Cluster - Crackpot Podcast - 55

Hello friends, your favorite sporadic podcast is here again.  James and I discuss some current events, a couple of new books (see cover links below), Freddie Gray and more.  James has been having cluster attacks which have prevented us from taping these last few weeks, you can actually hear his medicine kicking in about halfway through this episode, as he sounds less and less drunk.

The Crackpot Podcast features nomadic anthropologist James LaFond, and some strange lady on the West Coast.

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0:02:50  Quote from Citadel of the Autarch, RIP Gene Wolfe
0:05:25  Cluster headaches, walking around blind in Portland
0:10:52  Currentish events
0:23:57  Jared Taylor's take on Jamestown, racist dogs
0:34:10  The history of the Easter Tweaker
0:34:37  Big Chev and racist dogs
0:43:33  Cardi B, men get roofied too, "dude"
0:54:15  Chicago cops had to release an arrestee
0:57:45  Bay Area robberies
1:01:25  Publishing updates, Greatest Lie Ever Sold, Civilization Decomposes
1:05:47  Freddie Gray anniversary

(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart

Cracker-Boy IN PRINT! - Crackpot Podcast 53

Hello friends, I am so happy to be podcasting more regularly again.  I am even happier to tell you that Cracker-Boy is in print!!!

You can buy this rogue history book, packed with original sources, served in small portions, right here:

I think I talk more than I ever have in an episode here, so consider yourselves warned.

The Crackpot Podcast features unsanctioned historian James LaFond and his enabler Lynn Lockhart.

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0:00:28  Podcasting technology update
0:01:45  Apologies!  CRACKER-BOY!!!
0:04:16  John Hu and distinguishing slaves from citizens
0:10:56  Amelie Wen Zhao, African-American slavery supremacy
0:22:21  Freedom on the Move
0:28:20  Fugitive slave catching, petroleum, foreign labor
0:33:20  James makes a prediction
0:34:55  Carcel clothing, Lynn gets emotional
0:40:54  WIPs, see also, the Letter to the Shareholder
0:57:52  Wrath of Gnon, nightmares
1:03:30  In the mind of a writer, On Silence
1:10:04  Panhandler murder, Baltimore


(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart

Letter to Shareholder

To: James LaFond
Re: Crackpot Industries Letter to Shareholders 2018

Dear Mr. LaFond,

2018 was a banner year for Crackpot Industries. I want to highlight our successes and our trajectory for 2019, but first, I will give you a quick recap of 2017 to show how far we have come in such a short time. When I joined in late 2016, you were struggling to keep track of the number of books you had in print. I spent the first half of 2017 cataloging your works in a massive spreadsheet, using Amazon searches and your own website as sources.  The Crackpot Podcast was born in June of 2017 and we published 20 episodes that year, as well as some other videos.  Before the year was over, I had edited and published Masculine Axis and Autumn in a Dying City, the latter of which was banned by Amazon, the opening salvo in a war on your writing that would continue into 2018.

Let's look at the numbers for 2018:

Books published: 7 titles, 331,000 words
Books banned: 3 titles

Crackpot Podcast: 27 episodes

YouTube: 11,000 views, 185,000 minutes watched
MP3 downloads: over 10,000
Blogposts: 159 articles
Total titles in print: 149

In social media, the Crackpot Podcast YouTube channel has over 190 subscribers, with another 140 RSS subscribers, and 230 followers on my Lynn Lockhart twitter account.

At the bottom of this post you will find images of each book I have edited, including our first title of 2019, Cracker-Boy; clicking each image will take you to the Amazon link for each book.

Looking ahead, this year, we hope to publish another 7 titles, beating our total for last year, as well as continue podcasting approximately every other week after a slow start.  A special project is in the works to release banned titles in limited edition, autographed hard covers.

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to Crackpot Industries.  If I wasn't doing this, I would be crocheting potholders (I can only do squares or rectangles), or trying to sell Avon to my non-existent female friends or some other stay-at-home mom hustle so I hope you decide to keep me on.

Sincerely,
Lynn Lockhart
COO, Crackpot Industries

(c) 2019 Lynn Lockhart

Shelters for the Self

A Review by LaMano

This is as minimal and as compelling as it gets. No “tweaking” to make it sound more interesting like we might come to expect from modern books or movies, it’s just raw and atmospheric and real.

Don’t expect to spend days or even hours reading it the first time. You can get through all of it, the forewords and background and historical context and the actual diary, in about 30 minutes of reading.  But I find myself picking it up again and again; the last time with a calendar of the Pacific war next to it.

A hand-written diary picked up on a battle-torn Pacific island after all the Japanese on the island were dead or captured, passed on to someone else, translated and typed up while the memories were still clear, it has the feel of half a chapter of Henri Charriere’s Papillon; the translation is not perfect, the diarist was not a skilled writer. He just says what he is feeling, tells what he did while the bombs crashed around him, and with each reading you get a little more of his mood..

The writer is a young, loyal, frightened, courageous petty officer attached to an Imperial Japanese Navy anti-aircraft artillery unit on the island of Biak during the American invasion. You get a sense of the kind of propaganda that he had been fed by some statements he makes. He has never been in close combat with his enemy, and yet of the American troops he says “…. the enemy are known to be weak in maneuver and will cry and flee when attacked …..” Each time a Japanese aircraft flies over, they're told that it sank an American ship. Maybe you HAVE to believe that sort of thing in that situation...

Perhaps someday, someone will be able to use the clues in the diary to get this information to his family. But in the meantime, we can get a sense of the fear and hopelessness of a Japanese soldier coming to the realization of just what magnitude of a “sleeping giant” Japan has awakened from its slumber...

Shelters for the Self

(c) 2018 LaMano

Shelters for the Self by James LaFond and Scott Cole

The Captured Diary of Petty Officer Second Class Koyama

I am very proud to announce the first book to be published under the Crackpot label.  When James and I started podcasting on a lark in June of 2017, "The Crackpot Podcast" was the first name he suggested, it made me laugh and we ran with it.  A few months ago he suggested we start a new publishing account together, so that I could further encroach on his work and handle cover design, pricing, uploading, and other administrative duties.  This was after I insisted on editing every new book before its release, starting with Masculine Axis.

James attracts contributors, just by being the friendly and accessible writing machine that he is.  Shelters for the Self drew out Scott Cole, a veteran who lived in Japan.  Scott was able to identify the battle described by Koyama in his diary, the taking of Biak by American forces, that began in May of 1944.  Scott created a timeline to correspond to diary entries, and added cultural and language context as well.  The operator of the Twitter account known as Wrath of Gnon was also moved to contribute.  He currently resides in Japan and was able to give additional translation advice and performed detective work on the diarist, providing other readers with valuable information that might lead to the discovery of Koyama's descendants or other relatives.  I must thank Tony Cox for volunteering his excellent proofreading services.

It has been a great privilege to work with James, and the community that he has built, on this project, and I hope for many more to come.

Lynn

*****

The diary of Petty Officer Second Class Koyama was a spoil of war, passed from the hands of an American veteran of World War II into the possession of his heirs, forgotten and found again. It is published here as an artifact of the Pacific theater, memory of which slips away in favor of events in Europe, and in hopes of a connection between the descendants of men made enemies.

Available in paperback and in Kindle edition.

(c) 2018 Lynn Lockhart

Man Gearing by James LaFond

Building an Unapologetic, Masculine Mindset in an Effeminate World

The author contends that the current sissy age is a domesticating construct devoted to your emasculation. Although these views are put forth by a man generally believed to be “insane” and at best a maniac, a crank who claims to commune with the ghost of an ancient Scythian Khan, you might want to consider that your forefathers sold you out for a cozy life and reject their degenerate aspirations in favor of a warrior’s view of this limp-wristed world.

Available in paperback, coming soon in Kindle edition.

Son of a Lesser God by James LaFond - Crackpot Podcast Ep 26

James and Lynn speak with Bob, otherwise known as Ishmael, about living in the West, his father and more.

The Crackpot Podcast features the masculinist James LaFond and motherslave Lynn Lockhart.

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0:00:50  Introducing Ishmael, Son of a Lesser God (Kindle, paperback)
0:01:55  The buffalo hunt
0:08:50  What makes an animal tastier
0:13:30  Shooting vs. fishing
0:15:00  The importance of proximity
0:16:35  Beartooth Loop
0:21:07  How is the winter so far?
0:23:30  Hayden Fork
0:24:45  Forest fires
0:27:00  Kokanee salmon & other fish
0:30:35  Ishmael was a late in life child
0:35:05  The skills needed for life in the mountains, starting early
0:36:55  Grandchildren
0:37:40  Mushrooms
0:39:00  How did Ishmael find James' website?
0:47:20  Raccoons and other wildlife
0:51:30  Books for young readers
0:54:23  Imagining Head Smashed In
1:00:03  Thrill killing by wild predators
1:03:15  Fowl
1:05:03  Bear
1:06:20  Alcohol
1:11:05  Vegetarianism
1:16:08  Aging the catch
1:18:20  Generation gaps
1:20:34  Travel plans
1:23:00  Mushrooms again and other foraging

(c) 2018 Lynn Lockhart & James LaFond

Autumn in a Dying City by James LaFond

Letters from the Last Whiteman in Baltimore

This controversial Harm City title has been banned from print sales on Amazon.

Living in America’s most violent city offers lessons for the future for those portions of the U.S. which have not yet fallen to the will of its masters. James LaFond is an unrepentant jerk who lives as poor white trash in the worst possible example of where urban modernity is headed.

Do you want a guide, or will you just wing it?

Kindle version available at Amazon.

For a print copy, contact James.

Writing Unchained by James LaFond

Prolific Writing by Design

Whether you need to write or want to write, James LaFond offers the valuable perspective of one who has learned from the ground up, leaving out no part of the process, from initial outline to titling, who understands his craft intricately.

Available in paperback.

Masculine Axis by James LaFond

A Meditation on Manhood and Heroism

James LaFond writes about masculinity with the assurance of a man who knows what he is about. Only by understanding and practicing masculinity, through literature, at work, with their mates and family members, in combat, sports and in fellowship with other men, may the men of our sick society preserve their property, families, cultural patrimony and their own souls.

Available in paperback and Kindle edition.

The Pale Usher by James LaFond

Impressions of Moby Dick: Herman Melville and Modern Man?s Transcendental Journey

In The Pale Usher, the author, masculinity historian James LaFond, examines the text and subtext of the 25-chapter overture to Moby Dick as an allegory of Civilized Man’s awakening to his socially submerged self—a primal quest within the domesticated human in search of his authentic self. In this work, the author goes on to examine the works of such authors as Robinson Jeffers, J. R. R. Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith, Thomas Ligotti, Dan Simmons, Bram Stoker, Ambrose Bierce, Phillip K. Dick, Carl Jung, Robert Bloch and H.P. Lovecraft.

Available in paperback or Kindle edition.

The Lies That Bind Us by James LaFond

The Foundational Falsehoods of the American Dream

The Lies that Bind Us is an open-ended exploration of the ingeniously layered falsehoods that misinform the moral foundations of the Greatest Lie Ever Told, how we came to the brink of the abyss and the many slain truths that might have been.

Available in paperback and Kindle edition.

Rubbing Out Palefaces by James LaFond

Are you the same color as the fools depicted acting like goofballs on network TV commercials? Does every violent criminal and serial killer depicted in movies and on TV hold an uncomfortable resemblance to your pale person? Were you born to the world as a monster of the evil pigmentation that falls between beige and pink? Has the world at large grown sick of your privilege, of your jaunts aboard your private yacht, of your mansion, of your Rolls Royce? Well, as you eye that cardboard box in the alley with a little more familiarity, you might want to read what you are in for, when you become a paleface pedestrian in world that hates you. The author has lived on foot and made his way alone by night, in Baltimore, Maryland, as one of the most hated men of the world’s most reviled race, and here is a slice of his story of survival. With contributions from Lili Hun, Lucas McKane, Baruch, Ishmael, Nero the Pict and Jeremy Bentham Also includes the mini-books Hero Song of the Thugs and How the Blacks Saved English.

Available in paperback & Kindle edition.

So Her Master May Have Her Again by James LaFond

A History of Runaway White Slaves in Plantation America: Part Two

Between 1617 and the 1850s, as many as a million white women were enslaved in Plantation America: as house servants, sex slaves, field hands, bar maids, unwilling wives and laundresses. If any of these women could be made to take the slightest tan they might be passed off as mixed and therefore black, which would consign them to a full lifetime of bondage. Within this book are the stories—ranging from fragmentary to epic—of Caucasian and mixed-race women, brave women who made their break for freedom in a man’s world.

Available in paperback.

Drink Deep of Night

Song of the Secret Gardener

What if our nightmares, myths, devils and demons had a singular source, a source so advanced as to be as a scientist to our bacteria, so alien as to be unable to communicate with us, without becoming us? A possible answer to these disturbing questions may be found in James LaFond’s Drink Deep of Night, a tale told in that place where wonder and horror meet in the mind.

Available in paperback and Kindle edition.

A Well of Heroes: Two

Literary Impressions of the Prose and Verse of Robert E. Howard

Fantasy and Horror writer, James LaFond reviews the subtext and heroic themes of Robert E. Howard’s works of pulp fiction and tribal myth, including extensive discussions of the hero in myth, history and literature.

Available in paperback.

The Hunt for Whitey

Recognizing and Surviving the Condition of Anarcho-Tyranny

BobCatMaster says The Hunt for Whitey is "chilling and surreal."

Available in paperback and Kindle edition.

The Mind of Mescaline Franklin by James LaFond

The Awakening of a Paleface Ethnocist

An awakening mind, Mescaline Franklin is the Aryan Resistance name of a young white nationalist who drove into Baltimore one summer afternoon seeking an audience with a little-known crackpot indie writer, best regarded for his dissertation on stabbing people with improvised weapons. The man who would take the best street name in the Alternative Right knew he was walking the earth in the time when his ancestral enemies were pulling down the shroud of night. The grandson of a man who fought the World Order on the Russian Front an age ago, now living across the river from the towers of power that pulled the strings of that World Order, he knew he had to spread the word of “dissent not consent” among working white men. Toward that end he would journey to the nadir of urban blight on a monthly quest to hone his persuasive edge on the knuckle-dented head of End Time America’s most prolific outcast, growing incipient strands that formed a simple, defiant creed.

Available in paperback.

Habitat Hoodrat: Yo-Nation by James LaFond

Harm City U.S.A., 2016-17

Yo Nation is a survey of geeks, thugs, freaks, killers and the meek as they experience cultural freefall in the moral vacuum of Baltimore City, Maryland, better known to its inmates as Harm City. In Harm City there are vacancies aplenty as over 12,000 residents flee with eyes wide shut each and every year.

See also the companion volume: Habitat Hoodrat: Ho-Nation.

Available in paperback.

Being a Bad Man in a Worse World by James LaFond

Fighting Smart: Boxing, Agonistics & Survival

Being a Bad Man in a Worse World is a three part handbook for the postmodern man:

-Boxing, learning in the gym and ring
-Agonistics, fighting with blades and sticks
-Survival in the streets of America during its escalating race war.

Available in paperback.