(This is a short excerpt from my forthcoming novel, That’s Me in the Corner, spoken in the voice of the book’s protagonist, Brody Graham.) *** “So Brody, what is it with you and all your little rituals?” Caleb asked. “You prepare your coffee and smoke your cigar like you’re a priest presiding over some kind of […]
Category: Jason
Thanks for a Great First Month!
We all here at Heavy for the Vintage just wanted to stop and acknowledge our one-month anniversary, and to thank all of you for reading us, following us, liking us, retweeting us, and linking to us. Just to give you an idea of our first month’s overall numbers, we have had 12,000 page views and […]
Keeping Christ in Xmas
My dear friends, this is nothing short of a call to arms. While I always feel very keenly the degree to which I, a middle-class white male, am ever the victim of marginalization and attack, it is during this time of year, xmastime, that the assault on the American way of life is most pronounced. […]
An Open Letter to Hollywood
Dear Hollywood Elites, We here at Heavy for the Vintage have been watching movies and television for most of our lives and, well, let’s just say we’ve been growing increasingly unhappy about a few things, and I think it’s high time we clear the air about the disturbing trends we have been noticing. Let me […]
“What, to the Indian, is Your Thanksgiving?”
In a moving speech given by escaped slave Frederick Douglass on July 5th, 1852 (a portion of which is read by Morgan Freeman below), the question is asked, “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” Here is part of his answer: [The Fourth of July] is a day that reveals to […]
Itching Beneath the Mask
(This is an abridged excerpt from my latest book. Enjoy. . . .) It is precisely here, when we try to be real, that the true difficulty becomes increasingly overt. If “our Great War is a spiritual war” as Tyler Durden says, then we should expect to be resisted when we begin to question the […]