King Cringe brings the heat with this gonzo novelization of sex, murder, and supercharged politics! Read it free: https://kingcringe.substack.com/p/h8-spree-iiComing up we tentatively have "The Event" by Sam Pink, a sprinkling of some topics, and the winner of our August Fiction Poll: Shagduk!Support & Vote on our next read!https://www.patreon.com/…

What, if anything, does the 'skibidi toilet' phenomenon show us about literature in this darkest of endings? Serialization, timelinification, and some gibberish from Gabe!Support & Vote on our next read!https://www.patreon.com/tookysmaghttps://www.subscribestar.com/tookysmagNEW FROM TOOKY'S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: a.co/d/3AGjHU2Subscribe to the Tooky's …

The first half of the Popol Vuh as we have it from the Kʾicheʾ colonial tradition is a quintessentially Kingless epic, as the story revolves around pre-human gods, successive generations of hero twins, who must defeat a series of aggrandizer figures, including the lords of death in the underworld, in order to bring about the dawning of the human ag…

Deep dive into "parapolitics" and the world of noided marxist conspiracycels - the linguistics behind it, the material forces creating it, and the cultural shift it's driving to.Thumbnail art shamelessly stolen from ApCon Mag: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/2... Support & Vote on our next read! / tookysmag https://www.subscribestar.com/tookysm…

Book club discussion of the book 'My First Book' by Honor Levy.Read it here: https://amzn.to/3xvfcimSupport & Vote on our next read! / tookysmag https://www.subscribestar.com/tookysmagNEW FROM TOOKY'S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: a.co/d/3AGjHU2Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spoti…

Adem and I Belatedly celebrate the birthday of mystic-woman, She-Seer, and Grandmother of all E-girls Camille Paglia. BUY ADEM'S BOOK, IT IS A SOURCE OF GREAT VITALITY AND DIONYSIAN SPIRIT! https://amzn.to/3wP687WFollow Adem: https://x.com/AdemLuzNEW FROM TOOKY'S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: https://amzn.to/49fQTBTSubscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https…

Book club discussion of the book 'The Black Album' by Matt Pegas.Read it here: https://amzn.to/3KDchavSupport & Vote on our next read!https://www.patreon.com/tookysmaghttps://www.subscribestar.com/tookysmagNEW FROM TOOKY'S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: a.co/d/3AGjHU2Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://mu…

In a series that I hope will include Martin Bernal’s classic Black Athena (about the modern British fabrication of “ancient Greece” and its true roots in ancient Egypt), we start with the East: in recent decades, great advances in Hittite studies have illuminated much of the mechanics of transmission of Mesopotamian literature and religion to a nas…

The boys gather round with Last Things to discuss his claim that "we need dissident YA fiction". Check out the great work of Last Things: https://www.youtube.com/@lastthingsNEW FROM TOOKY'S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: a.co/d/3AGjHU2Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/The Prudentialis…

Book club discussion of 'Bizarchives #6', a spiritual successor to Weird Tales. Read it here: https://amzn.to/44wxls4or here: https://thebizarchives.com/NEW FROM TOOKY'S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: a.co/d/3AGjHU2Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/sh…

A close reading of “The Playboy Dialect,” a classic sharebon, or narrative of fashion and manners in the pleasure quarters of Edo-period Japan, where a consumer culture, to rival anything concocted by the capitalist dictatorships of the Century of the Self, was wielded as a weapon of class struggle by the rising urban commoner class against the de …

Second half of book club discussion of 'My Confession' by Samuel Chamberlain, a republishing of a historical account of the Mexican-American War.Read it here: https://amzn.to/4a637OVNEW FROM TOOKY"S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: a.co/d/3AGjHU2Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spotify…

Topic discussion of how many books you should write in a year, Ursula K. Le Guin's essay/speech 'From Elfland to Poughkeepsie' - available to read: https://vdocuments.mx/le-guin-ursula-k-from-elfland-to-poughkeepsie.html?page=8***NEW WAY TO SUPPORT THE BOYS!***https://www.patreon.com/tookysmaghttps://www.subscribestar.com/tookysmag ALSO NEW FROM TO…

Book club discussion of 'My Confession' by Samuel Chamberlain, a republishing of a historical account of the Mexican-American War.Read it here: https://amzn.to/4a637OVNEW FROM TOOKY"S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: a.co/d/3AGjHU2Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spotify: https://open.…

The rise of ancient empires in the Eurasian continent ushered in the Axial Age, with its ideologies of absolute good and evil and the promise of revolutionary recompense for unheard-of oppression by the Occupiers of the Earth (שכני הארץ). The books of 1 Enoch and Jubilees, quoted by name in the New Testament, still contained in the Bible of the Eth…

Book club discussion of Max Thrax's 'God Is a Killer'. Read it here: https://amzn.to/3V0dkaRNEW FROM TOOKY"S MAG! IMPROVIDENCE: https://amzn.to/3V6LUA5Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FzMJeB...Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/po…

Book club discussion of the infamous *alleged* decapitator Justin Mohn's 'The Punishing'.Read it here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ktg1ek7pQQDIl0akdfiGfBirR64AegNo?usp=sharingSubscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FzMJeB...App…

I thought I had a hot take in response to the Little Mermaid discourse last year, but predictably I’m not the first one to think of reading the Isle of Venus in Camões’ Lusiads against the Age of Exploration diary entries in which roving European savages discuss their adventures in more complex Indigenous kinship structures where sex was not commod…

The antisemitic, Nazi-adjacent ideology of Zionism says that members of the Jewish religion must be uprooted from their ancestral homelands and gathered into a white supremacist settler colony ruled by Jews native to Europe—a new kind of crusader state. And like the crusader states, at the behest of their Euro-American masters, the Zionist entity p…

Book club discussion of Mark Marlow's 'The Jackalopians'Read it here: https://amzn.to/3UaOnJcAuthor's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jackalopiansSubscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FzMJeB...Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...…

In the final installment of the series, we cover all that is known about the mysterious death of this strangely GLADIO-brained scholar of classical Japanese literature and favorite translator of “aesthetic terrorist” Mishima Yukio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While Gabe's off chugging eggnog, ol Cap & Davey come together to ponder the kooky antics of Reddit's latest supervillain.Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FzMJeB...Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...RSS: https://anchor.f…

Book club discussion of Passage Prize II: Rewilding - covering remaining winners not already discussed in the previous episode.Read it here: https://www.passage.press/store/p/rewildingpaperbackFollow Passage Press: https://twitter.com/PassagePressSubscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.subst…

We explore the Windsor Free Festival, Sunday Head, Albion Free State milieu of hedonist, individualist, libertarian (and decidedly anti-communist) radicalism in 1970s Britain, led by figures like Ubi Dwyer, Sid Rawle, and Paul Pawlowski, as well as scions of elite families like Heathcote Williams and Nic Albery—in light of the fact that, as we have…

From the semi-autobiographical novel of Ivan’s second Japanese wife, Nobuko Albery (née Uenishi), we have some very sardonic portraits of the Morrises and their upper-crust left-wing milieu in France, as well as a fascinating subplot involving a drug-trafficking, blue-blooded hippie cult leader character who seems a fusion of Mishima Yukio and Nic …

Book club discussion of Passage Prize II: Rewilding. The boys make a valiant effort to read the first half but fail - there will be a part 2 however!Read it here: https://www.passage.press/store/p/rewildingpaperbackFollow Passage Press: https://twitter.com/PassagePressSubscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substac…

From 1956 through 1966, during which time he moved from London to Tokyo to New York, Ivan was married to the ballerina Ogawa Ayako, known in the society papers—by analogy with Jackie (Kennedy)—as Yakkie. In the realm of ballet, where other important Cold War battles were fought such as securing the defection of the Tatar dancer Rudolf Nureyev from …

We finish our run through Ivan’s parents’ adventures, including their support for Kenyan Mao Mao revolutionaries and participation in the American-sponsored “Kenyan airlift” that also produced Barack Obama Sr, supporting Greek, Turkish, and Mexican communists in their way, but for one reason or another being unable to stop their son Ivan from becom…

We follow Ivan’s parents, the peripatetic idle rich leftist novelist/journalists Ira and Edita Morris, from their wartime career “writing” in Haiti on the eve of the coup that brought the progressive President Estimé to power, then making “democratic” anti-fascist propaganda for the American Office of War Information and the Voice of America while …

I remain haunted by the ghost of a weeb, a shitlib superspy who, after cutting his chops as a naval intelligence officer in U.S.-occupied Hiroshima and Tokyo, wrote some of the first English-language scholarship of any depth on the Tale of Genji and the martial ballads, published geopolitical strategic analysis on how the Fourth Reich might best ru…

Book club discussion of horror anthology Tales of the Unreal Vol. 2 from Unreal Press. Read it free: https://unrealpress.substack.com/p/tales-of-the-unreal-all-volumesBuy it here: https://amzn.to/48fXsoCChat with the Authors & Submit to Tales 3: https://discord.gg/7gC6BDMv Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Su…

A 'Post Nut' interview with author Dan Baltic about his novel NUTCRANKR, and his recent Substack essay "Traditionally Horny".Read it here: https://amzn.to/3PNtSzQAuthor's Twitter: https://twitter.com/baltic_dan Author's Substack: https://danbaltic.substack.com/ Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: http…

A chatty episode to break the hiatus. I discuss recent news of the new final solution being demoed by the Zionist entity in Gaza. These days I’m walking around with posture like a ballerina because I’ve been de-settlerising and un-domesticating my leg muscles by running in huaraches and doing squats. We take a look at the First Crusade as seen in A…

Book club discussion of 'Incel' by ARX-Han.Read it here: https://amzn.to/3RSbPd3Author's Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARX_HanSubscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FzMJeB...Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...RSS: https://ancho…

Book club discussion of Dan Baltic's NUTCRANKR.Read it here: https://amzn.to/3PNtSzQAuthor's Twitter: https://twitter.com/baltic_danSubscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Listen:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FzMJeB...Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...RSS:…

Book club discussion of Cosmo Senex's (https://twitter.com/CosmoSenex) recent article The Dissident Artist: A Case Study in Failure, published in MAN'S WORLD Magazine.Read it here: https://mansworldmag.online/the-dissident-artist-a-case-study-in-failure/Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://mugg…

Book club discussion of the second half of 'Millennium' by Marty Phillips. Buy Millennium: https://amzn.to/45dZ1ld Subscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/ Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/ RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e6c80aa0/podcast/rss Twitter: https://twitter.com/TookysMag https://twitter.com/thecapitalisimo h…

Family movie day with the Schmudlachs in Tokyo usually results in a special episode of the Kingless Generation, as I dissect the petit bourgeois propaganda to which I’ve been subjected in an (arguably) more constructive forum than ranting to my kids—but this latest Doraemon film outdid even last year’s Ukraine War puff piece, and I had to call on P…

Book club discussion of the first half of 'Millennium' by Marty Phillips, spoilers start at about the 7 minute markBuy Millennium: https://amzn.to/45dZ1ldSubscribe to the Tooky's Mag Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/Gabe's Substack: https://muggy.substack.com/Listen:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FzMJeB...RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e6c8…

Book club discussion of 'The Last Free Man' by Lewis Woolston, spoilers start at about the 7 minute mark.Buy The Last Free Man: https://amzn.to/47azI4R Watch us on Youtube: https://youtu.be/oOxH4oy2wwc Subscribe to the Substack: https://tookys.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TookysMag SIDE BAR is a semi-regular book club focused on writi…

How does an Indigenous-led movement rebuild in the wake of imperial decline? With the spectacular collapse of both Sassanian Persia and Byzantime Rome in 622 CE, a certain revolutionary communal movement led by masses of nomadic herders, merchants, and farmers, provides us with one of the greatest and earliest examples, albeit one poorly attested i…

Kinship in Heian Japan (roughly 800–1200 CE) was matrilocal, which means it was men who moved in with their wives’ families and lived largely under their control. Although already thoroughly patriarchal in most respects, these last vestiges of what Engels calls Mother Right create fascinating tensions in a society where the world-historic defeat of…

Purely for purposes of historical and mythological interest, here is a reading of a pamphlet on underground work by the Communist Party of South Africa. https://manifestopress.bigcartel.com/product/how-to-master-secret-work https://ycl.bigcartel.com/product/anti-apartheid Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

Purely for purposes of historical and mythological interest, here is a reading of a pamphlet on underground work by the Communist Party of South Africa. https://manifestopress.bigcartel.com/product/how-to-master-secret-work https://ycl.bigcartel.com/product/anti-apartheid Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

Plague, famine, flood; nuclear holocaust, nuclear winter, global warming. Seen through a class lens, these existential threats to humanity are threats indeed, but they are ultimately threats directed by the capitalist ruling class at the rest of humanity: that if they are truly faced with losing their position, they will carry out the mass depopula…

We continue our free flowing conversation about our respective journeys as sketchy gaijin wandering in and out of the capitalist puppet states of East Asia and searching for ways to build the revolutionary saṃgha. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A newsy update on the non-release of the Abe Shinzō autopsy; the apparently accidental crash of a Japanese SDF helicopter which left multiple high-ranking military and intelligence officers dead including the leader of arguably the most important division of Japan’s Western Command (and about whom I have an interesting discovery to share); and fina…

I interview Marcus of the podcast Return of the Repressed about his journey, partially with reference to Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Japan, 13th c.) and the Record of Linji (China, 9th c.), and featuring a song from the noh play “Xiwangmu,” or the Queen Mother of the West. On the Feast of Winding Water, block the flow with your hand an…

We take a ramble through the diverse forest, plains, and mountainside biomes of a historic botanical garden here in Tokyo while discussing, among many other things, Gerald Horne’s fascinating first book on Imperial Japan and Black America, as well as that book’s perfidious falsification in Japanese translation, the rights to which were somehow give…

In the 19th c., working backwards from Old Persian to Hittite to Amorite, modern scholars rediscovered the long-forgotten Semitic language Akkadian, and then an even older language, Sumerian. The logographic cuneiform script which was created to write Sumerian was adapted to write Akkadian, and a complex matrix of graphic and linguistic play was op…