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, 9 May 2018 12:33 (six years ago) link
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!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
wait, did we migrate the ken burns talk to the zing thread or is my web browser screwed up
― mh, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
yes
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
a "ken burns" is good name for a long, several part zing imo
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
Walking zing imo:
http://www.tennesseetheatre.com/lib/image/shows/719603_tt1.jpg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
style provocateur
― mh, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link
i will never watch baseball or jazz u cant make me, fave one was maybe prohibition? relatively minor but with lots of good infos
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
oh yeah! I learned a lot from that one (i.e. tax policy and its connection to Prohibition, Progressivism + temperance movement).
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
yeah that one's good, the small town vs city stuff also made the whole experiment seem a lot less out of the blue
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
I wanted a multi-part doc on Al Smith.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
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
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
Is your aversion to the baseball one about not trusting KB on race issues?
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
or violently disagree with his stance on the DH
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
although i like both baseball and jazz when combined with ken burns i dont think i can take that much dad culture
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
a Ken Burns doc in five parts on the cultural history of Father's Day, that's what we need imo
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
Golf. Just imagine
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
one called fathers & sons about having a catch with yr dad imo
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
A ken burns doc about bill simmons and cousin sal just being dads
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
hell yea
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
haha I forgot this thread was on the Noise board. Boredoms -> k.burns an eternal golden braid
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 May 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
― 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
― flopson, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
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
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
true, just noting my impressions
― flopson, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
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
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 25 June 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
woww
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 25 June 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
good zingin aimless
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Monday, 25 June 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
aim most imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 25 June 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
is that a very good zing
not to go at aimless its just not v zingy imo
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Monday, 25 June 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
there is no zing
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 25 June 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
wait I thought LJ was the zing police
― rehab hot (rip van wanko), Monday, 25 June 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
he's on special assignment, only deals with zings about himself
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 25 June 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
ya
ive been pulled in because he's overworked
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Monday, 25 June 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
auditing the Spring '09 Excelsior perchance
― rehab hot (rip van wanko), Monday, 25 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
lol
deems tbf writes the only excesiorable posts now
― imago, Monday, 25 June 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
Read that as 'execrable'.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 June 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
Either way, I agree.
― A Frankenstein + A Dracula + A Mummy That's Been Werewolfed (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 June 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
yes otm
― under a mand'rin tsar (darraghmac), Monday, 25 June 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
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
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
Peachy.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
god, old ilx was good
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
and then i turned up
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
harsh
apart from lamentable in sentiment but admirably uncloaked anti-hibernian tendency you're grand
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
XpAnd we all got turnt🤪
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
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
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 September 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
poster X's underwear
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 14 September 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
gbx direct hit damn u ok morbs
― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, 14 September 2018 00:21 (five years ago) link
fatality.wav
― dripping in fennesz (sanskrit), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
no joke, this is pretty good
https://newrepublic.com/article/151603/nihilist-nation-empty-core-trump-mystique
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 27 October 2018 13:14 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
are all your other posts jokes then or
― Mordy, Saturday, 27 October 2018 14:57 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 October 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link