Daydream Notes

  I bought Revell's model kit of the Junkers Ju 290 about a year ago. As I tend to do, I've  been casually researching it ever since, and these internet readings lead me to a weird discovery: that this rather obscure warbird  is a nexus for rumor and conspiracy theory.  Most of it is baseless - though I suppose understandable, given the company the Ju 290 often hung out in - but there is one issue in between the crazy I found fascinating, and want to lay out for everyone.  So if it sparkles for everyone here I'm going to do a three post series on the Ju 290 family. First we will cover the real history. The second will cover the interesting issue. And the third will be a bunch of bullshit backed up by nothing. It's gonna be a bit like the Discovery channel: first, a Wings documentary. Then, a documentary on something speculative but grounded in fact. Then, a special on the "real Atlantis" or possibly ghost hunting. I: The Biggest Loser The Story of the J...

The song uses the epigram in a bad, wrong, way. First: it is a epigram, a "a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement", not any sort of philosophical argument. Nietzsche liked the format to get down simple statements that were meant to get the reader to think, not to lead to any definite conclusion. (The full epigram is ""From life's school of war: what does not kill me makes me stronger". "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" seems to be a 1970s paraphrasing by G. Gordon Liddy, of all fuckin' people.) Other epigrams from "The Twilight of the Idols" include: "Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher." "What? You search? You would multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? Seek zeros!" "I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lac...

Maybe the expression on the woman is a little smug, and the crow looks a little down - "and now, somebody is stepping on my feet. This is a bad day." In Life 1959, ads have started appearing indicating a economic resurgence in Japan. This ad simply uses Japan as an example of a nation investing in rail, as opposed to the US. (And the message that railroads were not being invested in when the government is subsidizing alternatives like road and air. Whatever, railroads.) This will be the last we hear of this "Tosh-iba" I'm sure. The late 1950s and early sixties were also the peak of car-ad paintings. Not only because they were often very good: but also because  they were often used to make new cars look even bigger than they were in reality. I mean, it looks like the entire party could arrive in just one Pontiac. There's an 'Imperial' ad below - Chrysler's stab at getting the fat profits Lincolns and...