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  1. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    Keaton. Dave Brubeck or Bix Beiderbeck?
  2. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    The Colonel was one of those all too common fellows who was born on third base, and then spends a lifetime congratulating himself on how well he hits a triple. The better newspaper publisher in Chicago of that era was- in my opinion- Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News. His editorial character...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    The differences between the original book, the Robert Altman film, and the Alan Alda television show really bring this out. Hot Lips Hoolihan eventually was morphed into Margaret the Proto Feminist, and Hawkeye became an Everyman with the morals of Plato, Buddha, and Christ- incorporating only...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Having grown up on tales of "the good old days," I was fascinated by the World War II era from the time I could walk. The idea of the whole of the US nation, pulling together to defeat a deadly wrong, was one that I embraced. The fact of the matter is that what was pitched to me and what I...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Somehow, I'll survive...
  7. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    The more that one studies history, the more one realizes that "moral clarity," at least in a societal sense, never existed. Improved communication has forced more honesty, and the more knowledgeable one becomes, the more one realizes that past which we are inclined to view through rose colored...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Aero Anj4

    15 by ChiTownScion posted Nov 25, 2015 at 6:20 PM13 by ChiTownScion posted Nov 25, 2015 at 6:19 PM14 by ChiTownScion posted Nov 25, 2015 at 6:18 PM STILL geeking out over mine. It arrived early last week, right after a record early snowfall. I rode around yesterday "open cockpit" (windows...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Steve S. - the new An-J-3

    Nice. VERY nice.
  10. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I suppose there are several "coffee cultures," and I certainly agree with you as to much of the Starbucks experience. Self- important 20-somethings insisting that the barrista make their grandes "just so," etc. And then taking up residence on the premises for hours with their laptops, not buying...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Past lives, do you believe?

    In a somewhat similar vein: I happen to love walking battlefields, particularly those of the Civil War. I'm not inclined to embrace supernaturalism- ghosts, auras, etc., and I know that there's a whole tourist industry built around that sort of thing. I definitely draw inspiration in, say...
  13. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I never liked coffee until I was about a year out of law school. When I was a student, I used to drink hot tea to stay awake. Bigelow used to make a really strong Irish Breakfast Tea: I'd put 3-5 bags in a cup and add boiling water, letting it steep for a full five minutes. The caffeine buzz was...
  14. ChiTownScion

    Past lives, do you believe?

    I lean toward it all being nonsense- like 99.9% of organized religion. But I suppose if I actually did have a former life, the clue might lie in my aversion to bitter cold. A anonymous company level officer trying to keep my men alive during a brutal and unrelenting Russian winter? Perhaps...
  15. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I love arguing with religious types when they maintain that employing the usual G.D or J.C. is "using the Lord's name in vain." And I think my argument is solid. The prohibition set forth in Exodus and Leviticus set forth in what we call "the Ten Commandments" refers to a name rendered in...
  16. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You can still have holiday lunch in the Walnut Room at the now Macy's, but it isn't quite the same. I remember in the 60's when Fields had a toy department that makes F.A.O Schwartz look like K Mart. It covered nearly a full floor filled with fine toys- from the usual stuffed animals, games, toy...
  17. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    I yield, Brother FF.
  19. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The day that Macy's bought Marshall Fields, the last coffin nail was driven. Fields had been declining for years: little things, such as the erosion of its No Questions Asked return policy, out-shopping production of the Frango Mints, sub- contracting individual retail departments, etc. But the...
  20. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    Gonna go with the Goose: I love radials.
  21. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    The Marx Brothers... but they both shared this common denominator: as they grew older, their timing fell, and it got to the point where watching them as they aged was like watching an old boxer who was once a champion getting pummeled in the ring. Just...sad. P-51D or Grumman Bearcat?
  22. ChiTownScion

    How many years have you been lurking around the lounge??

    Relative newbie (1/1/2014), as you can see. I didn't "lurk" before jumping in with both feet. But I've enjoyed encountering a number of kindred spirits here, and have learned a lot.
  23. ChiTownScion

    What is the world coming to!

    This is why I think it's prudent to wait 20 years after completion of his term(s) before undertaking any serious evaluation of a US President's performance. The prudence or folly of any given act by the chief executive can only be weighed in the long term. I don't want this to be seen as a...

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