Good Morning, fellowship of Stroock's Books. We've another unseasonably cool morning. Yesterday the temperature never broke 60 degrees, making for a glorious afternoon.
We didn't go for a five-mile walk. We did ten.
There are Hezbollah flags 30 minutes from here at Princeton. In 2011 we watched with amusement the Occupy protests. In 2020 we watched with horror the George Floyd madness. In 2024 we watch the Hamas takeover of college campuses with joy. Good, more... more. Take the hood off. Columbia you deserve this, and we're glad it's happening to you.
Remaining on the college beat...the New York Giants drafted Malik Nabers, wide receiver, LSU. Of course our late paternal grandmother attended LSU, with none other than future Giants great Yelberton Abraham Tittle. We were informed of the draft choice by our niece, who is named after said Mississippi born, Louisianna raised grandmother. There is some serious cosmic convergence at play.
Dune Part 2 notes Part III, in which we nitpick: in Frank Herbert's Dune, guns and lasers don't work because of body shields. These are really well done in Denis Villeneuve's Dune. But in many scenes the Fremin and Harkonen are armed with admittedly bad-ass looking laser rifles. This makes for a chilling, well executed, and beautiful desert ambush of a Harkonen platoon, which can be viewed here. But the laser rifles also make for some internal contradictions in the universe's logic. In Dune Part 2 the shields are important, except for when they aren't.
We've had a real slog this week with War Night, and Other Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975. But slogged we have. Also, we found the book we bought several years ago about, for lack of a better term, Canadian NORAD. So a chapter about Canadian CF101 Voodos we shall write.
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