mexican sharpshooter
I picked up The Case Against the Fed by Murray Rothbard a couple months ago and found out Amazon sent me a large print copy. It the size of a coffee table book, it doesn’t fit in my cargo pocket, its 150 pages in 20 point font. Still, quite the page-turner.
OMWC
My favorite warmongering leftist was Christopher Hitchens. Agree or disagree, his writing was always delightful to read, vivid, and merciless. Love, Poverty, and War is a collection of essays mostly written in the ’90s, as he underwent a transformation from idol of the Left to something of a pariah. Not that HE changed, it was just that the Left went… funny in the head. Imagine telling the truth about Bill Clinton! Or Cuba. Or Iran. That estranged him from much of his fan base, and more’s the pity- for them. Cynics like me loved his famous takedowns of Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, the aforementioned Slick Willy, Michael Moore, Michael Bloomberg (a particularly devastating and prophetic piece), all done with a cutting stylishness and an almost Buckley-esque style. His observations of the now-almost-forgotten (here) Balkans war were particularly galling to the Clintonistas.
Libertarians of my ilk will be rather repulsed by his strong interventionist leanings, but holy shit, he expresses them well. Hours of fun here.
SugarFree
Donovan’s Brain by Curt Siodmak (1942)
The best known of the “evil brain in a jar” genre, it is really a pretty twisted book for the time. The mad scientist is a classic sociopath and the brain is a millionaire psychopath that eventually comes to mentally dominate the mad scientist. Engagingly written, I was surprised how much I liked this.
Made into a number of movies, 1953’s Donovan’s Brain has Nancy Reagan as the female lead.
The Bad Seed by William March (1954)
Rhoda is a pretty little blonde child that doesn’t let anything get in the way of what she wants. The best of the evil-children novels, Bad Seed is also just a well-written book, the language is so filled with dreadful anticipation that comes off the page like a cold fog.
Check out the opening sentence:
Later that summer, when Mrs. Penmark looked back and remembered, when she was caught up in despair so deep that she knew there was no way out, no solution whatever for the circumstances that encompassed her, it seemed to her that June seventh, the day of the Fern Grammar School picnic, was the day of her last happiness, for never since then had she known contentment or felt peace.
It was made into a well-regarded movie of the same title in 1956. And remade a few more times to sharply diminishing returns.
The bangs and pigtails of evil itself.
I did not feel like reading something new so i took my copy of complete works of Oscar Wilde (big ass book) and reread some of that
I’m about half through Matthew McConaughey’s book. It’s funny and interesting, and he does admit himself to be a bull shitter, so you know some of the stories aren’t all true, but he did pick up some good life lessons along the way.
I started “12 Rules for Life” but got sidelined when I saw Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer was available on Kindle now.
Lots of great history & it’s cool to see the names of familiar giants pop up, like J. C. R. Licklider.
It’s amazing how Xerox invented the personal computer, did nothing with it, and went bust.
Kodak invented the digital camera, did nothing with it, and went bust.
Poor city of Rochester.
I saw a former CMO of Kodak, Jeffrey Hayzlett, give a keynote address at a conference I was at. Interesting guy, you can look him up on youtube, at least one other of his keynote’s is there, didn’t see the one from the conference I was at. He took “credit/blame” for President Trump, as he claims he suggested to Trump to switch The Apprentice to Celebrity Apprentice.
Pirates of Silicon Valley, a TV movie I may have to purchase on DVD.
I remember watching that when it came out, while donating platelets at Sloan Kettering for my dad. It was pretty good, as I recall.
I rewatched it maybe 5 years ago on youtube and it seemed to hold up. Hence why I may buy a physical copy. Some drama added, but it still seems to get all the major points sorta accurate.
I’m not really reading at the moment.
I’m listening to an audiobook of HP Lovecraft’s collaborations with other authors. The people who put together the collection included the unedited originals before Lovecraft’s contribution in a couple of places, and these were downright painful – think detritus of a fanfiction site painful.
As for what I’m writing, I just wrapped up the main draft of “Prince of the North Tower” so I’ll be writing the postscript before turning my attention to another work.
The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright:
https://www.amazon.com/Studio-Wright-Chicago-Architecture-Urbanism/dp/022631894X
About Wright’s early time in Oak Park.
Lockdown Tales:
https://www.amazon.com/Lockdown-Tales-Neal-Asher/dp/1912950758
Short stories set in the Polity universe.
Im reading Steven King’s On Writing, I would like to be a better writer, so Ill start there,
Good on you for engaging the craft. It’s mostly frustrating but sometimes rewarding.
Good on you Yusef!
Does he advocate cultivating a raging coke/alcohol addiction ?
How else would you write 200 pages a day?
My obsessive reading compulsion got a bit out of hand this past month.
Finished the first 4 of Joe Abercrombie’s First Law series (The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings, Best Served Cold, etc). The first 3 I liked, 4 was ‘meh’, quit 5 part-way through and skipped whatever is left. The first 3 worked, the next felt like milking a franchise; disappointing.
I then tried Shattered Sea series (Half a King, Half the World, Half a War) and gave up very early in book 2. I just couldn’t bring myself to care about the characters or their situations.
Next up, Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire series (Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns, Emperor of Thorns). Grim, barely adequate, won’t re-read.
Revisited Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire trilogy (Ninefox Gambit, Raven Stratagem, Revenant Gun) and am upgrading my opinion/recommendation to enthusiasm/should read. Once you get past ‘horrible people doing horrible things to each other, in a horrible society/world’ it’s a morality tale of some power. I enjoyed the re-read ver much.
Then Justin Cronin’s The Passage trilogy (The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors). It was hard to escape the feeling that this was The Stand, with vampires, as written in part by David Foster Wallace. Grim, resonant with the covidiot’s fantasies of 2020, lots of truly beautiful writing. It’s huge and I’m not convinced it was worth the slog, but it has its powerfully written extended moments. If you like catastrophic civilization all collapse, vampires, well written characters, and very long books, these might be for you.
Finally, Sylvain Neuvel’s trilogy Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods, and Only Human. Full of surprises, written primarily as a set of files and interviews, I very much enjoyed these. Recommended.
In non-fiction, Amanda Sewell’s biography of Wendy Carlos. Written with no input from Wendy or her associates, other than publicly available material, it has flaws and various errors both large and small. Nonetheless, it was a good and informative read. It was also almost unutterably sad, tragic even. I’ve always been a big fan of Carlos’s work and hold her in high esteem. This might be a worthwhile book for those willing to drop the collectivism of “trans-phobia” and simply view the life of an individual and the impact of “gender dysphoria” on that life.
Next up, Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire series (Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns, Emperor of Thorns). Grim, barely adequate, won’t re-read.
Hmm. I quite enjoyed them. The psychopathic protagonist was quite fun; I rather enjoyed that he built an entire cathedral just to get a shot at killing the Pope. I still recall one description of him – Five foot two inches* of pure murder.
*Height is approximate.
I did like the cathedral/pope assassination bit, and various other bits, too. But overall it really didn’t work for me. De gustibus, etc.
Alex Berenson – Unreported Truths About COVID-19 And Lockdowns
Scott Horton – Enough Already
Horton’s book is one of the best I’ve read in a long time.
I probably shouldn’t have been surprised at how often Lizzy Cheney’s appeared in the book.
I’m coming around to the Horton way.
Alex Berenson – is that a reliable source?
He’s mostly reporting instead of drawing conclusions, except when those conclusions turn out to be blindingly obvious.
I think one of the things he reported on with vaccines got debunked so the rest of the media complex has been harping on it constantly. That pretty much tells that everything in the book is probably true.
Okay, those are going on my list. Thanks.
FYI, for other Glibs, it appears that Berenson originally published these as a series of very short booklets which are available both individually and as multi-part collections. Be careful you don’t duplicate your purchases.
Finished out the Sentinel Mage series by Emily Gee. I enjoyed it. The feminist stuff as present but wasn’t overdone, so it actually fit the story. Much better than contemporary alternatives where wokeness is just shoehorned in for the fuck of it. She telegraphed a bunch of the plot from book one, and I wish she had let some of those plot points go sideways so that it wasn’t as clean of a “happily ever after”. I guess most of the secondary characters dying off was supposed to be a counterbalance, but the last 30 pages could’ve really put an exclamation point on the story if she showed the protagonists as broken and beat down after months of ragged survival.
Just finished reading Snow Crash. Starting Confessions of an Economic Hitman. I had wanted to check out Chaos Monkeys since the author got fired from Apple, but somebody checked it out before me.
Readin is racist, only for white supremacists.
I forgot to mention yesterday when talking about being at Best Buy, none of the employees where were wearing masks. It’s weird that I was absorbed into what I was doing and did not even notice. My wife had to point it out to me.
Too much work to be reading much. Family stuff, too. But I’ll leave this here to see if you can read between the lines.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2fI68uXoAIcY-t?format=jpg&name=900×900
*this display was sponsored by the LBJ Presidential Library*
CIA says…”ya we did it, what you gonna do about it?”
Was Sarah Palin a consultant?
I’m flying through Charles Todd’s Ian Rutledge series – I think I’m already on book 8. I’m gonna take Pope Jimbo’s advice and put another book or two between the rest, otherwise I’ll be through them by July!
Also re-reading 12 Rules in preparation for his new one.
Malice’s Anarchist Handbook is sitting on the table, ready for consumption.
Is Self-Help Advice Doomed to Be Conservative?
Rebecca Onion: There’s an argument, that I happen to think is pretty credible, that the self-help industry in the United States is conservative in the “bootstraps” way: that it prescribes individual fixes in a way that forecloses structural improvement and reinforces the idea that individuals can, and should, self-improve their way toward wealth, at all costs. Reading your book, I was also thinking about how, in American culture, the idea of “commitment” is often tied to institutions that are now coded conservative: small towns, the military, church, marriage.
Where’s my free shit?
it prescribes individual fixes in a way that forecloses structural improvement
I don’t really do self-help books (being pretty damn awesome the way I am), but I don’t see how individual improvement forecloses “structural” improvement (whatever their mean by that).
the idea that individuals can, and should, self-improve their way toward wealth, at all costs
I had not understood self-help books as being solely concerned with getting rich at all costs.
I think by “structural”, she really means “make everybody else do what I want them to do, instead of what they want to do” and “I wish reality were different”.
If the individual fixes their own problems, they might look at the ‘structure’ and decide that it doesn’t need a bunch of otherwise-unemployable GS-11 sociology grads ‘improving’ it.
So this person is upset that self-help books are about people helping/improving themselves? Maybe they should walk to the next aisle at Barnes & Noble if they’re looking for something else.
Self help is antagonistic to socialism.
You must trust the all-powerful State to provide solutions to your problems. It will also decide if you have any problems.
The state, and Top Men like psychologists.
Yes, this is part of the ongoing war against individualism and self-improvement (financial, and otherwise).
Julia was not into self help.
It’s a ridiculous complaint.
The worst thing you can do to someone is convince them that everything is someone else’s fault and someone else’s job to fix. Sure, there are some things in life that you can’t control, but most people don’t realize how much control they actually have.
Yes, this is what always comes to mind when people talk about luck. So much is just being ready and willing to take advantage of opportunities. I know of people that claim they only have bad luck, but are unwilling to take advantage of opportunities (because they look like and are work) when they arise, and all the while point to others that did take advantage and say they always have good luck.
I was also thinking about how, in American culture, the idea of “commitment” is often tied to institutions that are now coded conservative: small towns, the military, church, marriage.
Hmm, what a coincidence that things Marxism explicitly disavows (community, religious groups, family) is frowned upon by the Marxist fascists on the left.
I didn’t make it past this first paragraph.
“Self” “Help”
I think the answer is in the title, ya moron.
They’re “self” help books and not “structural” help books.
The surname “Onion” seems to connote satire.
You can’t always go by that. The Babylon Bee is very funny. Samantha Bee is cancer.
“SPQR” by Mary Beard. If you don’t know Roman history it is a good intro. Still I do know a bit of the history I found it shallow, but I recommend it as an intro volume.
“Fiasco” by Thomas Ricks. It is a tough account of the run up to the Iraq War 2.0 and first year and a half. If you weren’t over there then count yourself lucky. I found myself getting angry at the waste of lives (and efforts) of the military to execute “the worst war plan in history”.
“The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey” by Rinker Buck. He had an authentic wagon made, assembles a mule team, and follows the Oregon Trail west from Independence, MO. He describes the past, the present, and the connection following a famous, but almost forgotten path. If you enjoy Bill Bryson or Tony Horwitz you’ll enjoy this volume.
The grandkids are visiting so many kid books. But I did draw the line after one “My Little Pony” book and somebody else will read those.
Thanks for the pointer to SPQR. Local library has the ebook, 8m #10 in line for one copy. Having finished reading Thucydides, waiting on this will let me finish Xenophon.
Mary Beard may be intelligent, but she may not be smart.
I got that audiobook as part of my “learn about every great civilization/empire” efforts. What do you think is a good follow-up?
“the worst war plan in history”
I dunno – how did the Iraqi one stack up? How about any number of others….in WWI (Big Push anyone? Somme?) The French WWII plan? Italy invading Greece? Napoleon in Russia or Spain?
I would think post action it is worst…our attack plans are generally sound no? It’s when politics enters the fray and dictate it seems when it all goes to hell.
Quoting from the book.
You point out worthy contenders with France and the Maginot Line, Italy, Napoleon. I would still counter offer that Iraq 2.0 was worse. We had modern computing, professional staffs, all the time we wanted to use to prep, a military that overmatched the enemy in every metric, a fully functioning economy versus a sclerotic economy, and a enemy who desperately did not want the war to start. Yet Rumsfeld fucked it up from the start. I was only a small cog in a side part of the planning and it was apparent to me in early 2002 that the planning was going sideways. I had friends who worked in the CENTCOM staff during the planning and they were raging at the TV at Rumsfeld’s lies and distortions. In the summer of 2003 I helped write, with a group of talented SF officers. that we were seeing a textbook insurgency unfold like we were in a wargame at Ft Bragg. The report was accepted by the division commanders and killed at the HQ in Iraq because Rumsfeld and Franks refused to accept that an insurgency was possible.
You can and will be wrong in all planning. But to be willfully ignorant and dismissive of your professionals as the perform and update planning to meet the conditions on the ground takes you into Hitlerian realms of fantasy.
Almost forgot to add that we started to kinetically prep the battlefield months and years prior to the invasion.
The quote is from the book. The screed is mine.
I hope I can still be in a condition to read when the books are published about the run up to the war and the conduct of the Iraq War 2.0. My prediction is the second generation histories will not be kind to the senior military and defense leaders. The nation also lost Afghanistan during that time frame because it was starved on money and key leaders. We probably could have wrapped up large scale efforts by 2005ish if we had concentrated on there.
We were done in Afghanistan in 2004. When I was there we were reduced to “capacity building” and disgruntled HIG shooting at us because Hekmatyar Gulbuddin was still an outlaw. Time to go… leave some green hat wearing fellas to train the ANA if you must.
No argument from me. Before being “Delta JV” became popular in SF, the missions in the ATO were the missions every green hat wearing fellas wanted.
The boys from Vietnam would like a word…
I think the capacity for self-delusion (about military matters) at the summit of American politics has been on a plateau since the Johnson administration. It has neither gone up or down.
Reading is reading and if it’s a my little pony book so be it. At least my view on it.
“The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey” by Rinker Buck.
Did he die of dysentery?
No, drowned while traversing a river when you could have spent a day finding a narrower crossing
I am going to be reading the beginning of Gender Traitor’s novel, but *cringe I’m sorry, GT* I didn’t read it this past weekend as I promised.
That’s OK. You had a couple of Big Events going on. ???
Looking at my shelves…I should read the old copy of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich that my step-father gave me.
Yes.
He has a massive sports card collection that I am not sure who can rival but what I want is his books.
Get “The Nightmare Years” if you don’t have that one.
I bet he has it. I’ll ask him on next family zoom.
Is the miniseries any good or a bastardized version?
Didn’t watch any TV or movie of the book, sorry.
Definitely a very good history, but Shirer is often quite literal minded. In Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer noted how the ‘in-group’ would often be listed in official records as going to some political event or traveling to some historical/cultural site when they’d really just go to Hitler’s mansion and watch the latest thing out of Hollywood or the German film industry.
Absolutely read that book, and all the footnotes,
Shirer has a great line somewhere near the beginning of the book. I don’t remember it verbatim, but it’s along the lines of “People ask, ‘who could have known what Hitler would do?’ To which the answer is: everyone should have known – he spent 15 years telling everyone.”
In the WWII genre, I enjoyed Richard Evans’s trilogy.
My collection of “books I’m going to read” keeps growing, because I don’t read as much as I used to, but I keep buying books. I’m sure I’m the only one here with this problem ;).
I’m just about done with All Things New by Fiona and Terryl Givens. It’s a fascinating review of what the Reformation did to Christian terminology. Less than 200 pages, but very dense reading.
/looks away from book pile of shame that’s waiting to be read
#metoo
If he is around, Gdragon nailed the baseball trivia question from the morning links post. That list of players, starting with Frank Robinson and ending with John Smoltz, were all traded for Doyle Alexander.
As a Tigers fan. Yuck.
What good was Smoltz going to do for you anyway?
Well, he wasn’t going to go 11-0 in 87 and then lose his two playoff starts. That’s for sure…
You won the division by 2 games, do you even make the playoffs without him?
But, still, losing Smoltz probably wasn’t worth it.
Was curious, in 1987 Smoltz was in AA for Detroit prior to the trade, the Braves sent him directly to AAA. Unless I missed a game, Smoltz made his MLB debut July 23, 1988.
Regardless, it is still a better deal than Boston trading Jeff Bagwell for Larry Andersen in 1990.
Andersen pitched 22 innings of relief with a 1.23 ERA for Boston. Its good, but unlike Alexander, it probably isn’t why they beat Toronto by 2 games. Andersen pitched 3 innings, 6.00 ERA and lost 1 game in the playoffs, so it is pretty darn similar. That is just a lot to give up for a any relief pitcher.
Bagwell was far more a sure thing than Smoltz.
I’ve been beta-reading a quite engaging fantasy-adventure novel titled Prince of the North Tower by a certain Glib author. Said author claims to have finished the first draft, but I have yet to see the exciting conclusion. ::peers pointedly upthread over top of glasses::
I was going to wait until I finished the postscript to send it…
How far along are you?
I thought that might be the case, so you’re off the hook, I guess. ? I’ll e you where my latest copy leaves off so I don’t post any spoilers.
I’m reading the JP Mayer translation of Democracy in America written by a French guy and enjoying it immensely. I’m also reading No Angels…
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1952225302/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It’s a true crime book about a girl who is picked up at a bus stop by some gang members and raped, tortured, murdered. It’s the stuff of nightmares. I know one of the family members of the deceased. Much of it was originally serialized in the local alt weekly. Very engaging writing; draws the reader in.
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran by Michael Axworthy – Good overview of the region starting from ancient times all the way to the present day.
Golden Bough by James George Frazier – Kind of interesting, but I’m gonna need it to get more interesting if I’m going to make it through all 891 pages. Hopefully it succeeds at that.
I’ve been a little sluggish about my reading lately; I just haven’t felt “into” it. I’ve been trying to be more “educated” and read a ton of books on history, science, math, etc. and may have burned myself out on nonfiction. Once I finish the Iran book, I might pick out some easy fiction works to give my brain a rest for a bit, then get back into it.
I haven’t been reading much other than trying to keep up on the news. The past 2-3 months seem to have changed my eyesight, for one, but also my attitude. I have a bundle in my to read shelf, then Jimbo gave me 4-5 more.
Somehow the interest seems to have slowed down. Sleeping is irregular so daytime napping has replaced the reading time. Hopefully a visit with the doc next week will get me outdoors and the sunshine will be beneficial.
This past year of covid BS has taken a toll, missed a classmate’s funeral on Wednesday.
Keep on keeping on, brother fourscore
You, sir, are inspiring and instigating so many distant people to meet up. As sad as the losses may be, you have facilitated so many more connections.
The bees are a-buzzin’, the HH is gonna be a Glib Festival. Let the good times roulez…See you all there, in spirit if not in fact. For your own character protection, of course.
I badly want to try and make HH.
I won’t miss this one 4×20, its a quick hop around the lake now,
I plan to be there this year. I don’t care if that means two drives out West this year.
The Universe appears to be lining things up so that I can make it this year. We got a house in KC, locked on the movers, and we should be in our new digs just after July 4th. Perfect timing to settle in and then a nice drive northwest for some Glib-araderie in September and barter for honey.
Whoo!!
w00t!!
Wife has told me, in no uncertain terms, that she expects me to go to HH this year.
Wants you out of the house, er, trashcan so she can have the place to herself?
A little quid pro quo for buying her a minivan
Mr Mojeaux won’t get near bees and I won’t go on a fun trip without him, so I will not be able to come. ?
I’ve started on Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public, which will be paired with Christopher Lasch’s The Revolt of the Elite and a discussion of the two will most likely end up an article submission (very likely entitled Everyone is Revolting) – at some rather indeterminate date in the future.
Everybody is Going Smelting
That may be the very definition of too local.
This is a wasted day at work.
I finished “Retief to the Rescue”.
I started “The Barbell Prescription”. So far, almost everything I’ve read I already know. I’m getting into the parts about programming training for those over 40.
targetsportsusa.com has some Serbian brand I’ve never heard of 124gr brass-cased 9×19 for $0.45/round.
Do you get a discount? Cuz I’m seeing at $499.80 per 1k.
Oh, yeah. Prime membership — was worth it in the befre times.
I’ve only ordered from them once before in 2019.
250 rds of HSTs – $117 with tax & shipping.
Cheaper than range ammo this past year. *facepalm*
It was nice because in addition to the discount, you could buy single boxes of different things to try out and still get free shipping.
It’s at $.50/ round now.
Should have my copy of Fredrick Hart, Sculptor arriving soon. I like Hart’s work, and I like Wolfe’s prose. Hopefully I’ll learn a little something.
For those of you who have no idea who Hart was, here’s a piece by Wolfe (TW:NYT archives).
That is interesting. I had no idea he did the “Three Soldiers” statue.
Serving Size- 12 fl. oz
2 servings/container
Per Serving:
4.1% alc vol
Cal: 96
Carbs: 3.5g
Fat: 0g
Protein: <1g
Thats about all Ive read lately, other than Glibs.
Serving Size- 12 fl. oz
2 servings/container
Wut?
TALL CANS !
It’s late May and it is chilly enough that I need to close the windows. Based on the weather forecast, I might have to turn the heat back on this weekend.
Just turned the heat back on here. High’s in the low/mid 50’s today and tomorrow with rain both days. Weather is supposed to clear up for Sunday and Monday,
That’s some bullshit. I’m supposed to go shooting at a friend’s property tomorrow and now we might get rained out. The weather is infringing on my 2A rights!!
100 degrees American here in the desert!
Not unseasonal, either. Actually, the light breeze makes it rather pleasant if you can stay in the shade.
Nope. Shade or no, breeze or no, that’s not pleasant to me.
Its the flipside of 60 degrees and sunny being enjoyable in shorts and a t-shirt (from back in my WI days). Now, I layer up in that kind of weather. My tolerance for cold is completely gone.
Yep. I brought all my seedlings inside last night because we had freeze warnings.
Turned the heat on this morning because the house was 58 degrees inside.
Just finished reading “Gridlinked” and enjoyed it. Appreciate the folks here who talked up Asher’s Agent Cormac books. I read “The Skinner” a few years back and thought it was so “meh” that I probably wouldn’t have tried Asher again without some of the comments posted here.
I’m also working my way through Keith Kyle’s “Suez.” About half-way through but it’s intriguing how pride (both personal and national) can lead to really bad decisions.
Pride goeth before something?
Hah! Eden was particularly guilty of both.
I brought a meeting to a crashing halt earlier this week by noting that what we are proud of, we are probably complacent about.
Somehow never got around to reading “The Law” until last week. While clearing 20 years of accumulated crap from the storage room, found a copy in a box and jumped in. That little pamphlet says more in a few words than most “scholarly” tomes.
Keeping it real in Florida.
I’ve been trying to pare down my book collection but was at an antique store with the Mrs. and found three to add.
The Egyptian (loved the movie)
The Caine Mutiny (again, loved the movie)
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose. I think someone here recommended it.
Also, still working through Vernes Voyages extraordinaires, currently at #14 “Michael Strogoff”
As fine a movie as “The Caine Mutiny” was the book is much better. Plus the book shows the movie needed 5-10 minutes to completely wrap up the story. Enjoy the read.
Jesus, I need to clean this dump up. Jugsy makes her triumphant return from the concrete jungle of NYC to the Palatial 2X-Wide® in a few hours, and the place looks like a frat house.
At least with the cool(ish) air I can open the windows and let the funk out. The crib smells like dip spit, stale beer, dried Asto-Glide, and shame.
Burn some popcorn (really burn it I mean, like almost on fire) in the microwave, it’s unpleasant smelling as hell but it does a fine job of covering up other weird odors.
The crib smells like dip spit, stale beer, dried Asto-Glide, and shame.
Between the dip, the beer, and the Astro-Glide, I’d be pretty proud of myself.