France after having worked there for 17 years, but I have access through an app called Cloud Library to e-books from the public library in my little town in Maine. The selections are quite... Read More

Killers of the Flower Moon is the biggest-budget movie ever made in my home state of Oklahoma. Filmed in Osage County with its beautiful, rolling prairie, the movie is based on David Grann’s book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. The book and film explore the murders... Read More

British writer Paul Johnson died on January 12th at age 94. Hearing the news I felt as though I’d lost the other party in a friendship going back decades, but which I’d been neglecting for the latter half of that span. That’s ”felt as though.” I wasn’t a personal friend of P.J.’s. I only met... Read More

In last month's diary I gave notice that I'd be at a December meeting with Bruce Lee enthusiasts. The date turned out to be Saturday, December 3rd. I spent all afternoon with the enthusiasts and had a most enjoyable time of it. There are Bruce Lee fans all over, by no means only in the... Read More

See also: Return Of Return Of The Many Wars On Halloween—A Halloween Roundup Over the weekend, one of my best friends called to wish me a Happy Halloween. We chatted about family and our plans to celebrate the occasion with one of our favorite traditions, trick or treating. We grew up in one of the... Read More

We started off September in fine style with a Labor Day long-weekend trip to Maine, briefly described in the September 9th Radio Derb. Highlights: A day spent at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and then, on Labor Day itself, the Cabbage Island Clambake. In between, kayaking in Linekin Bay and some exploring. That Labor Day... Read More

See also by Paul Souvestre: Totalitarian, Perverted Antifa Is Just Jacobinism Reborn. But Thermidor Is Coming Novelist Joyce Carol Oates (very much a conventional liberal, see here, here, and here) recently tweeted “a friend who is a literary agent told me that he cannot even get editors to read first novels by young white male... Read More

There’s a moment in Top Gun: Maverick where you forget you’re watching a movie, and instead realize you are watching the words of poet Alfred Lord Tennyson come to life: Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, enemies turned wingmen/lifelong friends in 1986’s Top Gun, have aged 30 years. Tom Cruise’s iconic Maverick is a... Read More

Was there ever a nation as lawyered-up as America? I was just reading this article about our infrastructure; you know, that stuff for the improvement of which the Biden administration tells us they are going to do great things. So we are over-lawyered. I don't think that's news. And yet we are lawless. In that... Read More

Earlier: The Great Replacement Comes For Captain America: He’s Now Black. In Marvel Cinematic Universe, Whites Have No Place As expected with supernova films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: No Way Home had one of the biggest openings ever [‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Defeats ‘Infinity War’ & Notches 2nd Highest Domestic Opening At The... Read More

Previously: The Great Replacement Comes To Marvel. Out With The Normal White Men, In With The Gays And Black, Bisexual Women The Great Replacement will not leave anything created by the Historic American Nation untouched. That includes Captain America, the quintessential Historic American. Two years after killing off the most important Marvel Cinematic Universe characters,... Read More

Earlier by Paul Kersey: See FIRST MAN! It Depicts A Time Before America Had To Be Made Great Again—When Whitey Was Indeed On The Moon Forty-three years after Charlton Heston and an all-star cast including Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, and James Coburn fought the cinematic battle of Midway, director Roland Emmerich has retold the story... Read More

Earlier by Paul Kersey: New PUNISHER Series Just More Anti-White Propaganda (Although Leftists Hate It Anyway). Time For An “Alt☆Hero”! Given woke Hollywood’s fare these days, the fate of Director Elizabeth Banks’s ultra-feminist reboot of Charlie’s Angels, like that Terminator Dark Fate, was as predictable as Banks’s hissyfit when it bombed on opening weekend. It... Read More

The Easter fire at Notre Dame in Paris was distressing, of course. I was a bit less distressed than the average, for reasons I expressed in my April 19th podcast. But yes: a great shame, and a real esthetic loss. For an English child of the 1950s Notre Dame is for ever linked with the... Read More