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Essays by James May

Dealing and Road Trips: South America, 1984-85

More adventures in my stupid life


Graduation and Travel: Minneapolis to South America - 1980-83

A true story of my stupid life


Getting High and Other Eruptions: Minneapolis to New York, 1986-87

A personal memoir about drugs and volcanos • A film treatment soon to be a screenplay


The Best Movies You Never Saw

Little known Hollywood gems


Check Out My New Science Fiction Novel: Britetown Races

Far In the Future Spies Race to Hide and Uncover A Secret With A City-Bordello As the Battleground • June, 2012


Tales From the Rub: Part 1 • Friction In Transar

A Short Tale of Moronic Fantasy by James May • Written on Feb.26-28, 2013 • 7,600 Words


Tales From the Rub: Part 2 • Maiden Minus Wizard

Love, Counterpoint and Mischief • Written on March 7-9, 2013 • 9,000 Words


Tales From the Rub: Part 3 • Seduction In Flattery

A Mysterious Wizard Assaults A Town • Written on Feb.14-15, 2013 • 9,600 Words


Pines In the Dusk

A short story of weird horror fiction set at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the tradition of Robert E. Howard


The Story Behind My Photos: The 2011 Uprising In Cairo, Egypt • Jan.28-Feb.13

Click Here for my documentary photos of the event


Bettie Page Pin Up Drawings and Illustrations

My Pencil Drawings Manipulated In Photoshop


IndiaIndia

A photo essay with no text


Outside the States • The Best Music You've Never Heard

Beautiful and Stirring In Any Language • What Other Folks Are Enjoying • April 18, 2013


Neo-Nazis and the KKK: Clever Arguments By Not So Clever People

Why Principle Trumps Identity and the Danger of Mainstreaming Racial Bigotry Into the Public Arena


An Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers of America

John Scalzi, N.K. Jemisin and Saladin Ahmed must be taken in hand. April 15, 2013 • UPDATED with note May, 2


John Scalzi: The Lowest Principle There is • Part 1

White privilege, identity, and how anti-racist liberal progressives promote racism


The Lowest Principle There Is Part 2 • The New Racists: Mainstreaming Hatred by the Justice League of Race and Gender

How Hate Speech Is Infiltrating Tech Culture and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Community • PyCon and The Adria Richards Affair • March 2013


The Lowest Principle There Is Part 3 • The New Racists: Mainstreaming Hatred by the Justice League of Race and Gender

How Hate Speech Is Infiltrating the Science Fiction and Fantasy Community • March 2013


The Lowest Principle There Is Part 4 • The New Racists: Mainstreaming Hatred by the Justice League of Race and Gender

How Hate Speech Is Infiltrating the Science Fiction and Fantasy Community • March 2013


The Lowest Principle There Is Part 5 • The New Racists: Mainstreaming Hatred by the Justice League of Race and Gender

How Hate Speech Is Infiltrating the Science Fiction and Fantasy Community • March 2013


"Fuck You Too" • or, A Visit to the Minneapolis YWCA's Website

The perceptual trap of just hate speech and the bigotry of the oppressed • July 12, 2011


Huffington Post Poll Reveals 26% of Americans Are Morons With 20% Undecided

Dove beauty products hates black people • May 24, 2011


Egypt After the 2011 Revolution: The Muslim Brotherhood

Why they cannot succeed except through politics • Feb.16, 2011


The Egyptian Uprising of 2011 and False Narratives

Why facts mean so little • April 9, 2011 • Updated May 23, 2011


Sayd Qutb: Islam Seen In Silhouette Against the West

Why the wishful thinking called religion is best kept at home • Some thoughts about Sayd Qutb and Islam • April 26, 2011


President Obama's Debt Speech, George Washington University • April 13, 2011

The Straw Man argued, "If I only had a brain."


Robert FrankRobert Frank's "The American's"

A Dawning of Self Loathing and Political Correctness • Dec., 2010


The 2011 Uprising In Egypt

Thoughts Of Cause and Effect • Feb.13, 2011


Science Fiction Literature and Fine Art Photography: A Study In Contrasts

How Two Genres With Similar Beginnings Have Come To Decidedly Different Places


Fine Art Photography: Subversion and Circumvention

The Hijacking and Subsequent Nadir of Fine Art Photography


The Morality of War, Conquest and Slavery

Is success itself simply immoral?


The Huffington Post and "White America's Shame"

How all white Americans can be either racist or to blame for it • April 29, 2011


Science Fiction & Fantasy: Film and Literature

An informal comparison of their history and development


thumbnail of Delonas NY Post cartoonNew York Post "Chimpanzee" Uproar

How hyprocrisy and intelligence go hand in hand


The 12th Annual White Privilege Conference

Beware of Nazis in pig-tails allergic to scented products bearing flowers and wheel chair access • May 7, 2011







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