Archive - Red Clay Bestiary

Institutionalized

Heavy metal wishes it could be as variegated as philosophy, each narrow wending branch distinguished only by some shading of the screams or flavor of…

Apr 9

Got That Old Travelin' Bone

The Easter season winds on for me a little ways into the week as I haven’t yet landed back at home. Given the disruption I’m delaying this week’s RCB to…

Apr 2

March 2024

The term "just war" contains an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny…

Mar 19

War: What Is It Good For?

A couple of things arrived through my transom recently which happened to intersect in an interesting fashion, in much the way Mexican Spanish vocal…

Mar 5

February 2024

The Pause that Refreshes

Sorry folks, no words this week, other than the limp, overcooked sentence you’re reading right now, in which I explain to you that I’m in Nashville…

Feb 20

One thing I learned from television is that Jesus wasn’t born on December 25. This is a topic of long scholarly debate, maybe, but it was also a staple…

Feb 6

January 2024

One thing about writing and researching is you can’t do them simultaneously. Not even with two hands and two eyes—Nature conspired to make sure that we…

Jan 23

Taking Sailor to Byzantium

There’s not much that’s as vile as stepping barefoot into an unseen deposit of cat vomit.

Jan 9

December 2023

If I were Margaret Renkl I would proceed to write about crisp mazes of frost on the grass crunching underfoot...

Dec 12, 2023

November 2023

Corsican Lemonade

Cinema, with certain rare exceptions, is more or less orthogonal to history.

Nov 28, 2023

“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.” ― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

Nov 14, 2023

October 2023

I read the news today. Oh boy. A bubbling witches’ brew: eye of newt; child of man; larks’ tongues in aspic; ATACMS and thermobaric munitions.

Oct 31, 2023

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