James Keenan – Celtic Riverside

The Fates of Twitter and Celtic Riverside Are Inexorably Linked

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A simple but painful truth rarely acknowledged is that I do not have a voice. My Twitter following is small. Celtic Riverside has a very limited readership. Even in my…

Critical Thought…

She-Hulk: Is Marvel Failing Feminism?

I won't name her, but YouTube decided to hit me with a video the other day about how woke superhero Hollywood was failing women. It begins with an article supporting…

The Ambages – How a Fictional Family Became the Cornerstone of My Mind

Ambage: noun - an archaic term for intentional ambiguity or indirect ways or proceedings (usually presented as the plural "ambages"; Middle English via French and Latin) Intentional ambiguity is not…

In Which One is Critical of Gender Critical Gender

I saw a Twitter post the other day asking why the recent Jon Stewart piece was doing everything with respect to women rather than men. It seemed like an odd…

Critical Thought

PINK (Simple Admiration for a Complex Colour)

I grew up in a world where pink was very much a girl colour. It appeared almost as though a warning to boys, the way cautionary signage indicates a hazard…

Economic Anxiety

This begins as the tale of three colleagues - a devout Republican, the guy who became president of the Young Democrats for the county, and me. All three of us…

Thee WIP

Now seems like a good enough time to share some of the vaguest details with people. First, I have no delusions about becoming popular off my work. Even if it…

An Existential Crisis – Part II: Religion

I struggle with matters of faith. Faith, by its definition, requires a component beyond verification and my mind simply does not work that way. One of my biggest questions with…

An Existential Crisis – Part I: Economics

For better or worse, I am going to start off with capitalism. I don't know that it's correct to argue that capitalism is the culprit for all of the ills…