Monday, Light Monday

A rainy morning, which annoys us. 

One toe is still sore, but improving. We had a vision of our death yesterday as we were replacing a lightbulb. Despite chronic foot pain, we toughed it out. 'I don't give a good goddamn if it hurts!' This is how we're going to die one day, isn't it? [Yes, via being a stubborn, pigheaded idiot-Ed]

And after three years we have a new computer. Everything from the old computer was transferred to this machine with just a few clicks. Remarkable and scary. Damn it! We lost dozens of google earth marks. 

What Will's Watching: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The Coen brothers have, in tone, feel, and structure, made a typical Coen Brothers movie. If you're a fan, you'll be a fan of TBBS. In a half dozen shorts, TBBS satires the Old West via mockery and exaggeration. But unlike Hail, Caeser! which pilloried overwrought 50's Hollywood, TBBS likes its subject. The vignettes are at once funny, horrifying and macabre. The Coen brothers writing is superb with surprising twists. The cinematography is great. Why did we wait five years to watch this movie? 4/4

Today we begin the absolute last, final, we swear, readthrough of World War 1990: The Final Storm. Seriously we need to do this. Hmmm....there's a big NATO meeting at Lakenheath, maybe representatives from Japan, Australia and New Zealand need to be there? 

On the Red Dawn Thingy...we know FDR doesn't run again after failed DDAY. Dewey defeats....Henry Wallace? Maybe. MacArthur is probably the president in the 50's, an idea we toyed with in The Austrian Painter. In the 60's there's the Vietnam War in Mexico leading to Mexico going communist and political upheaval in the US. Who is the president during the Mexico disaster? This will determine who is president in the 1970s. 

On World War 1990...we've always thought we'd do Esercito Italiano next, but Thatcher's War would make more sense chronologically.