Drive-bys from the Drive-In
Making some snap judgements so you don’t have to…
By Roy Griffis
In this week’s Cultural Dispatches from the Alamo, Griff sets his sights on five recent releases…
Doing Dialect Right
Part 9 In an Ongoing Series
By Jamie K. Wilson
Welcome to this series on how to write fiction from a conservative point of view. These posts can simply be read, or you are invited to join a guided writer’s workshop to practice and critique with other writers. To join the workshop, please email me, Jamie, at kywrite at gmail.com and request an invitation.
PreTeena: August 13 – August 19, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected] Check out Allison Barrows’ new PreTeena blog here.
4 Photos From a Father-Son Fishing Trip
By Howard Butcher
*Submit your photographs of nature and the outdoor life to [email protected] to participate in this weekly feature exploring the natural world.*
Smart Aleck Appliances
By Tamara Wilhite
I first encountered the horror stories of smart appliances when a client presented a list of error codes and requested articles on how to troubleshoot the errors. Ideally, they’d fix things themselves, but the articles would inform them when it was necessary to call for service or replace parts. In my research for the articles, I realized how much of a headache smart appliances are relative to their dumb counterparts. Here are a few of my observations.
Many glitches and errors can be solved via a reboot the same way we reset our phones and reboot our computers … but most smart appliances lack an easy reset button. A hard reboot of a computer is turning it off and back on. A hard reboot of your smart fridge is unplugging it from the wall, while your smart oven may only be reset by turning it off at the breaker.
The Greatest Conservative Films: Man of Steel (2013)
By Eric M. Blake
Editor’s Note: In April of 2017 writer Eric M. Blake began a series at Western Free Pressnaming the “Greatest Conservative Films.” The introduction explaining the rules and indexing all films included in the series can be found here. Liberty Island will feature cross-posts of select essays from the series with the aim of encouraging discussion at this cross-roads of cinematic art with political ideology. (Click here to see the original essay. Check out the previously cross-posted entries on Jackie Brown, Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Unforgiven, Hail, Caesar!, Apocalypse Now, and Fight Club.) If you would like join this dialogue please contact us at submissions [@] libertyislandmag.com.
Red Sunset: How Movies, Punk Rock and Cosmic Girl Helped Me Win the Cold War
By Mark Judge
The author now reveals himself as the first chapters are collected and published here.
Sarah Hoyt Proclaims: “We Are The Counterculture”
Check Out the Sci-Fi-Fantasy Author’s Fascinating Manifesto
By Liberty Island Links & Excerpts
From PJ Media’s Lifestyle section:
If you’re as old as I am, or a little younger, you probably remember the counterculture from the seventies (I was too young to remember it from the sixties.) The word will bring to mind greasy little cafes and the sort of “free papers” where the comics have a lot of naked people. The articles will have lots of swear words and sometimes mild blasphemy against Christianity and religion in general.
Read The Beginning of The Broken Return, Book 3 in The Lonesome George Chronicles
Roy M. “Griff” Griffis continues to bring the action with his extraordinary alternate history series
By Roy Griffis
Click here to purchase Griff’s post-apocalyptic thriller series The Lonesome George Chronicles.
PreTeena: August 6 – August 12, 2018
Sunday Comics!
By Allison Barrows
You won’t want to miss these hilarious cartoons depicting the ups and downs of adolescence. Now each week’s strips will debut on Sundays as the lead strip of Liberty Island’s Sunday Comics feature. If you draw a comic and would like to have your work featured on Sundays, please contact us: [email protected] Check out Allison Barrows’ new PreTeena blog here.
