Joshua Gibbs

The “I’m A Good Father” Show

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” -Benjamin Franklin Little By Little is the latest episode of Proverbial. It briefly touches on a phenomenon I call the “I’m A Good Father” show, wherein a parent who doesn’t do a whole lot of parenting suddenly decides to start.

Know It All

“Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.” -Nicolas Gomez Davila As men implode–as their marriages fail, as their relationships with their children fall apart–they become all the more insistent that they know how happy, competent men ought to live.

Homage to Persephone: A Sometimes Gibbs Playlist

It’s basically spring.

SETI

If we ever found intelligent life outside of earth, there is a 0% chance their philosophy of gender and race would coincide with ours, which would mean about ten minutes after discovering alien life, #CancelAliens would start trending.

Why VidAngel Isn’t A Win

“There’s always free cheese in a mousetrap, though, and so Christians have blindly gone on for several years now thinking that the ability to edit TV and movies is a real win. Here’s the tin foil hat moment, though: buy DVDs. Stream less. Or at least buy a DVD of A Charlie Brown Christmas so that whenContinue reading “Why VidAngel Isn’t A Win”

Ranked

I find Velazquez’s waterseller one of the noblest, most inspiring men ever painted.

Proverbial, Episode 52: Preaching to the Choir

“The grass is always greener on the other side.” Poured my heart into this one.

Spring

It is officially warm enough to break this one out again.

JEMS

Camilla (age 11): “I started a club at school today for girls who like old things like parasols, fans, gloves, and hoop skirts. If you’re in the club, you’re not allowed to say ‘cringey,’ ‘vibes,’ or ‘hashtag.’ We don’t know what to call the club, though.” Gibbs: “Sisterhood of the Modern Grievance. No. How aboutContinue reading “JEMS”

Daft

The sort of person who pays to be cryogenically frozen in hope of being brought back to life in the future suffers from the worst kind of stupidity and naivete. If someone cryogenically frozen a hundred years ago (in 1921) were brought back to life today, that person would be condemned and cancelled within momentsContinue reading “Daft”