Special Request! Please do not do Catch-22 until you've done two more books. Honestly, I need time, brother. For the others, I'll do graphic novels, but I want to read the original version of Catch-22.
That book means a lot to me. I was in high school, sitting in study hall. The football coach was at the back of the room watching game film. Next to me, at the far end from the coach, was an upper classman reading Catch-22, laughing out loud, quietly so the coach would not hear. He wore a wristwatch and it was five minutes until the period ended. I had chewing tobacco in my pocket gifted to me earlier in the day by a shit-kicker. I surreptitiously took it out and put it in my mouth. Salivation began. I looked at the upper classman's watch and it was actually 15 minutes until class ended. Oops. When the bell finally rang, I rushed outside to throw up and go home for the rest of the day.
I hope that explains why I want you to give me time to read the book, which I never have. Thanks in advance!
Thank God for Matt & Walter, and how well they balance each other out. And how much common sense they have.
I listen to commentary and news “reporting” elsewhere, and it’s like watching inexperienced sophomores lying and fantasizing . . . . then comes M&W, and Their mature reality; they try their best to do rational analysis, and reasonable interpretation, knowing that most of the information available to them, and us, is not true, and in fact has been systematically processed. CNN and MSNBC are nothing but polished propaganda and Dem cheerleading - the sooner they are gone / dead the better. Nothing on the internet can be trusted, period. ABC / NBC / CBS should be ashamed of themselves - we trusted them and they dropped the ball when they were desperately needed. Matt & Walter are not the only one that I trust, but there’s only a dozen or so others that are worth following re the news.
The book talks are good (I’m waiting for “Master & Margarita”), but secondary, compared to the hen’s teeth of honest news commentary.
It is. I bought it from Amazon at a really reasonable price a few years ago. My parents and I saw it at a drive - in when it was new. My mother had a great, boisterous laugh, but I'm surprised she didn't have actual convulsions during the scene when the old lady rips the turkey to shreds.
I've read that Waugh hated the movie, and it's never a surprise to learn that he hated anything, but I have wondered if his hatred wasn't driven by his not having thought of Mother Joyboy's dinner scene.
If you haven't read the book, consider it. It's one of my favorite novels.
Would love to reread Catch-22 if it's on the table. Is that next?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I taught junior English and junior U.S. history at a public high school in northern CA. We arranged it so most of the kids had me for both periods so we could do some cool curricular linkage with our work. The students loved turning one assignment in to two classes! (Gatsby and Langston Hughes during the 20s, etc.)
Sadly, even with the higher reading ability we had on average in classes back in the late 90s compared to now, the satire went over most of their heads. It's a pretty high level skill! Ended up reading big chunks of key parts of it in class because I was too stubborn to give up on it. Figured they'd appreciate it some day! Interestingly, they all got it when it was read aloud to them. They just couldn't see it on the page in front of them. Or maybe it was a conspiracy to get me to read it to them... ? Hmmm.. Anyway, I'm in!
Funny you should mention the class preferring to have you read it. Sure, that could have been teenage laziness. On the other hand, the ability to cast oneself into a story being told to oneself is much easier, I think, than trying to do that while reading and attempting to get the words correct. You knew the books. First time readers would not. I will bet there are created fantasy images in their heads to this day!
The Democratic arguments about Trump nationalizing the National Guard sound just like Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus when Eisenhower sent elements of the 101st Airborne Div. (not merely the National Guard, but the real Army) to Little Rock to ensure the safety of black children trying to go to school, who were threatened by mobs trying to stop them.
I am so disgusted with the Democrats and the media, words really fail me. Every time I think they cannot go lower, they do. The lying is really beyond even the low standard that has become normal in the last few years.
Matt wonders what the "protesters" are trying to accomplish, but near the start of this livestream he showed people burning a US flag and saying the whole country has to be brought down. Seems pretty clear to me.
Jeez! Walter, you are clairvoyant! I just stopped the feed at about -1:30:00 (it's decending, so it's wierd), but Walter is spot on! This does NOT look like put upon immigrants and their families, protesting for their freedom. It looks a lot more like a well-organized violent political movement to me. Is this a practice run? What's next?
It is Antifa. 20209 was the practice run. There are forces in the world that wish to see the Us taken down. Or at least so distracted that others can do what they want elsewhere.
Re skid row & Newsom's embrace of the SCOTUS decision to clear encampments off the street, what has gone unmentioned by the lame-ass media is that extermination of the homeless is archetypal government action before an Olympics (L.A. has it in 2028 & World Cup in 2027). Where's the protest for that?
The whole riot looks bad, I agree, but I’m all for destroying self-driving cars. I’m against the whole idea, both from a technical view and legal view, and from a social view. It’s a technology that’s being imposed on us, as well as A.I.
Here in rural Illinois, our local fire departments are getting training on how EV fires are different, hard to put out with different toxins being released.
I guess in LA, ground zero for Planet Earth, that doesn't matter at all, if your politics are true.
Interesting this interest in “spreading democracy.” Exactly what is democracy? It might make more sense to figure out what it is first, then build it here, before trying to spread it anywhere. That was part of the message in “The Quiet American.”
Special Request! Please do not do Catch-22 until you've done two more books. Honestly, I need time, brother. For the others, I'll do graphic novels, but I want to read the original version of Catch-22.
That book means a lot to me. I was in high school, sitting in study hall. The football coach was at the back of the room watching game film. Next to me, at the far end from the coach, was an upper classman reading Catch-22, laughing out loud, quietly so the coach would not hear. He wore a wristwatch and it was five minutes until the period ended. I had chewing tobacco in my pocket gifted to me earlier in the day by a shit-kicker. I surreptitiously took it out and put it in my mouth. Salivation began. I looked at the upper classman's watch and it was actually 15 minutes until class ended. Oops. When the bell finally rang, I rushed outside to throw up and go home for the rest of the day.
I hope that explains why I want you to give me time to read the book, which I never have. Thanks in advance!
Thankyou Walter for getting to the “protest industrial complex”. Finally!
Thank God for Matt & Walter, and how well they balance each other out. And how much common sense they have.
I listen to commentary and news “reporting” elsewhere, and it’s like watching inexperienced sophomores lying and fantasizing . . . . then comes M&W, and Their mature reality; they try their best to do rational analysis, and reasonable interpretation, knowing that most of the information available to them, and us, is not true, and in fact has been systematically processed. CNN and MSNBC are nothing but polished propaganda and Dem cheerleading - the sooner they are gone / dead the better. Nothing on the internet can be trusted, period. ABC / NBC / CBS should be ashamed of themselves - we trusted them and they dropped the ball when they were desperately needed. Matt & Walter are not the only one that I trust, but there’s only a dozen or so others that are worth following re the news.
The book talks are good (I’m waiting for “Master & Margarita”), but secondary, compared to the hen’s teeth of honest news commentary.
It's no secret that you can even rent crowds.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rent+a+crowd+protest&ia=web
❤️ Love these ATW shows, thanks Matt and Walter.
Can we read something fun, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop?
I'd favor The Loved One.
The movie they made of that was hilarious. Saw it in 1966 (or somewhere around that year).
It is. I bought it from Amazon at a really reasonable price a few years ago. My parents and I saw it at a drive - in when it was new. My mother had a great, boisterous laugh, but I'm surprised she didn't have actual convulsions during the scene when the old lady rips the turkey to shreds.
I've read that Waugh hated the movie, and it's never a surprise to learn that he hated anything, but I have wondered if his hatred wasn't driven by his not having thought of Mother Joyboy's dinner scene.
If you haven't read the book, consider it. It's one of my favorite novels.
Shelley Winters in the movie ripping the fridge open, wasn't it?
No, it wasn't. If that was Mother Joyboy - I need to watch that movie again! - then it was some anonymous woman they found somewhere.
A Handful of Dust.
Would love to reread Catch-22 if it's on the table. Is that next?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I taught junior English and junior U.S. history at a public high school in northern CA. We arranged it so most of the kids had me for both periods so we could do some cool curricular linkage with our work. The students loved turning one assignment in to two classes! (Gatsby and Langston Hughes during the 20s, etc.)
Sadly, even with the higher reading ability we had on average in classes back in the late 90s compared to now, the satire went over most of their heads. It's a pretty high level skill! Ended up reading big chunks of key parts of it in class because I was too stubborn to give up on it. Figured they'd appreciate it some day! Interestingly, they all got it when it was read aloud to them. They just couldn't see it on the page in front of them. Or maybe it was a conspiracy to get me to read it to them... ? Hmmm.. Anyway, I'm in!
Funny you should mention the class preferring to have you read it. Sure, that could have been teenage laziness. On the other hand, the ability to cast oneself into a story being told to oneself is much easier, I think, than trying to do that while reading and attempting to get the words correct. You knew the books. First time readers would not. I will bet there are created fantasy images in their heads to this day!
"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!" - I'm Kamala D now! I'm SOMEBODY now!!
The Democratic arguments about Trump nationalizing the National Guard sound just like Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus when Eisenhower sent elements of the 101st Airborne Div. (not merely the National Guard, but the real Army) to Little Rock to ensure the safety of black children trying to go to school, who were threatened by mobs trying to stop them.
https://onlyinark.com/places-and-travel/little-rock-central-high-school-national-historic-site/
I am so disgusted with the Democrats and the media, words really fail me. Every time I think they cannot go lower, they do. The lying is really beyond even the low standard that has become normal in the last few years.
Matt wonders what the "protesters" are trying to accomplish, but near the start of this livestream he showed people burning a US flag and saying the whole country has to be brought down. Seems pretty clear to me.
Walter’s point about inverse Trump/Goldstein blew my mind! I love this show.
Jeez! Walter, you are clairvoyant! I just stopped the feed at about -1:30:00 (it's decending, so it's wierd), but Walter is spot on! This does NOT look like put upon immigrants and their families, protesting for their freedom. It looks a lot more like a well-organized violent political movement to me. Is this a practice run? What's next?
It is Antifa. 20209 was the practice run. There are forces in the world that wish to see the Us taken down. Or at least so distracted that others can do what they want elsewhere.
Jesus. Corey Booker. Spartacus.
But a bladder of steel. Credit where credit is due.
A severed hand in the street? Why oh why didn't David Lynch direct the film of 1984?
Re skid row & Newsom's embrace of the SCOTUS decision to clear encampments off the street, what has gone unmentioned by the lame-ass media is that extermination of the homeless is archetypal government action before an Olympics (L.A. has it in 2028 & World Cup in 2027). Where's the protest for that?
Listen to Walter. More to come.
What they don't understand --- we are watching. And because of places like Substack!
We aint going back.
Love you’re covering this book
As much as my boy grock tells me there’s no truth to my theory and others …..
Original title was 1948 and world government forced himto change the title to the futuristic 1984 😋😋😋👻👻👻👻
1948 year tv was in majority ofhh
CIA formed
State of Israel formed
🙄🙄🙄😳😳😳😱😱😱
The whole riot looks bad, I agree, but I’m all for destroying self-driving cars. I’m against the whole idea, both from a technical view and legal view, and from a social view. It’s a technology that’s being imposed on us, as well as A.I.
Here in rural Illinois, our local fire departments are getting training on how EV fires are different, hard to put out with different toxins being released.
I guess in LA, ground zero for Planet Earth, that doesn't matter at all, if your politics are true.
EVs are bad enough, but self-driving EVs are even worse! Looks like they burn pretty good, though...
Interesting this interest in “spreading democracy.” Exactly what is democracy? It might make more sense to figure out what it is first, then build it here, before trying to spread it anywhere. That was part of the message in “The Quiet American.”