Famous Men and Their Motorcycles

This was on the Twitter Feed this AM whilst having my Morning Coffee.

I do remember a few of these movies.

The Art Of Manliness is a regular read for yours truly.

The full article is at the link at the bottom,



Famous Men and Their Motorcycles

Flygirlpainter Project Part 3

Shayne, her hubby Scott Donnell and Jim Kaplan are finished with Scorpion 100.
This is one of the best looking helos I have ever seen!
The work involved is amazing.
Shayne is noted for the artwork on so many of the CAG Helos in the squadrons based at NAS North Island.

Shayne Meder with the Commanding Officer of HSM-49, Commander Bobby Brown

Flygirlpainter Project Part 2

I told Shayne that I would do this on a regular(?) basis..................
So, it's Wednesday, OK!
More good stuff from my friend!
Please understand that these are in random order!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The tease................
When this puppy is finished, it will be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Canada Celebrates Battle of Britain

Awesome.
Nuff said.

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/canada-celebrates-battle-of-britain-with-this-stunning-1696335406

Waxing Poetic

As I wax................poetically tonight...................
I saw a few things tonight on these here intertubes(thanks to Buck)..........yeah


I played the Red River Valley 
He'd sit in the kitchen and cry 
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' 
And wonder, "Lord, why has every well I've drilled gone dry?" 

We were friends, me and this old man 
We's like desperados waitin' for a train 
Desperados waitin' for a train 

He's a drifter, a driller of oil wells 
He's an old school man of the world 
He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to 
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls 
And our lives was like, some old Western movie 
Like desperados waitin' for a train 
Like desperados waitin' for a train 

From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him 
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe 
There was old men with beer guts and dominos 
Lying 'bout their lives while they played 
I was just a kid, they all called me "Sidekick" 
Just like desperados waitin' for a train 
Like desperados waitin' for a train 

One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty 
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin 
Well to me he was a hero of this country 
So why's he all dressed up like them old men 
Drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two 
Jus' like desperados waitin' for a train 
Like a desperado waitin' for a train 

The day 'fore he died I went to see him 
I was grown and he was almost gone. 
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen 
And sang one more verse to that old song 
(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin' 

We're desperados waitin' for a train 
Was like desperados waitin' for a train

Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown

A friend had a picture of the monument in Ireland commemorating the arrival of Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown in their Vickers Vimy Bomber and the first non stop flight across the Atlantic.

I read about this in the 8th Grade if memory serves me correctly.

Statue of Alcock and Brown at London Heathrow Airport

Vickers Vimy

Memorial commemorating the flight in County Galway, Ireland

A full article is at the link below.

Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown

Flygirlpainter begins a new project at North Island

My friend Shayne Meder, aka Flygirlpainter is going to paint the CAG Bird of HSM-49, The Scorpions.
This is a fresh from the factory MH-60R which is a fresh canvas for Shayne.

I am going to be chronicling as best I can, the entire process as Shayne posts at her Facebook Page, which is Flygirlpainter, btw...................

Soldiers at Seders During WWII – Tablet Magazine

For this Passover Holiday I found this one while surfing the net.................

Most interesting article, indeed.

According to the lively website Jews in Green, Jews served in WWII in numbers much higher than our representation in the general population; by someestimates, 4 to 5 percent of U.S. soldiers were Jews at a time when we constituted less than 2 percent of the population. And the significance of fighting for others’ liberty during their own celebration of freedom clearly wasn’t lost on them.

Seder on the U.S.S. Astoria in the Pacific, 1945. (Courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History)

The full story is at the link below.
Soldiers at Seders During WWII – Tablet Magazine

If I close my eyes forever...............................Lita and Ozzy

OK, I like this one

Tull................What a laugh............................

On Preston platform
Do your soft shoe shuffle dance
Brush away the cigarette ash
Thats falling down your pants

And then you sadly wonder
Does the nurse treat your old man
The way she should

She made you tea
Asked for your autograph
What a laugh