The Electric Speakeasy

Over the weekend one of my favorite venues down in College Station hosted a World War I Centennial memorial and reenactment. In addition to the museum's French 75, Nash Quad artillery tractor, and probably the best-restored operable FT-17 light tank in the western hemisphere, the Museum of the Ameri...

I'll have to put up a picture of the SuperChip one of these days.

Made on a 1940-dated lathe the size of a minivan, turning approximately 16rpm and taking a .250 cut with a burnt-out carbide cutter. It was something to see. I've still got a length of it rolling around my toolbox somewhere.

I need more machinists for that shop I'll open...eventually.

Just throwing that out there.

Been in the machine shop, have you?

I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but steampunk also seems to be somewhat more idealistic and fanciful in its execution whereas dieselpunk runs grittier and more cynical.

Could just be me, though.

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Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:08 pm

It is a damn fine film. Although my favorite scene doesn't involve a fedora per se it does demonstrate some superb Thompson handling skills.

Well...the old man is still an artist with a Thompson, after all.

The problem with this story is simple: we don't have enough information, and the information we have doesn't make sense. My first impression - and the one I'm sticking with until convinced otherwise - is the false flag. The timing is suspect. The intended recipients are suspect. The means through wh...

Lawrence of Arabia is another one on my list.

Yeah. I can't say as I actively dislike Chinatown. At worst I'm lukewarm. I mean, I wouldn't erase it from existence or anything...just don't see where it's earned all the accolades over the years.

If this makes any sense, it comes across like singer who nails the lyrics but misses the rhythm.

Despite setting, story, or execution, everybody's got at least a couple of otherwise highly-regarded movies they can't stand. Whether you think it's overrated or outright crap, regardless how much you ought to have loved it...you didn't. Of late I've also developed a theory that most such movies hav...