It's just after 9:00 on a Tuesday night, and after switching off the Jays game with the 6 run lead evaporating by the minute, I've decided to wade into Herman Wouk's Road to World War II epic, The Winds of War (the mini-series not the book, although I've read it probably just as many times as I've seen the mini-series.)
I keep meaning to do just a random thoughts blog and so here we are.
It should be an exciting week at work. Not only are several of us heading down to Pastafest tomorrow but the 1st Hussars is bringing an operating Sherman tank by, so that should be fun. Once the work week is done, Dad and I are heading to Whitby to meet up with Mom, Cathy and Jack. The hope is that I will be heading into Toronto to hit the Skydome and catch a ballgame.
Jane Weidlin turned 51 recently. Sigh! The 80s are so over. Of course, perhaps the less said about my fascination with the Go-Gos and their rhythm guitarist Weidlin the better.
And speaking of things from my youth, I understand that Archie Comics has/have introduced a new plot twist: Archie has proposed to Veronica, who has accepted. Jughead is stunned, Betty is heart-broken, and I'm like "Ah man! You gotta be kidding me!" I always figured eventually Archie would come to his senses, see Veronica for the shallow, rich b!tch that she is and Betty for the love of his life that she is.
It's been years since I've bought comics (save a graphic novel or two) but I'm going to be tempted to pick up the series to see how it plays out. I remember back in the 90s (???) there was a TV movie "Back to Riverdale" that tied up a lot of lose endings. (Dude, Betty and Archie totally did it!)
So I'm reading about the revelation, made by an ex-roadie in his autobiography, that Jimi Hendrix was actually murdered by his manager. The manager, about to be fired, was the beneficiary of Hendrix's $2 million life insurance policy.
Between this and the sex tape they released, they need to just leave poor Jimi to rest in peace, or at least to play his Strat.
Read more about it at: http://www.411mania.com/music/news/105996
Not sure when my next podcast will be, (I know there's such a demand for one) but I am reading a couple of books simultaneously. I am reading If By Sea by George C Daughan, about the early days of the American Navy during the Revolution and the War of 1812. I'm not usually one for sea stories, but this particular book ties in the land battles with the naval action. You read more about George Washington than John Paul Jones. The author's theory is that the American navy (or what passed for it), was horribly mismanaged. But perhaps the most interesting part is the discussion of how the American Revolution wasn't originally about Independence, but simply respect from the British.
I'm also reading The Contractor by Colin MacKinnon, which is about a businessman who's really working for the CIA. I have just started to read it so I'm not sure where exactly it's going, save that some former contact of the main character has been beaten to death.
