080 Culinary Reparations Crackpot Podcast

Hi Everyone!

Here is another podcast for you, this one is just your two pals, James and Lynn, talking about formerly current events, back in those strange days before pandemics, and when Minneapolis was just a sleepy Somalian colony.

Please note that Skype is doing an accordion effect for a spotty connection and that's why James occasionally sounds like that.  Also, he was feeling pretty bad with his eye seizures when we taped this, and you can also hear that in his voice.

Folks, I believe I have 8 (eight, VIII) more old old old episodes to release and NO new ones, and I am doing my best to get them out at a reasonable pace.

The Crackpot Podcast features a crackpot, that's James LaFond, and a podcastrix, that's Lynn Lockhart.  James writes a lot of books and here is one of his books, a hagiography on a legendary fighting man and ladies man, Big Ron:

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0:03:00  How alcohol can be used in the creative process
0:08:15  Urban crime and neighborhood design, culinary reparations
0:23:00  Bars on windows
0:38:10  Plantation America, UK rape gangs
0:56:35  Lamar Jackson - how does he do it?
1:02:35  Conor McGregor
1:05:20  Videos 1 restaurant fight, Yaniv, double knockout
1:12:00  Why do nerds lose it when they are advised to fight

Copyright 2020 Lynn Lockhart

‘The Iron Tower’

James LaFond's impressions of It Is the King or His Ghost: Chapter 10 of Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon 

Reading from pages 148-155 of the DelRey edition.

The illustration of Conan dressed as a one-eyed old pilgrim walking through the crowded streets of the city he so recently left with a crown on his head is faithful to the text, down to the failure of the loose robes in concealing the “hard lines” of his frame.

The rescue of Albiona from The Iron Tower reflected a standard trope of Howard’s time, an almost obligatory rescue of a damsel in distress. It also served pulp convention by keeping a feminine figure on the page in as many installments as possible. But Howard overdoes the entire chapter in brutal wise, with his butchery of traitors conducted with savage malice on the part of the reverted savage.

Irony spiced with menace.  Butchery basted in irony.  Vengeance savored in savage exultation.  The shame of cruel cold law supplanted by the true justice of judge, jury and executioner as one flew as much in the face of the false moral banality of Howard’s America as it does in our own bland version.

Foremost among the evils of civilization, evils magnified by the evil of modernity, all things that were antithetical to what it was to be human across the many innumerable generation of our natural ancestors are:

-Law,

-Order,

-Justice,

-Imprisonment,

-Trial,

-Judgment,

-And proxy execution.

All of these and more of the avarice corruption our society is built upon are dashed into gory gobs by Howard as he depicts Conan snuffing out the life of the royal headsman and taking his scything place on behalf of the dainty condemned.  Howard’s heroes, unlike most others of his time, were permitted by their creator free reign for their passions, particularly their deep and abiding hatreds.

Maiming and disemboweling one traitor, Conan curses, “…Die as thieves die!” and then grunts, “Lie there and bleed to death.”

In top pulp form another plot twist confronts the furious barbarian as he cuts his way out of another palace, as he does in most tales, and many times in this one, the chief object of Conan and indeed all of his heroes seems to be the violent extraction of the hero and a woman from the clutches of some monolithic example of civilized architecture.

Diction of Note

-Impulsion, the act of impelling, driving onward, pushing.

Lockhart's Top LaFonds Volume 115

Hey everybody, hope you are all well!



The instinct that has been bred and indoctrinated into our people.

There's never been a better time for people-watching-psychiatry.

I had to make a new spreadsheet to keep track of all my awesome proofreaders!

The long decline of the divine.

If I had another lifetime to devote to leisure and study, I would do linguistics.

Cops have squandered all their goodwill.

I think these are your last freebies for Filthy Few.

Candide gets something right.

The fraudulent 1619 project just won a Pulitzer Prize but James continues to toil for truth in Plantation America.

James has no appetite to be a guru.

Bringing up the next generation of cavemen.

Diversity was ancient Hellas's strength, that's why they were constantly at war.

Portland is not always as benign as it seems.

Very interesting letter from a post-pill Zoomer.

Down with sportsball!

Alt-righters suffer from delusions of being a part of the power structure, or a power structure in waiting.

The military seems to have been relatively uncorrupted in Rome.

Thanks for this very nice twitter review!  Follow the Pirate on twitter.

Do you have enough quiet time to read poetry?

Yes, the sorrows of womanhood are many.

This Beowulf chapter of impressions is so beautiful.

An early Islamic incursion to North America.

I need to buy a set for my kids.

James thinks highly of Andy Nowicki.

You can't put a price on babysitting like this.  Life in a hormonally unbalanced household.

Snapshots of Portland C-panic.

I saved the big brain stuff for last, part 1 and part 2.

079 Platonic Crackpotism: Fighting and Homeschooling Crackpot Podcast

Happy Mother's Day!

Are you smarter than a school teacher?  Yes, I am quite confident you are.  Among college graduates, education majors are generally the bottom of the barrel, it's an especially common course of study for those admitted based on melanin levels rather than other qualities.  If you didn't go to college, or didn't even finish high school, but you can follow one of LaFond's paragraph length sentences with six or more dependent clauses, then I still feel really good about your odds.  

It was an absolute pleasure to meet and speak with Sean and Skylar.  They are a wonderful family to look to for an example and encouragement to those of you who haven't reached that stage of your life yet, or those whose children are grown, or those who despair of the future.  

Spending time with and educating your children are one and the same.  You are doing it whether you are being intentional or not.  While I was editing this episode, my older daughter came to my desk and asked to listen.  I share the earbuds with her and showed her the wave forms on the screen that corresponded to the voices she heard.  She watched as I deleted a bit of dead air or stuttering and she soon began calling them out to me as she heard them, telling me where I should trim.  That sure made me feel good as a mom.

For those interested in homeschooling, I have created a list of elementary stage resources for you below, and I welcome more suggestions in the comments.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann et al, Touchstone

Cursive First by Elizabeth FitzGerald, it comes with detailed instructions and worksheets.

Spell to Write and Read by Wanda Sanseri, Back Home Industries. 

OR

All About Spelling by Marie Rippel.

First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind, Level 1, by Jessie Wise, Peach Hill Press.

Writing with Ease, Workbook: Level 1, by Susan Wise Bauer.

SAXON Math Homeschool 1, Saxon Publishing.

Geography Songs, by Kathy Troxel

NOT Recommended:
-Singapore math.  One of the models for Common Core. Avoid.
-Odyssey audio stories.  Rather pozzed and boring.

Mentioned by Skylar: Abeka.

I wrote a bit more about homeschooling in Apocalisp, so here is the link for that timely book:

Don't miss Sean's YouTube Channel for training videos!

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BitChute:

YouTube:

0:01:40  Introducing Sean, coaching and cornering for Craig, see Lancaster Agonistics
0:11:00  Day in the life of a fighter, making weight
0:25:40  Bathroom guidos
0:32:15  How did Sean become a fighter?
0:42:35  Sean is dismissed to weigh Craig
0:43:40  Skylar and Lynn talk homeschooling, Sean tells you how to get a tradwife
0:56:35  Training children without bullying

(c) 2020 Lynn Lockhart