“Fuck beauty.” — Woke Artists — The new statue commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. was recently revealed in Boston, and it looks more like something you’d see portrayed on Pornhub than a symbol of racial unity. Titled “The Embrace,” this modern art disasterpiece was supposed to be a representation of King and his wife Coretta hugging…

For the MCU, it’s ideology over ideas. — I’ve been reading Marvel Comics since I was in middle school. While I’d been a fan of the characters before when I was watching X-Men: The Animated Series, the 2000 film was what inspired me to go to the original source material, and from then on I was hooked. I…

Sage wisdom from one of the greatest living directors — During Quentin Tarantino’s appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, the discussion turned to the topic of the types of movies that couldn’t be made today. …

By Ben D’Alessio Sure, this’ll sound boujie, but I had a massage the other day and my masseuse was a black man with an accent and I wanted to ask him where he was from. In the latest public service announcement of speech policing from the over-educated, way too online…

A call to creative arms — “…But perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat…” That quote is from the speech, “Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist,” which author and philosopher Albert Camus gave at the University of Uppsala in Sweden on December…

You accomplish nothing by flexing on Lex. — It’s clear that not enough people made “be less offended by harmless tweets” their New Year’s resolution. The Age of Rage continues as 2023 kicks off with the piranha-passion pile-on of a necessary digital sage. That sage is Lex Fridman, a Research Scientist at MIT whose specialty is artificial intelligence…

Kick off 2023 with some reckless creatin’ — 2022 has been a real bastard of a year, hasn’t it? But that’s alright. For us of the Reckless Breed, all the punishment of the past year did was hone and harden us into stronger weapons against the Mediocrity Menace. We’re ready to walk through the next Hell 2023 has…

Stolen valor is part and parcel of woke feminism. — The carnivorous monster of wokeness continues dining on its meal, ripping apart Sanity and Logic like a wolverine that has three days of unsuccessful hunts. …

by Ben D’Alessio Over the last few years, I’ve been compiling a list of “good things”. You know the song, “roses on whiskers and raindrops on kittens,” etc. etc. After 101, I’ve assembled a hodgepodge of moments, relationships, locales, and art that make life… good, for lack of a better…