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[NOIRTRASH]

The Big River Company deleted all the MP3 albums I bought from them. Big River now offers two MP3 subscription plans, and you cant keep the music. I didn't lose lotsa albums, and I replaced them with audio CDs I ripped to my computer. It's not my style to go to war over a few dollars. Big River isn't alone in this new scheme, and I'm too critical of music to like much of whats available. I own a dozen or so CD albums, and all are crown jewels. Big River pulled the same trick when ebooks came out, and they hadda cut it out.

I got no use for cats but they like me and hang out here. Mama cat has kittens all the time, and the last litter was mostly females. So I bought a cat trap and took one of them to the vet the other day. She got spayed and shots for a bargain price. The vet notched her ear so animal control knows she's good to go. Monday another girl kitty gets the same treatment.

Bought a recent biography of Napoleon. I'm impressed so far. I'm not related to Napoleon but his nephew Achilles Murat moved to Tallahassee and was a close friend of my 3rd great grandfather. My ancestor was a dueller, and Murat was his 2nd at a duel or two. This ancestor smacked opponents faces with his riding crop, to encourage them to duel. Murat was the son of Napoleon's sister, Caroline. Tallahassee was fulla frogs in the early days. Even Lafayette came to town once or twice. The rest of us were related to Thomas Jefferson thru his Randolph uncle, William.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Sounds to me like Big River Company are thieves.

Cats. 'nough said.

Napoleon was a short fuck with a god complex. He may have been right.

 

[ishtat]

Napoleon was actually 5' 8," so not that short. British paintings invariably show him as short and plump - the French, not so much. The British also started the rumour that he preferred his women to be more than a trifle gamey, and wrote to them with instructions not to wash as he was coming home soon.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Napoleon was actually 5' 8," so not that short. British paintings invariably show him as short and plump - the French, not so much. The British also started the rumour that he preferred his women to be more than a trifle gamey, and wrote to them with instructions not to wash as he was coming home soon.

One chapter of the book, a Brit wrote it, points out that much written about Napoleon is nonsense. Napoleon was the worst, like he owned up to having 6 mistresses, but 21 is the real number. Napoleon fought 61 battles and won 58 of them. Even Wellington said Napoleon was the best general of any time.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I discovered a writer named Roy Huggins. Huggins published 3 books you never heard of. Huggins was a Hollywood genius who filled tv with the most popular drama like MAVERICK, THE FUGITIVE, 77 SUNSET STRIP, ROCKFORD, and many others. He was the Roger Ailes of his time. I don't wanna suggest Huggins was a thief but he was familiar with all the great writers and had some lawsuits for using their best stuff. THE FUGITIVE started life as THE DARK PASSAGE by David Goodis. Goodis sued and won.

One Huggins book remains in print, DOUBLE TAKE of 1940. Its simple and well written and reminds me of Chandler's Philip Marlowe.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Napoleon was actually 5' 8," so not that short. British paintings invariably show him as short and plump - the French, not so much. The British also started the rumour that he preferred his women to be more than a trifle gamey, and wrote to them with instructions not to wash as he was coming home soon.

Now-a-days, 5'8" ain't that tall. I will admit that back when he lived, he was average height.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

For my latest effort I need a villain, and created a diabolical mayor I call HILLARY CLANTON. Hillary is a tranny with a psychotic hatred of males. Hillary is 6-4 fall and talks like Jack Lord.

Hillary will offend many but characters like Hillary are common. Charlie Chaplin was playing Hitler long before Hitler came along.

 

[ishtat]

One chapter of the book, a Brit wrote it, points out that much written about Napoleon is nonsense. Napoleon was the worst, like he owned up to having 6 mistresses, but 21 is the real number. Napoleon fought 61 battles and won 58 of them. Even Wellington said Napoleon was the best general of any time.

Of course Wellington would say that - after all Wellington was the only General to beat Napoleon in a full scale land battle. In his private papers Wellington was contemptuous of Napoleons use of infantry which he thought undisciplined and wasteful. Napoleons genius was largely in moving his army very fast prior to battles and in his use of artillery. At Waterloo he faced Wellington who was just as good at fast movement which he had perfected in his hit and retreat strategy in Iberia.

Additionally, Napoleons artillery was less effective because of the boggy ground at Waterloo; and the disciplined firing from the British infantry squares, devastated his cavalry and infantry.

The Brits had a good record against the Corsican, 3-0 The Nile 1799, Trafalgar 1805 and Waterloo 1815.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I don't do coffee shops, and there may be one or two other threads I've never been to. If I don't like the company I don't go there. I wish others had the same attitude.

My latest wont lie down and submit. I expected it to be done by now but what do I know. It was 105,000 words I wrestled down to 45,000 but its on the march again. The trouble is the new stuff is entertaining. I like the end, it works. The new stuff oughta make the middle better. I need a good title, maybe BLUE COLLAQR GANGSTER. Its all gangsters and whores.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I'm reading FALSE WITNESS by Dorothy Uhnak. It opens with the wreckage of a beautiful woman strangling on her own blood following a savage attack by a pick up using a meat cleaver. He butchered the woman well, but she lived, minus a few parts. He ruined her for all intents and purposes.

Poor woman.

Then we learn she was a flaming asshole who got her kicks injuring the reputations of experts invited to speak on her tv talk show. She invented fake news, and her guests were her victims. The revelation changed my attitude about the poor girl. Think Megyn Kelly.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Progress is slow.

Today I added one sentence, moved a scene, and changed the races of a few characters. Its better but many will squeal regardless cuz all the females are whores or feminazis, and most all white males are queers. Cubans and Italians remain manly men. Black males are mostly pimps and thugs. But not all.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Progress remains glacial but the effort now features some interracial elements at odds with popular black male/white wife fare. My organized crime hero watches a black police detective murder a white suspect, and blackmails her for sex and more. She's married to a black lawyer with ties to the mob. He learns of the infidelity but lets it continue.

 

[jaF0]

The Big River Company deleted all the MP3 albums I bought from them.

Explain further.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Explain further.

I bought a few MP3 albums for $7.99 a pop, and they went away, replaced with new subscription offers. BIG RIVER pulled the same scam when KINDLE first came along, folks bought books that vanished.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

FALSE WITNESS by Dorothy Uhnak in 1981 gave me an idea for a sinister story. In her book a pregnant 13 year old shoots up a police stake out and gets slaughtered by the cops in return. Poor girl thought the cops were an ethnic group she hated.

But riots and looting and destruction erupts when all the usual; suspects join the fun and games.

I've been thinking about the idea of government hiring gunslingers to handle critics it cant suppress in the public arena.

 

[jaF0]

I bought a few MP3 albums for $7.99 a pop, and they went away, replaced with new subscription offers. BIG RIVER pulled the same scam when KINDLE first came along, folks bought books that vanished.

There still has to be more to the story since they can't do that once you have them downloaded. Unless you didn't?


But that's why I have them saved in more than one location (5 or 6 I think) and have renamed many of them. There are also utilities to edit so you can strip out their special identifiers.

Which albums?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

There still has to be more to the story since they can't do that once you have them downloaded. Unless you didn't?


But that's why I have them saved in more than one location (5 or 6 I think) and have renamed many of them. There are also utilities to edit so you can strip out their special identifiers.

Which albums?

They can do whatever they please. Over 20 years time me and BIG RIVER go to war over what they do and don't do. Bezos makes the rules and his elves do as theyre told but if I gotta video of his elves pissing in the punch bowl, Bezos hasta see things as I do. A VIDEO IS WORTH A THOUSAND EXCUSES AND LIES.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Read an interesting bio of writer James M. Cain tonight. Fascinating story of his career. Most remarkable are his books, almost all of them are low word count, really low. His early efforts were all best sellers and major Hollywood films.

After reading the bio a full formed lesbian loving wives story popped into my head. Think THE FOX by D.H.Lawrence. but mine is evil.

 

[ChloeTzang]

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Of course Wellington would say that - after all Wellington was the only General to beat Napoleon in a full scale land battle. In his private papers Wellington was contemptuous of Napoleons use of infantry which he thought undisciplined and wasteful. Napoleons genius was largely in moving his army very fast prior to battles and in his use of artillery. At Waterloo he faced Wellington who was just as good at fast movement which he had perfected in his hit and retreat strategy in Iberia.

Additionally, Napoleons artillery was less effective because of the boggy ground at Waterloo; and the disciplined firing from the British infantry squares, devastated his cavalry and infantry.

The Brits had a good record against the Corsican, 3-0 The Nile 1799, Trafalgar 1805 and Waterloo 1815.

Just finished reading Georgette Heyer's An Infamous Army, about Waterloo. Fascinating account of the battle and how Wellington fought it. British Line vs French column. "They attacked in the same old way and we defeated them in the same old way"...