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The Martians Are Coming! Happy Hallowe’en
Happy Hallowe’en! If you want to mess with your kids’ heads, put this old radio play on speakers without warning them, but don’t let them see the screen. Speakers only. It is Mercury Theater On the Air’s 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds with Orson Wells at the helm of it. No commercials or […]
Critic Pans Hunter Killer Movie
This image released by Lionsgate shows Gerard Butler in a scene from “Hunter Killer” (Jack English/Lionsgate via AP) Still haven’t seen the movie, but it seems my prediction after viewing the trailer was pretty much correct- it’s an underwater Top Gun. If you recall, Top Gun was loud, flashy, fast paced, and completely filled with […]
Weekend Open Thread
Well, looks like it’s almost time to go on the road again. This one will be a short trip time-wise, though unlike the last this one was both expected and planned some time ago. So today’s WOT will be a relatively short one as well – at least the part I’m writing. (smile) Today’s (hopefully) […]
Bill and Hill’s Excellent Autumn Tour
Bill and Hillary Clinton announce US/Canadian event series tour On Monday, Bill and Hillary Clinton made an announcement. They are going on tour across 13 U.S. cities to close out 2018 and extend it through 2019. The tours will consist of conversation-like series titled, “An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State […]
T.I.N.S., I was there….
I see you’re all sitting around, trying to figure out how to get through the weekend without a lot of stolen valor stuff to pound on and with a dirth of news about fraudulent claims or major triumphs. As I understand it, the SJC is either voting on Kavanaugh’s confirmation or will vote on it, […]
Weekend Open Thread
Most TAH readers know a bit (or more than a bit) about the Lockheed U-2. I’d guess some may even have worked on projects or operations involving that airccraft. But without a bizarre-sounding suggestion from one of the technicians during the early days of the project, the aircraft may have been doomed to failure. Once […]
Weekend Open Thread
Friday, 24 April 1959, was just another day. Except, perhaps, at one particular location in Michigan. The year 1959 was during the height of the Cold War. The Strategic Air Command existed then, and was flying – a lot. On that date, Capt. John S. Lappo was the pilot for one of those SAC aircraft […]
Yer Saturday Chuckle – Things You See While Traveling
On a recent trip, I took a route I hadn’t taken in 20 years. Much of the route was pretty much the same as I remembered. But there was one recent change that caught my eye. Now, I happen to like roadside billboards. Yeah, some of them can be pretty garish and ugly. But they […]
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