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The Third Annual Meeting of the HL Mencken Club – Oct. 22-23, 2010 – Baltimore, Maryland

Kevin I. Slaughter — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:34:48 +0000

The Third Annual Meeting of the HL Mencken Club

Baltimore, Maryland

Friday, October 22:

7: 30 – 10 PM — Dinner

Paul Gottfried: “How the Left Won the Cold War”

John Derbyshire : “The PC Religion”

Saturday, October 23:

9 – 10 AM – PC Around the World

Grant Havers: “Canada: The Death of the West Up North”

TBA: “Eastern Europe: The Last Stand Against PC”

Ilana Mercer: “South Africa: A Warning”

10: 30 – 11: 30 AM – “Rights” Culture

Paul Gottfried: “The Civil Rights Act: PC’s Holy Shrine”

James Kalb: “PC: The Cultural Antichrist”

Richard Spencer: “‘When Will They Wake Up?”

12 – 2 PM — Lunch

12:45 Speaker: TBA

2:20 – 3 PM – Land of Illusions

Robert Weissberg: “Bad Students / Not Bad Schools”

Steve Sailer: “Can HBD Trump PC?”

Henry Harpending: ”The Evolutionary Left”

3:30 – 4:30 PM – Traditionalism, Subversion, and Counterrevolution

Christopher Kopff: “Back to the Future or Why the Past is More Important Than the Present”

James Russell: “The Churches’ Betrayal of European Christianity”

Tom Piatak: “Christophobia and its Discontents”

5:30 – 6:30 PM Plenary Session — Q&A

7:30 – 8:30 — Dinner

John Derbyshire: Reading from the Mencken Chrestomathy

Peter Brimelow: “Neo-Socialism, or How the Government Can Elect a New People”

10:00 — Hospitality Suite

10:30 — Late-night “Cigar & Bourbon” Session – “What Needs to Be Done?”

Book Nerd :: Late Sept. ’09 – (update)

Kevin I. Slaughter — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:51:26 +0000

Ukazoo Books in Towson – The Burden of Bad Ideas by Heather MacDonald (used)

Germ Books in Philly – On Being A Pagan by Alain deBenoist and Carnival Culture by James B. Twitchell

UPDATE!

Costco (cheaper than Amazon.com, like $16 and some change) – Richard Dawkins The Greatest Show on Earth!

Oct.31st – Nov. 1st :: HL Mencken Club 2009 Conference

Kevin I. Slaughter — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:53:59 +0000

I just recently purchased my tickets for this years HL Mencken Club Conference.

This year I’m going to try to get permission from the hosts to interview a few of the speakers for my Underworld Amusements Podcast. It’s too bad I don’t have a number of episodes under my belt yet – just a few specials, the test episode and the one extra. It’s getting a small number of listeners so far (about 1,800+), but not a single review on iTunes, and not enough ratings to tabulate an average yet. It’s one of those credibility paradoxes… you’ve got to have some credibility to get the interviews, and you’ve got to get the interviews to have some credibility.

Maybe the mixed, but mostly positive review of last years event will put them off, or maybe not. Given Derbyshire’s own afterthoughs, maybe he’ll be up for an interview at least.

I just ordered a Blue Microphones Mikey for my iPod for “field recordings” where it’s not possible to take my netbook and USB mic. I’ll be testing it out in Switzerland next weekend. It has mixed reviews, but when I saw it had come down from the $79 purchase price to $49 on amazon, I pulled the proverbial trigger.

Underworld Amusements HAS published a Mencken book, and his work will appear in the next volume of the Iron Youth Reader.

I’m really excited that Patrick J. Buchanan and Steve Sailer are going to speak. I’ve read three books by the former and have been a daily reader of the blog of the latter for a few years now. Mr Sailer is the only person to ever write a golf themed article and make it interesting to me. That’s amazing.

Anyway, I wanted to plug the event here.

My very own blog…

Kevin I. Slaughter — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:39:43 +0000

I’ve archived here years of myspace blogs, the last few months of facebook notes, and I’ll be adding a few things here and there – dated to the time it occurred.

I’m now porting this blog over to my personal facebook account, and it should show up on my twitter feed, though I don’t like twitter, other people I like DO, and I want them to know I’ve posted something here. I’m on freindfeed as well, but it’s all too much and since it has my twitter, facebook and blog feeds, it’s going to be very very redundant.

I’ve put everything in a category, at least one. “MySpace Archive” and “Facebook Archive” are self-explanatory.

As of this writing, I have the following categories:

Archivalist : Stuff I scan/document.

Arty : Um, art stuff. Things I or others do.

Bibliophile : I, book nerd.

Blog Notes : Just shit like this – who fucking cares.

Boorish : Me ranting, i.e. “commentary” and “sophistry”.

Crafty : Projects around the house. Sewing, sawing, silk-screening, building.

Design : Design projects for Underworld Amusements, freelance design that won’t scandalize the client, etc.

Outside My House : Vacations, events, etc.

Quote : Things other people have said, with or without commentary.

Skeptic : Things having to do with skepticism, atheism, critical thinking.

Slaughter House : When I pretend to be a professional photographer.

Two Cents : Much overlap with “Boorish”, but quieter.

Underworld Amusements : Notes on my projects that aren’t important enough to go on that site.

I suppose if I start adding things from the past, I’ll add a category called “Historical Revisionism“…

I’ve “tagged” only a few of the posts here, I suppose future postings will have them, and maybe I’ll get around to the backlog of items. I’ve always been terrible at documenting my work. I’ve had one or two websites about me, but nothing public. It’s been a tightrope walk, owing to the fact that I do freelance work and have a “straight job”. I haven’t gone out of my way to hide my opinions, I just haven’t gone out of my way to publicize them in a public way like this. Take, for example, the description of “Design” above… I won’t be posting all my freelance work here because some of my clients wouldn’t like it. Some of them have had no idea of my interests outside of graphic design. That’s a good thing. It may not be a secret, but most politically vocal graphic designers are on the left.

Obama X-Press - Snow Balls, Food Stamps, Newport

I consider myself a secular conservative… a “little ‘l’ libertarian”. I disagree with libertarians on a few points – death penalty being one of them… it’s not used enough.

Well, we’ll see what happens. This way I have control, and I can push my thoughts out from one location.

I will do my best to restrict posts to something worth sharing. You may disagree, but luckily for you it’ll be really easy to ignore it all.

This is me, some 13 years ago. I was in an industrial/performance group called URILLIAsekt, and the performance was called “Lycanthropy Ritual”. I don’t know if I’ve gotten more weird or less.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn0be_CXIT0

This blog is found at kevinislaughter.com, but .net and .org get you there as well.