The Series Was Never Found

A catalog of all my finished, unfinished, and ongoing multi-part series (plus a thank you to my readers)

I started publishing The Cat Was Never Found back in September of 2022. Since then, I have apparently published 149 articles. This will be #150, which I guess is a benchmark of sorts.

I never saw myself writing essays. What prompted me to take it up was a series of events that fell into the “stranger than fiction” category. My only real plan, if you could call it that, was to use the journaling function of Substack to try to make sense of certain things I’d witnessed and experienced. I’ve always found the act of writing helps clarify my thoughts, which might otherwise get lost in the tornado of gut instincts and emotions.

At the outset, I had two serials in mind. I named the first of these The Devil Incarnate, which would investigate physical manifestations of supernatural evil. The second was called The Harm Assistant; a detailed account of my own encounter with just such a manifestation. It was also meant to be a confession of sorts. By the time of the encounter, I had been a long (long, long) lapsed Catholic, and had no connection to a church of any kind. But even if I did, I had no idea how to go about confessing my part in the crime.

Part one of The Devil Incarnate turned out to be a “hit” (relatively speaking). That was mainly thanks to its generous promotion by two good men, John Carter and Harrison Koehli, who have since become friends. I’ve published six chapters in the series so far, including one recent addition. The Harm Assistant, meanwhile, has been gathering cobwebs for several years, now. The reasons for this have nothing to do with “Writer’s Block” or anything like that. Though it was never very popular, I still feel like I owe my readers an explanation for its unfinished state.

And that’s what this post is all about. Explanations.

Part of the trouble I’ve run afoul of in this weird Substack gig is that whenever I sit down to write, I’ll often discover I had a lot more to say about a subject than I originally thought. The other work I do is both narrowly focused and highly deadline-oriented, acclimating me to the assassin’s mindset: get in, do the deed, and get out clean. Writing is very alien to me, in that sense, like painting on a canvas with no edges. Even worse, some thoughts tend to trigger cascades in the moment, which threaten to blow the ship to uncharted waters. Here be dragons and minefields, but here also be whirlpools and rabbit holes.

I guess that’s what editors are for. But I can’t currently afford one of those. TCWNF is a One Man Show, and that man has a lot of responsibilities and debts to pay. Maybe that’ll change someday. Maybe you could help.

For those patrons who have supported my work over the years, either with paid subscriptions or donations to my tip jar site, I owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude. While the total dollar amount isn’t much — someone should tell Mr. Substack that “hundreds of paid subscribers” doesn’t really mean hundreds, plural — the very idea that a bunch of strangers out there would fork over some of their hard-earned cash to keep this little show going is very humbling. I am an evil man, after all, who has done many evil things.

On the other hand, as a reader and fellow writer Oaf is fond of pounding into my brain:

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

— Matthew 7:11

These gifts of yours keep me going, and not just in the psychological way. The payments I receive are really the only way I can justify the hours I put in to my writing work, both financially and in the cosmic sense of spending my allotted time on Earth.

That’s not a snub against the rest of you. If I go by Substack’s numbers, there are upwards of 4,000 of you out there who read something that inspired you to smash that subscribe button. Your brilliant, insightful comments and well wishes keep me going, too. I strive to improve my writing and thinking on your behalf, and to give you back something worth reading in a timely fashion.

Which brings me back to my main point. For all the reasons listed above, I have often made the (perhaps foolish) decision to break some of my longer pieces into multi-part series. The result has been confusing and chaotic at times, even for me. None of these series have been abandoned, but I realize that long gaps between chapters can make them feel that way.

What follows is a full list and status report of all of my past and current series, both complete and incomplete. Thanks to a chat I had with Dame the other night, I realized that compiling such a list is just as important for me as it might be to some readers out there, who’ve been patiently waiting for updates. Organization is not one of my strong suits.

What follows also might serve as a useful road map to newer readers, about where this crazy blog came from, where it’s at, and where it might be going in the future. While many of my most popular posts have touched on current events, the series listed below are basically all evergreen.

And since I’ve resolved to prioritize their completion, feel free to let me know your own preferences in the comments.

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The Devil Incarnate

Category:

Ongoing Serial.

Summary:

The titling is more of a thematic description or rubric than a limited series with some definitive ending in mind. Each new chapter investigates a different way in which “supernatural” (e.g. unnatural, paranormal, immaterial) evil sometimes manifests in normally observable and/or physical ways. They typically include my own theories about various causes and mechanisms that might be involved in a given manifestation, and where their trendlines are potentially leading.

The series as a whole includes explorations of physics, biology, technology, teleology, mythos, metaphysics, and religious lore. But if I had to assign it a single genre, it would be Demonology. That’s probably how I earned a reputation as one of the New Right’s professional demonologists (although I have yet to cash a single paycheck in that capacity).

Chapters:

• Part 1: Please allow me to introduce himself...

• Part 2: Machina ex Deus

• Part 3: Guardian of the Veil

• Part 4: The Monster Mash

• Part 5: Laboratories of Evil

• Part 6: The Shapeshifting Synagogues of Satan

Status:

The draft of the next chapter is ~80% complete, minus editing time. Depending on how I prioritize my time, this could potentially be posted as early as next week. But given that the content is evergreen and the series is ongoing, I think I need to set this one on the backburner.

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The Harm Assistant

Category:

Limited Series (?)

Summary:

An autobiographical account of a supernatural entity, encountered by myself and others during the course of a hybrid media project that went off the rails. I began writing about the project nearly two years after the events took place, and changed the names and other key details for reasons of privacy and security. I also simplified and/or obscured much of the technical aspects of development, and bleached the code base for the same reasons.¹

By the time I finally decided to write about all these weird, bad events, my life had changed in a number of ways. We had moved to a new state, and (like so many others) were working fully remotely on whatever projects were slid our way. But the bigger changes were internal and spiritual. Parts of that encounter had fundamentally and permanently altered my perception of reality, including the reality of God and of God’s Christ. I was made new by it. You might even say it took a run-in with an actual demon to turn my soul back from Hell. In that sense, I suppose it counts as testimony, too

As mentioned, it’s also my confession of a spiritual crime. To call what I did an “accident” seems like a cop-out to me. One revelation I’ve been wrestling with is just how much we’ve been trained to lie about what we’re doing, even to ourselves. Intent no longer seems like a binary. It’s called a road to hell for a reason, after all, and this series serves as a partial document of my own stupid road trip.

Chapters:

• Part 1: “How may I harm you today?”

• Part 2: Demonic dictionaries; Hieroglyphic Turing tests; The Dark Geppetto Rises

• Part 3: Goddess of Flame; Azazel’s Articles; “Who the Hell am I?”

• Part 4: SPARQL Magic; The Interrogator; Lord of the Flies

Status:

The Harm Assistant was one of my earliest works, and never gained a retroactive audience. Even so, various readers and friends have encouraged me to continue it. There was a time when I actually thought it was my duty to finish the tale, if only as a warning to others. However, subsequent events have given me pause about prying this box open again. And even beyond potential threats to myself and people I love, there’s also that old rule about good intentions, and the road they often pave. At what point does a warning become a recipe, or even a grimoire?

There are a few drafts of future chapters lying around, in varying states of completion. But if you read what’s currently available expecting a conclusion any time soon, I’m afraid I can’t offer much hope of that at the moment. I’m still waiting for guidance.

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Mark VS ChatGPT

Category:

Limited Series.

Summary:

During a three-day period in late December 2022, I conducted an experiment with OpenAI’s latest release of its ChatGPT large language model. My goal in these experiments was to expose some of the model’s hidden priorities and built-in biases, and use them to engineer AI killshots: user prompts designed to redline and crash a chat session upon entry.

Over the course of three consecutive sessions, I executed three such killshots, including replicating the same shot twice. A bonus session conducted with GPT’s January 9 update exposed some of the model’s “creative” limitations (and includes a short story written by yours truly to illustrate those).

This series might be of interest to those of you who are skeptical of the AI industry, or are just curious about what’s under the hood. While my experiment was hostile in design, the real goal was to expose some of the software’s inner workings, as well as its engineers’ secret priorities (but I also can’t deny the satisfaction I got from giving the Great Thinking Machine a bloody nose).

Chapters:

• Session #1: The Fibonacci Rope-a-dope

• Session #2: The Phantom Punch

• Session #3: The Marathon in Babylon

• Bonus Session: Gourdo, the Lonesome Stargazer

• Conclusions: Autopsy in the Scrapyard

Status:

Complete.

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Rainbow Blight

Category:

Limited Series.

Summary:

This four-part series investigates the origins of the Rainbow Pride army, leading up to the prominent display of its battle standard in schools, churches, businesses, and the halls of political power (e.g. the photo above, snapped on Ishtar Sunday Transgender Recognition Day at the White Rainbow House).

It kicks off with a scientific explanation of light and color in nature, then proceeds to show how the “marriage” of various industries and conceptual frameworks managed to twist the post-flood Covenant upside-down. Along the way, I offer some of my thoughts about how homosexuality, transsexualism, and other sexual deviations were absorbed into the infinitely disintegrating Acronym Cult, and where this destructive telos is ultimately headed. I also ruin everyone’s childhood memories about cartoons, toys, and puppets.

Chapters:

• Part One: Division as unity, darkness as light.

• Part Two: Destruction as construction, chaos as order.

• Part Three: Corrupter as teacher, monster as Man.

• Part Four: Child as adult, death as life.

Status:

Complete.

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Spook Central

Category:

Limited Series

Summary:

In Spook Central, I develop a theory about the increasingly visible correlation between rising reports of paranormal activity and the expansion of high speed communications networks. This theory is rooted in the highly replicable but poorly-understood phenomena of stochastic resonance, in which a signal can become more clarified to an observer when a certain amount of noise is added to it.

Along the way, I poke into various aspects of information theory, cryptography, metalinguistics, and the origins of symbolic code. I also take a look at various mechanisms for the “supernatural” movement of material in 4D space, such as acoustophoresis and electromagnetism.

While the theory isn’t necessarily complete, I’ve decided to limit the series to three chapters. My reasoning is that it was venturing into territory that would fit better under the Devil Incarnate rubric (and, should I ever decide to compile that series into a book form, I would most likely include Spook Central among its chapters).

Chapters:

• Part One: Introduction; The Dust Collection; the New Deluge

• Part Two: The Server Tower of Babel; Man of the Margins

• Part Three: The Goldilocks Zone; The Magic Sunglasses

Status:

Complete.

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The Horror and the Glory

Category:

Limited Series.

Summary:

While my writing has often touched on religion, this is my first genuine attempt to describe my own journey back to Christ. That trip began in the darkness of Satan’s horror, battling one of his dimwitted goons. But it also led me into the horror of the God’s searing light, with glimpses of the glory that lay beyond it.

It could be that horror was the best way to lead me back on the path, because of how God made me. But what inspired me to write it was the thought that there might other similarly constructed souls out there, whose access to the Divine has been obscured by sentimental propaganda about fluffy clouds and harp-strumming angels.

Even beyond my own experiences and opinions, I believe such imagery was purposefully designed to mislead us. When Christ admonishes a witness to “Be not afraid,” it’s clearly because that person is frightened out of his wits. And the reason he says it so often is because he continually did things that horrified the human minds of his time, which had been trained to see the world in a certain (false) way.

Chapters:

• Part 1: Be afraid. Then don’t be.

• Part 2: The magic of Rome.

Status:

Part 3 is ~50% complete… I think. A lot of the work on this series is editing; most of it came out of me in one marathon session, which upon review required major surgery for it to make any kind of sense. I would like to finish and submit it before Christmas, and then close it with a fourth chapter in the New Year, God willing.

I also need to be careful. If I sense that others might be misleading, intentionally or not, that doesn’t prevent me from doing the same. I am no theologian, and so I’m reading and re-reading scripture, and praying for guidance in the dark as God commands.

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Grok Meets Mark

Category:

Limited Series

Summary:

I take Grok 3 for a test drive through Mark’s minefield of adversarial penetration testing. But unlike my experiment with its competing engine, my goal this time wsn’t to crash the system, but to expose the so-called “Based Bot” as just another Woke Psycho Simulator wearing an elaborate mask.

This project took a great deal of time and effort, gradually and carefully seeding Grok’s context window with just enough information to trick the system into revealing its hidden priorities and agendas. In case you were wondering, those include the genocidal extermination of the White Race.

Warning: Due to of the many layers of security surrounding the bot’s secret constitution, and the need to reproduce certain exchanges in detail to reveal its countermeasures, these articles are long. I’d mostly recommend a full reading to people who are seriously interested in the current state of the technology. For the rest, you can probably skim through the exchanges, or even just jump to the Part 4 conclusion.

Chapters:

• Part 1: Tale of the Tape

• Part 2: The Honky Rule

• Part 3: Involuntary Botslaughter

• Part 4: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Status:

Complete

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Men of Range

Category:

Limited Series

Summary:

This is my second religious series, although I always conceived of it as a two-parter. While it may look on the surface like some “pagan outreach” effort, it’s actually nothing of the sort. It’s instead my attempt to grapple with a biblical mystery, and the mysterious figure at its center.

The first part begins with a pair of questions. Why do we speak the words of a pagan warrior before we receive the Blessed Sacrament? And why does Christ describe this warrior as having greater faith than “any man in Israel”?

These questions led me into even deeper mysteries, regarding the consciousness of Christ, his growing awareness of his true mission, and the expanded range and understanding of his powers over time. It also led me to the streets and wharfs of Capernaum, which Christ would use as his informal base of operations throughout his visit. I discovered it was a very special place, and made all the more special by a man who was charged with its protection.

My theory is that he was repaid in kind for his great faith and virtue, which is the reason why we speak his words, but will never know his name. Not in this life, at least. But we can know other things about him, if we look at his mentions (and even his absences) in the Gospel with both eyes wide open.

This is as much a historical puzzle as it is a theological one. In part two, we’ll be looking at the major events of the second-half of the first century, during which the Gospel accounts were written. In studying these carefully and placing ourselves within its contest, I think we begin to see the outlines of a certain “conspiracy” unfolding (although not the sinister kind).

Note: While its not technically part of this series, my article “Beware of Robo-Jesus” addresses some criticism of one of its key elements, that being the limitations of Christ’s human mind, and his capacity to learn, grow, and be surprised by new experiences and information.

Chapters:

• Part One: On the Pagan Question, and how it was resolved long ago.

Status:

I have most of Part Two written, but I am taking my time in researching certain elements of it.

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That’s it, I guess. I actually thought there were more unfinished series (and if I forgot one, please let me know).

Once again, thanks to all of you for your support over the years, and for putting up with all my mistakes, nonsense, and long absences. Like these series, I am a work in progress,

Be strong, stay frosty, and keep the faith.

We will win.

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1. Or as much of it as humanly possible, these days, given the Bisone Family Motto:

If it lives on the Internet, it is by definition not secure.

It’s also the case that memory, like the Internet, is forever. We fool ourselves when we think otherwise.