Every year I set a goal of reading a book a week, sometimes I add the caveat that at least one book a month be non-fiction. I have never met this goal. Thus in an attempt to give myself some extra incentive and If the Powers That Be allow it. I am going to revitalize the What Are We Reading feature. I leave it up to Swiss or Tonio to decide when that will run it, it makes most sense to put it on either the first or last (Monday) of the month, which ever way the editors decide if you want your contributions added you’ll need to send them to me at least one week before the publication date. I have set up a new Proton mail account since I have forgotten my password for the old one. Send your book reports/reviews/synopsis to
whatarewereading25@proton.me.
Editor’s Note: Assume a cheese-eating grin from Swiss.
Send your book reports/reviews/synopsis to
whatarewereading25@proton.me.
That should probably go in the sidebar or somewhere else “sticky”*.
Thanks for taking this on, Hype.
*IYKWIMAITYD
I read Firsts. They are all the nutrition a brain craves.
They do a body good?
That’s Q’s department.
Trump proposing a “merger” with Canada. Went from worst possible timeline to the best. Not because I like Canadians, but for the lols.
Their whisky sucks.
Perhaps my palate is unrefined, but I like this
Try this one: also made in Canada!
https://www.texascrownclubwhisky.com/about-us
At least you get a nifty bag out of it.
Neat, yes. Pendleton 1910 is a nice mixer.
Yes let’s important 20 million democrats.
Genius.
I don’t know why some of you get worked up over something that will never happen. Just Trump seriously suggesting that to Trudeau days before he steps down because the tide is turning against the left worldwide is fucking comedy gold.
Thanks Hype.
So the deadline for February WAWR is Jan. 27th?
I read a bunch of books while I was sick over Christmas break. They are:
“Classic Monsters Unleashed” – This is an anthology from James Aquilone. Short stories about classic monsters. I liked it.
“Serbian and Yugoslav Mauser Rifles” by Branko Bogdanovic – This was OK. It was missing the part by part breakdown typical of North Cape Publications books, but had a lot of good information.
“Westside Barbell Book of Methods” by Louie Simmons – A collection of articles which has some good information about how training at Westside Barbell works.
“Australian Service Longarms” by Ian Skennerton – It’s a Skennerton book, so it needs an editor. But, it has some good information for people interested in this niche topic.
“The Conjugate Method Enhanced Through the Research of Westside Barbell” by Louie Simmons – This goes into detail of the primary training method used at Westside Barbell.
“The United States Rifle Model of 1917” by C. S. Ferris – Excellent book covering technical details of the Model 1917 rifle.
“The US Model 1917 Rifle” by Bruce Canfield – Another excellent book on the Model 1917 rifle. Canfield goes into how the rifle was developed and used. He does not include the level of technical detail that Ferris does. Canfield covers some information of interest to collectors concerning identification and markings.
“Tobacco of the Emperor” by Patrick Philips – A book on the niche topic of tobacco in Imperial Japan from the late 19th century until the Second World War. The book includes lots of great pictures of the artwork on Japanese cigarette packages.
Now reading: “The Treason of Isengard” – another part of the History of Middle Earth series.
Now just send it to the right email address, and you’re set.
I sent you an email with the two books I am reading.
TH: I think you mentioned the Phillip Kerr/Bernie Gunther books. Thanks – I read the first three and enjoyed.
Twasn’t me, never heard of him, but they do look interesting, I’ve got the first in my TBR pile.
I am reading the longest chin-stroker I have seen to date on Germany’s
NaziAlternative Party.Some of the machinations around Europe’s elite keeping this and similar parties out of power are positively Orwellian. Lots of “we have to kill democracy to save it” bafflegab.
Also, the peasants are revolting.
I’ll say. They stink on ice.
The model for the cordon sanitaire were the machinations in Italy to keep the Communist Party out of the government post-war through fall of the Berlin War. As a result governments rose and fell like the tide, the Communist party usually got up to a third of the popular vote, and gridlock was the normal state of government. Which was fine by most Italians, they had shit to do.
They could have just renamed themselves as “democrats” or some shit as in every other democracy.
Taibbi: As years progressed, Trudeau leaned more into a style of government that was authoritarian in character but castrato in delivery.
Brutal.
He is a great writer.
Words flow through him like the salmon of Capistrano.
From the ded thred re congestion fees and tolling: Fuck Bob Poole with an innovative rusty transportation chainsaw.
Fuck you Bob, cut spending.
I’d be happy to entertain market-based answers to this stuff but that ship has sailed halfway to the moon already.
This fee is largely intended to paper over the waste and fraud of a transit agency that is really a government jobs program with a side dish of providing transportation.
Reading Neal Asher’s Brass Man.
Listening to Alastair Reynolds – Elysium Fire.
The 2 best sci-fi agent series since Gil the Arm and Jame Retief.
👍 love the Revelation Space books
I just kept on reading, in spite of Hype’s dereliction. In fact, I ran out of my own books and started reading some that an ex-friend had given me a few years ago.
He unfriended me over a meme about Obama and watermelons, back in the day, that I had sent him (and probably most Glibs have seen). If that’s all it took it was time to say good bye to him.
Now I need to look at Hamilton Books on line catalog. I usually stock up before winter but didn’t this year. My own fault and responsibility
Sweet!
I always liked this one.
Finished this early on vacation:
https://www.amazon.com/Carnivore-Diet-Shawn-Baker/dp/162860350X
Started working my way through this:
https://www.amazon.com/Provoked-Washington-Started-Catastrophe-Ukraine/dp/1733647376/ref=sr_1_1
Both are excellent and of course controversial. Horton’s book weighs 2.5 lbs!
Filling in with a re-read of the Longmire series. Sometimes I need just entertainment.
Thanks for reviving this, Hyp!
All right, this years books (so far) sent to the email addy.
Well biden continues to fuck with us. This afternoon they found that his handlers got him to sign documents changing the order of succession for multiple executive agencies.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/04/ezra_cohen_bidens_last_minute_succession_orders_meant_to_roadblock_trumps_team.html
That means he has placed the biggest anti-OMB running multiple agencies until the Senate confirms his picks. OMB can change the order back, but since this is Dem EO the agency types can find a judge to block OMB.
Too inside-baseball for me but I’m sure Trump’s got some eggheads working on it.
Or get Elon to raise hell.
Tell me, why were there any office holders after election day?
They need time to bury the bodies and shred the evidence?
You’re supposed to bury and shred as you go, not let it all pile up and do a rush job.
This is why I can’t respect politicians these days – no work ethic.
What happened to “Our Democracy”? I wonder why the legacy media has no stories about this blatant obstruction of the people’s democratic choice?
Actually no, I don’t wonder at all.
I’m not proud of my lack of book-readin.’ I read all the time, but rarely books. Hardly *any* fiction, a particular failing. I *do* enjoy seein’ it ’round again. Always good looks into authors whose work needs looking into. No sarcasm, I hope you’re all enjoying the embiggenment your minds. Hope it rubs off.
Oooh. Usually ya rub one *out* after embiggening. Also: The Embiggenment –> Damn solid band name. Think P-Funk. (Ooh. Should relisten to Pornosonic.)
I’ve started my monthly email. Mahalo for starting this back up.
Picked up a LOT of Games Workshop “Black Library” novels the past couple of years. Current read stack is about a meter tall (lots of multi-novel omnibuses) – mostly Warhammer 40k, but a few fantasy ones too. Generally good quality given the subject matter. Some excellent characters with their own series. A massive amount of lore built up over a few decades. I think the big reason I didn’t see a lot of these sooner (before getting into the game) is because they have really short print runs and then get a heavy focus on kindle/ebooks or high quality audiobooks (people “read” them while doing painting projects, etc) – with occasional reprint runs. Just started “The High Kahl’s Oath” yesterday – the first novel focused on the space dwarves (Leagues of Votann) – who have almost no real “lore” developed since they were only introduced as a playable faction in 2022 or so.
Also, picking up a number of historical Navy biographies/etc from the CNO reading list and Hardcore History – will post some updates once I start getting those in the mail (handy for reading on the watchfloor when I expect it to be pretty slow).
The Votann are only new in that name. They were reintroduced after an absense of decades. They still use the old ‘Squats’ name for the Necromunda models.
It’s a post snowpacolypse world. Get up and dig out, folx. 🙄
🌨️❄️🤷🏼
Didn’t even get to hit that button. Sad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBnIUX0QAE
Enjoy a different groove today. 🎶🎶
You got Snow?
Good morning, Sean and U!
I’m still recovering from digging out yesterday. And still pissed at my boss for waiting so long to follow up his “Show up at 11:30!” message with his “Ha ha! Just kidding! Never mind!” message, leaving me to drive all the way to the office and back over truly shitty roads (passing multiple slide-offs on the interstate) for nothing. 😒
Well, I am glad you managed the drive safely, despite those conditions.
I agree, you have to make such a decicion and send notice Before people start their commute.
Thank you. I suspect his actions involved some combination of “what are the other local credit unions doing?” and commiserating with his senior managers – “What do YOU think we should do?” Which is all well and good, but you have to make those decisions IN TIME!
“What are other credit unions doing?” – Irrelevant, the question he needed to ask is “Are conditions too dangerous to do business today?”
We got a dusting last night.
Mornin’
No snow here. I like that.
Good snow tires are better than snow mode. I run Nokian Hakkapeliittas in the winter in a RWD car and have never needed snow mode or anything like that.
No snow is the only good snow. Maybe I can retire to somewhere in the Sahara.
Snow is the best. I have the cleanest for three-four months out of the year.
“Snow Tires”? “Snow Mode”?
It’s as if you people don’t appreciate the finer points of low traction manueverability.
@ UCS – Great, now I’m picturing you doing donuts in a mall parking lot somewhere…
Donut gloves!
@ DEG – My S4 was super fun in the snow. Nothing quite like 3 mechanical diffs.
“Feels like 3°”
I will admit I enjoy a bit of alone time when my wife is travelling but the morning dog walks are not my favorite part.
I got “-15”. That doesn’t seem right.
Wind chill around here just got up to 0, was solidly negative for a while.
It IS windy.
I think I’ll stay inside for now.
“His dad is in prison for January 6 crimes. He doesn’t want Trump to
pardon him”
https://x.com/captivedreamer7/status/1876296192482791732?mx=2
Happy new year douchebag, you’re out of the will.
Wow.
Has he legally changed his name yet?
Yet another good argument for the death penalty:
https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1876393207761637382
No trial. Straight to paradise. Right away.
You don’t hate the media enough.
January 6, 2025 was a bigger “threat to democracy” and the peaceful transfer of power in Canada than January 6, 2021 ever was in the US.
Change my mind.