“A Florida man needs no introduction!”

Aw, I thought my battalion invented this technique back in the late 60’s. After all, NOBODY wanted to be The Last Man to Die in Vietnam…

Speaking of movies..Who is going to do the screen play for the Wilsons film?

“It’s because males are simpler,” said lead author Marta Wayne, a zoologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville. “The mode of inheritance in males involves simpler genetic architecture that does not include as many interactions between genes as could be involved in female inheritance.”

There’s your proof ladies..as if you didn’t know already…

Spoke at length with a very nice German lady a couple of days ago. She told me when Americans come over there that they try to hide the fat that they are Americans because of how much W is hated over there.

This is another reason soldiers aren’t dying

WATERTOWN, New York - Iraq war veterans now stationed at a base here in upstate New York say that morale among US soldiers in the country is so poor, many are simply parking their Humvees and pretending to be on patrol, a practice dubbed “search and avoid” missions.

Phil Aliff is an active duty soldier with the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Fort Drum. He served nearly one year in Iraq from August 2005 to July 2006, in the areas of Abu Ghraib and

Other active duty Iraq veterans tell similar stories of disobeying orders so as not to be attacked so frequently.

“We’d go to the end of our patrol route and set up on top of a bridge and use it as an over-watch position,” Eli Wright, also an active duty soldier with the 10th Mountain Division, told IPS. “We would just sit with our binoculars and observe rather than sweep. We’d call in radio checks every hour and say we were doing sweeps.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ26Ak07.html

Now that’s a movie, and I can’t wait to see it. Every critic is profoundly taken with it; some have seen it twice. The Coen brothers have even outdone “Fargo,” I hear.

Ever read Cormac McCarthy’s novels? Violent as hell. I haven’t read “No Country For Old Men,” but have read his masterpiece, “Blood Meridian,” which Harold Bloom says is the greatest American novel of the 20th century. Someone is actually making a movie of “Blood Meridian,” which I find hard to believe. The necessary depictions of the violence would give any filmmaker pause. We shall see. (My daughter has read every one of McCarthy’s novels, and we can’t figure out how they can do “Blood Meridian.” Oh well. In the meantime, we can treat ourselves to “No Country For Old Men.”)

Beowulf looks awful in the trailers too. What else is playing? I’m particular where I eat fake buttered popcorn.

Beowulf sounds completely dreadful from the critics’ reviews, and I can’t believe it got #1 at the box office except that maybe moviegoers wanted to wear those 3D glasses and also want to see Angelina Jolie’s body.

(That’s one of my favs too but I haven’t bought it in years … it’s so decadent. You must be decadent, HH. But with a Lutheran (or?) streak that makes you feel guilty for eating it and so you run it off.)

http://www.musiccitybloggers.com/2007/11/19/and-nowa-moment-of-zen/

3 min. video (warning for other on slow dialup)