China's getting extra frisky with Taiwan and the Philippines, and meanwhile we're stripping our last carrier out of the Pacific to go plug holes in the Gulf. "Pivot to Asia" my ass.
I've posted plenty of pictures from the sculpture gardens that surround the Indianapolis Arts Center, including photos of my favorite one, Twisted House, by John McNaughton.
Here's a photo of my friend Dave standing in front of it for scale:
I saw a photo of it in the news yesterday afternoon...
We're fine here in SoBro, but the White River's gonna crest here in north Marion county early this afternoon.
Ravenswood is gonna flood, but Ravenswood floods all the time. They're closing the gates in the flood wall here in Broad Ripple up on 67th Street. This is a novelty to me. I’ve been here close to twenty years now and this is the first time I remember the flood gates getting closed. We'll be fine (they're a bit more than a mile north of us) but the Arts Center is fixin' to get wet.
The big loser is going to be the quaint little neighborhood of Rocky Ripple. Nestled in between the White River and the canal, over by Butler University, it's surrounded by a levee built in 1937 after the historic flood of 1913.
The White River is gonna get higher than it did in 1913 and may overtop the levee by as much as a foot, which will wipe out the parts of the structure that are in poor shape. If that happens, bye-bye Rocky Ripple.
When burying your loved ones these days, it’s important that you inter them with a smart phone.
Placing coins on their eyes does not work anymore. Charon is apparently no longer accepting cash and wants the recently deceased to download the ETERNAL FERRYMAN app so that they can pay via PayPal or Venmo in order to be poled across the River Styx.
A lack of suitable night fighters saw the USAAF operating Bristol Beaufighters in the role in Europe until enough P-61 Black Widows were available to fill the ranks. The Beaufighter Mk.VIf above is painted up as the aircraft of the commander of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron circa September of 1944.
Below is a Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc (Trop) as it would have served with the USAAF in North Africa.
According to an email I just got, the Beretta 80X in .32ACP is fixin’ to take an indefinite hiatus from the Langdon Tactical catalog.
If you are a person of sophisticated tastes who appreciates the Trey-Deuce Browning, this might be your last chance to get the ultimate launcher for that sweet little cartridge.
The USAF's first operational jet bomber, the four-engined North American B-45 Tornado was the main nuclear deterrent based in western Europe in the early years of the Cold War.
The B-45C at the USAF museum in Dayton is painted in the colors of the 47th Bomb Wing (Light), which was based out of RAF Sculthorpe in the 1950s. The wing had flown A-20 Havocs and A-26 Invaders in World War Two.
I don't see a lot of second generation General Motors F-bodies on the road these days. I'd say that's probably because rust got a bunch of them and overconfident teenage throttle jockeys got a bunch more.
However carrying my Canon EOS RP and the RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS zoom lens managed to summon a couple 1975 model Ponchos recently.
There was the Alpine Green Firebird Formula 400, which we've seen before.
Designed by Alex Kartveli, the same dude who designed the P-47 Thunderbolt, the Republic F-84 Thunderjet was an early straight-winged jet fighter that started off the Korean War flying escort missions for B-29 raids but really won renown as a rugged fighter-bomber flying close air support and deep interdiction missions. Sorta like its predecessor, when you think about it...
It was the first USAF fighter capable of carrying an A-bomb and over four thousand of the things were built. It saw export success, too, being sold to fourteen nations. Some operators, like Portugal and Yugoslavia, used them into the 1970s.
