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I kinda want to read it again. Problem I think with any adaptation of the history is that I know the history well and how the book makes Tokugawa very different is always hard to get around. Plus I was always a Takeda and Hideyoshi fanboy (read Taiko it’s great) so I was never predisposed to like Tokugawa much.

Im having a hard time seeing anything slowing the Celtics from reaching the Finals.

I'm afraid of dead animals (maybe zoothanatophobia, or maybe something else). I have a clear recollection as a child to refusing to go into a street with a dead cat in it until an adult got rid of it, because I just couldn't bear it. As an adult I can control it better, but I still might gasp and shudder if I see one, and try to look another way. Amusingly enough, dead people don't trigger it.

Here in the US already a bill has been put forward that working children be denied lunch breaks. Also denied workplace protections and clothing is already a fact.

So Nagelsmann won't return to Bayern, instead he (somewhat surprisingly) extended his contract as Headcoach for the National Team. Which makes things interesting at Bayern. Nagelsmann was the the preferred pick of Eberl and Freund (who were not there during the Nagelsmann days and the controversies around him), but faced somewhat persistent resistence by other the other big wigs. Anyway, like I said, this point is now moot. Now the question is really where they go next. Seek a permanent appointment (Rangnick and Emery are now rumoredly the frontrunners, with Zidane also on the short list), or go for an interim solution, and try again with Alonso next year. If the interim is a success that could also become a permanent solution. Flick would apparently be that temp. Tuchel is as of now not in the mind to reverse course on his exit and stay for another year. But that might change.

Royce Corbray Conflicts: Qyle Corbray killed by Robar Royce, Lady Forlorn taken. Jaime (interesting) Corbray one of possible killers of Robar in turn, reclaiming of Lady Forlorn as evidence. In 37 AC Jonos Arryn killed his brother in an attempt to claim the Vale and reject the Targaryens. His supporters in this have not yet been named but the name Jonos appears subsequently in only the Bracken and Frey families, and Allard Royce led the fight against Jonos Arryn. Ronnel was married to a Stark, possibly had living female descendants but no male heir. Jonos was married to….don’t know, and descendants also unknown. At this point the Corbrays had recently benefited from a Tarth (Targ descent) match so were probably not allied with Jonos against the crown. But Jonos’s allies would have been from zealously Andal families as this was likely a major part of the reason why the rebelled against Ronnel and his Stark wife, as well as the reason for Allard’s defense of Ronnel. Gunthor Royce killed Cowyn Corbray in 134 https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Arryn_succession_conflict_(134_AC) to be continued tomorrow. Good night.

Another term of Tory rule, and children working in factories in terrible conditions *will* be contemporary. Anyway … my take on the Menzies fiasco is he got lured back to a flat by a supposed make prostitute where a gang waited, and was told to pay up. He has form.

Ha ha, maybe not 10 minutes, but rowing longer than 30 is a real challenge for me. And I need to have a damn good music in headphones. Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins is a good bet.

It means the leaker didn’t wanna go on the record because it’s technically against policy. Anyway, interesting looking at this morning’s roll call and the 39 Dems that voted against the rule. It’s of course your general Squad/progressive left types, but some prominent names include Jim Clyburn, Debbie Dingell, Robert Garcia, Ro Khanna, Jamie Raskin, Bennie Thompson, and Lauren Underwood. Also, Jasmine Crockett, who’s quickly becoming one of my favorite MCs (not due to this vote, tbc).

I'm thinking in Bran's case, it is to make a connection between Mormont's raven, the three-eyed crow and Bloodraven. So if you believe that Bloodraven is the 3EC; it's not a stretch to surmise that he is keeping tabs on Mormont and the Night Watch as that strange bird. So then, why is Bloodraven drawing attention to Ben Jen? What results is the great ranging in search of Benjen and significantly, finding the horn filled with obsidian, wrapped up in a ranger's cloak. I think Benjen is too useful to just disappear in the woods.

That ... that is shitty, and gouging. https://www.amazon.com/Shōgun-Complete-Novel-James-Clavell/dp/B0CMYP5HQ7 In Spain stacks of them were being sold in the bookstores, but in a single volume, just like the original was -- in paperback, no less. Of course, nowadays in the USA, with print book production being so cramped (publishers outsourced that long ago to Asian countries) books this big are really hard to get contracts for within any sort of timely fashion..

I asked Chat gpt for some nicknames after seeing this story ... Naptime Nuisance Trump and Tootin' Trial Trump are my two favorites. I do like the straightforward The Flatulent Defendant too.

FTFY!

Yes, I saw your previous post a few weeks ago. I was just trying to come up with an alternative.

Until it all backfires and curves back again. There should be room for both in this world. Also, the inability of streaming services to let a series grow beyond a couple seasons more often than not, is also a mark against the model also, in my mind. And I just thought I'd see about maybe picking up a copy of Shogun at the local B&N, since it should be available again with show interest...only they're selling it in Book 1 and Book 2...ha.

Watched Rebel Moon Part 2, and it's very annoying, because there's actually a few good ideas and thoughts in there, but it's so amateurishly written and structured that they mostly get lost. Past that it was mostly just an unmemorable, clunky mess.

I think Tywin is both ambitious and practical. His actions and his morals are mutable depending on what he thinks will work best to get him what he wants. Tywin would be pious, or at least appear to be, if it helped him get / maintain his goals. He will be pious and follow the Seven as it helps him keep power / keep the Kingdom together, but I don't see any real following of the religion. Do you mean if he were re-written as a religious man his actions would largely be the same?

Watched the fifth of ten episode of In Her Car Ukrainian-European coproduction. I can highly recommend this one. Plot is built around a Ukrainian Psycho-therapist, who finds her a new calling by driving Ukrainians through their war torn country. Each episode tells the story of her passengers. It has some pretty dark humour in it.

It was suggested already a couple weeks ago by people who taken upon themselves looking at this horror far more often, far more closely, and far more attentively than I do that this is what he was up to.

UPDATED 1 MINUTE AGO https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyregion/man-on-fire-trump.html Um just what does this mean? "The official requested anonymity because the man had not been publicly identified." Since, buddy, you just did it. You are as confused and making as little sense as Azzarello as to who, what, when and why.

Too bad he’s not more old school and take insulin instead. Then Melania could go full Claus von Bülow on his fat arse.

The only drug you need to keep you going is bickering with DMC

On his weight - chances are good he is taking Ozempic.

As soon as Bran wakes up, the very next page is a Tyrion chapter, which starts by comparing Pycelle's head to an egg. This just after Pycelle complains of not sleeping as he did whe the was younger. George definitely likes to use the chapter transitions to draw parallels.

According to his substack, "We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup." There is an entire manifesto under it.