E G B D F

 Every Good Boy Deserves Favor.  A way to learn musical notes.  It is also a play by Tom Stoppard.

It deals with the soviet practice of imprisoning dissidents in mental institutions.  IOW you have to be nuts to oppose communism.  Uh-huh.

We face a kind of mental inmates running an asylum now with opponents to our current resurgence of Freedom claiming WE are the criminals and insane.  Classic collectivist projection.

How do we combat such silliness?

We continue to tell the truth and maintain our course to restore the Republic.

We convince others about past wrongs and how we right them.

We intensify what has been done recently and go nonstop.

Their notes are sour.

Ours are clear and dulcet.

Red Dog

 There is an independent bookstore in Greenwood Indiana that needs help.

Now, I'm not paid for this, but I am a customer, so I want to see them come through.

They have been told by their present landlord that they must vacate their current location.  The date has changed and keeps shortening.  It might be the end of the month.

Anyone seeing this please support them in any way you can.  They hope to find a new location.

Red Dog is located 1001 N 135, Greenwood Indiana.  Also check them out on Facebook and any search engine.

The store is great and has a wide variety of books, movies, and so much more.

The staff is friendly and helpful.  They are truly positive.

If you love books, etc see what you might do.

Character

 It can be from broad to specific.  The very nature of someone or a portrayal.

One can as an actor, play good or bad.

One as an individual can BE good or bad.  Often that fluctuates to a degree.  

Also as Shakespeare said re all the world being a stage and people being players.  We live many parts, wear many hats.  

Far as acting goes, characterization comes from within.  It is not like an overcoat or a cloak.  It is pretend but emanates from thoughts.

The hidden comes forth.

Is it pretend or is it self?

Only living life can tell.

Hilts

 The Great Escape is a great movie.  Based on a real escape from a German prison camp in 1944, it doesn't take liberties as much as consolidating people and circumstances/events during that time.

The original idea was to escape 250 prisoners.  76 made it out and 50 were executed.  The escape was part of the pre D-Day activity meant to gum up German resources.

The whole camp worked on the escape to one degree or another.  

I knew 2 of the prisoners.  One lived in Evansville.  The other owned a neighborhood bar ironically just blocks from where the movie was showing.  Great men.  All great men.

Hilts was a consolidated character portrayed by Steve McQueen.  The motorcycle scenes were fictitious to showcase Steve's skills, save for the famous leap performed by Steve's friend Bud Ekins.

Hilts.  The character was a serial escapee.  He was irreverent and single minded.  Hilts made the most of any opportunity to escape.

Yet, he escaped, studied activity in the area, especially train schedules and allowed himself to be recaptured so he could share the info with the others.

Being singularly minded is not bad, when it amounts to Freedom.

Refuse to give up.  Refuse to give in.

Finally recaptured near the end of the movie, Hilts sits in the cooler and repeatedly bounces a baseball off the wall.  That sound confounds a guard.  But, we know what it means.

Unquenchable thirst for Freedom.