In addition to Gene Wolfe's death, another tragedy yesterday was the destruction of the cathedral of Notre Dame. While it's not been a priority to "bucket list" travel items, much less have a "bucket list," it's a place that I will no longer get a chance to properly see. It's loss is a blow to beauty and the symbols of our civilization. How did it happen? We don't know. That said, the official story, that it was an accident due to construction, stinks to high heaven.…
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For those of you who've hung around a while, my love of Sabaton is not news. There are metal bands with more intricate musicianship, but the overall blend of history and music sense is outstanding. They've also started a youtube history channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaG4CBbZih6nLzD08bTBGfw] with Indy Neidell, who has two other youtube channels dedicated to history in general and WW2. I'll post links to the first seven videos released up until now below, but another question has been…
On the recommendation of Cataline Sergius over at his new blog [https://darkherald.net/2019/02/11/cataline-highly-recommends-the-death-of-stalin-a-comedy-of-terrors/] , I tried out "Death of Stalin". Glad I did. Not hysterically fun, it is an exceedingly black and dark company that transforms into straight-up dark near the end, and yet has a number of moments worth a chuckle as the actors and script manage to both play it utterly straight, yet slightly ridiculous. I'm also somewhat shocked -…
I'd written about most of the songs on Sabaton's "The Last Stand", including Blood of Bannockburn [https://thelastredoubt.com/music-sabaton-last-stand-blood-of/], the subject of their latest history vid.…
I'd covered before [https://thelastredoubt.com/music-sabaton-last-stand-lost-battalion/] the Sabaton song, "The Lost Battallion", but had not realized that that particular battle had been immortalized in film [https://rollingboxcars.com/2019/01/29/from-the-silver-screen-the-lost-battalion-1919/] . > The film transitions to France with a mixture of establishing shots filmed previously by the U. S. Signal Corps. We next see our characters enjoying letters from home before the start of the Meuse-A…