Walter_Sobchak

Lots of interesting documents here. Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library

I picture Forczyk as much more feisty. He likes to argue with people in Amazon book reviews.

I'm sure most of you saw this already over at WoT HAV, but I figured I would post it here as well. http://tanksandafv.blogspot.com/2015/01/interview-with-steven-zaloga.html

As far as music goes, I have a guilty pleasure, and it's name is AC/DC.

Thanks!

My understanding is that Australia's national anthem is any song by AC/DC. But I could be wrong.

Dammit, am I going to have to pay for a scribd subscription now?

Tonight I found this youtube clip of Johnny Cash performing "Waltzing Matilda." It all started when I was looking at a PDF of a 1942 British pamphlet called "British Tanks - What they look like, How they work, and what they can do." They kept calling the Matilda tank the "Waltzing Matilda" so I felt obliged to look up the damn song on youtube. Seems Australians are rather fond of the tune.

Oh shush, WD-40 is awesome. The wife and I spray it on the legs of our chickens to kill mites. The WD-40 essentially suffocates the mites. There are no end to the things that can be accomplished with WD-40.

My favorite band is Murder By Death. They are an "alt-country goth" band from Kentucky.

I would recommend the same for any cats allowed to roam outside. Both are a menace.

I'm frightened now.

I thought that was what we had Charles Bukowski for. (see how I deftly worked it back to the topic of poetry? Yay me!)

Lets not make excuses for Michael Savage. He is a nasty piece of work. Anyhow, it seems I have derailed Collimatrix thread on poetry (he seems to be on a poetry kick today, having posted some Dadaist silliness over in HAV). Metropolis is a wonderful piece of film and of Weimar German culture. Too bad the Nazis came along and ruined all that.

And just to reinforce Vonnegut's point about Ginsburg's friends, it's worth pointing out that one of them was a young man named Michael Weiner. It has been reported that back around 1970 or so Weiner and Ginsburg had an incident of "naked skinny dipping." Considering that Ginsburg was very openly out of the closet, it's not surprising that people have suggested that Weiner may also be a homosexual. Which is odd considering that Michael Weiner is more publicly known as intensely homophobic shock radio personality Michael Savage. I guess what they say about "he who protests too much..."

Using dog fur to line coats? Is there no end to the things Imperial Japan did to make me hate them?

I actually was forced to sit through a live Allen Ginsburg poetry reading twice in my life. I always liked Kurt Vonnegut's observation regarding Allen Ginsburg: (For Doward's sake, Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" contains the line “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”) "I like 'Howl' a lot. Who wouldn't? It just doesn't have much to do with me or what happened to my friends. For one thing, I believe that the best minds of my generation were probably musicians and physicists and mathematicians and biologists and archaeologists and chess masters and so on, and Ginsberg's closest friends, if I'm not mistaken, were undergraduates in the English department of Columbia University. No offense intended, but it would never occur to me to look for the best minds in any generation in an undergraduate English department anywhere. I would certainly try the physics department or the music department first -- and after that biochemistry. Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that."

A little WD-40 would fix that right up.

Some dude who's parents thought it was a good idea to name him after Carol Channing?

First off, peaches are disgusting. Lemons are great, they can be used to make many things taste better. Also, where the heck are limes on this chart? Limes are essential in fighting both scurvy and malaria (as a garnish in a gin and tonic). I just realized my primary criteria for judging fruit involves how they improve mixed drinks.

Does anyone else get really annoyed by the name "Channing Tatum?" Seriously, what the hell kind of made up bull shit name is that?

The other day at the Thrift store I picked up a book called "Rising Sun Victorious" for a couple bucks. Its a "what if" history of how the Japanese could have won the Pacific war. I bought it because I pretty much will buy any WW2 related book at the thrift store. I have not read it yet, it's on my pile of "maybe at some point" will I read it. That said, I feel dirty just having it in my house. It seems like something Dai would get rather excited about.

I know very little about Mugabe. That said, what the hell is up with that mustache? Anyone sporting the "mini-Hitler" stache really must suck.

I live with these guys. The one in the middle is a pure breed Jack Russel. Like most Jack Russel terriers, he acts much bigger than his size. He is the alpha dog of the bunch. The other two are dogs came from the shelter. The one on the left is a terrier mix of some sort, and possibly the most submissive attention seeking dog on the planet. She is a cuddle monster, she has to be touching either me or my wife at all times. The dog on the right is a bull dog beagle mix. Why someone would want to mix and bulldog and a beagle is beyond me, but he needed a home and so we took him in. He is pretty cool, although he farts a lot. But then, i just remember what Tammy Faye Bakker said: "love has no nose."

I decided to venture outside the tank related parts of this forum. I felt lost for a while, I cannot speak with any authority on anything relating to dinosaurs. Thankfully Donward mentioned Harryhausen. Films are something I know about. Everyone should watch the Seven Voyages of Sinbad, it's a classic. As to dinosaurs, I figure they are a lot like my chickens. I have seven of them and they are mean, stupid creatures that will eat just about anything. But, they give me eggs and they are fun to watch.