Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Spy novels themselves are the topic today. Why? Oh, just because there is one particular spy novel I have read recently. That novel would be Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews. Thus we have something blog-worthy to talk about. There’s other media consumption going on, mind you. New films. Old films....

So far in the publication history of the blog here at fredlambuth.com we have talked about robots, big and small. We have blog posts mentioning samurais, superheroes, super-soldiers, super drunk hardboiled detectives, secret agents, stygian knights, seafaring pirates. There have been orks, space...

Another book to be reviewed for the blog? Really, another book? Every time there is a new blog post, it’s about some damn book. Not the hottest new pop song. Not the big blockbuster movie that is bringing people back to the movie theaters. Not the big dramatic series that pulls in the big...

R. Crumb has been brewing in my mind for many, many, artistically prodigious years. However, that could be said about a lot of artists. There are tons of artists’ names marinating in my brain. Even among just the comic book creators, that is a long list. Hell, even narrowing that down to just...

Another one-volume history book to discuss. This time it is The First World War by John Keegan. He was a stuffy Oxford-type historian who published the book in 1998, well into the height of his academic career. His sixties. The shank of the historian’s career path. I imagine the most difficult...

Weeaboo. Japanophile. However you want to call it, that is the kind of topic we have today. Deep down inside, I know I have a not-thoroughly-examined curiosity for Japan. For its history. For its weird stuff. For its animation — not all of it. Sometimes for its printed artwork: the manga. The...