Kevin I. Slaughter reads an excerpt from the book “A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago” by Ben Hecht.

YouTube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0quag1z47M

Audio file attached for podcast subscribers.

Matador, of course, meaning killer.

Steve Sailer, blogger and author of “America’s Half-Blood Prince” sat down with host Kevin I. Slaughter for a discussion about the president and other concerns. From bullfighting to Modern English, the conversation covered a number of topics outside of Human Biodiversity, sometimes shortened to HBD, but we covered that as well. The sound of the interview is a little wonky. It was recorded on location and I tried to clean it up but it’s not up to the level I’d like. I do have a better method of location interview recordings though, so the next one should sound better, assuming I get to use that method…

Before that are a few items of interest, two very short excerpts from two books – one being Pentti Linkola’s Can Life Prevail? – A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis“, from the folks at corrupt.org. After the interview I read a selection from Robert G. Ingersoll that I recorded for infidels.org. I’ve volunteered to record a few written pieces by Ingersoll for their archives after hearing David Driscoll from American Freethought mention it on his podcast. This is the one of three that I’ve recorded so far, and it’s about 7 minutes long. The title is “Should Infidels Send Their Children to Sunday School?” and it was written in the latter half of the 1800’s. I guess the recording will be available in the “library” section of the site, but I’m not sure when.

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The interview for this podcast were completed in October of 2009, final recording and mixing were completed  Wednesday, January 20th, 2010.

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Thank you Rob for the following quote/review:

“The “alternative right” is an interesting place. It’s full of people who are united by very little except for a common rejection of the current reigning cultural consensus: egalitarianism, universalism and a belief in unlimited human progress. Even in the alternative right, some people stand out as especially eccentric…”

Though it was a transient post on ye olde Facebook, I think it’s one of my favorite lines about the show, or it’s host, yet.

Welcome: Corrupt.org readers, In Mala Fide readers, Diabologue readers and readers of my personal blog. Your linkage is appreciated, your sites are great!

John Derbyshire, author of the new book We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism, sat down for a discussion of atheism and conservatism, math cranks and more in our first proper episode. Your host Kevin I. Slaughter discusses the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy and touches on the myth of the noble savage by way of a quote from an author stolen from an interview on the Skepticality Podcast and by lifting a passage from Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. We also hear an archival recording of HL Mencken discussion his philosophy of drinking, and a plug for the new UA release Laffs & Juggs.

John Derbyshire has previously released the novels Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream: A Novel (1997), a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”, Fire From the Sun (2000) a storyline written in an astounding 76 chapers in 3 volumes. His non-fiction books Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003), Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (2006) and now We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009).

In addition to the books, he has over three and a half decades of journalism and reportage under his proverbial belt. A selection of the magazines and newspapers he’s written for: Nat. Review, NYT, Boston Globe, Weekly Standard, Mathematics Magazine, Wall Street Journal and many others. He’s contributed to National Review Online, V-Dare.com and the New English Review websites.

The Underworld Amusements Variety Hour is a podcast covering an eclectic mix of subjects, guided by the interests of its host. This is the first episode proper, but so far there have already been multiple special episodes, short format extras and pdf files of free materials. Underworld Amusements is a small media company focusing on publishing books of forgotten and marginalized works, our podcast and other products and even events.

I’ve started posting excerpts of interviews on YouTube under a dedicated account in 720p high definition… of course, they’re audio interviews with still images, so it’s easy to get that High Def quality.

Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes. As always, our full episodes and specials are also available at Radio Free Satan. Or just find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page.

Please note: I misspoke, well, a few times as usual, but specifically in the discussion of Islamophobia where I say that Derbyshire believes “Christianity is slightly crazier than Islam”, but that should be “slightly less crazy than Islam”. A small, but important difference.

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Underworld Amusements announce:

Laffs & Juggs

A Doorstop Collection of Dirty Old Comic Digests

compiled by Christopher R. Mealie & Kevin I. Slaughter

570 pages, 5.5″ x 8.5″, paperback

Laff your way back to a time when making light of sex and class differences was not punishable BY LAW.
Featuring comics, naughty photos and lots of really bad jokes from the 1960’s. Over 560 pages of vintage material!
Including an introduction by photographer and archivist Christopher R. Mealie, editor of SexCats (Goliath Books).

Click the “Download” link at the top of the post for a free 48 page PDF!

Underworld Amusements Variety Hour

2009 Halloween Special

Your host tells the real story of a relationship that begins on 6-6-06 and culminates in a Satanic Wedding that starts in Baltimore on 9-9-09, and ends in at the HR Giger Museum in Gruyère, Switzerland, featuring an interview with dark surrealist artist HR Giger!

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In the interviews aired so far, I’ve usually edited them, sometimes heavily. This was the first interview done in person, and it was recorded with a single portable recorder (Blue Microphones Mikey attached to an iPod classic), and it’s not as easy to edit as the phone interviews where the two voices are recorded separately. So, you’ll hear a minimally edited interview, warts, nervous laughter and all.

Baltimore

Switzerland

We had plans to release the first episode proper on Halloween, but the story and interview that it leads up to take up a whole hour by themselves, so we ditched the 30 minutes of other stuff to release another special!

A good friend of mine dropped me a note to say that Underworld Amusements is given a nod in the new issue of the UK magazine Zero Tolerance, so here’s me nodding back (but not nodding off).

I’m still putting together the first episode proper of the podcast, keep your good eye (and ear) open for that, as well as a new book announcement!

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Underworld Amusements is proud to release Peter H. Gilmore’s “Goat of Mendes” as its first fine art print. Close work with Magus Gilmore on all stages of production has been done to create an appropriate representation of his work. Kevin I. Slaughter has personally printed each canvas using a high-end large format giclee process and has hand cut the frames and assembled each final piece of this edition of 33. Each print is numbered and signed by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Painted in 1982, nearly two decades before he was to become High Priest of the Church of Satan, Peter H. Gilmore was morphing the occult illustration of Eliphas Levi into a truly Satanic figure. From transforming the wings into those of the Chiroptera, to replacing the merely representative phallus with an unabashed erect penis, Gilmore’s painting is fierce and carnal while evoking a powerful mythological effigy.
The image was used as an illustration for Magus Gilmore’s first book The Satanic Scriptures, published by Scapegoat Publishing in 2007. The limited hardback and slipcased editions features this image printed in full color on the case wraps, and all editions feature a black and white version on the first page of the book.

For information on how to purchase this print, visit the Germophilia website!

Thank you to everyone who attended the show opening of Germophilia in Philly. It was a great time and the show looks incredible. I’ve got a few announcements to make, but I’ve already been posting photos on flickr and facebook and tagging and describing, and I’ve got to take a few minutes more to relax.
The show hangs until 9-20-2009, get down to Fishtown if you didn’t make it to the opening. Germ is normally open Friday through Sunday.

Until then!

Time: 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Jennifer Bates Gallery @ Germ Books
Street: 2005 FRANKFORD AVE
City/Town: Philadelphia, PA

Underworld Amusements presents:

GERMOPHILIA

GERMOPHILIA is about loving the disease. The disease is one of this world, the reason why your parents lied about there being a god and the Easter bunny. It’s the flesh, the darkness, the idea that freedom is not given – but taken. GERMOPHILIA presents a collection of artists with a wide range of styles and mediums together to serve as a catalyst to spread just that sickness…
The cutesy cheesecake of Stacey Barich will stir the loins, the totalitarian and infernal collage and painting of Peter H. Gilmore (Church of Satan), the disturbing clash of beauty and tragedy of the photos of Christopher R. Mealie (SexCats!), the worship of strength found in the paintings of Jack Malebranche (author of Androphilia: A Manifesto), the perverse misanthropy of Stephanie Crabe (Motel Bizarre), the haunting dreamworld canvasses of Stephen Kasner (Stephen Kasner: Works 1993-2006), and more. Nine artists presenting a collective picture of the world that subverts that status quo without slipping into the arms of the usual suspects. As a thirst for knowledge is a sin, GERMOPHILIA is a disease that will feed your eyes, mind and passion.

Underworld Amusements Variety Hour conducted interviews with all of the artists participating in the show and made them availablevia podcast. Available from the UA website, iTunes, and RadioFreeSatan.com. Two truncated versions of the print catalog are available in PDF form to view along with the podcasts.

UAVH Germophilia Special 1 – Donovan, Mealie, Barich

UAVH Germophilia Special 2 – Kasner, Crabe, Gilmore, Slaughter, Tydings

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