Shep'n Ain't Easy
Wherein G-List Twitter celebrity Ken Shepherd gives another go at Substack after toying with it in 2020. Better late than never...
Welcome to Shep’s Subversive Substack
Lately I’ve been thinking of starting a Substack and I was struck by inspiration today with some dude on Twitter spouting off about a practice in some churches he finds “subversive.” So, uh, here we are. Shep’s Subversive Substack.
1. Who’s Shep? What’s his origin story?
Well, he’s me: Ken Shepherd. I’m formerly with Fox News Digital and prior to that The Washington Times and Media Research Center. I live about a 25-minute drive south of Greenville, South Carolina, with my wife and six kids, but was born and raised in Maryland. A Christian of Presbyterian confessional conviction, I am a member of a PCA church in the Calvary Presbytery.
You may know me from my presence on Twitter at X.com/KenShepherd. If you do, by all means please follow me there too.
As to Shep, well, it is a bit of a family nickname that lies dormant and resurfaces every now and again in different contexts throughout my life. In truth, fairly few people have called or continue to call me Shep, it being tied to unique college and later work contexts.
2. Is Shep really subversive?
Not really, no. I’m a fairly conservative/libertarian guy who wants to be left alone to live his life in peace and who thinks most folks want the same. I’m a civil society enjoyer who is annoyed with the cacophany of overly online blowhards and grifters of the left and right. They traffick in frenzies and faux outrage when we really need a bit more frivolity and touching of grass.
Standing athwart dumbassery and saying, "chill” is its own sort of subversion in a[n] [online] world given to perpetual vexation.
3. How often will Shep grace us with his wit and wisdom?
You know, I’m not really sure. I’m thinking at this point about like twice a week. I’d like to eventually make this a subscription model. I really wanted to make the monthly subscribe rate the cost of freedom — “a buck-oh-five” iykyk — but apparently Substack thinks y’all need to chip in at least $3.95 more than that. So anyway, we’ll see both to frequency and how much of your hard-earned money I hope to get you to part with.
4. Now comes your part
So yeah, please subscribe. Give me feedback. Tell your friends and siblings and in-laws. Or don’t. But whatever you do, please be a normie and remember to get offline every now and again. Bonus if it’s done on Sunday, the Lord’s Day, which we all, myself included, could do better in observing.