Today’s video goes out to Lawrence, who (among his other virtues) is a tank fan.
Here’s another bonus entry for today: “Crack That Tank”.
Archive for April, 2020
“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 4
Friday, April 3rd, 2020Obit watch: April 2, 2020.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020I’ve been an irregular reader of Terry Teachout’s “About Last Night” blog for a while now. I don’t watch that much theater, in NYC or elsewhere, but I enjoy reading his writing. And I also enjoy the historical videos he posts on a regular basis.
I’ve been following him more closely in the past few weeks. Mr. Teachout’s wife has been mortally ill with pulmonary hypertension, and (after months of waiting) received a double lung transplant in early March.
She passed away on Tuesday. I’m heartbroken for Mr. Teachout (even though I don’t know him personally), and extend my condolences to him from afar.
Lawrence sent over the obit for Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne guy and film and television composer.
“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 3
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020Last night, I realized that we are coming up on the 50th anniversary of a historic (and awful) event. I’m working on a post that will go up on that date, which is a few days away.
In the meantime, I thought maybe I’d post some things that are thematically appropriate for the anniversary of that event.
Have you ever said to yourself, “Self, what’s the right way to do a felony vehicle stop?”
Well, now you know. Or at least, now you know what the recommended procedure was in 1973.
I would ordinarily say, “Don’t try this at home”, but if your home life is such that you’re thinking about doing felony vehicle stops there, nothing I can say is really going to make any difference.
“What you gonna do when you get out of jail?…” part 2
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020Continuing with the “random stuff that popped up in my YouTube recommendations” theme, here’s one of those Navy training videos. This one is actually better quality than some of the other ones I’ve been watching, and contains a lot of nice action shots: “The Job Of The EA-6B Prowler”:
Bonus video #1: this actually wasn’t a random YouTube recommendation, but something McThag linked to a while back that might be interesting to some folks: “Defensive Electronic Countermeasures”, a 1962 training film about various then current ECM gear. It is a little longer than I’d like (close to 30 minutes instead of 15), but I think it is a nice historical artifact.
Bonus video #2: also not random, and nothing to do with military aviation. I actually saw this on whatever the broadcast game show channel was this morning, and was amused: Robert Moog (and two other guys) on “To Tell the Truth”:
It particularly amuses me that the first question asked…is about P.D.Q. Bach.