About

Welcome to The Centre Cannot Hold, the blog of Loki Carbis. For those of you who don’t already know me, I am a highly opinionated politics nerd and pop-culture fan. (Or you can look here.) The content you’ll find on this site largely attests to those traits – and if you’re curious, there’s more to be found, both on the Web and in print.

The site takes its name from one of the most well-remembered lines of William Butler Yeats’ poem The Second Coming, and also serves as a demonstration of precisely that point (the closest thing to a centre possessed by this blog – aside from this very page – is the diverse material filed under Random Content).

That said, there is a variety of content that can be accessed from the Navigation box (right) which is more or less static – it does get modified, but only on an as needed basis. In addition, there are also two daily features and a handful of weekly ones that regularly feature on this blog:

Daily Features:

• The Rock ‘n’ Roll History of the World — This day in history, as recorded in popular music.
• Random Content — This is where what might be classified as general content can be found – since they’re kind of many and varied, I suggest that for more details about these you check out the link, which goes into greater detail about the various sub-categories I’ve filed under Random Content.

Weekly Features:

• Weekly Updates (Mondays) — lists all new and revised content for the week for the entire site, incuding all the content not covered below.
• Fictions (Every day but Friday and Saturday) — original fiction by me, either a short story or new excerpt from a longer work in progress. There are currently several different stories in progress on this site – I’ll try not to lean too hard on any one of them.
• Pharmacopoeia Fantastica (Tuesdays) — the dictionary of fictional and imaginary drugs.
• The Truth About Melbourne (Wednesdays) — uncovering the history of Melbourne as it should have been, one suburb at a time.
• Political (Thursdays) — Commentary on current events in Australian or world politics or more general pieces about particular issues. Often but not always a humourous take on things.
• Crossing Over (Fridays) — a great chain of crossovers between various fictional worlds, primarily from a roleplaying point of view, interspersed with other, more random crossovers.
• Thinking About Comics (Fridays) — Analysis, reviews, continuity and occasional WTFs.
• 1001 Afterlives to Visit After You Die (Saturdays) — the next logical step after all those books of 1001 whatevers to experience before you die.
• Starman Annotations (Sundays) — issue by issue annotations of one of the best books DC Comics ever did.
• Gaming (Sundays) — variants and alternatives for games of various kinds – new and different uses for, among others, Chess, Monopoly and Lego Heroica.

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