Lockhart's Top LaFonds Volume 126

Hello fellow fans of democracy!

The exploitation of labor has no racial boundaries.

Guns are not the magic that guy thinks they are.  I feel the same way about living in California, it sucks, but realistically, what are the options?

A country boy enters the city, and is given a task to complete.  He passes a test with flying colors, finds his place among his peers and sets out on his own terms.  I wonder if it could be true that less-literate people have the opportunity to develop more narrative skill?

An age-restricted video?!?

An update on the neglected MurderBowl.

Things in this country are certainly happening very quickly.

Understand the violence you are likely to face.

It's ironic, but intentional, how narrow the definition of slavery has become.

This is beautiful.

It's time for a drink!

H. L. Mencken was good for a quote, but reminds me of Chris Hitchens, a bit too clever for his own good.

Organic fight commentary.

Haven't heard great things about the Hillbilly Elegy movie but I am also not a movie watcher.  There is a lot here I can agree with.

I like this advice but so many of us have viewed homeownership as the ultimate goal.

Wikipedia says you should disregard Pushkin's description of his own ancestor as a Moor, and instead believe modern scholars that Gannibal was a sub-Saharan.

Teach girls not to get drunk. 

"The news is fake," fact check: 100% true.  How to avoid, or attract, attention, as it suits you.

Where did they get that name, anyway?

""""""Merchants""""""

Portland has shocked the league.

Notice that a MAGA march on the capital requires normal people to organize, take off work, travel great distances, spend money on accommodations, whereas a capital city with working palefaces nearby would be at risk for an uprising on any afternoon.  The melanated individuals do commit crime and vandalism, but they are no threat to the power elite.

Why shadowbox?

Something you need for your Christmas shopping.

Good advice on having an online presence.

The pirate's life, better than slavery, sometimes.

How to write like James LaFond

Globohomo has been developing for a solid century and more.

Get your Cold Steel gear from the current stock!

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 Hey everyone!  I wish you a wonderful Thanksgiving, if you celebrate, and good health this season.

This is marked fiction but it's entirely believable.  That's the trouble when a prophet writes fiction.

Wignats should take note, we are the Indians now.  If you aren't a Patron, you are missing out on very timely historical analysis.

Suicides are supposed to be reviled, but I read Howard's quiet notes with only love.

Note well that these exchanges took place before this ham-handedly stolen election.

Turn yourself into the worst caricature of a redneck, that's what they think of you anyway.

Another historical lens to consider at this moment.

The Chicago train station during a looting flare.

In case you think Tony doesn't provide enough of a caveman upbringing for these boys, he brings in the Elder Caveman for special intensive caveman tutoring.

I like to be the last one to mention the temperature.

Are the Irish really n...?  The Irish accomplishments you've never heard of.

King of Picts cooks for King of Hobos.  The world's most in-demand hobo.  The world's most serenely prolific and fit hobo.

History provides a glimpse of horrors to come. 

This advice really makes you think about adding a definition to the word shield.  Don't miss the bit about fouls.

My grandmother had ancestral memories of these slave raids.

Many cancer patients are also being withheld treatment to reserve beds for c*****.  Not a good time for really anything to go wrong, though I suppose it never is.

We are achieving materialist hell on earth.

Catfishing and marketing combined in our innovative 21st century knowledge economy.

Better luck next time, Carissa.

A friend anyone would be lucky to have, and would certainly be lost without.

This book is a gem.

Nuke all metros.

The Latin Mass is soothing, while modern media is agitating.  The new religion is not an improvement by any means.

There were several "squaw sachems" mentioned in Mather's account of King Phillip's War.

Readers are few but devoted and the quality of dissident literature is outstanding.

A gently written biography begins.

Look to the heavens, not to the Capital.  Former President Frothy Latte recently said that the internet is the greatest threat to ARE DEMOCRACY.

LaFond bootlegs are now available as the Crackpot found the password to his Amazon account, despite his editrix's best efforts.

Most people will continue not to believe their own eyes.  Glad Mister Hoyt knows better.

A look at one of the failed founding documents of this nation, or part of it.

Very interesting information on the rowan tree.  I think I have one in my neighborhood but it's too tall to get berries.

If I cannot rationalize it, it cannot exist 085 Crackpot Podcast

Hello friends, I've been holding out on you since August, when we last taped.  I don't know if we will ever get back to regular podcasting.  It is a lot of work for me and due to corona and growing children, believe it or not, but I have less free time than ever.  The Crackpot also has lost the zest for podcasting.  So here you go.  We are not closing the door forever, but it's going to be rare indeed from here on out.

This is a double episode, with a wide range of topics, hopefully you will enjoy it.  The Crackpot Podcast features James LaFond, a prophet, writer, fighter and man of many interests and skills, and Lynn Lockhart, a mom trying to improve the mating stock available to her two daughters by promoting LaFond's work.

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0:05:24  Training trip to Virginia

0:15:00  Pandemic update

0:21:15  Apocalisp, Waking Up in Indian Country, Thriving in Bad Places

0:29:00  Floyd, Detroit couple, St. Louis couple

0:31:45  Detroit video

0:38:55  The story of RJ

0:49:00  St. Louis McCloskeys, weapons strategies

0:58:20  The truth about cops

1:12:46  Wignats vs wigBLMers

1:25:00  We have failed a test of faith, new faith being installed

1:41:40  Part II begins, policing in a small community

1:48:40  "Usher" start video at 1:50:00

2:01:10  Schools, moms

2:20:00  Media consumption

2:35:45  Establishment of a new religion

2:55:50  The hero, truth and lies

(c) 2020 Lynn Lockhart

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Hello friends!

My twatter account is frozen because I followed too many people, in case anyone is wondering.

Robert E. Howard's poetry is severely underrated.

You are not immune to propaganda.  Don't miss the comments for part of the reason I don't buy bananas.

Birds are endlessly beautiful and engrossing, maybe they were made that way just for us?

Look into Rhode Island as well, for oldest houses of worship and burial grounds.

This fellow has spent years seeking to have every trace of his name removed from these websites.  I believe he should finally be happy!

A fine bowie or a cheap cleaver, either will work.

How to boost your social credit.  What it looks like from the flip side.

Watch the hips to anticipate kicks.

Running the numbers for an anarchic scenario.

Low IQ and low morality!  This reminds me of something John Taylor Gatto wrote, along the lines that a good education can develop any child into a fine person.  Many interpret this as a belief in blank slate intelligence, but I see it as "education" in the sense Spanish speakers use it, good manners and morals.

Gruesome, instructive, and just coinciding with the criminalization of homeschooling in that country.

The war grinds on, surprising its factions.

This section begs to be read aloud.

The big brains are going at it, here, on mythology.

There is no such thing as fiction on television.  It is all absorbed as fact.

Introducing the hero we desperately need!  Seems like that mayhem charge was honestly earned.  

I guess I need to repeat this frequently:  LaFond is THE primary source on the Baltimore riots.  No newspaper or TV coverage can touch it.

Boxing commentary.

Ooh I didn't know about the latest round of pot brownies!

Truly a moderate platform, and an outstanding economic policy.

Valuable prep notes on food preservation.

I have about half of this book typed/OCRed for some-day publication.  Now, in a time of plenty, the media constantly remind us how much children cost in a woman's lost wages, to engender and maintain that bitterness.

The military has always been globohomo!

Exchange without morality.  

A very kind write up from a friend brings some additional detail to Plantation America demographic changes.  The timeline and geographical involvement is complex, that's one way you can tell that the generally accepted narrative is false.

How do you grow up to be this WEAK without a disability?

In the far north's winter, I imagine it appears that the sun both rises and sets in the south.

Barret is such a sweetheart.

Are you looking for love?  Don't lose hope.

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 Here is my summary for the past few weeks.  Hope everyone is well!

LaFondians reporting from BLM hotspots.

See the silver linings!

For those struggling with reality, here is a rundown.

These movies probably don't make sense to anyone, good thing they will all be canceled.

Look for strategic blackouts in major cities and plan accordingly.

Wage slavery defined.

Don't forget David and Goliath!  The Old Testament of the Bible is certainly a factual document, as are all ancient writings, far more so than any given newspaper you can pick up today.  We did a podcast on single combat.

Moms out and about with little ones appreciate men of trustworthy aspect.

Food preservation, never too late to learn.

Our enemies would grant us no quarter.

Learn some grappling.  Specialization is for insects.

Even people who are trained and know better, like Nero, have had enough!  It's going to get uglier.

Interesting story but don't ever expect an attack to go this way.

This is why the Crackpot Podcast turned down Spotify's $100m offer.

Please make it stop.

Your thoughts can be a weapon.

Just a couple of bros chatting about life in the suburbs.

Glad to know that the question of Australia's settlement is being explored by one of our guys.

Coronavirus is the ultimate all-purpose tool for control.

A list of activities that are becoming more risky every day, plus some advice.

I don't know about this.  There are so many lies, but not everything, every single thing, is a lie.

The cultural upheavals we are experiencing are related to the stars, especially our very own star.

Love the new version of tag.  This generation's "Ring around the Rosies."  The 9-1-1 outages have been hushed up, but they did happen!

That fabulous governor is begging Trump to allow more refugees into the state. No one is on your side and there is no state in the US where this stuff will not find you.

If your utility tells you that your garden water use must be cut in half, do you set your backyard on fire? If climate scientists cared about our forests, they would be managing them for drought, heat, etc., not sitting in air conditioned offices drawing phony graphs.

I hope that Constitution lovers can look around, see for example the McCloskys in St. Louis, and understand what is happening.

People who enjoy psychedelics are really annoying.

Empirical Plantation studies.

Any talk about elections, rights, equality, it's all to obscure this simple fact.

Pit bull genocide, please.

Interesting video from T-Rex. Portland is really out of control.

The Ghetto Grocer fact checks Joe "Gonna put y'all back in chains" Biden.

Swimming in a very low gear for a long time is a good skill to have, you don't have to be the uncrushable Doctor Dread to learn this.

Back in my office job days, people would compose really moving resignation letters and send them by email to every one of the 40,000+ American employees.  This would have been an outstanding entry.

What it means to be a ranger.

Boxing coaching in written form.

Read the ancients with their ambassador, the Peloponnesian War, Beowulf and Virgil.

It's amazing how aggressive the mask enforcers are.

I am so done with the police.

Plantation America is just too much sometimes.

‘To Seek Below the Aspect of Illusion’

A Coin from Acheron: Chapter 10 of Robert E. Howard’s The Hour of the Dragon

Reading from pages 155-163 of the DelRey edition

The thematic illustration depicts Conan holding Albiona close in the midst of a  crystal globe held in the undead hands of a grinning skeletal figure hung with a cowled robe.

Conan, barbarian usurper of the crux kingdom of his age, finds himself in refuge among the heretical cult of Asura, whose master further enlightens him as to the nature and extent of the awesome forces arrayed in the shadows of the world against him, and, like some real estate tycoon from New York shocked to discover that many evil-handed cults of power vie against him from below intricately woven lies, he starts in denial at the implication that he battles mere puppets upon cosmic strings and that he must lose if he does not embrace the dark and unseen trails of power that thread the civilized world.

Interestingly, he has only been saved from the forces of orthodoxy by the devotees of heresy due to his enforcement of his very barbaric notion of freedom of religion, which was not a significant current in popular thought in Howard’s time. Indeed, Howard clearly realized that the real legacy of Western Civilization was not one of liberty and freedom but one of shackled wills born under the ages of layered orthodoxy that had removed Western Man’s soul, one collectivist notion at a time, from his identity. The author does a superb job of expressing the gnostic ideals coming to light during his lifetime as various crackpot ideologies grounded in Atlantean fantasies and conflated myth come to life in the philosophy of Hadrathus convincing, who, unlike the evil Xaltotun, has the patience to reconfigure his knowledge into a form understandable to a fighting man:

“Age follows age in the history of the world, and now we enter an age of horror and slavery as it was long ago.”

Seven pages in to Conan’s dialogue with the serene occultist, he finally is given the gift of perspective in his own case, able to finally envision himself as he is in the eyes of the gods, the puppet born without strings in the playground of towering evil that is the world, a doomed creature who might only prevail if he rides the crests of the mighty powers striving for ultimate domination and then only so much as a man might life, which is a mere breath in the reckoning of that which he fights.

In A Coin from Acheron Conan suffers the mind-blasting fate of H. P. Lovecraft’s many doomed protagonists, who are faced with “the correlation of the contents of their consciousness,” but instead of a suffering a psychological implosion, the barbarian simply grows focused with the prospect of bloody work, enjoying the super sanity of the physical quest, a journey beyond the ken of the intellectual.

The closing two pages of the chapter illustrate the horrific plight of the mundane conspirators who raised a 3,000 year old fiend from the dead to bring down a savage king, only to realize that the former is gathering godlike powers to enslave them and the latter is loose from the shackles of kingship to stalk them like some hungry beast.

Mister Gianni’s illustration depicts Valerius, wary king of the moment, with four sinister yellow men from the far edge of the world who have sworn an arcane oath to hunt down Conan.  Howard soon found that placing the savage hero in a novel length story was going to require a legion of frightening fiends just to keep to pace with the fact that his protagonist, was in fact, the monster of his own imaginary age.

Diction of Note

-Laved

-Fain

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Hey everyone, hope you are well, hahaha just kidding, everything is crazy!

Very interesting combat psychology, from a combatant anthropologist.  Please read if you admire Kenosha Kyle (as I do) and especially if you have any plans of emulating him in any way. 

All good things...

The archive is a treasure trove and you should all be grateful.

I love the significance of weapons and armor in this section.  And why not also spend some time describing the treasures?

Don't miss the comments on this.  I sometimes despair of the Plantation America work.  It seems an insurmountable obstacle to explain to the masses that slavery doesn't mean what they think it means.  But the truth is worth pursuing. 

Reading Seneca gives you the chance to learn something true.  Reading newspapers is simply reading lies.

Perspectives to help us understand the Second American Civil War.

A much better alternative to sportsball.

If you are a paleface man, you need to think about your personal boundaries and consider that the legal system is boxing you into a suicide stand if your life, property or loved ones are threatened.

Buy this book, written by a friend of the LaFondiverse.  Another author to look into.  And look for these tales in The Filthy Few, coming some time in 2020 or 2021.

I have grown to hate the police so much I can't see straight.

Everyone should be collecting responses to being called a racist.  Mine is "Fuck you, racism isn't real," but I really like Dr. Dread's, too.

A rundown of masculine fiction for your consideration.

Analysis of one of many Portland incidents.  There is some video that suggests this guy took a water bottle to the head before he got out of the car.

The Irish must return to tradition!

Wagies must read this.

Noticing the level of ability that art requires is fascist!  One word about the West Coast: earthquakes.  Most of the missions built by the Spanish crumbled long ago, as would anything built by ancients.  Look at Japan, also frequently shaken, where the custom is to use lumber rather than stone, and regularly tear down and rebuild important structures to exact specifications.  

The decline of Portland has been truly astonishing and worthy of deep study and discussion.

Mr. Barrett gives us an update on his reading and self-discovery.

I wish more women would understand.

John Lewis was given paltry honors compared to those accorded John McCain, and both will be simply dwarfed by the galactic-scale mourning that will soon be upon us.

The framing of the flaws of humanity as well as the promise of their solutions, the idea that endless improvement of life on earth is possible and desirable, these are the requirements for an ideology, an alternative to reality.  (By the way, nuclear waste ain't no thing, it comes from the earth just like everything else.  Just look at the Chernobyl containment zone.)

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Hey everyone!

If you are on twitter dot com you may have noticed I haven't been posting much there, and I am generally behind on emails and crackpot work.  This is due to the start of the school year and other stuff keeping me busier than usual.  Hope you are all well!

We are trained by scholars to spurn our ancestors.

I think Kenosha Kyle is going to be alright but I do hope that the "Back the Blue" crew would give some big thinks to why they should make themselves responsible to do the work the blues refuse to do.  This account of events is incorrect.  Kyle had already smoked a dude before the confrontation with this group, and kept his cool while he killed and disabled two more enemies.  He was not a coward, but trained as a soldier to sacrifice for the system, not a warrior for himself or his family.  He was ill-used by the police, yes, and will add to the FBI's case for "white domestic terrorists" being the primary domestic threat facing the nation.

We call this the "Baltimore Frogger."

We are in a culture of guilt by association and denouncing one another to the authorities.

I want to know more about the engine.

The prophet reveals his methods.  There is an incredible tension within the system of control as to the progress of the unrest and it's eventual resolution.  

Everyone needs to train, including women, and women need to train together with their children.

Baltimore has been relatively quiet, but not untouched, by the BLM Reformation.

The Christian conception of good is justice and righteousness, not the progressive values of prosperity and absence of discomfort.

Doctor Dread is the Baltimore Batman.

Marcus tells us about Churchill, part 1 and part 2.

We live in prison to soothe the superstitions of atheists.

Child trafficking enforcement has increased under Trump, whatever else you can say about him.

The Mucker, a rare one from Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Dear Fellow Americans: You live in a war zone and you need to start acting like it.

An architectural analysis of decline, the parallels are too numerous to ignore.

So many restaurants are failing, but the old fashioned inn is a time tested business and has the potential to stay under the radar. 

Please, we need more contributions from these anonymous police officere!!!

James bears the heavy burden of accurately prophesying so many current events and having the rabble demand his comments and updates!

‘The Glad Hand’

Waterfront Law by Robert E. Howard

In this Steve Costigan adventure, set in Cape Town South Africa, the Irish-American hero is scammed numerous times by various grifters and doesn’t really give a damn as he had a good time doing it, which brings to mind two of my favorite real life characters, Big Ron from Baltimore and Tony Cox from Seattle, big men, slick as goons go, and alright with the outcome of their misadventures as long as it was a good ride—as long as it’s not a man lying to their face, gas-lighting them or questioning their manhood—then it’s go-time.  I have rarely smiled so often reading a story, knowing men as I do who have embraced such shit situations with “fuck it” grin. Both of these real-life men, by the way, have Tarzan and Cheetah relationships with their side-kick dog, exemplified by the opening paragraph of Waterfront Law:

“The first thing that happened in Cape Town, my white bulldog Mike bit a policeman and I had to come across with a fine of ten dollars, to pay for the cop’s britches That left me busted, not an hour after The Sea Girl docked.”

At this point in the review the reader is struck with two notions:

-1. If there is ever a chance to have a Robert E. Howard character authentically represented in film or on TV, it would be Sailor Steve Costigan and his dog, one reason being that every ethnic slur is used except for “cracker, white trash and the N-word” and the dog, Mike, would bring children and women to view the story in droves. Furthermore every woman, every “frail” in the Costigan saga is far smarter than the hero!

-2. There is a lot of Steve Costigan in Conan and Black Vulmea, always starting without money or a girl and having a natural affinity for working men. In every Conan story in which Conan makes himself useful to a chief of men, the men all end up developing lateral bond with Conan, making the barbarian pretty much Steve Costigan—if he had a brain and a criminal mindset.

The crux of this story was a criminal playing to Steve’s sense of patriotism, “here’s the Kid, a American like yourself…”

Mike’ heroism is further increased in this story when the reader discovers that he not only goes to the bar, but drinks beer.

Diction of Note

durance

‘thrallin’

bucko [a ship’s mate who beats his men, a bully]

socking [punching, went out of general use in the early 1970s]

jassack [apparently a way of writing “jackass” in print]

tin-canned [folded with body punch, tomato can being a period metaphor for an easily dented opponent]

Jerusha [Jesus]

gyp [to rip-off by the use of wits, went out of general use in the late 1970s]

   

(c) 2020 James LaFond

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The most beautiful section of the Aenid yet, or maybe it's this one.

As a resigned rightist, I do find the hallucinations of leftists occasionally interesting.

The travails of Big Ron.

My fear is that mass-remote education will be an entry point for a more organized and effective intrusion of Leviathan tentacles into homeschoolers' lives and activities.  The primary reason the left wants the schools closed is that teachers' unions recognize this golden opportunity for the mother of all strikes.

There is no doubt in my mind we are witnessing the birth of a new religion.

Thank you letters to Sensei Steve.

WASPs established capitalist materialism as the world religion.

The secret to writing about weapons and armor is to have used them yourself.

It's amazing how pirates have been romanticized in media with never a whiff of slavery.

Eye wear considerations for entering war zones, and for practice.

Absolutely true and correct that TV shows are intended to and do project the future. "24" depicted a black president just before Obama was elected, for one example.

I highly recommend that you subscribe to Oliver's new channel.

Globo-homo demands you be labeled.

The New World was newer when we got here, and older when it was found.

Police have depreciated their goodwill so fast it made my head spin.

Our ancient connection to animals.

This is what a real plague is like.

Burn a book, any book, that's Baltimore!

I did not see this angle on the wolf thing coming.  Another awful prophecy from the unfortunately accurate Seer.

Grocery shopping is getting worse and worse.

Young women need an older woman to advise them on making the best arrangement their beauty and circumstances allow.

You can count on LaFond to keep up with changing conditions.

These weapons descriptions are really making Beowulf for me.  

Many new laws and regulations are being implemented right now. Some can be circumvented, but we are in anarchotyranny mode.

A peek into privileged-on-privileged violence.

I have collected some Durant works but I will be skipping Mr. Dick.

Calling police on fireworks, and they laugh, yes.

What does this say about cat people?  Traitors?  But then again, dogs are not created equal.

Pirate stories from the eye-patched writer.

It's interesting to read the delusions of others.  I think it's correct that huwhyteness is over and Latin American-style colorism will now take hold, where mixed race fathers of even mixeder raced children are going to face new challenges.  Everyone on earth is an American, so a much more granular identity is surely called for.

Ten or twenty years ago this would be the stuff of comic books.

For the record: paleface men miscegenate more than paleface women.

2020 is bringing a Murderbowl shakeup!

I am really skeptical about a lot of these claims of life in the Middle Ages, or that certain occurrences are broadly representative, or that anybody understands life expectancy calculations.  It's retconning by the Enlightenment Gang.

I completely forgot about the cops in Atlanta charged with murder!  Wonder if the Chicago cops will face the same.

I would dearly love to take a crack at the original Spanish for these.

The WQ has been answered but many men on the right simply can't understand.

You are a leader of men, just on a smaller scale than "alpha."

Secrecy is incredibly important, I can't emphasize this enough.

Doctor Dread knows better, but something in him impels him.

Hotels are getting bailed out in housing C-19 isolation, refugees, homeless, etc.  Everything James has predicted about police and melanated individuals has come true, so pay attention.

I don't think being associated with James is particularly dangerous, especially if you are just another guy on the internet he linked to.  Get a grip.

Check out King of Dogs, written by a friend.  Part I of James' review.

Sam Finlay, our dear friend, is writing fiction for Crackpot Books.

You need to set the highest standards for people you are willing to take risks with.

"So that no one could buy or sell," it has been foretold.  I told my mom years ago that the smartphone is better than a chip.  Good comments on this one, too.

I think the only thing of lasting value that Moldbug introduced was formalism -- loosely paraphrased: if aliens came to earth and described the government of the US, the Constitution would be nothing more than a footnote on page one.

The man is cursed to write, to all of our benefit, here is some White Indians content.

The female rappers are even more disgusting that the male ones.  This is an excellent exchange, everyone should read it.  In the words of BAP, "Socrates was a n****r."

No sympathy for incels from LaFond.

084 Lost Episode Crackpot Podcast

Guess what, my podcast friends?!  This is my last backlog episode!  I also have some new taped eps and gonna get those to you as quick as I can.  We actually talked plague in this episode and some seriously uncurrent events.  Enjoy!

The Crackpod Podcast features displaced persons from the War on Reality, James LaFond and Lynn Lockhart.

Audio:

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0:03:00 Grocery 

0:08:15 Wuhanic Plague, wet market 

0:10:00 Beef, pathogens 

0:24:15 Night Song of the Nords 

0:26:45 Baltimore update, Nabisco Bill 

0:45:00 TV and sports 

0:54:00 Pete Buttchug's campaign photo 

0:59:10 Filthy Few with Sam Finlay, Breakfast with the Dirt Cult, Ed Calderon 

+ Bonus material 

 (c) 2020 Lynn Lockhart

Book Store Tours

Hello Everyone,

This is a BIG post of major content.  The recordings below are bookstore tours.  Like most people, you are probably confused and overwhelmed by the sheer volume and variety of books that Mr. LaFond has written.  I addressed this in part by making the Bookstore Page as a portal to additional bookstore pages.  We are working on creating a video tour for each bookstore and today I am adding three new ones, Uncommon Men, Poets, Seers & Heroes, and Masculinity.  In addition, James and I had an editorial meeting back in January, setting out our plan for a year's work of Crackpot work, but little did we know 2020 would go so far sideways.

In conducting these bookstore tours, we got a bit carried away, so I am also including some of this content in the next regular episode of the Crackpot Podcast, named the Lost Episode, because I had forgotten all about it.

In talking about Mr. LaFond's writing career, we must always mention The Logic of Steel.  Some time ago I made a tweet thread about it but since I delete all my tweets every few months, I am including it here as well:

Begin tweet thread:

James LaFond's books are highly collectible. The Logic of Steel is a cult classic. Let me tell you the story about it.

Back in 2001, Paladin Press published the first edition.  It sold modestly but found a loyal following

Readers wrote letters to LaFond in care of Paladin and traveled to Baltimore to meet him. People in urban hellscapes and in law enforcement immediately saw the value in it

A smart guy in Japan bought ten copies and socked them away. When Logic of Steel went out of print, he sold them for hundreds of dollars each. Today, the cheapest listing for a used copy is $100

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I don't know the exact figure but LaFond made something like a buck per copy sold, a modest four figure amount over the life of the book. Even after self-publishing became widespread, James was powerless to make any money off this book that Paladin owned

Then, in 2017, Paladin Press closed its operation for good, and the rights reverted to James LaFond, along with the other two books of his they owned, The Fighting Edge and The Logic of Force. Both very interesting books in their own right.

Used copies of Logic of Steel had at times sold for $1000 - surely James could now count on some income by reissuing it as a self published title!

He listed the books right away and announced on his website. Very soon, the hammer came down...

Amazon censored the book without warning or notification, simply ghosting it from LaFond's CreateSpace account, as I found when I looked for the listing, trying to shill for my friend.

Why did they do this? Can't say for sure, but this was LaFond's main source of income. Some nameless commissar made his life very much harder.

But I have good news for you. You can own a different book, that somehow has a very, VERY similar feel to Logic of Steel. I took the text and photos, and those of The Fighting Edge, and made The Violence Project, just for you.

This book is unlike anything else you've read. It's a detailed survey of real knife violence - the kind that is making a comeback as our rulers crack down on gun owners while importing machete warriors.

James has conducted hundreds of interviews with criminals, crime victims and witnesses. He recounts the stories with precision, humor, and pathos. This book is a literary and scholarly work, as well as being a practical source for understanding violence.

You can buy The Violence Project, which is two books in one volume, lovingly published by your humble editrix and podcastrix, yours truly. It's a good investment. If you ever have the privilege to meet James LaFond, this is one of the books you'll want him to sign for you

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Alright, here are the videos.  You can find all the mp3 files here, if you prefer that, and I have also uploaded all the videos to BitChute, but I will stick with YouTube here so we don't get too unwieldy.

Best Laid Plans for 2020

Bookstore Tour - Uncommon Men

Bookstore Tour - Poets, Seers & Heroes

Bookstore Tour - Harm City

Bookstore Tour - Masculinity