'Money Man'

Shot Caller starring Nikolaj Coster-Walau

Film review by James LaFond

The middle-class counterpart to Vince Vaughn’s Brawl in Cell Block 99, is a nearly identical story save for the social class of the protagonist. Rather than a doomed working class man, slated for extinction based on uncompromising ethics, the upscale hero played by Nikolaj Coster-Walau is doomed to fall into the abyss based on the racial politics of prison, which leave a white man doing time the choice of joining a white prison gang or getting raped. 

The hero must forever sever himself from his estranged family. The system offers no prospect of redemption in this high end whitesploitation movie, in which a fallen white man has no path back to civic decency. Like Brawl in Cell Block 99, Shot Caller addresses the singular issue, the one straw that has broken the postmodern Aryan camel’s back in the manger, the fact that incarceration for a felony effectively ends any paleface’s chance at a decent life and places him among the felonious races as the priority target for law enforcement, played by a three-race team of law officers with the immense federal hard-on for white identified criminals, who nevertheless respect this man.

The heroic theme is lukewarm in that this hero out-thinks more than he outfights his lessers and his betters. However, the pillar of the shot caller’s moral compass is the same as that of the other white genocide movie under discussion—family. Both heroes, the working class and the upper class, throw their lives away to reserve the remnants of their tiny nuclear families, all of meaning left to them in a mean, meaningless world. The whiggerization and traitorous nature of many white-identified criminals is addressed as a pitfall almost equal to the vastly evil system, which is rendered minimally evil but realistically faceless and soulless.

This movie has too many twists and turns and James Bond like solutions to be truly heroic, but is pleasing, masculine-affirming and might be stomached by the frails in your life. 

Lockhart's Top LaFonds Volume 9

The dog ate the first version of these weekend links, which are, incidentally, by no means limited to weekends.

Tony Cox missed a train.

The Teutonic Fist makes his first appearance on weekend links with the backstory of the cover of 40,000 Years from Home.

Jeremy Bentham has thought pretty hard about the coming civil war, maybe you should too.

James traces the threads of Aryan heroism in modern entertainment.

A Baltimore pedestrian recalls 2017 by the numbers.

Billy's Pizza Caper is a quick and funny read and don't miss JJ's comment.

Checkered Demon, thank you for this: "Mostly, I'd just heard his Cousin David Allen Coe, a known race-healer and poet."  For readers unfamiliar, I recommend you preserve your innocence and do not click this YouTube link (don't blame me, blame John Paul Barber).

James illustrates honor in boxing in two iconic photographs.

James and Mescaline examine the remains of the Lee Jackson Monument in Wyman Park Dell.  See also James and Mescaline's video series created just days before the Monument was removed in the dark of night.

Tony Cox's housing bubble caper.

JJ paints a picture of another dead American city, Detroit. 

Lockhart's Top LaFonds Volume 8

Here is a midweek edition of weekend links, just for fun.

James sees the push for diversity as a means of destroying the Aryan concept of honor.

I am thrilled that James is reading Robert E. Howard's Costigan stories.

Is James considering Minneapolis for a 2018 Harm City Tour stop?

Doc tells us about old habits that die hard.

Thoughts on Thanksgiving and history repeating itself.

Food deserts?

James sees the varied and subtle range of humanity, now denied, in Howard's Kane stories. 

Long live the Conan of Baltimore.

Tony Cox and his girl get close to the action and come away unscathed. 

I have always admired the Scots for stopping the Romans.

I liked this story from the Checkered Demon, maybe it was the noisy bike, maybe it was something else, but it spoke to me. 

Ishmael's memories. 

James reviews the movie, The War Lord.

Good Fences - Crackpot Podcast Ep 22

The Body Breach

Welcome to Episode 22 of the Crackpot Podcast.  LaFond and Lockhart welcome our first guest in this episode, Baruch, an Israeli settler who was born in Russia, grew up in the US, served in the Army in Iraq, worked as a contractor in Afghanistan, found his faith and moved to Israel.  Along the way he became a reader, commenter and correspondent in the LaFondiverse.

The Crackpot Podcast features prolific author and urban survival expert James LaFond, and Lynn Lockhart, a mysterious woman.

Audio:

0:00:30  Introducing our first guest Baruch
0:00:50  Baruch's Russian Israeli boxing gym
0:02:30  How did Baruch start reading James LaFond?
0:04:27  A little about Baruch's background
0:06:10  Early days in the war in Afghanistan was "like a big game hunting preserve"
0:07:14  http://freerangeinternational.com/blog/
0:08:56  Baruch's animals, including James LaFond the cat
0:12:30  Details on Baruch's time in the Army, contrast with time as a private military contractor
0:17:10  The slow but continuous trickle of action in the post-9/11 wars, the rarity of firefights, parallels to the North American frontier
0:19:15  The Yazidis in Iraq
0:21:35  Baruch's caveat on his combat experience
0:22:58  James wants to know about the Kurds
0:24:00  What does Baruch really think about Arabs?
0:26:00  Kurds and other groups, phenotypes found in the area
0:30:18  Ibn Khaldun
0:31:24  Redhead Thracian slaves and other genetic introgressions
0:33:05  Empires of the Silk Road, Beckwith
0:34:30  Bacon's Rebellion Weissman
0:36:15  Baruch's bike trip
0:38:36  Baruch describes his home in Israel, convergent evolution with rednecks
0:40:30  Government treatment of settlers
0:41:55  Fences, the philosophy and tactical implications
0:46:00  How to deal with razor wire, the body breach
0:48:00  The time Baruch had to manage a mob of underpaid Afghanis
0:54:00  ISIS and the history of Islamic conquest
0:56:04  President Frothy Latte & the CIA
0:59:35  Saudi Arabia, Israel, the glowing orb, what's going on?
1:01:55  Wahabi, Salafi, Sufi, Shia, etc., does it make a difference to the West?
1:03:28  Apocalyptic prophesy in Islam
1:05:20  The role of Israel according to the Torah
1:06:15  How Baruch found his faith
1:07:50  Marcus Aurelius
1:08:30  Stoicism and Buddhism
1:08:55  The guy that lived in a barrel
1:12:18  Bottle and potty break (its the Crackpot and baby care podcast)
1:12:30  The legitimacy of the Sultanate
1:13:50  Maimonides, the Law of Kings and Wars
1:14:45  Principles in Islam which are borrowed from Judaism, how Muslims set up a Caliph and Caliphate, Emirs, involvement of kidnapped and forcibly converted Europeans, colonialism.
1:20:33  The Crusade Through Arab Eyes
1:21:20  The story of Joseph's slavery in Egypt
1:22:45  The parallel to the American political system
1:25:30  Trump in the election was like James LaFond in a WWF match
1:28:30  Pizzagate speculation
1:35:07  Hanukkah greeting from Baruch

(c) 2018 Lynn Lockhart & James LaFond

Shout from NYC Crime Report

Tony was kind enough to request a shout for James from Pat Dixon at the NYC Crime Report Podcast and got it on Episode 325.

If you are looking for a podcast to add to your listening, while you eagerly await your favorite, the Crackpot Podcast, give them a listen, I think you will enjoy it.

Thanks Tony, and thank you Pat!

(c) 2018 Lynn Lockhart

Lockhart's Top LaFonds Volume 7

Hello friends, here is a list of my picks, this list is about a week in arrears, so please bear with me while I get caught up (it will never happen).

The Red SUV, assessing a risk, giving no benefit of the doubt.

Reaching for the floor, retirement looms, not a moment too soon.

White Heathens and Praying Indians, a sample of what we can look forward to in James' books about the early colonial period in North America.

Catch up with the LaFondiverse gang in Yule News.

‘On the Ridge of the Silent World’ I am excited that James is getting into Howard's boxing work, because that means it will soon be time for Steve Costigan!

Some Folks, Checkered Demon checking in.  

A crime report with a different tone.  

Some light blade chat Welsh Trench Sword

Well Read Ed gives his prediction for James' Harm City Nationwide Tour 2018.

I will tell you again, I am excited about the Costigan stories!

The subplot of James' early retirement, Steevo's sour deal.

(c) 2018 Lynn Lockhart

‘Blanco’

Brawl in Cell Block 99 with Vince Vaughn

Film review by James LaFond

In terms of masculine affirmation in the face of the indistinct and habitually faceless evil of the modern world, Brawl on Cell Block 99 is a masterpiece of the budding genre of whitesploitation.

The soundtrack is 1970s and new retro soul, although the protagonist is a rural white man with an unshakable moral compass, the moral compass put to the test when he is laid off and comes home to find his wife unfaithful to him.

Bradley, a Christian of Irish decent, who insists on being addressed as Bradley and not the diminutive Brad, lives strictly and truthfully in the bowels of the Lie of Modernity, is utterly and clearly doomed from the beginning of the film—which then expands inward and upward into a study in heroism.

At every step of the way the moral and legal authority figures are Latino and black, yet Bradley’s doom is held in the hands of the white enforcers of the System, just like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull would be killed by slave-traitors of their own kind, when it was decreed by the God of things that the old combative race must be done away with in favor of stepping and fetching souls of scant account.

The violence is first rate, the “bad guys” very often sympathetic actors, with Bradley finding common cause more easily with blacks of his own class—who, according to the soundtrack, bequeathed him their lot on the social swamp pyramid—than with the Latino invaders or the Caucasian traitors.

His best line, before ripping into a pack of Mexicans on a prison yard, was in response to being called gringo. He takes no offense to being called blanco, but when the man who hangs a flag from his front porch is called a foreigner in his own country, he responds that the last time he checked, the flag was not “Red, white and burrito,” demonstrating the primordially gentile lack of diplomacy which won his ancestors more berths on slave ships per capita than any tribe of West Africans.

Brawl on cell Block 99 is my new favorite movie and my favorite action star is now Vince Vaughn and his Frankenstein Fu depiction of a direct actionist possessed of a rare but awkward strength. The Character, Bradley Thomas, reminds me of nothing more than Robert E. Howard’s Esau Cairn, an inspirational hero for the men of a dying race.

(c) 2018 James LaFond