Apocalist
Def.: The Thanksgiving shopping list.
Can be used with an ellipsis, an in apocalist…
Which implies: The Thanksgiving shopping list plus everything else we need.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
CNAC Forever!
Cheers, Greg
(Nod to my friend Forrest Murphy for the ellipsis.)
Fantastic courage.
A close family friend – her godmother’s father – had been shot by the Germans and her godmother had committed suicide after being taken prisoner by the Nazis.
“I did it for revenge,” said Mrs. Doyle.
Click the pic for The Telegraph’s full story.
Love those para wings pinned to her fleece jacket over her line of medals.
Here’s a list of 50 notable nonfiction books, posted by The Washington Post.
Nice to Tom Shroder’s Acid Test included, along with a few words from my review.
Here’s “Bluffs in the Buff,” my review of The Naked Mountaineer: Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler by Stephen Sieberson, in The Wall Street Journal on November 15 & 16, 2014.
Here are links to the other book reviews I’ve done for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and more.
Here’s my review of No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America by West Point English Professor Elizabeth Samet.
(For The Washington Post, November 7, 2014)
“Samet’s musings are fascinating, and for serving officers, they should be required reading. As goes the famous quote widely but incorrectly attributed to Thucydides but actually drawn from the writings of 19th Century Irish Lt Gen. Sir William Francis Butler, “The Nation that [draws a broad line] between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
Elizabeth Samet is certainly doing her bit to ensure neither calamity afflicts the United States.” [MORE…]
Here is a list of 17 other books I’ve reviewed for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and more.
Adorable photo of Ginger the Cat, courtesy of June Creson. June recently retired from Boeing, where, as the person who coordinated the string of Ed Wells Book Club events I’ve been doing, she was probably responsible for creating more China’s Wings readers than any other single individual. Thanks, June!
(With a nod to Gregory Richards, a guy I served with in the Army’s 7th Infantry Division in the early ’90s who is now at Boeing. Gregory put me in touch with June shortly after the publication of China’s Wings.)
Nice to see Enduring Patagonia getting some cat love, too.
When my 13-year old son and I watched the trailer for the movie Fury some weeks ago, he exclaimed, “It would be so awesome to go to Halloween dressed as a tank!”
I said, “You know, you could probably make that happen…”
He said, “Really?”
Here is the result of his efforts, an M4 Sherman Tank:
Pretty fabulous, no? It was the hands down winner in his school costume contest. From what I could see, he had a swarm of kids following him around all day, because it was more than just a costume that he could wear, it was also a costume he could drive…
Here’s a video of it rolling out from the assembly area:
(Forgive me, I was enjoying it almost as much as he was…)
And here he is rolling past a local softball field. Quite literally, it stopped the game:
And then a last short one of him catching the attention of a guy coming out of a corner store:
Here are a few pictures of the rig under construction:
Here’s “Wintry Climbs,” my review of The Calling by Barry Blanchard, which appeared in the October 11 & 12 issue of The Wall Street Journal.
Barry’s one of the most impressive climbers of modern times. On Twitter, he’s: @Barry_Blanchard; his website is www.barryblanchard.ca; and here he is as one of Patagonia’s climbing ambassadors.
I’ve been doing a lot of reviewing for The WSJ, The Washington Post, NPR Books, and others. Here’s the full list, with links.
Got a bit of a buzz the other day when I saw my Acid Test review for The Washington Post quoted in Douglas Main’s article “Ecstasy and Acid in your medicine cabinet? Doctors Explore Psychedelics” which published in Newsweek on 10/14/2014.
