Billy-Ray Cormack was born in 1958 “in that state”, in a county where the land flattened into long commercial strips and pine woods swallowed the horizon, and he grew up in a ranch house his father expanded twice rather than replace, learning early that adding on was more honorable than starting over and that concrete,…
Month: February 2026
A Selfie on the Surface of Venus. No seriously.
To have a tourist destination on the surface of Venus had been proposed more than once, and each time it was dismissed with a kind of exhausted finality. The planet was not merely hostile; it was methodically, patiently lethal. Yes, sizeable structures had been landed there, and yes, geological samples had been retrieved, but only…
How the east now looks at the west
Cinema these day
Of course this is only my opinion. But still. Sigh
Accountability, Memory, and the Fragility of Legitimacy
There is a difference between outrage and incitement. There is also a difference between warning about systemic consequences and threatening individual harm. This article is not a call for violence, nor is it an endorsement of vigilantism. It is an examination of something far more structural and, in many ways, more serious: what happens when…
BOND 27
Tying into the Premise of my Previous article of a Naughtier New Bond Reboot, a Bond That Has His Own Ideas On Certain Matters I was thinking of a premise for the fucked up era we are in, and a clean break with tradition. So I had an idea when I saw this:…. Let me…
SHOWGIRLS LAS VEGAS TODAY: The First Real Reality TV Isn’t Human
There is a certain kind of silence that only exists in Las Vegas before dawn. Not peace. Not rest. Just the city turning its volume down for a few hours, neon still humming, fountains still rehearsing, air still smelling faintly of heat, carpet cleaner, and money. Everything is waiting. Vegas does not sleep. It only…