zing

ps my dn is one of your lines Morbs and perhaps the funniest thing I've read on ilx

Shelby foote sucks insanely hard in civil war but otherwise its p great imo. i watched first 5 episodes of vietnam on a plane and it was insanely good and i couldn't tell what parts were apologism tho maybe that's more in the later episodes, also i'm ignorant

Guys, pls quit fighting amongst yourselves over the Civil War.

in vietnam the american leadership was depicted as well intentioned hard decision makers rather than the soft brained war mongers they were and the war itself was depicted as an intractable civil war rather than the imperial adventurism it was

The Vietnamese talking heads mitigated much of the blather from the American side. Maybe it's an example of American journalism's penchant for both-sides-do-itsm.

I have no stake in Burns' documentaries – I haven't even watched the Civil War one. Too long!

wait, did we migrate the ken burns talk to the zing thread or is my web browser screwed up

yes

a "ken burns" is good name for a long, several part zing imo

Walking zing imo:

http://www.tennesseetheatre.com/lib/image/shows/719603_tt1.jpg

style provocateur

i will never watch baseball or jazz u cant make me, fave one was maybe prohibition? relatively minor but with lots of good infos

oh yeah! I learned a lot from that one (i.e. tax policy and its connection to Prohibition, Progressivism + temperance movement).

yeah that one's good, the small town vs city stuff also made the whole experiment seem a lot less out of the blue

I wanted a multi-part doc on Al Smith.

i loved the story about how americans were all day buzzed on hard cider then when distilled spirits were adopted ppl just drank them at the same rate and were insanely drunk

Is your aversion to the baseball one about not trusting KB on race issues?

or violently disagree with his stance on the DH

although i like both baseball and jazz when combined with ken burns i dont think i can take that much dad culture

a Ken Burns doc in five parts on the cultural history of Father's Day, that's what we need imo

Golf. Just imagine

one called fathers & sons about having a catch with yr dad imo

A ken burns doc about bill simmons and cousin sal just being dads

hell yea

haha I forgot this thread was on the Noise board. Boredoms -> k.burns an eternal golden braid

in vietnam the american leadership was depicted as well intentioned hard decision makers rather than the soft brained war mongers they were and the war itself was depicted as an intractable civil war rather than the imperial adventurism it was

― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, May 9, 2018 8:33 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah i disagree with this. the imperial nature of the war was made plain, and there’s scenes like a year into their involvement when the American leadership essentially admit they are just staying in to keep up appearances

just because theres some scenes in some of these films that tell the truth doesnt mean hes not giving equal time to various good for nothing schemers liars and dissemblers

true, just noting my impressions

there is a point where it’s mentioned that the american strategy is doing its best at the same time mainstream commentators like Walter Cronkite were leaning into covering student protests and the casualties of the war, acknowledging that there’s an undercurrent of “how america wins” in the narrative of the doc

People take shit way too seriously.

― funzone76, Sunday, June 24, 2018 3:48 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a whole world out there just begging for you to impose some fun on it. why us?

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, June 24, 2018 4:00 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woww

good zingin aimless

aim most imo

is that a very good zing

not to go at aimless its just not v zingy imo

there is no zing

wait I thought LJ was the zing police

he's on special assignment, only deals with zings about himself

ya

ive been pulled in because he's overworked

auditing the Spring '09 Excelsior perchance

lol

deems tbf writes the only excesiorable posts now

Read that as 'execrable'.

Either way, I agree.

yes otm

There doesn’t seem to be a close account option in preferences

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 13:08 (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Look for “maracas.jpg”

― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 13:09 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Peachy.

god, old ilx was good

and then i turned up

harsh

apart from lamentable in sentiment but admirably uncloaked anti-hibernian tendency you're grand

Xp

And we all got turnt

🤪

could someone send treeship that NYT profile of Mueller which explains he's compulsively thorough, by the book? it might save us 500 posts

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, September 13, 2018 6:50 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what could we have sent you

― gbx, Thursday, September 13, 2018 6:51 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

poster X's underwear