Good morning Stroock's Books Commune.
Alert reader(s) may have noticed a second post last night from a Canadian known only as Citizen of Canuckstan. We are recruiting other foreigners as well and hope to make these overseas postings [Canada is in North America-Ed], a regular feature here. Are you one of these people? Email us at wtstroock@yahoo.com.
[How do we know these people are real? I mean, look at Qbi Wan-Ed]
Are you saying Qbi Wan is just an imaginary friend meant to mess with any feds who might be (and probably are) monitoring my comms and I just think the name Qbi Wan is hilarious?
[You really think the feds are reading your emails?-Ed]
They read Tucker's emails after he tried to get an interview with Putin, and I, you know, write for him too.
[Tucker?-Ed.]
No, Putin.
We admit we're getting paranoid.
[Getting? Six months ago a black SUV pulled up to the house and you shouted, 'It's happening!' That nice young man delivered flowers-Ed.]
True.
[You checked the flowers for listening devises, didn't you?- Ed]
No comment.
In our research of the Kremlin [Again with the Russians?-Ed] we discovered that it's defended by a unit called The Kremlin Regiment. This is an ad-hoc force of soldiers who pass a rigorous test to join the regiment. During the Cold War they were very often combat vets. We're thinking we should give more space to this regiment and create a character to do so. Which is how scenes, books, entire series grow like weeds. We already have a couple of guys hanging around Lenin's Tomb wondering why choppers are approaching Red Square....
Which brings us to...Will Writes: One must avoid the urge to write about something just for the sake of showing off that one learned something cool. Tom Clancy did this, and it was one of the reasons his novels were seven, eight, nine hundred pages long. We did this in A Line Through the Desert. That Grafenwoehr gunnery scene is damn near unreadable, no? But it seemed so cool at the time. We found a guy who used to run the gunnery exercises, and a couple of guys were on the range the day Iraq invaded Kuwait. We even got our hands on physical copies of the gunnery tables. So what one reads there is the way it was.
What Will's Watching, or should we say, what the actual fuck? The Book of Boba Fett Chapter-6 was another episode of The Mandalorian with Luke and Baby Yoda thrown in. The Luke and Baby Yoda scenes were really blatant masturbatory fan service. 'Yoda once told me...' Did you at least get five bucks for that hand job? Jesus. BoBF is bad and Lucas Films knows it. 1/4
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