Ride the Thunder: an important movie that not enough people will see.

By production standards, this is not a very good movie. It was privately funded by not terribly rich, non-Hollywood-types so the budget was small. It was shot in HD, which helps but the acting and directing are not stellar. Done as a “docu-drama” that may have benefited from more documentary and less re-enactment. It is the commentary of former and retired Marines and actual footage from the 70s that makes this a need-to-be-seen film.

Now We’re Talking!

Typing, anyway.

I have figured out a cumbersome way to check for new comments, other than memorizing how many there were on a post the last time you looked.

Way up top, under your browser bar, it should say “Ball Diamond Ball” next to a little house. When you click on that “dashboard” drops down. Clicking on that puts out a menu bar on the left (this also shows up when typing a new post (click on the “visual” tab- upper R on the little window, to get rid of the coding language).  “Comments” shows the latest comments on the blog, who made the comment and which post it is in.

If that doesn’t work, the dashboard shows the most recent 4-6 comments.

 

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