The Wandering Minstrel

Every gun owner has to start out with the first gun. For me, it was a shotgun: an Ithaca Model 66 20 gauge lever-action single shot. I bought it 42 years ago, still shoot it once in a while, and it’s still in fairly good shape. I did some restoration on the gun after it had been put away for several years.

I was surprised that after paying twenty dollars for it in 1966 (in new condition then) that it’s still worth anywhere from fifty to two hundred fifty depending on condition. I estimate mine to be in the 90 dollar range with a few scratches and some lightly tarnished metal patina - yeah that’s it - patina.

The list of briefs in the Heller vs. D.C. Case has been updated at the D.C. Gun Case websites Case Filings page. This list includes the recent brief from Texas on behalf of thirty-one states and that of the Vice-President and Congress. D.C. Gun Case has links to all briefs.

These are quite unlike the opposition’s briefs I included last month in “With friends Like This Who Needs Enemies?”

Listed here are the entities filing in support of Heller’s position.

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It’s an action movie - no it’s a comic book - no it’s BOTH! This unique motion picture can best be described as ‘graphically orchestrated surrealistic sex and violence.’ Thoroughly enjoyable. Kid stuff that’s not for kids. I give it 4¾ out of 5 stars.

A-list action stars rub shoulders with snaky villains and sexy wenches, in a city where the streets are always wet, the cars are ragtops and everybody smokes. It’s a black-and-white world, except for blood, which is red, eyes which are green, hair which is blond, and the Yellow Bastard.

This isn’t an adaptation of a comic book, it’s like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids. It contains characters who occupy stories, but to describe the characters and summarize the stories would be like replacing the weather with a weather map.

The movie is not about narrative but about style. It internalizes the harsh world of the Frank Miller “Sin City” comic books and processes it through computer effects, grotesque makeup, lurid costumes and dialogue that chops at the language of noir. The actors are mined for the archetypes they contain; Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro, Clive Owen and the others are rotated into a hyperdimension. We get not so much their presence as their essence; the movie is not about what the characters say or what they do, but about who they are in our wildest dreams.

Credit Roger Ebert for the review. Credit IMDB for the cover picture.

I go just about every Sunday. It’s almost like church since it provides me with a spiritual uplifting. The organ is different here, though, more like percussion than melodic.

. . . had ivory handles, not pearl.

Image - Patton carried a Colt .45 or a S&W .357 magnum during the second world war. He later favored the Army-issued Colt .380 auto - a smaller and lighter version of the legendary 1911.

Patton took violent offense at any reference to his pistols being pearl handled. He said, “Only a pimp in a New Orleans whorehouse or a tin-horn gambler would carry a pearl-handled pistol.” In no uncertain terms he would have the offender know that his revolver was indeed “IVORY-GOD-FUCKING-DAMN-HANDLED” and with that he would turn on his heel and leave.

Because some low-life assholes stole the flag that was there before. Why would anyone do that? I’m certain it wasn’t patriotism.

Anyhow, it made good use of a gun lock I had no use for. Why lock up your guns if there are assholes in the neighborhood stealing flags? Maybe next time they will want something from inside the house. That ain’t gonna happen . . . not on my watch!

This time it’s a compact - a G-26 perhaps? See Camo Glock for image credit.

Damsel adores her little .38 Special S&W 442 J-Frame. She adores the American Flag as well.

Thanks to Damsel for sharing this nice picture.