Landsknecht

i have been a long time Doc Savage fan and have been reading some of the later issues just recently.  I also own a copy of the Ron Ely version which causes me to cringe thinking about what all might go wrong with the new movie.   IF they play Doc Savage straight, show lots of 1930s toys (airships, autogyros, running boards, supermachine pistols, etc....), and don't make Pat Savage the real hero it could be great. 

It definitely needs to stay in the 1930s (or make a slight shift towards DieselPunk).  Bringing it in to the future was called Buckaroo Banzia. 

I have met too many of these. 

A gentleman sat down on a river bank to enjoy two of his favorite past times, drinking and fishing.  Unfirtunately he discovers that he forgot bait.  Just then a cottonmouth swim by the bank with a frog in its mouth.  Knowing that a frog would make pretty good bait he decided to grab the snake behind the head since it cannot bite him with the frog in its mouth.  Once he removed the frog he sees a problem though.  He has a clever idea and pours some whiskey down the snake's mouth.  Soon the snake goes limp and he tosses it far away. 

About an hour later the cottonmouth swims back to him with two frogs in it mouth. 

Oldest building in the world found:  http://news.bbc.co.u...ture/662794.stm

I cannot help but notice a certain similarity to Terra Amata (which the French built a condo on) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Amata_%28archaeological_site%29  and I wonder how many similar ancient structures have been overlooked around the world? 

I have an odd little story to share.  I know that not everyone loves the SK movie especially since it did not exactly follow a REH story.  Persoanlly I give it maybe a 7.5 out of 10 and am glad that I own a copy and can watch it when I want. 

My lovely lady wife did not like the movie the first time that I played it and walked away.  She can be a little stubborn and Scottish about her likes and dislikes sometimes.     Any way the disc got put away in the Season of the Witch DVD case somehow.  She popped it in the TV the other night and made it through to about the monastery scene before figuirng out that it was the wrong movie.  By then she was into it enough to finish watching it and suddenly it is not such a bad movie after all. 

Watching it again I am taken with the pilgrim family.  Besides being outside the Hollywood formula, as a reenactor I cannot find much to complain about with their gear (which is rare in movies).