Lockhart's Top LaFonds Volume 84

Just a few links for you this week, as our hero rides the rails.


Some non-hate mail from a cop!

Philip K. Dick continues to share his dreams with us.

All of history is military history, going back to the steppes.

A pair of review of Amtrak employees that and Amtrak stations you'll never see on Yelp.

As the American self-war of many factions deepens, expect interpretations to reflect the civil war mindset.

Thanks to James, for letting me feel like I am rereading Moby Dick.

(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart

Mister Grey - Crackpot Podcast 60

Hello again friends,

James and I have been on a podcasting tear, and I have another episode for you already!  This time, Mr. Grey, joins us, a mysterious figure, a friend of many years, and a fun interview!  The book that got Mr. Grey hooked was The Fighting Edge.  It is now part of The Violence Project, it was banned once by Amazon, you should buy it right away by clicking the image of the cover below.

The Crackpot Podcast features James LaFond, a man of many talents, and Lynn Lockhart, his mysterious assistant.


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0:03:30  How did Mr. Grey become a LaFond reader?  The Policeman is Your Friend
0:15:30  Why not carry weapons?
0:19:00  Comic book convention and first fight
0:25:20  9/11 story, how NYC has changed
0:44:40  East Coast accents
0:51:00  Mr. Grey's tour around the country
1:01:15  Typhoid on cops' boots in LA
1:08:22  Election talk
1:11:40  The last WWI vet
1:21:00  Mr. Grey's relatives' WWII experiences, Marocchinate
1:32:55  Mr. Grey asks Lynn about 2020
1:40:40  13% & immigrants

(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart

Lockhart's Top LaFonds Volume 83

Here are your weekend links!


I have written this before, but the only good thing about dying before James would be to be eulogized by him.

Heartiste is back online.  I agree with James, whatever happens, whether genuine or deceptive, our rulers seem to always advance the cause of tyranny.

Repeat after me: America was always about cheap labor.  America was always about cheap labor.  America was always....

What does long hair say about a warrior?

How to spot Anarcho-Tyrrany?  You don't need any fancy political science texts.

The milk-shake machine is the maintenance version of the canary in the coal mine.

Here is a piece on the Trump-Cummings beef, but I promise we'll discuss on the podcast as well.

The winner of the sheep squatting contest is over 30 and looks like a fit gentleman, not like a pharmaceutical mutant.

Here's a step-by-step guide for training for urban survivalism.

There is so much more to history and fiction than the European front of WWII.  Expand your horizons!

I also agree that dreams are not to be taken seriously.  Vivid dreams are a little known side effect of pregnancy which I experienced with my first child, it was awful.

Our languages hold many secrets and more are being locked away all the time.

Read Melville with James.



(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart

Big Ron - Crackpot Podcast 59

The guest you have all been waiting for, BIG RON!  James, Big Ron, Dr. David, Judy the barmaid, and Millennial Friend met at the bar for this very special episode.  Please forgive me for the poor sound quality from the other end.  There is background noise and Ron's voice doesn't pick up as well as James's.

Big Ron - Thank you so much for joining us, if you ever wish to join again, you are most welcome.

The Crackpot Podcast features itinerant genius James LaFond, and sedentary hobbyist Lynn Lockhart.

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0:04:00  Caucasian conquistador, gentrification
0:15:20  SF Condo video
0:23:30  Cameo appearance by Judy, A Woman of Wisdom
0:28:00  Lesbian superbowl
0:33:30  Schools in Baltimore
0:41:28  Cameo by Dr. David, a future guest
0:44:25  Changes in the workforce, drugs
1:02:55  Boxing question for John Paul Barber (unfortunately very garbled)

(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart

Crime, Rats and Hoodrodents

What a week for the greatest diarist of our time, James LaFond, to be absent from the internet and from the place of his birth!  Baltimore and it's illustrious political representatives have come under vicious attack by the King of New York, who types his verbal missiles into twitter dot com from the unjustly occupied throne in the fetid swamps at the foot of the Potomac.

Here are some of the calumnies carelessly flung by the President:

Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019

....As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2019

What's that you say, Donald J. Trump?  Baltimore is dangerous?  Rat AND rodent infested?  Let us turn to the only journalist who honestly covering Baltimore, James T. LaFond.

Dear James, is Baltimore rat infested?

Rats thrive were there are dirt basements. They feast on the trash in the alley—and even on the dog shit that is deposited there. What really enables rats is litter, the fact that most people throw their garbage on the ground. Really, that redneck in Essex you see throwing the wrapper from his cigarettes out the window is demonstrating what keeps rats going, our primate penchant for messy disposal of our waste.

Dear James, is Baltimore dangerous?

Pound-Per-Pound Title
As in most contact sports, the top finishers are in the lighter weights:
#1: Saint Louis Lips with 205 of 300,000 killed
#2: District Heights Maryland Mudsharks with 4 of 6,000 killed
#3: Harm City Hoodrats, with 342 of a disputed 600,000 killed [the goboment says around 617k while vacancy rates argue for 597k]

Finally, as Editor in Chief of Crackpot Books and CFO and COO of Crackpot Industries, allow me to link you to my favorite piece of 2017 and one of the top ten on jameslafond.com:

An Eerie Glimpse of The New Police State

The kid then points at the man with the backpack, surrounded by freaks, whores, sluts drunks and cops, while a dozen cops supervise the clean-up of a fender bender in front of the Hustler Club, two cops in tactical uniforms with DETECTIVE emblazoned in yellow across their jackets escort dancers to the parking garage, two more tactical detectives walk along with the three stellar hos and another tactical cop with DETECTIVE stamped on his chest shadow boxes out of pure boredom in the Fast Park lot, and says, "Y’all gotz ta be fuckin’ shitting me! There five-o everywhere!”

This is really a small sample of the journals that Professor LaFond has compiled on the subject.  You can check the Harm City tab, and the bookstore (click the picture) below for more:

(c) 2019 James LaFond

Lockhart's Top LaFonds Volume 82

Your weekend links!  James is going to be offline for over a week, so enjoy these!

Here are some new training videos, courtesy of a good friend's YT channel.  The art of combat must be preserved, one man at a time.

James will help you spot the decline of your luxury suburb months before the neighbors!

I think PA is being generous giving him 110.

How the bankers are stealing your masculinity.

Dear Boxing Coach: When to use a low lead.

A speculative discussion on the origin of circumcision.

I have no doubt AOC has an itchy trigger finger.

It's not that I have a great sympathy for cops, ok, I have some, a couple friends... it's the complete rupture of social norms that shocks me, and yes, it scares me.

This piece discusses the loss of technology - specifically, the techniques for bare knuckle boxing, even in the presence of gloved boxing - alongside the proliferation of writing, and we are losing technology in all fields, very quickly.

The common family experience in the Plantation Era was one of widowhood, step-siblings, domestic violence and being orphaned.

This is the grocery content you come here for.

When your favorite writer reads great books:  Phillip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe, Melville, Virgil.

(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart

‘Silence Drank the Voices’

James LaFond's Impressions of From What Hell Have You Crawled, Chapter 4 of Robert E. Howard’s Hour of the Dragon

Gianni’s illustration of Conan forced down by four hyper-masculine slaves as he is weighted with chains before his ancient-countenanced master, is a starkly powerful piece.

Conan suffers the fate of some million of historical European souls, being held as a slave by a Semitic master who makes cruel demands of him as he is manhandled by the Semite’s brutal ebony servants, in this case four giants. Conan’s captor, Xaltotun is an awesome figure of nightmare and piercing mesmerism, with even “a weird nimbus” plying about his head, with an aspect of ellusiveness giving the captive the impression that the fiend of dignity had stalked forth from some vile dream.

Conan, matter-of-factly growls, “I sensed a brain behind this,” to which Xaltotun extends the oft offered pact that assailed the conscience of captured European mariners who found themselves enchained in North Africa and the Middle East, the limited freedom to betray their own kind and war against their native land. Conan, of course vehemently declines to turn traitor against his adopted subjects while the sorcerer, suffused in “an alien aura of Time and Space,” seeks to tame the savage, by confessing that warrior arts were no called for, as the unleashing of his arcane powers of manipulation set unguessed forces in motion that even he might not be able to check.

At last the interview ends with one of the best lines spoken by a fantasy villain:

“I am wearied of conversation with you; it is less fatiguing to destroy a walled city than it is to frame my thoughts in words a brainless barbarian can understand.”

Conan is then taken into the dungeons by the negro slaves, “like the descent into hell of a corpse borne by dusky demons.”

Then, taken to a grim cell inhabited by bones which had been split to get at the marrow, Conan is insulted by his black handlers, a race of people bestowed with much agency by Howard in his various fictions, as the leader of the slaves taunts the barbarian, “This your place now, white dog-king!”

This permits Howard to play out his deepest trope that the races of dark barbarians are the devolved remnants of civilized folk whereas the “white” barbarians of northern Europe are a pure, untainted form of savage.

Gianni’s illustration of Conan being dragged down a dark stair by four brutes barely able to contain his savage wrath does justice to Howard’s description of the fallen kind as reverting to near-animal form in crisis. 

      

(c) 2019 James LaFond