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An Incredible Long Couple of Weeks. Diary of a Big Ole Gay.

Hey Whores, this is going to be a really long post because I may not have the energy to finish this this week.

So I guess I haven't done one of these in about two weeks and a lot of that is me being very busy. Last week of March I was working on like fifteen million different articles and videos and other content creation thingies and the first week of April literally started with my co-worker HAVING A MENTAL BREAK AND LEAVING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LITERAL COUNTRY.

(i'm posting a funny GIF but I'm actually kinda pissed)

so instead of having a lot of great help to ease into running a full ass kitchen by myself doing 70 heads a day. I was doing this with exactly one other person doing the bare minimum to help me. It was a lot of hard work, and of course it went great. But I was extremly exhausted.

I also didn't watch that many queer films because of it.

but lets get into it.

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) dir. John Huston

OK so I don't remember a lot about any of these films because I watched this one in particular, *checks notes* the 27th of last month. Yeah theres a reason why theres no date on this one.

So this one I think is based on a book or something and features Marlon Brando being a CLOSET HOMOSEXUAL. oh also he stays right in that closet.

(god this gif is something else. so creepy)

Hes like yeah I'm going to spend this entire movie staring at this naked guys ass, (yeah I'm not going to explain the plot your'll either love this movie or hate it but you can't say it doesn't have a plot), but I ain't going to act on it. I'm just going to fight with my beautiful neglected wife who beats my ass for beating her horse.

See the relationship is super toxic but its liz taylor and Marlon Brando so its also the hottest thing ever.

anyway lot of repressed homos in the background of the entire rest of the plot. One of the more fun dramas I watched cause it was MESSY!

Flesh (1968) dir. Paul Morrissey

ok so Flesh is one of those weird cineme verite movies that Morrissey made and it is very artsy and very gay but there isn't actually any guy on guy stuff. The main actor spends most of his time naked, and some of that is like eroticized but also its kinda meant to desexualize nudity. Or rather the film is using casual nudity as a way to lampshade the way we objectify people because after we see this long scene were hes just laying in bed with his dick out (relatable), we get a 5 minutes scene of him starting his day buck ass naked feeding his 1 year old real daughter a muffin. they actually use that as one of the posters

so like yeah hes naked but hes clearly not erotised in that moment in fact even though the main character is a hustler he never actually has gay sex on screen. His only client is a man who wants to draw him for like classical sculpture. Hes someone whose literally objectified scene for his body and not as a living person.

OMFG am I a film critic or something.

anyway this is another pretty cool film and especially something gay people should watch even through there isn't that much PDA.

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) dir. Toshio Matsumoto

ok first look at this iconic photo.

Pretty this follows a bunch of transwoman in like Tokyo just honestly vibing and being faggot punks. We love, we stan, we support.

theres a lot to enjoy about this film and honestly just iconic trans woman you need to watch this. oh also all these ladies are straight so theres no gay kissing.

My Hustler (1966) dir. Andy Warhol, Chuck Wein

NOTE: This is a clip from the 1961 SPORTS THRILLER "The Hustler" but also this is pretty good dupe to the experience of My Hustler

Yeah so My Hustler is the story of a rich gay bringing a gay whore for his vacation and then having his fag hag friend and then the hustler friend show up and they all get in to this contest about whos going to fuck him. So I guess more objectification of men through the queer lens. Noone actually fucks him and its a lot of naturalistic dialogue. Its warhol you get it.

The Children's Hour (1961) dir. William Wyler

Ok so Childrens Hour is about Audrey Hepburn and her GAL PAL Shirley McClaine who run a school together. They are in fact just roommates but doesn't stop snot nose little brats from spreading rumors that like she totally saw Mrs. Hepburn drowning in pussy. So yeah they have there lives ruined and there not even dykes da fuck. Its very Tea and Sympathy in that regard about how homophobia hurts those that arn't even faggots. Y'know the innocent. /s

except it turns out that Shirley McClaine is in fact like a totally LESBIAN HAROLD. and this was the push she needed to admit how fucking gay she is for audrey hepburn, (which like we get it girl it audrey), oh and then she fucking kills herself. Thanks I hate it.

The movie up to that points pretty good.

The Leather Boys (1964) dir. Sidney J. Furie

ok so this is another British New Wave movie and it manly follows this newly married couple. And like the wife Dot, is literally the worst fucking person. She spends all her money on her hair which 1. He doens't like and 2. Doesn't even look good on her. She doesn't have a job and she doesn't keep the house. And then she won't move into his mom's house after his dad fucking dies and his mom literally can't take care of herself which like sorry girl I get if you don't like your mother-in-law but um kinda a consequence of marrying someone at some point you kinda have to deal with there parents getting old and dying. Oh also shes cheating on him. SPOILERS.

Anyway so they spend most of the time seperated while this guy sleeps with his best friend.... in like the same bed. hahaha not like in a gay way that would be ..... gay.

Also I'm totally sure his best friend isn't like a faggot or something.

Yeah, basically this guy was sleeping next to a gay guy the whole time and everytime his friend was like "omg babe lets ditch your looser wife, (can confirm she sucks), and move to america together" that he meant it in like a gay way.

and so the dude just fucking leaves. Honestly I would try sucking dick just once if I was him. You guys have a great relationship and your wifes a bitch.

Advise & Consent (1962) dir. Otto Preminger

The Best Man (1964) dir. Franklin J. Schaffner

just going to throw these together. Basically there both about some future were the president wants to nominate some dude and people are like ew no. also some random other person is getting blackmailed for being a faggot in the war. Yeah both of these movies have like the same exact plot.

I like The Best Man a little bit more but there both kinda awful. Also Betty White is in the first one and SHES A SENATOR. yaaaas girl.

Manji (1964) dir. Yasuzo Masumura

THESE LESBIANS ARE TOXIC.

Like don't get me wrong they kiss, they suck, they fuck. Lot of Women absolutely just being the most, this is the most lesbian thing I've seen.

Oh also eventually they start a death cult it goes to some really weird places. Also theres like three remakes.

anyway whores, sorry that its taking so long for me to post this diary update. I'm going to draft the next post and try to get it out by the end of the month. Thanks love you.

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cultreslut · 5 months

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my hustler (1966) dir. andy warhol & chuck wein on archive.org

"Set on Fire Island, My Hustler depicts competition over the affections of a young male hustler among a straight woman, a former male hustler, and the man who hired the boy’s companionship via a “Dial-A-Hustler” service." synopsis via tmdb

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“Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys may be a bit too much for many people, but that’s their problem. Lonesome Cowboys is a magnificent and very funny satire of the American Western that is liberally seasoned with our favourite 4, 8, 10 and 12-letter words and a cornucopia of carryings-on that is – in combination – perhaps unprecedented.”

/ Critic John L Wasserman of The San Francisco Chronicle /

Released on this day (5 May 1969) at New York’s Garrick Cinema: Andy Warhol’s joyous, freewheeling homoerotic X-rated Western parody Lonesome Cowboys (tagline: “Definitely not for the young-uns!”). I vividly recall seeing this one at an impressionable age at London’s legendary much-missed grindhouse sleaze pit Scala Cinema in the early nineties. (I say “sleaze pit” with love). I caught many Warhol films there (including Couch (1964), My Hustler (1965) and Chelsea Girls (1966)) and the pattern was consistent: the theatre would start full, there would be a steady drip of walkouts who couldn’t cope with Warhol’s “challenging” pacing and filmmaking choices, and by the bitter end there was just a handful of hardcore attendees left. I for one found Warhol’s underground pop art cinema entrancing (and sexy as hell). I haven’t seen Lonesome Cowboy in decades, but I remember it featuring Warhol’s most beauteous leading men (Joe Dallesandro, Louis Waldon, Eric Emerson and Tom Hompertz), a glorious moment of Dallesandro (in tight white jeans) go-go dancing with Taylor Mead, and a long, meandering monologue from Viva.

#lobotomy room #lonesome cowboys #andy warhol #underground cinema #queer cinema #pop art #art cinema #homoerotic #queer Western #gay Western #joe dallesandro #eric emerson #viva #warhol superstar #scala cinema #queer #lgbtqia #gay cowboy #queer cowboy

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MAY 8, 2022

Life and death in the ‘Delta Queen’: My time on the B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber

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Fast, accurate and survivable, the Convair B-58 Hustler was a sexy Cold War totem. Its glamour belied the grimness of its intended role as a strategic nuclear bomber, a task it thankfully never performed. As we find out from Colonel George Holt Jr – a Navigator/Bombardier on this Mach 2 monster – the Hustler was a brilliantly engineered and utterly potent aircraft retired in its prime. Holt was part of the B-58–equipped 305th Bomb Wing at Bunker Hill AFB (now Grissom AFB) close to Peru, Indiana from 1960 to 1969.

What was the best thing about the Hustler?

It had a very high probability for penetrating enemy defenses and accurately delivering its weapons on assigned targets.

..and the worst?

My brother, Tech Sergeant John Holt was assigned to B-58 maintenance from 1963 to 1968. He noted that the B-58 experienced excessive downtime after a mission, as discrepancies had to be cleared before the next flight. Before any maintenance could begin on the aircraft, a ground air conditioning unit had to be hooked up and cooling air had to be supplied to the aircraft before he could turn the power switch on. Unlike most bombers, the Hustler was a very tight aircraft and panels had to be removed before most maintenance could begin.

Then there were the ‘Hangar Queens’ those few aircraft that had numerous repeatable maintenance problems that no one could figure out. Quite often, those problems were associated with the Bomb/Nav system. Lt. Colonel Tom Hatch remembers one flight where the Bomb/Nav system started to overheat and the air conditioning was switched to ‘reverse flow’— a condition that forced cooling air into the electronic equipment before entering the crew station area. On one mission, the heat was so unbearable that he had to strip down to his bare chest. However, incidents like this were the exception rather than the norm and in May 1968 the entire fleet of B-58s started receiving an improved version of the AN/ASQ-42 Bomb/Nav system, along with new technical data and spare parts. In my three years of flying in the B-58, I never experienced a ‘reverse flow’ condition.

Some maintenance personnel said they “hated working on this airplane” but in almost the same breath, they would say, “they wouldn’t trade it for the world.” Like the aircrews, the B-58 maintenance folks were an elite group and proud to have worked on the Hustler. They were the best, and the best way to measure their performance is to note that B-58s, on a daily basis, were able to meet their SIOP (war plan) commitment of having 32 alert-ready aircraft, refuelled with weapons loaded and ready to go to war at a moment’s notice.

What was its Cold War tasking?

It was in the bomber component of the United States nuclear triad consisting of land-launched nuclear missiles, nuclear-missile-armed submarines, and strategic aircraft with nuclear bombs and missiles. Each B-58 alert crew stood ready to launch within minutes of a confirmed attack on the U.S. to deliver five weapons on assigned military targets in enemy territory.

What were you first impressions of the B-58?

In the Spring of 1966, my Wing Commander of the 509th Bomb Wing at Pease AFB, New Hampshire asked if I’d like to be reassigned to B-58s. For six years I’d flown as a navigator/bombardier in the B-47, but all B-47s were being retired so it was an honour to have been selected, because the Convair B-58 Hustler was the most sophisticated and technologically advanced aircraft of its day and back then you could not just volunteer for B-58s you had to be selected and recommended by your wing commander.

I was fortunate to be paired up with Major Al Dugard, an outstanding pilot who had been with the 509th for many years. Al successfully passed his F-102 transition training while I was at Mather AFB, CA for B-58 Nav training. Al and our Defensive Systems Operator (DSO), Major Bob McCormack then went to Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana, for flight training in the TB-58.

When I arrived at Bunker Hill (later renamed Grissom AFB) I was quite amazed at my first sight of a B-58. This baby looked fantastic. It was much bigger than I had imagined and you could tell it was built for speed with those four brute-force J-79 engines strung beneath its delta wing. With a sharply tapered needle-nose, it looked ready to break the sound barrier while still on the ground. This racehorse was itching to get out of the stable and run with the wind. I found it hard to believe that I’d be riding this beast in that second cockpit.

Al and Bob had already logged a number of hours in the plane with an instructor pilot, but my first flight meant going up with Al on his first solo ride. It would be a normal mission – high altitude navigation, inflight refuelling with a KC-135 tanker and high and low altitude nav runs with simulated bomb drops being scored by radar bomb scoring sites.

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I had some hesitation as we headed out to the aircraft. Something didn’t feel right. I had my helmet and oxygen mask and my Nav kit – but something was missing. My shoulders felt light. Then I realised I didn’t have a parachute. After ten years of flying in tactical and strategic bombers wearing a fairly heavy parachute for hours on end, I suddenly realised those days were over – no parachute required in the Hustler. The escape capsule had its own installed parachute, so this would be shirt-sleeve flying.

The B-58 was also the only bomber aircraft I know of that had a single pilot with two navigators on board – the DSO was a rated navigator. The crew sat in tandem, one behind the other in three isolated cockpits – no standing room available.

I’ll always remember the take-off and climb-out of my first mission. We were sitting on the runway with four engines in full afterburner. Then at brake release I felt pushed back in my seat as we made a rapid roll to lift off and then a climb at 425 knots until we reached altitude. Of course, after takeoff we had to throttle back out of afterburner to prevent this racehorse from running wild.

Its four J79 engines produced 62,400 pounds of thrust, so the B-58 with an empty weight of only 55,650 pounds had an outstanding thrust-to-weight ratio.

People often asked, “Did you become claustrophobic sitting in such a confined space for hours on end?” My reply was always, ”No. I was just too darned busy during the mission to have any time to think about being claustrophobic.”

Describe the B-58 in three words?

Fast, Accurate and Survivable. Let me explain:

Fast: The B-58 was fast and had a range of airspeeds. At its maximum speed of Mach 2.2 (1,452 mph) it was 2½ times faster than the muzzle velocity of a .45 caliber bullet. Although it was a strategic bomber it could outmaneuver, outturn, and out-climb most fighter aircraft of its day. But it was also fast while flying at low level. On the deck we would skirt the treetops just below the speed of sound. This amazing bomber captured numerous international speed records winning five aeronautical trophies: The Thompson, Bleriot, Mackay, Bendix and Harmon trophies. The B-58 Hustler also set 14 world speed records in international competition; and in 1962, a Hustler carried a payload of 11,000 lbs. to an altitude of 85,360 feet.

Accurate: It was unbeatable in navigational and bombing accuracy. Its Doppler, Stellar, and Inertial navigation system was quite unique for its day. Before it was fully combat-ready, a B-58 crew, competing against more experienced B-47 and B-52 crews, did the unthinkable. It took first place for bombing accuracy at the 1960, Strategic Air Command, Bombing Competition. I would often fly “radar silent” going from standby to radar-on just for the few seconds required to position my crosshairs on navigation checkpoints, however the Bomb/Nav system of the Hustler was so accurate that quite often the crosshairs would be laying directly on the checkpoint when radar was turned on.

Survivable: In the 1960s, improvements in Soviet surface to air missiles (SAMs) forced the B-58 from a high-altitude supersonic penetration of enemy airspace to a low-level penetration and a high subsonic speed run to its targets, just below Mach-1. The Hustler adapted to this new profile exceptionally well. The B-52 was also forced to go in at low-level but it had a huge radar image and its lower speed held no comparison to the B-58 whose radar image was virtually undetectable. Flying low and fast it was hard for radar sites to pick us up amongst the radar ground clutter and its ability to fly ‘silent’ with no electromagnetic emissions made it virtually undetectable in enemy territory. I can attest to how the B-58 was like a stealth bomber on low-level bomb runs. Quite often when we approached a Nike bomb scoring site, we were asked to pop up so they could obtain a radar lock-on.

What is a particularly dangerous aircraft?

I would describe a dangerous aircraft as one where you risked life or limb at a much higher probability compared to other aircraft. I flew for six years in the B-47 six-engine jet bomber and never felt comfortable on take-off and landings because I knew if I had to eject at that low altitude, in my navigator’s downward ejection seat, my chance of survival was close to zero.

Tell us about the escape pod.

It was quite a relief to find out that the Hustler, not only had upward ejection seats for all three crew members, but we would also have our own escape capsule. This capsule was amazing. The pilot’s capsule is shown in the closed position. His capsule included the flight control stick allowing him to control the aircraft while encapsulated up to the point of ejection. The B-58 was the first Air Force aircraft to have a capsule ejection system to allow safe ejection at supersonic speed. And it worked at any airspeed from 100 knots to above Mach 2 and from ground level to 70,000 feet. This capsule would get you out of the aircraft safely. It had an independent pressurisation and oxygen supply system, shock absorbers to ease the impact on touchdown, and it even floated on water.

Do you think it was more survivable than the B-52?

It was much more survivable than the B-52 for a number of reasons. If we had to go to war, it could take off much faster than the B-52. At low level, it could penetrate enemy defenses at a much higher speed and coped much better in heavy turbulence. Most of all it was much harder to detect on enemy radars.

The Studies and Analysis Directorate at the Pentagon ran computer simulations comparing the B-58 with the B-52. They concluded that the B-58’s speed advantage and its very low radar signature gave the Hustler a higher probability of evading detection by enemy radars. This held true even when the B-58 was programmed to fly at a higher altitude than the B-52 during low-level penetration to the target. In comparing radar signature differences, I remember one of the evaluators saying, “The difference between the B-58 and the B-52 was like comparing a postage stamp to a barn door.”

Here’s how my former B-58 pilot compared the two aircraft when I asked him which was more survivable. “I have over 3500 hours in the B-47, close to 1,000 hours in the B-52, with 350 in combat missions in Vietnam, including flights over Hanoi and Haiphong. As a weapons machine for use in both peacetime deterrence and war conditions, the B-58 was exceptional.”

He went on to say, “Having flown the B-52 into a highly defended enemy target complex, it is apparent to me that the B-52 was highly vulnerable to enemy defenses. Having survived the onslaught of surface to air missiles (SAMs) due only to electronic countermeasures and seeing missiles fired even before our initial turn to target, I am convinced that the B-52 for all its great capability was a large detectable target, easily identified and vulnerable to the SAM complexes. The B-52 at low-level had this same huge radar image and due to its lower speed held no comparison to the B-58 whose low-level speed was much greater and the B-58’s radar image was virtually undetectable.”

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Why was it retired, and was it too early?

By 1967, all major improvement modifications had been completed on the B-58 and like its big brother the B-52, it could have remained in the inventory for many more years. Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and even the Office of the Secretary of Defense, despite initial misgivings about the Hustler, came to realize its value as a strategic bomber and by January 1969, it had been given a new lease on life. It was certainly a weapon system feared by the Soviets. But because of an indisputable blunder by Strategic Air Command, during a time when they were under pressure to cut costs, they decided to trade off all of the B-58s in hopes of retaining some older model B-52s. They got their trade off from the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Then, within months, they were also forced to phase out those older model B-52s they had hoped to keep.

What was special about the B-58?

It was an airplane you could fall in love with. It was a pleasure to fly. Among all the pilots I’ve known in my three years of flying in the B-58, none thought the B-58 was hard to fly. In fact, they thought it was the smoothest airplane they ever flew. Especially those who had flown fixed-wing B-47s and B-52s. Its delta wing gave the Hustler a smoother and more stable ride than other aircraft. Responsiveness to controls was instantaneous and you didn’t wait for a wing to respond to control movement. Formation flight i.e., Air Refueling was much easier due to the stable platform.”

Your most memorable mission?

I actually had two very memorable missions. I had mentioned earlier that the B-58 had a range of airspeeds. The following illustrates how slow and how fast the Hustler could fly.

There’s no doubt that the B-58 had an amazing high-speed capability. Now, let’s take a look at the Hustler’s slow speed ‘floating leaf’ capability.

I had my share of ‘shacks’ i.e., putting a bomb directly on target with zero error, and never had a bad bomb score in my three years of navigating and bombing in the B-58. But came close when I was running high altitude simulated bomb drops on a Nike site one evening over Chicago. We were in a racetrack pattern and getting excellent scores from the Nike radar bomb scoring unit. However, we were flying in one humongous jet stream, well over 200 mph. Our inbound run to the target was very slow and our outbound on the racetrack was like a ‘Bat out of Hell’ with that ferocious tailwind kicking us in the rear.

Nike sites scored bomb runs by acquiring the inbound aircraft on radar. The aircraft’s track was drawn in ink on a large horizontal whiteboard. The track was based on the aircraft’s ground speed and true course. Ten seconds before bomb release, I would transmit a constant tone. At simulated bomb release the tone stops and the pen on the plotting board lifts up. At that point, the Nike site operators would extend the track based on the time of fall for the bomb type and the best-known wind data. Altogether, this determined how close the bomb came to the target.

Well, on this particular evening, I was getting somewhat bored on my fourth inbound to the target. We were fighting that tremendous headwind and it seemed like it was taking forever to get to the target. So I decided to try something different. I computed an indicated airspeed (IAS) for Al Dugard, my pilot, to fly that would make our true airspeed equivalent to the speed of the jet stream. If Al could hit that speed, then our groundspeed would be zero. We had just flown a seven-hour mission and the Hustler was real light with just enough fuel, plus some reserve, to get us back to Bunker Hill, 15 minutes away. Al was not sure, he could hold such a low airspeed for too long, but he was willing to try.

He started throttling back on the engines, careful to keep the Hustler above the stall speed and I kept my eye on the groundspeed indicator. Son of a gun, we were approaching zero groundspeed.

Al said, “George, I can keep this airspeed and angle of attack, but I’m beginning to lose some altitude to maintain it.”

“OK, Al, we just hit zero groundspeed. Hold it a bit longer and then we can accelerate to keep the bomb run going.”

Then we started getting panic calls from the Nike site because the pen plotting our track, inbound to the target, had stopped its forward motion. That meant only one thing to the Nike bomb plot people on the ground—we must have either blown up in the air or crashed to the ground.

“Delta 23 this is Nike bomb plot. Do you have an emergency? Come in Delta 23.”

Al came over the interphone, “George, I’ll respond to Nike so they don’t get too panicky and declare an emergency on us.”

“Nike bomb plot. This is Delta 23. Sorry for the delay. We just stopped for a while to open and eat our flight lunches. We’re now continuing into the target.”

“Roger 23” – a long silence and then, “Your pen plot has started to move again.”

They probably could not believe what just happened and never asked for an explanation. I was just lucky they did not retaliate by giving me a bad bomb score.

Now let’s take a look at how fast this beautiful lady could fly. Here’s a mission I was on in March 1967, out of Fort Worth, Texas:

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“Foxtrot one five, this is Carswell Tower, you’re cleared for takeoff. Center has cleared an unrestricted climb to 24,000 feet.”

“Roger, tower.”

“OK, Crew, we’re ready to roll. Advancing power to 100%, engines stabilized, kicking in AB, and releasing brakes.”

I felt the afterburners kick in and said, “Al, I’ve started my stop watch, let me know when you level off at 24,000 feet.”

“Roger that. S1, passing the 1,000-foot marker. S2, rotation, lift off, climbing.”

“Al, my altimeter is spinning like crazy back here.”

“Mine, too. We’re approaching 15,000 feet and I can see the end of the runway below us.”

“Ft Worth Center, this is Foxtrot one five, passing through 15,000 feet.”

Center didn’t believe us. “Foxtrot 15, say again altitude?”

“Flight Level 19 Zero, and now leveling off at 24 Zero.”

“Al, you won’t believe this but my stopwatch reads 48 seconds and that was from brake release.”

“I believe it, George. It’s the lightest fuel load we’ve ever had. That climb was like sitting on the head of a rocket. I couldn’t level off quick enough and finally hit the top of the parabola at 26 thousand feet and dove back down to the assigned altitude of 24. That was a blast. What’s our heading to The General Dynamics rehab base at James Connolly?”

“Pick up a heading of one seven four degrees.”

I was the Navigator/Bombardier in that one-minute conversation with our pilot, Major Al Dugard, as we departed Carswell Air Force Base, enroute to James Connolly Air Force Base. Our Defensive Systems Operator, Major ‘Mac’ MacDonald was also on board.

Our mission was to ferry a B-58 “Hustler” to James Connolly for a modification on the wing root and other mods to extend the life of the B-58 well into the 1970s. While at James Connolly, we picked up an aircraft that had already been modified and flew it back home to Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Indiana.

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Was Mach 2 possible, did you reach it?

Mach 2 was more than possible. The thrust of the four J79 engines could push the B-58 well beyond Mach 2. The limiting factor was aircraft skin temperature. When a B-58 crew set a transcontinental speed record in 1962 they monitored the skin temperature gauges to ensure they did not exceed 125 degrees centigrade (125°C = 257°F.)

I’ve often been asked, “What was it like when the B-58 went supersonic?” Unlike the loud boom, someone on the ground would hear, my first experience passing through the sound barrier was remarkably quiet. Unless you were looking at your instruments, you would never know you had gone supersonic. There was not even a small shudder within the aircraft—nothing, except a fluctuation on the altimeter. The reading would drop around 500 feet and then bounce back to the proper altitude. The B-58 was capable of delivering bombs at Mach 2 but it could be tricky. Travelling at 23 miles per minute. You had to acquire the target as early as possible and once your crosshairs were locked on target any further movement of the crosshairs could result in very steep bank angles as the aircraft turned to reacquire the target.

How fast and smooth was the ride at low levels?

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The B-58 was very fast and very smooth and quite stable even when flying in low level turbulence. When other larger bombers on a low level route aborted their mission due to heavy turbulence, we would come in behind them and successfully complete the mission experiencing only light to moderate turbulence. That’s the advantage of a delta wing design. The B-58’s wingspan was short, solid and stable, unlike aircraft with large wingspans where turbulence can induce oscillating forces on the wings. It was much faster than the B-52 at low level.

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How good were the weapons and sensors?

All bombs were dropped with a drogue retarded parachute to allow safe escape from the bomb blast. The Defensive Systems Operator (DSO) controlled a powerful electronic counter-measures (ECM) system to blind enemy radars, including an active jammer and a chaff dispenser. The defensive armament of the B-58 had a six-barrel, 20-mm rotary cannon (Gatling gun) with a maximum firing rate of 4000 rounds per minute. The radar for the tail gun was located in a bullet fairing above the tail cone. The gun was aimed remotely by the fire control system in the tail, but there was a radar (automatic) fire control panel and a manual fire control panel located at the DSO’s station. The firing zone was any target within a 60-degree cone. The defensive ECM system gave early warning of enemy radar systems to deceive, confuse, or jam them. The system also had radar track-breaking equipment, that generated deceptive radar jamming signals. When radar tracking signals, locked on us, the track breaker generated and transmitted deceptive angle and range information back to the hostile radar tracking system. A chaff dispensing system was also installed in each upper main gear fairing, with chaff being ejected through mechanically actuated slots in the tops of each wing fairing.

What should I have asked you? How about: Have you published any books about the B-58?

I have published a couple of books about the B-58. My best seller is “The B-58 Blunder – How the U.S. Abandoned its Best Strategic Bomber.” It details much more of what has been presented here and is available on Amazon where it has sold over 6,000 copies and received over 260 reviews. In it I describe how the B-58 came to a premature death, largely because of infighting among military and civilian leaders, who failed to understand the value and full capabilities of this fantastic airplane. It was a technological marvel, years ahead of its time and it should never have been sent to the boneyard.

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The 100 Best Films of The 1960s

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ★★★★★★★★★★ 2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) ★★★★★★★★★★ 3. Psycho (1960) ★★★★★★★★★½ 4. Blow-Up (1966) ★★★★★★★★★½ 5. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) ★★★★★★★★★½ 6. My Fair Lady (1964) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 8. The Virgin Spring (1960) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 9. The Birds (1963) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 10. El Dorado (1967) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 11. Two Women (1960) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 12. Le Doulos (1962) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 13. Le Samouraï (1967) ★★★★★★★★★☆ 14. The Great Escape (1963) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 15. Cool Hand Luke (1967) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 16. For a Few Dollars More (1965) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 17. Onibaba (Demon Hag) (1964) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 18. Peeping Tom (1960) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 19. The Battle of Algiers (1966) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 20. Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 21. Planet of the Apes (1968) ★★★★★★★★½☆ 22. Redbeard (1965) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 23. The Executioner (1963) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 24. I Am Cuba (1964) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 25. The Sound of Music (1965) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 26. The Italian Job (1969) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 27. The Jungle Book (1967) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 28. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 29. Dr. Strangelove (1964) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 30. Belle de Jour (1967) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 31. Alfie (1966) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 32. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 33. Mary Poppins (1964) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 34. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 35. The Graduate (1967) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 36. A Man for All Seasons (1966) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 37. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 38. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 39. Rosemary's Baby (1968) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 40. The Magnificent Seven (1960) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 41. Wait Until Dark (1967) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 42. True Grit (1969) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 43. The Hustler (1961) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 44. The Ipcress File (1965) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 45. Andrei Rublev (1966) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 46. Hamlet (1969) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 47. Murder She Said (1961) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 48. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 49. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 50. Army of Shadows (1969) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 51. A Taste of Honey (1961) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 52. Goldfinger (1964) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 53. Kuroneko (The Black Cat) (1968) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 54. Mademoiselle (1966) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 55. Two Way Stretch (1960) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 56. Take the Money and Run (1969) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 57. In The Heat Of The Night (1967) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 58. 101 Dalmatians (1961) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 59. Electra (1962) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 60. Kwaidan (Ghost Stories) (1964) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 61. Mouchette (1967) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 62. My Night with Maud (1969) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 63. Cape Fear (1962) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 64. The Railrodder (1965) ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 65. Harakiri (1962) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 66. Midnight Cowboy (1969) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 67. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 68. The Apartment (1960) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 69. Hunger (1966) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 70. The War Wagon (1967) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 71. Lolita (1962) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 72. Last Year in Marienbad (1961) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 73. Woman In Chains (1968) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 74. Whistle Down the Wind (1961) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 75. The Trial (1962) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 76. Privilege (1967) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 77. The Servant (1963) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 78. Yojimbo (1961) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 79. From Russia with Love (1963) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 80. A Hard Day's Night (1964) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 81. Night of the Living Dead (1968) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 82. Kes (1969) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 83. The Bride Wore Black (1968) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 84. Divorce Italian Style (1961) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 85. Shame (1968) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 86. Zulu (1964) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 87. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 88. Zorba The Greek (1964) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 89. The Unfaithful Wife (1969) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 90. Dr. No (1962) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 91. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 92. Oliver! (1968) ★★★★★★★½☆☆ 93. Knife in the Water (1962) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 94. Spartacus (1960) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 95. Repulsion (1965) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 96. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 97. Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 98. Quatermass and the Pit (1967) ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 99. Marnie (1964) ★★★★★★½☆☆☆ 100. Lord of the Flies (1963) ★★★★★★½☆☆☆

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The Best Picture Oscar My Way (1951-1979)

Here is Part 3 of my “Best Picture My Way” series. The last two are found here. My stipulations can be found in Part 1.

For convenience sake, I’ll relay this message. For Best Picture, I’m only gonna list the nominated producer for newly added films (here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest). I will mostly go with the ones credited as “produced by” or “p.g.a.” (if the latter is shown) on IMDB as the nominees. Limit is five.

Also, if you’re wondering why there are more years listed here than the other two, that’ll be answered in the next part.

1951

Rashomon - Minoru Jingo

Ace in the Hole - Billy Wilder

A Place in the Sun

Strangers on a Train - Alfred Hitchcock

A Street Called Desire

1952

High Noon

Forbidden Games - Robert Dorfmann

Singing in the Rain - Arthur Freed

Moulin Rogue

The Quiet Man

1953

Roman Holiday

From Here to Eternity

Shane

The Big Heat - Robert Arthur

The Stalag 17 - Billy Wilder

1954

On the Waterfront (still)

Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock

The Caine Mutiny

Dial M for Murder - Alfred Hitchcock

Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray

1955

Marty (still)

The Night of the Hunter - Paul Gregory

Rebel Without a Cause - David Weisbart

The Long Grey Line - Robert Arthur

Mister Roberts

1956

Tea and Sympathy - Pandro S. Berman

The Ten Commandments

Giant

The Killing - James B. Harris

The Searchers - Patrick Ford

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai (still)

12 Angry Men

Nights of Cabiria - Dino De Laurentiis

Witness for the Persecution

The Seventh Seal - Allan Ekelund

1958

Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock

Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati

Touch of Evil - Albert Zugsmith

Auntie Mame

The Defiant Ones

1959

Ben-Hur (still)

Anatomy of a Murder

North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock

Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder

The Diary of Anne Frank

1960

The Apartment (still)

Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock

Elmer Gantry

The Magnificent Seven - John Sturges

The Alamo

1961

West Side Story (still)

Through a Glass Darkly - Allan Ekelund

The Hustler

Judgment at Nuremberg

Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Martin; Jurow; Richard Shepherd

1962

Lawrence of Arabia (still)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Mutiny on the Bounty

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Willis Goldbeck

The Longest Day

1963

8 1/2 - Angelo Rizzoli

The Great Escape - John Sturges

Lillies of the Field

America, America

Cleopatra

1964

Mary Poppins

Dr. Strangelove

My Fair Lady

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Mag Bodard

Woman in the Dunes - Kiichi Ichikawa; Tadashi Ono

1965

The Sound of Music (still)

Doctor Zhivago

A Patch of Blue - Pandro S. Berman; Guy Green

Darling

Ship of Fools

1966

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woof?

A Man for All Seasons

The Professionals - Richard Brooks

The Sand Pebbles

A Man and A Woman - Claude Lelouch

1967

Persona - Ingmar Bergman

The Graduate

The Jungle Book - Walt Disney

In The Heat of the Night

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick

Oliver!

Funny Girl

The Lion in Winter

Rosemary’s Baby - William Castle

1969

Midnight Cowboy (still)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Wild Bunch - Phil Feldman

Easy Rider - Peter Fonda

1970

Patton (still)

M*A*S*H

Five Easy Pieces

Love Story

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - Marina Cicogna; Daniele Senatore

1971

The French Connection (still)

The Last Picture Show

McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Mitchell Brower; David Foster

A Clockwork Orange

Fiddler on the Roof

1972

The Godfather (still)

The Emigrants

Cabaret

The Heartbreak Kid - Edgar J. Scherick

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Serge Silberman

1973

Cries and Whispers

The Sting

The Exorcist

American Graffiti

Paper Moon - Peter Bogdanovich

1974

The Godfather Part II (still)

A Woman Under the Influence - Sam Shaw

Chinatown

The Conversation

Blazing Saddles - Michael Hertzberg

1975 (kept the same)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (still)

Barry Lyndon

Dog Dag Afternoon

Jaws

Nashville

1976

Rocky (still)

Taxi Driver

Network

Mikey and Nicky - Michael Hausman

All the President’s Men

1977

Annie Hall (still)

Star Wars

The Goodbye Girl

Eraserhead - David Lynch

3 Women - Robert Altman

1978

The Deer Hunter (still)

Heaven Can Wait

Midnight Express

Days of Heaven - Bart Schneider; Harold Schneider

Dawn of the Dead - Richard P. Rubinstein

1979

Apocalypse Now

All That Jazz

Manhattan - Charles H. Joffe

Alien - Gordon Carroll; David Giler; Walter Hill

Kramer vs. Kramer

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I watched 154 movies in 2022

Five Stars

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) Bergman Island (2021) Blonde Crazy (1931) Blow-Up (1966) Cryptozoo (2021) Decision to Leave (2022) Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Glass Onion (2022) The Hunger (1983) It Came from Hollywood (1982) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) Minari (2020) Mona Lisa (1986) Never Let Me Go (2010) Night on Earth (1991) Nope (2022) Pearl (2022) Tár (2022) Turning Red (2022) Wolfwalkers (2020) The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Four Stars

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Black Swan (2010) Blackmail (1929) Bullet Train (2022) Captain Blood (1935) Christmas in Connecticut (1945) CODA (2021) Confess, Fletch (2022) Doctor Sleep (2019) Dune (2021) Encanto (2021) The Fabelmans (2022) The Firemen's Ball (1967) First Blood (1982) Five Came Back (1939) Flee (2021) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Gilda (1946) The Gospel of Eureka (2018) Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Harvey (1950) House/Hausu (1977) The Hustler (1961) Hustlers (2019) Kajillionaire (2020) The Killing (1956) Kimi (2022) Kiss of Death (1947) The Menu (2022) Moonwalker (1988) The Mouse That Roared (1959) My Dinner with Andre (1981) The Northman (2022) Parallel Mothers (2021) The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) Predator (1987) Prey (2022) The Punk Singer (2013) Quatermass II/Enemy From Space (1957) Relaxer (2018) Saint Maud (2019) The Seven-Ups (1973) Thelma (2017) Watcher (2022) We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022) Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) X (2022)

Three and a Half Stars

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) The Booksellers (2019) Blade II (2002) Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul (2022) Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) My Name is Julia Ross (1945) Onibaba (1964) The Party (1968) Pygmalion (1938) The Quatermass Xperiment/The Creeping Unknown (1955) The Song Remains the Same (1976) Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) Wendell & Wild (2022) Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Three Stars

Amistad (1997) The Bank Dick (1940) The Batman (2022) Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Cries and Whispers (1972) Crimes of the Future (2022) Drive My Car (2021) The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) Emily the Criminal (2022) The Funhouse (1981) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Inland Empire (2006) Jennifer's Body (2009) Jubilee (1978) Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) Life of Pi (2012) Linda Linda Linda (2005) Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) Lucy and Desi (2022) Nobody (2021) Opening Night (1977) Pretending I'm a Superman: The Tony Hawk Video Game Story (2020) Repeat Performance (1947) See How They Run (2022) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Strawberry Mansion (2022) Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021) The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) A Woman is a Woman (1961) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995) White Zombie (1932) WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Two and a Half Stars

Babylon (2022) Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020) Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017) Thunderball (1965)

Two Stars

Doctor Mordrid (1992) Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Enchanted (2007) Hardcore Henry (2015) The House (2022) My Fair Lady (1964) My Name is Emily (2015) The Princess (2022) Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) Rosaline (2022) Strange World (2022) Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) Treasure of the Amazon (1985) Werewolves Within (2021) Willy's Wonderland (2021) Winnie the Pooh (2011)

One Star

Beyond Atlantis (1973) Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000 (1999) The Crawling Hand (1963) Daddy-O (1958) Demon Squad (1999) Hello Again (1987) Indestructible Man (1956) Munchie (1992) Operation Kid Brother (1967) The Rebel Set (1959) Santo in the Treasure of Dracula (1969) Robot Jox 2: Robot Wars (1993) Shadow in the Cloud (2020) The She-Creature (1956)

#Movies #Lists

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2023

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)

In Bruges (2008)

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Black Adam (2022)

All the old Knives (2022)

Outside the Wire (2021)

Sabrina (1995)

The Lion King (2019)

The Piano (1993)

Nope (2022)

The Bubble (2022)

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (2012)

Project Power (2020)

Paw Patrol: The Movie (2021)

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Road House (1989)

The Defiant Ones (1958)

Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

Mean Streets (1973)

Ball of Fire (1941)

The Recruit (2003)

The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)

Dark Victory (1939)

The Aftermath (2019)

Bright Road (1953)

Encino Man (1992)

Bolt (2008)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Tootsie (1982)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Inferno (1980)

Old Dogs (2009)

Look both Ways (2022)

Antwone Fisher (2002)

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Kajillionaire (2020)

The Wiz (1978)

Littly Italy (2018)

Menace II Society (1993)

Cops (1922)

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

Those who wish me dead (2021)

Ajvar (2019)

Burning Sands (2017)

Operation Fortune (2023)

Your Place or Mine (2023)

Vivo (2021)

The Age of Adaline (2015)

Luthor: The fallen Sun (2023)

Scent of a Woman (1992)

Boston Strangler (2023)

The Smurfs (2011)

Faraway (2023)

The Sweetest Thing (2002)

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

The Smurfs 2 (2013)

Monster’s Ball (2001)

John WIck: Chapter 4 (2023)

Fallen (1998)

Outbreak (1995)

Scream (2023)

The Good Nurse (2022)

Fireflies in the Garden (2008)

Before Sunrise (1995)

Crooklyn (1994)

Scream (2022)

Band of Angels (1957)

Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

The 355 (2022)

Old (2021)

Come Sunday (2018)

All my Life (2020)

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

Hellraiser (2022)

Roman Holiday (1953)

Creed III (2023)

Red Corner (1997)

The Laureate (2021)

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

Red Notice (2021)

Dune (2021)

Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Disclosure (1994)

I killed my Mother (2009)

Next Exit (2022)

Submergence (2017)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

The Vanishing (1993)

The Color Purple (1985)

The Long Hot Summer (1958)

Transcendence (2014)

Don’t be a Menace to South Central while drinking your Juice in the hood (1996)

Ransom (1996)

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Cloud Atlas (2012)

The Mother (2023)

Elephant Song (2014)

Gosford Park (2001)

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Swordfish (2001)

Moneyball (2011)

Official Secrets (2019)

Death at a Funeral (2010)

Killer Elite (2011)

Out of Africa (1985)

What’s love got to do with it? (1993)

Frankie and Johnny (1991)

The Hustler (1961)

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

Seberg (2019)

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

Interstellar (2014)

Soul Food (1997)

Wait till dark (1967)

Mo’ Better Blues (1990)

In the Heights (2021)

Ghosted (2023)

Matthias & Maxime (2019)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

In the Cut (2003)

The Wood (1999)

Outlaw King (2018)

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Extraction (2023)

Little Nikita (1988)

The Illusionist (2006)

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

Some like it Hot (1959)

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

The Aviator (2004)

Space Jam: A new Legacy (2021)

Clock (2023)

My Girl (1991)

Design for living (1933)

Everything Everywhere all at Once (2022)

Chain Reaction (1996)

Pandora and the flying Dutchman (1951)

Before Sunset (2004)

The Jackal (1997)

A Journal for Jordan (2021)

Candyman (2021)

Tequila Sunrise (1988)

Midnight (1934)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

Our Hospitality (1923)

Miami Vice (2006)

The Perfect Find (2023)

Just Cause (1995)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Our Brand is Crisis (2015)

Notorious (1946)

Crush (2022)

Striptease (1996)

Don’t worry Darling (2022)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

The Constant Gardener (2005)

Ben Hur (1959)

Deliver us from Eva (2003)

Fast X (2023)

Strange days (1995)

8mm (1999)

The Woman in the Window (2021)

Guys and Dolls (1955)

Sister Act (1992)

The Visitor (2022)

Dead Again (1991)

Spellbound (1945)

Air (2023)

Indiana Jones and the last Crusade (1989)

Carmen Jones (1954)

…and Justice for All (1979)

Honk for Jesus. Save your Soul (2022)

A Fish called Wanda (1988)

The Nutcracker and the four realms (2018)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Venom: Let there be Carnage (2021)

Bird Box: Barcelona (2023)

Hush…Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

They cloned Tyrone (2023)

Once upon a time in America (1984)

The Wild One (1953)

Something New (2006)

Dying Young (1991)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Me Myself and Irene (2000)

Friday Foster (1975)

One day (2011)

A good Year (2006)

Varsity Blues (1999)

High Noon (1952)

Men in Black 3 (2012)

Friday (1995)

Strait- Jacket (1964)

Step Up (2006)

Air Force One (1997)

Big Business (1988)

Breaking (2022)

Barbie (2023)

He who gets slapped (1924)

Near Dark (1987)

How Stella got her Groove back (1998)

The Joneses (2009)

Stardust (2007)

Heartburn (1986)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Paid in Full (2002)

Awakenings (1990)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Serpico (1973)

Amsterdam (2022)

Tom and Huck (1995)

Emancipation (2022)

Mademoiselle Ange -Ein Engel auf Erden (1959)

The Ninth Gate (1999)

No Sudden Move (2021)

The Rite (2011)

Her (2013)

King Rat (1965)

Labyrinth (1986)

Too Young to Die? (1990)

42 (2013)

One Night in Miami (2020)

That Thing you do (1996)

Lilies of the Field (1963)

Me before you (2016)

He got Game (1998)

Life as a House (2001)

Bhowani Junction (1956)

Pretty in Pink (1986)

Antebellum (2020)

Wild Things (1998)

Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

Fled (1996)

The Batman (2022)

No Time to Die (2021)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Vampire’s Kiss (1988)

Conspiracy Theory (1997)

Red, White and Royal Blue (2023)

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

The Postman (1997)

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Out West (1918)

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Spider-Man: No way Home (2021)

Masquerade (1988)

Fair Play (2023)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari (1920)

Knock at the Cabin (2023)

The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)

Swing Time (1936)

Angels & Demons (2009)

The Dictator (2012)

Best Christmas Ever (2023)

Istanbul Için Son Çagri (Last call for Istanbul) (2023)

The Negotiator (1998)

Cuvari Formule (2023)

The Lady Eve (1941)

Family Switch (2023)

Shall we dance (1937)

Leave the World behind (2023)

The Killer (2023)

The Burial (2023)

Dead Presidents (1995)

Brothers (2009)

My Summer of Love (2004)

Oppenheimer (2023)

Rebel Moon: A Child of Fire - Part 1 (2023)

#my list #watched in 2023 #w2023

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I did drugs , many of them, to disconnect from my pain. For a long time it worked at least to the extent of being a high functioning drug user. I filled my days up with this and that and people from here and there. It sort of hid my feelings from me and acted as a mask to cover up my fear of intimacy and fear of rejection, low self worth.. all that good stuff. People seemed to buy it. Eventually I began to see how it was all surface level even when others true intentions were to get close to me. I never intended to let any of them get close , a few did thankfully.

It’s been 109 days since I peered down at a bag of dope seeking solace

I don’t miss it at all. It’s been painful to face everything but lately I feel free. I feel good again. I bought a bikini despite not having the figure for it - the power of being comfortable in my skin is bigger than my waistline. I haven’t replaced the bad habit with another habit - I just go with the flow. I feel tied in , connected, relaxed , myself. It’s taken a lot to get here internally.

I realize the importance of optimal health and how my old lifestyle was such anarchy towards the self.

Lately I’ve been walking , hiking, and swimming to try and get back in shape. Or … in shape .. lol I’ve never really been healthy.

Before I came here I had been on bed rest on and off for two years , battling excruciating pain and seeing little to no recovery. The pain made me reach for drugs, the pain isolated me and the lack of direction or support from the healthcare system and my employer drove me further and further into sickness. It was destroying me. As my physical ailments cried out so did my emotional wounds. At first I was unstable , I felt far too many things and was utterly exhausted. I felt purposeless, lazy. Like a quitter.

Quitting was the best thing I could ever do for myself. Quitting pretending that everything was ok and just carrying on. Quitting poisoning my body. Quitting crying myself to sleep feeling hopeless. Quitting trying to live up to someone else’s standards, quitting trying to be the best employee, the hardest worker, quitting keeping up with the Jones’, quitting burying my pain and faking a smile.

109 days isn’t all that much time if you really think about it. I’ve done longer stints of sobriety. This time is different. This time it wasn’t about the test of my willpower but more my willingness to be authentic. To stand up for myself and my needs even when it was expected of me to just carry on and do a good job. Who cares. I don’t. Lately everything feels like magic , like I’m under life’s spell. I want to play in the forest, paint by the beach, swim laps in the pool, try new things, make small talk with strangers. The other night I let the girls come outside and sit with me on the swing to read their bedtime story under the moon. Who says we can’t be different. Tonight after we got back from our road trip they yelled auntie B ! The moon is almost full and convinced me to take them outside to play. Hustlers they are! The day was full of synchronicities 22:22, 333, 444, 555, 44, 88 . When we finished the 2k all through the zoo my goddaughter asked if we could walk all the way back and see the flamingos one more time and I said of course. Her dad took the other girls to the gift shop and we trekked back. The smile on her face was worth it and then out of nowhere a dragonfly hit me in the face and swooped around to meet his mate and take a snooze on the back of the flamingo. We stopped in the town my grandfather was buried in 1966, Leverette Taylor , we searched each grave but couldn’t find it but my brother and I bonded for the first time in a very long time. The girls mom is due in 3 weeks with baby number 4 so she stayed home and I stood in to keep them alive. It was a magical day , when we got back the doggos cuddled up on me and I became aware of how loving and calm my energy is once again. Never deny yourself of joy for anything. Not for people, money or status . Not for nothing.

I am a wild child of the moon, a goddess of this earth.

I am love

And i am not alone

While the concept of a lifestyle change can seem scary when trauma response is all you’ve ever known …

I assure you it can be the best thing you ever did for yourself

This is living

Life is magick

Find your joy and make it a habit ;)

Me goddaughter got me a tree of life bracelet and a hideous ring and I got her a “mingo “ , as she calls them :)

Be right back , making new memories , living in my joy

#substance use #trauma #goddess life #keep the faith

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adscinema · 2 years

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Martin Scorsese’s 125 favourite movies

The Infernal Cakewalk (1903)

Secrets of the Soul (1912)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)

Nosferatu (1922)

Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

Metropolis (1927)

Napoleon (1927)

The Power and the Glory (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

La Grande Illusion (1937)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Stagecoach (1939)

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

The Rules Of The Game (1939)

Citizen Kane (1941)

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

Cat People (1942)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Rome, Open City (1945)

Children Of Paradise (1945)

Duel in the Sun (1946)

Gilda (1946)

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Paisan (1946)

Beauty & The Beast (1946)

The Lady From Shanghai (1947)

T-Men (1947)

I Walk Alone (1947)

The Red Shoes (1948)

Germany Year Zero (1948)

Force of Evil (1948)

La Terra Trema (1948)

Macbeth (1948)

Raw Deal (1948)

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Caught (1949)

The Third Man (1949)

Stromboli (1950)

The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

Gun Crazy (1950)

Night and the City (1950)

An American in Paris (1951)

The River (1951)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

The Magic Box (1951)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Europa ’51 (1952)

Othello (1952)

Umberto D. (1952)

Ikiru (1952)

The Band Wagon (1953)

House of Wax (1953)

Julius Caesar (1953)

Pickup on South Street (1953)

Ugetsu (1953)

Tokyo Story (1953)

Dial M for Murder (1954)

Journey to Italy (1954)

Senso (1954)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

All that Heaven Allows (1955)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

The Searchers (1956)

Forty Guns (1957)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Some Came Running (1958)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Vertigo (1958)

Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

Big Deal On Madonna Street (1958)

Shadows (1959)

The 400 Blows (1959)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Breathless (1960)

L’Avventura (1960)

The Hustler (1961)

One, Two, Three (1961)

Cape Fear (1962)

The Trial (1962)

Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

Il Sorpasso (1962)

America, America (1963)

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

The Leopard (1963)

Shock Corridor (1963)

High and Low (1963)

8½ (1963)

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

Band of Outsiders (1964)

Before the Revolution (1964)

The Rise of Louis XIV (1966)

Blow-Up (1966)

Weekend (1967)

Faces (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Death by Hanging (1968)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

The Butcher (1970)

M*A*S*H (1970)

The American Friend (1970)

Klute (1971)

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)

The Godfather (1972)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

The Conversation (1974)

Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974)

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

The Messiah (1975)

Nashville (1975)

Kings of the Road (1976)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Health (1980)

Heaven’s Gate (1980)

Mishima (1985)

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

The Player (1992)

#martin scorsese #list #favourite movies #vertigo #2001 a space odyssey #heaven’s gate #apocalypse now #the godfather #klute #shock corridor #l’avventura #gun crazy #gilda #arsenic and old lace #how green was my valley #citizen kane #it happened one night #born on the fourth of july #metropolis

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Movie Quotes For Every Occasion

Image source: newszii.com

“You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.” —Sylvester Stallone, Cobra (1986)

“I spent my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.” —Marlon Brando

“Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.”—Robert De Niro, Ronin (1998)

“Even if you beat me, I’m still the best.” —Paul Newman, The Hustler (1961)

“One time I wrestled a giraffe to the ground with my bare hands.”—John C. Reilly, Step Brothers (2008)

“You’re exactly as big as I let you be.” —Albert Finney, Miller’s Crossing (1990)

“No bastard ever won a war by giving his life for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” —George C. Scott, Patton (1970)

“Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.” —Paul Newman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

“It wasn’t brains that got me here, I can assure you of that.” —Jeremy Irons, Margin Call (2011)

“You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend — those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.” —Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

“Baby sister, I was born game and I intend to go out that way.” —John Wayne

“When you’re right, you’re right, and you’re right.” —Jack Nicholson, Chinatown (1974)

“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya punk?”—Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry (1971)

“Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against. What have you got?”—Marlon Brando, The Wild One (1953)

“Gladiators don’t make friends. If we’re ever matched in the arena together, I have to kill you.” —Woody Strode, Spartacus (1960)

“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”—Roddy Piper, They Live (1988)

#Movie Quotes

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nitrosplicer · 3 years

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roundup of documentaries on YouTube I’m currently using in my Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities course

The Historic Women’s Suffrage March on Washington: This clip explains how the historic 1913 Women’s Suffrage March on Washington attempted to exclude Black women

When voting rights didn't protect all women: The suffrage movement didn’t protect all women’s right to vote.

She's Beautiful When She's Angry: Filmmaker Mary Dore chronicles the events, the movers and the shakers of the feminist movement from 1966 to 1971.

How the Anita Hill Hearings Rocked a Nation: "Their treatment of Anita Hill felt like once again she was being sexually harassed—this time in front of the whole country." Politicians, journalists and activists reflect on the earth-shattering effect of the Anita Hill Hearings and how it riveted a nation in 1991.

The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw: Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both.

Screaming Queens | Susan Stryker: It’s a hot August night in San Francisco in 1966. Compton’s Cafeteria, in the seedy Tenderloin district, is hopping with its usual assortment of transgender people, young street hustlers, and down-and-out regulars. The management, annoyed by the noisy crowd at one table, calls the police. When a surly cop, accustomed to manhandling Compton’s clientele, attempts to arrest one of the queens, she throws her coffee in his face. Mayhem erupts — windows break, furniture flies through the air. Police reinforcements arrive, and the fighting spills into the street. For the first time, the drag queens band together to fight back, getting the better of the cops, whom they kick and stomp with their high-heeled shoes and beat with their heavy purses. For everyone at Compton’s that night, one thing was certain — things would never be the same again.

United In Anger: A History of ACT UP: A documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts the efforts of ACT UP as it battles corporate greed, social indifference, and government neglect. http://www.unitedinanger.com/

The Scary Reality Of Sex Education In Alabama

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This Month In History - September

Here’s to many pop culture landmark anniversaries I’m raising a glass to this month:

Sept. 8, 1966: Star Trek premieres

In Sept. 1966, the debut episode of Star Trek premiered on NBC. Here is my piece I wrote in 2016. Happy 55th Original Star Trek!

Sept. 9, 1971: Imagine released

In Sept. 1971, John Lennon’s second solo album was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2016. Happy 50th Imagine!

Sept. 12, 1966: The Monkees premieres

In Sept. 1966, the sitcom adventures of the made-for-TV band The Monkees premiered on NBC. Even though they were a fictional band, the group began releasing albums and the thing is, they were actually a good band. But the joy of the TV show was that it was goofy fun about the misadventures of this rock band that live together and get into shenanigans each episode. Its so crazy to think that the show only lasted two seasons. I became a fan of the show as a kid watching syndicated reruns. Happy 55th The Monkees!

Sept. 13, 1986: Siskel and Ebert and the Movies premieres

In Sept. 1986, my favorite movie review show of all time premiered! Here is my piece I wrote in 2016. Happy 35th S&E!

Sept. 17, 1991: Use Your Illusions I and II / Pretty on the Inside released

In Sept. 1991, Guns N’ Roses 3rd and 4th album was released on the same day as Hole’s debut album. Here is my piece I wrote about both albums in 2016. Happy 30th UYI 1&2 and POTI!

Sept. 18, 2001: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot released

In Sept. 2001, Wilco’s 4th and greatest album was released. They had been building up a following with their alt-country sound and after recording this album, their label Reprise refused to released it, so Wilco decided to release it themselves on their website as a free stream. A few months later they signed with Nonesuch. The irony to end all irony is that both Reprise and Nonesuch are both subsidiaries of the same label, Warner Bros. So they got dropped by one company and picked up by another...but both are the same company!?! I got this album in 2002 and it is easily the band’s best album ever. I have gotten into Wilco a lot in recent years and this is still their best. Happy 20th YHF!

Sept. 19, 1986: Blue Velvet opens

In Sept. 1986, David Lynch’s greatest film of all time was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2016. Earlier this year I actually got to see Blue Velvet in the movie theater and it still holds up. Happy 35th Blue Velvet!

Sept. 22, 1986: Alf premieres

In Sept. 1986, my favorite TV as a tween premiered on NBC. Here is my piece I wrote in 2016. Happy 35th Alf!

Sept. 24, 1971: Electric Warrior released

In Sept. 1971, T. Rex’s 6th and best album was released. This album is ground zero for glam rock! I picked it up on vinyl as a teen as I was going through a 70s phase and loved it. “Get It On” is the big hit, but there’s so many classics on this. Happy 50th Electric Warrior!

Sept. 24, 1991: Nevermind / Blood Sugar Sex Majik released

In Sept. 1991 Nirvana’s major-label debut was released on the same day as Red Hot Chili Peppers 5th album. Here is the piece I initially wrote about Nevermind in 2011 and here is the piece I wrote about Blood Sugar Sex Magik in 2016. Happy 30th to both albums!

Sept. 28, 2001: Zoolander opens

In Sept. 2001, Ben Stiller’s wicked comedy was released. Here is my piece I wrote in 2016. Happy 20th Zoolander.

Sept. 29, 1991: My Own Private Idaho opens

In Sept. 1991, Gus Van Sant’s third film was released. The road movie about street hustlers with a unique avant-garde style was unlike anything else of its time. River Phoenix gave one of his best performances, as did Keanu Reeves. There’s a lot of images that stay with you, but the scene in the adult bookstore where all of the models on the magazine covers on the magazine rack come alive is one of the best things Van Sant has ever done! Happy 30th MOPI!

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MAY 8, 2022

Life and death in the ‘Delta Queen’: My time on the B-58 Hustler supersonic bomber

What was the best thing about the Hustler?

It had a very high probability for penetrating enemy defenses and accurately delivering its weapons on assigned targets.

..and the worst?

What was its Cold War tasking?

What were you first impressions of the B-58?

Its four J79 engines produced 62,400 pounds of thrust, so the B-58 with an empty weight of only 55,650 pounds had an outstanding thrust-to-weight ratio.

Describe the B-58 in three words?

Fast, Accurate and Survivable. Let me explain:

What is a particularly dangerous aircraft?

Tell us about the escape pod.

Do you think it was more survivable than the B-52?

You may also enjoy interviews with pilots of the following aircraft: F-104, F-106, F-4, SR-71 and B-57,

Why was it retired, and was it too early?

What was special about the B-58?

Your most memorable mission?