And other monetary manias — The present day investment trends in cryptocurrencies and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has lately been likened to the 17th century Dutch tulip mania. For those who don’t know, this was in effect the first recorded instance of a what investors call a ‘speculative bubble’. Of course, bubbles tend to burst, and…

Never The Machine Forever — There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms eventually replacing human writers. Yours Truly has recently been experimenting with some of the leading GPT-3 apps (though none of them will be named here), and found them rather wanting overall. …

Tome of The Sixth Sun | Lunacy Trilogy | Book III — The Siege of Medyuh Concludes Banneret Zœyh shuffled silently down a narrow alleyway by the light of a fragmented moon. She was accompanied by Zapphoh, as well as a small band of Barbary Bards. Out of necessity, their army had split into many smaller contingents. Empress Atharvanh had put bounties on all their heads, and…

Tome of The Sixth Sun [Lunacy Trilogy Book III] Second Battle Around Marz Reddest Orkh — The Anti-Angel — had finally returned for a rematch in orbit of Marz along with his pervasive retinue of Dæmon & Druuj retainers. …

A tongue-in-cheek tribute — Puff Piece [noun, Informal]: A newspaper article, book, public-relations film, etc., whose purpose is to praise or flatter. From the forthcoming, Future Sutras: A Decade of Anti-Poetry Puff Piece Now here at long last we have something so well written that it really forces us to think and perhaps even wonder if…

Always root for the underdog — Everywhere you look these days, miniature Mediums seem to be popping up. Publications that appeal to countless interests have rapidly propagated our cyber spaces. …

Tome of The Sixth Sun [Lunacy Trilogy Book III] — 1. The Siege of Medyuh Continues Banneret Zœyh surveyed the smouldering battlements through binoculars after her army’s first round of artillery fire died down. Grand Master Zymonh Maguz had furnished the Barbary Bards with plenty of heavy duty weaponry for this campaign. Zœyh saw some movement upon the ramparts which had weathered their initial onslaught. A…

The emperor’s new cloak never looked quite so good… — Author’s Note: The inspiration for this piece came when an Italian artist sold an ‘immaterial sculpture’ last week for the tidy sum of 15,000 Euros. From the forthcoming, Future Sutras: A Decade of Anti-Poetry Invisible Artwork Have you ever seen such superb abstraction? CLUE: It’s neti-neti y’all — Which means it can…

We see you and raise yet another disparity — From the forthcoming, Future Sutras: A Decade of Anti-Poetry Self-Parroting Parody When it comes to both haw and hem The reader is every writer’s problem Sometimes one must console them Even going so far as to compensate pro tem Else pro forma devolves mid madness and mayhem From where do such transgressions…