The American Revolution: a few Reads and Watches

Good Monday morning, Stroock's Books reader(s). We've a frigid morning here in New Jersey as temps are in the mid-30s. 

We've no insights into the Giants. Hmmm two number one picks now. That is interesting. 

So we bought a new laptop yesterday and had all programs, websites, etc... up and running just the way we like them within an hour. Remarkable. We never thought we'd say this, but God bless Microsoft*. Last night we dreamt our new laptop was already falling apart. 

Even after buying a new laptop, we were a bit demoralized. It's annoying really. We've been working off of a laptop since 2002. For reasons we've never understood, we can't seem to keep a laptop functioning for more than two years. And our last laptop physically broke. 'Sup with that?

War of the ants...we bought new liquid ant traps and deployed them in the kitchen and basement. A neighbor thinks we may have a nest down there, as he found the same in his house. We'll take a look. Otherwise, we shall press home our advantage. 

We are working on how we're going to blog and present the American Revolution. Actually, we're thinking we may do it in separate short posts. We should replicate our efforts here on Substack. We'll see.** 

In the meantime, if you want to start the American Revolution, we suggest Benson Bobrick's Angel in the Whirlwind. This edition is 500+ pages, but that includes intro, end notes, index etc. Bobrick's a Canadian author, actually, but don't hold that against him. See also George Middlekauff's The Glorious Cause. This is a classic and was the book we read for our first grad course, Intro to the American Revolution.  

We've lamented before that there aren't a lot of great movies about the American Revolution. However, we strongly recommend George Washington, the 1984 television miniseries starring Barry Bostwick. Go ahead and laugh, but Bostwick pulls it off. For younger reader(s), miniseries used to be a very big deal. George Washington was. Just check out that cast. George Washington can be found on YouTube.

DOGE report.

We worked on a scene in World War 1990: The Managua Campaign and edited another. 

*Wow, the MS read aloud function has a different default voice. Thank the Gods. The old default voice was a wine drinking, menopausal assistant HR rep or the library lady. The new default voice sounds like, we dunno, Microsoft.   

**Ed's pouting. She said something about 'bloody ungrateful colonists' and stormed off. Last we saw she was eating chocolate bon bons and binging Bridgerton.