You Cannot Push the World

What is this Thanksgiving?

I seem to be in an ongoing loop of 

reading, writing and watching streaming TV.

As if trapped eternally waiting in an Airport boarding area.

It's OK for now.

I just hope it doesn't go on for so long

that i can't get myself up and out of it?

And
While others seem upset regarding current events.

I could give less than a shit about anything, anywhere. 

The world inside my head is a constant war zone.
The enemy combatants are the opposed concepts of:
Time waits for no man
and
Timing is everything.

I had to make myself back off pushing the world
this weekend.
I almost fell into the trap of forcing things, pounding the 
square peg into the round hole trying to
 make something happen before it's true, proper time.
I had a distinct tendency to do that with everything
I encountered when i was young.
I would try to force things to go my way,
regardless of timing, or logic.
The consistent result for me was failure.
The problem with this problem is:
You really, truly, honestly----never know
if you did the right thing.
Did you miss a not to be replicated opportunity?
Or 
Did you miss a not to be replicated failure?

I have been revising, rewriting what's been written.

Revising gives you a break.
It allows you to sharpen a tool that you created,
or to remove flaws through refinement.
The difficulty is that one can easily become lost in rewrites.
So i write new material until i become lost 
and then review, refine, rewrite until i become lost 
and
Repeat as necessary.

I am currently reading through the Last Policeman series of three novels

by Ben Winters.

They are so far, excellent.

A really unusual concept.

Chef is a five star, beautiful little movie.
I cannot recommend this film enough.

AND

"Go to Heaven for the climate,

Hell for the company."

Mark Twain

Good bye Ken Takakura

A week of work done.

A month till retirement.

I'd really like to carry one of these in

my EDC bags. They are hellishly expensive.

15 for $50.00 if you can believe that!!
So these are a logical no-go
but you cannot argue the cool factor.

We've been sort of all over the viewing map recently.

White collar on DVD=blah, the latest X-men on DVD=blah.

The Rock embarrasses in the totally, completely massive suck Hercules.

Thank God we still have a couple of years of NYPD Blue on streaming left.

Ken Takakura died this week. He was 84.

Ken Takakura was known as the Clint Eastwood of Japan.

His long and highly praised career in films began accidentally.

He was applying for a job as an account manager for a Japanese

film company when "discovered" and asked to audition for

a role in a low budget gangster film.

Americans may remember him, 

(if at all, we are such a dense culture)

from the films

Black Rain, and the little known cult classic, The Yakuza. 

His personal style fit perfectly into portraying the honorable man

forced into dishonorable positions by those around him.

He had that distinctive Japanese stoic presence.

I will miss him.

I am considering building a ship model for display in the nerd cave.

Me being me it cannot be the standard fair of an aircraft carrier or the like.

I am considering, but only considering building something 

very steam-punkish model such as:

The 1900 Chinese steam and sail Cruiser Chih Yuen

Just thinking and researching at this point in time.

This time frame ship, would, when finished, 

make an excellent display in the nerd cave.

Right next to my Dirigible and flying boats.

"Reading maketh a full man;

conference a ready man;

writing an exact man."

Francis Bacon

Armed Cosmonauts

Cold, Cold this week. 

I am sure not as cold as other parts of the country but....

When the desert is cold, it is a bone cold.

The Soviets do some things so much better than us.

For many years Soviet Cosmonauts carried a three barrel 

survival shotgun/rifle designated TOZ-82 with matching ammo belt

in their Soyuz Capsules.

The TOZ-82 is carried against the possibility 

of an off course Soyuz landing in the wilds of Siberia

which has actually happened to them.

There are wolves in Siberia

big fucking, hungry wolves.

This weapon's coolness factor is forced multiplied by the fact

that it's detachable stock is also a

Machete.

How absolutely fucking cool is that!

The Soviets only recently stopped carrying this weapon system

in their capsules.

Some say the Soviets pulled the weapon because,

NASA bitched about having weapons in the Soyuz capsule while it was attached

to the international space station. NASA based their bitching on the

what if an astronaut goes nuts--blah-blah-blah theory.

The Soviets, tough as nails, never considered this scenario as a possibility.

If the below little scenario ever happens, NASA will wish a big ugly Cosmonaut

wielding a nasty, three barrel, shotgun/rifle with a machete stock,

was sorta around.

Early model, blue steel, Colt Mustang .380 pocket auto.

Rothco concealed carry jacket.

I am on a Hard science, Science Fiction kick lately.

"Everything is becoming Science Fiction."

J.G.Ballard