Fear and Loathing on Lake Buel

Still cloudy and rainy and generally unpleasant here in the Berkshires. The womenfolk went outlet shopping. The boat should be launched today. Fingers crossed. We've really come to be warry of that thing, fearful, trepidatious. We're not enthused, but uneasy.

We got some decent work done yesterday. Edited some 8th Mech Division scenes and worked on a 211 ACR scene. We've got to get those guys from their encampment, across ad-hoc corps' area and onto the banks of the Weser. We sense opportunity.

So our latest bit of Soviet collusion has been reposted at Praag.org. Who are they?:PRAAG (the Pro-Afrikaans Action Group) was founded in February 2000 to fight for the rights of all Afrikaners and other people of European descent in South Africa who find themselves at the receiving end of what has been variously termed “reverse discrimination”, “ethnic cleansing” and even “white genocide”.' We're not sure what to make of this, but we'll state for the record that we didn't do it. We know the Inforos people like to spread stuff around. [You mean disinformation?-Ed] Everything we write is 99 44/100 percent true. Afrikaaner lives matter. 

We're working on something for the KGB now, and have so many good ideas we'll be writing a piece for them next week as well.  

What Will's Watching, The Tomorrow War: Okay...someone needs to explain the time causality thing to these people. The idea of sending soldiers, not even soldiers, just random middle aged draftees, into the future makes no sense. Why not just spend 30 years preparing for the invasion? The action scenes were big, dumb and utterly predictable. There was the obligatory Triple D (Daddy Daughter Drama) across time. Didn't see that one coming, nosiree. The White Spikes were ravenous monsters so numerous it didn't matter how many the good guy killed, leaving this viewer disgusted and cold. Who cares? Still, there were many good individual performances in this movie and we believed Chris Pratt as an ex Special Forces type. We liked the last act. Just turn your brain off and you'll be fine. 2/4

When we said that we really didn't understand the East German Army, we meant that we we're not sure we can realistically write about the customs, interactions back and forth between officers and men, etc etc. We can fake the Brits of course, 'Oy, Terry. Pass me that wrench, would you mate? He wants me to do him a favor does he? This one's for old Queen Liz! Get you a pint of Newcastle for that one!' etc etc. [Jesus, you're a knobhead-Ed]