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New York, and no doubt New Jersey too!! Yipes :eek: , first it's the Martians and now it's the Huns! Oh, Liam, we're told the Huns are used to our bacteria so they won't just fall down dead like those stinky Martians so please protect us, I know I'll never be able to learn German, I can barely get by in English!
The best narration I've seen in years and a great unconventional game, the all time champ duking it out with our own rising U. S. star. :cool:
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JP, I think of those things (
) as the Hubert Icon. Thank you for the holiday wishes, and the same to you my fellow Jerseyite.
I've finally followed your posts of Christmas past and am listening to the Bach choral works. Like everything else he wrote they open a whole new avenue of musical excellence -- amazing that something centuries old can seem new, but I hadn't heard them before so for me they are. :cool: -
Double Post -- anything to reach the big 8.
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-- Well, Pickle, at least some of us are grateful you've caught that mislabelling. :cool:
-- Meanwhile the 2nd SS Panzer was no doubt off somewhere engaged in their favorite hobby, slaughtering a small town or village. :eek:
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A Merry Christmas and Happy Channukah to everyone -- yeah, I know I must have misspelled it, my apologies.
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Excellent AAR Timskorn Enjoyed reading it all the way through, interesting sidenotes on the improving game mechanics from SC-thru WaW. :cool:
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Reading the post where the poor bastards are doing themselves in because of all the rain almost cost me a cup of hot coffee.
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Excellent suggestion, Philippe.
Spent the last few weeks on something set in medieval Europe, but have also been thinking about your posts. I like to research material of one period while working in another.
After reading a few articles on Federico García Lorca I see your point. As you suggest, he'd make an excellent character, along with de Falla, in what is now becoming a Spanish and Argentine subplot. I'd planned on using that country in a post WWII setting, but you've got me thinking now that it would be a good setting from the start, c.1935.
Still trying to get details of de Falla's last years in Argentina (not being fluent in Spanish it's difficult for me). I'm afraid of placing him somewhere and having it pointed out that he spent all those years as a recluse!
-- He's actually described as having been reclusive, spending most of his time working on a never finished epic work, but as a description reclusive is a bit vague, leaving considerable room for interpretation.-- But, if I don't find solid details soon, I'll assume he went to Buenos Aires on occasion and stopped in a cafe frequented by writers, musicians and artists.
There were several places like that in Lower Manhattan during the late 1960s. I used to go to some with friends, unfortunately they later changed, most of them either becoming tourist stops -- Jack Kerouac used to have coffee here! -- or just ordinary upscale eateries completely different from what they had once been. If I can't find good descriptions of an actual Buenos Aires cafe fitting the bill, a fictional replacement adapted from 60s Greenwich Village memories ought to work pretty well. :cool:
I've seen historical fitures mangled in fiction, and the grossly flawed images readily accepted. It would be good to avoid that, but if it's unavoidable, and the mangling is only slight, I think it's preferable to not representing them at all, or creating a completely fictional entity to stand in for a real person; better to pay homage to an honorable memory.
As always, very grateful for your insights.
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Appreciated Philippe :cool:
-- Hopefully it was the warping effect of either an old shellac disc or wax cylander. I get a similar reaction whenever I hear Fritz Kreisler playing one of his yacky-staccato pieces. I'm sure the man was a great violinist but there must have been better ways of showing it. -- It would be interesting to hear how Chopin played his own pieces. I understand a French inventor actually captured the composer performing his Minute Waltz -- which on the period instrument he actually performed in something like 58 seconds. It was some sort of smoky bottle contraption that Chopin went along with to humor George Sand -- the inventor didn't know how to make it play, only record. :confused:
The item was buried, along with a notebook, found in the 1990s and scanned by a laser device hooked up to a computer and a piano and the result was a performance of The Minute Waltz! If that's for real (I read this in a magazine article c.1993) it would easily be the first recording.Thanks for the information, I will definitely pursue it and will let you know if I find anything.
From what I understand, de Falla was a very private person who didn't dabble in politics but he did put himself on the line for a friend in the late 1930s and immediately after moved to Argentina, where he lived quietly, working a grand projected that was never completed. He died in 1946 and there was a dispute between the two nations as to which had the right to bury him. His remains were ceded to Spain.
In my novel, the main character, the son of a lady concert pianist, meets de Falla in Spain as a young boy just before the Spanish Civil War. Events transpire and he meets de Falla again, years later in Argentina, as a teenager to make good on a promise of playing the Ritual Fire Dance for its composer. I picture it happening in an almost empty restaurant, de Falla listening queitly and nodding approvingly as the young musician, who cannot reveal his identity, nods in return and rushes away.
The only description I have of de Falla's last months is that he died suddenly in his sleep.
Thanks again and, fingers crossed.
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Originally posted by pzgndr:
What about the upcoming Alien vs Predator vs Terminator vs Rambo movie?? And the winner of that takes on Lee Marvin and the Big Red One, or maybe just Chuck Norris...
Thanks PzG', brightened up an otherwise gray and sultry morning.
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Even without having the game (I'm getting the WaW addition in the Spring) this AAR has been great. Both players show what's going on all over the map.
Terrific commentary from both and a really exciting game. Well worth the box seat ticket price. :cool:
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Doesn't seem like five years, Brother Rambo.
-- And it's been almost that long since we read about the infamous Claus Boobie.
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Good to see you, JP.
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Thank you, Bill.
Excellent idea. I think the two nearest would be Princeton and Rutgers.
A NYC library card would also be a good idea in order to visit the main Manhattan branch. I used to love that place but haven't been there in quite a while. If they've got an online hookup -- can't imagine they wouldn't -- that would also be very useful.
There are some fine online resources for Holocaust questions.
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Appreciated Konigs, and likewise.Originally posted by Konigs:BTW, thanks Jersey John, I am glad you are enjoying. Good to see you back, you always have excellent reading posts... see you....
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Same here. :cool:Originally posted by Konigs:More more, I like reading AARs.
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Very fine AAR from both. :cool:
I haven't gotten the WaW part yet and haven't played much SC2 to date, so I'm grateful for the game comments you're both making. Am I'm sure others are too.
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Kuniworth is telling the truth.
Sorry for revealing this secret document, Kuni, but I think the time has come for people to stop these accusations once and for all.
It isn’t fair to Kuni to have to live with all of these accusations and insinuations.
I’ve got a sworn statement that proves, at least for me, that he was never one of the Lucky creatures – some of us will recall the way those poor wretches appealed to Kuni for support but in each instance he asked them to follow his example and abide by the rules and to not do anything the moderators would frown upon.
My good friend signed this duly notarized document when we set up Buntaland. I said we couldn’t run a website together unless I was certain of his integrity. I hope that, after reading it, you’ll be as convinced of the man’s innocence as I am.
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I, Kapitain Kuniworth, do hereby affirm that I have never used the screen name Lucky Zebra, Lucky Hippo, Lucky Elephant, Lucky Zorro, Lucky Luciano, Lucky Lindy or any other form of Lucky, nor have I ever deliberately set about to cause a problem at any website or set out to start a thread I knew would be locked by the moderators.
Signed,
Kapitain Kuniworth
Witnessed,
Lucky Reindeer
Notary, Frostbite Sweden
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Greetings Bill,
Doing pretty well, thanks, considering how indifferent I've been healthwise for the first 58 years of my life.
Hope you're feeling well too.Your scholarship is, as always, an inspiration. I'm taking the liberty of copying your post to paste it at Buntaland in my Novel Notes Area. You've definitely provided some great routes to take.
The two books on the Spanish Civil War I've been using are David Mitchell's and Paul Preston's, with a couple of books on Franco, at the moment Franco A Concise Biography by Gabrielle Ashford Hodges.
I've been posting notes on my project at Buntaland as nearly all of it would be off-topic in these forums. It started out as one novel I wanted to write that would have traced several characters on both sides of the Holocaust from WWII thru the present day. From there it kept expanding till I realized I couldn't possibly fit it all into one novel. The first of them starts in 1935 and will have the original Polish and German characters. It's sequel will start in 1937 with several American characters, three of them young members of the German American Bund. Sequel isn't the right word, actually, because the novels -- maybe ten of them -- will be independent of each other but the characters will interweave, some scenes being in more than one story but seen from different character views.
The military part of things has to be as accurate as I can manage though I doubt there will be much in the way in depicted battles. But there will be a lot of behind the scenes talk concerning weapons and tactics and views on why the war is going one way or the other as time passes.
My main problem at the moment is putting together enough material on historical figures to turn them into good fictional characters. Having a hard time finding out about the Spanish composer Manuel De Falla, for example. He seems very interesting as a person but was very private in his personal life. Another is the Austrian author Stefan Zweig but I suspect there will turn out being much more available on him than De Falla. Others will be the pianist Ignace Paderewski and the British General Fuller, who I've always wanted to use as a fictional character.
And I hope that explains why I haven't been active at the website lately. SC2 and WaW look very interesting and I'd love to delve directly into the scenarios that have been made by yourself and others, all of them excellent based on excellent ideas. The problem is, if I do I won't be able to work on the novels, so that's the direction I've gone to.
Hope you'll drop in at Buntaland when you're in the mood. Anything you can add to my novel research would be very greatly appreciated.
-- Best of luck with the scenarios, as you know, I think your ideas are excellent. It's good to see neglected areas like the Polish Campaign and the Spanish Civil War represented. :cool:
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-- Vintage, SeaMonkey.
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True. I neglected to mention the several forums of Kuni's Strategic Command Community -- classic gems from the old days including immortal quotes that Kuni has patiently collected over the years.
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Appreciated Ottosmops. I'd love to if I knew the details, but alas, I don't.Originally posted by Ottosmops:Yeah, their leaders were Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.
They were supported by the communists and massacred occasionally Christians.
I leave it to JerseyJohn to explain the details.
... Never cared as much for Hemingway's novel For Whom The Bell Tolls as I did for most of his other works, especially the great short stories, don't really know why, a lot of people think it's great. I'm sure I'm missing something -- maybe it was the sexual fantasy the woman was having of doing it while firing a .50 cal water cooled machinegun. -- :eek: -- Saw the movie too long ago to remember much about it. Mainly I've always felt Hemingway and some of his friends were having an adventure in Spain while hundreds of thousands were dying for one cause or the other. Possibly I'm being unfair to them, but I don't think so.
Bill101 mentioned Poland and I have to add the past few months I've been very interested in Spain and Poland during the period between the world wars. Haven't drawn many conclusions about any of it but some interesting books I've found are:
Bitter Glory: Poland and its Fate 1918-1939
Richard M. Watt
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation 1939-1944 Richard C. Lukas
Hitler and Spain: The Nazi Role in the Spanish Civil War Robert H. Whealey
And several interesting books on Franco and the Spanish Civil War.
[ November 11, 2007, 02:40 PM: Message edited by: JerseyJohn ]
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Thanks for posting this, KapitainKuni. I haven't been active at SC2 for a while because most of what's been posted is directly game oriented and I haven't been able to play at all the over the summer and fall.
SC Buntaland < Corrected Link for Buntaland > which was shortened to Buntaland because it isn't an SC-dedicated site, is intended as a place the SC community and friends can go with topics that wouldn't be right for this particular forum.
My thanks to the several SC-players who registered since Kuni put this thread up. :cool:
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letifer,
My pleasure, glad you're posting now, you can replace me because I've had more than enough of the middle-school mentality that's come to dominate this place; too many instant know-it-alls looking to pat themselves on the head all the time.
I guess another example of a great power looking to force a war on a lesser one came up more recently than Trajan when a certain American president pushed a war in the Middle East on the basis of WMDs that could never be found and a terrorist link that didn't exist.
Of course he might have said that the government in question, with or without WMDs, having invaded two of its neighbors in less than a decade and committed numerous war crimes against civilians, was a menace and needed to be removed, but for reasons known only to him, he didn't.
And with that, I'm off to greener pastures where the maturity level is a little higher than twelve year olds looking to out-do those around them.
) as the Hubert Icon.
Terif vs Liam, Stalingrad & Atlantic
in Strategic Command 2 Blitzkrieg and Weapons and Warfare
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A Holly-Jolly AAR.
Enjoyed reading it. :cool: