Posts by Ray Macula
Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Battle
Waterloo is a real-time strategy game put of by BreakAway Games, Ltd. It provides several historical battles between the dying French Empire and Great Britain and the Allies. It also gives a five or six-part tutorial to help the novice better adapt him or herself to the game. These tutorials begin by showing you how…
Read MoreTears of the Sun
Tears of the Sun was a rather abysmal disappointment to all the hype which surrounded it. Action-wise, it of course delivered (although nowhere near the level of Black Hawk Down). The story line pit Navy S.E.A.L. Bruce Willis against your typical bleeding heart doctor, who he’s supposed to be extracting, and a bunch of Islamic…
Read MoreFear and Loathing In Las Vegas (the movie)
Ok, since I’m reviewing the same story done almost exactly the same way only in two different formats (book and movie), I’m going to make this review short. The movie covers just a bit more than half of the book, ending in the later middle of the original story line of the book. As I…
Read MoreFear and Loathing in Las Vegas (the book)
Quite possibly one of the best literary accomplishments by the “Grand Master of Gonzo Journalism,” Fear and Loathing is the saga of the quest for the “American Dream” by one man and his Samoan lawyer. It begins with one Raul Duke on the road to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race in Las Vegas…
Read MoreJosie and the Pussycats (the movie)
What can I tell you other than, “Wow?” Suddenly, Martin Lawrence is a comic mastermind and Big Momma’s House is pure comedic gold. Gold I tell you! Gold I say!!! Yes, such is the state of this pathetic atrocity thrust upon the film viewing public. Inserted somewhere in the midst of mindless banter, cheesy pep…
Read MoreThe World’s Great Artillery
Halberstadt covers the past 702 or so years of artillery evolution.
Read MoreComments On The Iraqi Conflict And Other Ramblings In A Time Of Sobriety
Firstly, I should like to thank all coalition forces that have gone off to ‘see the elephant’ as it were, for putting themselves in the line of fire, so that I could enjoy civilian life. Truly, dying thousands of miles away in a foreign land for countrymen who may not even appreciate it is to…
Read MoreJDRB 02/20/2003
This latest piece of correspondence is not being written on the shores of the Booze River, but to an allied outpost in the Arctic wasteland of Jersey City, NJ, although at this point, the residence of my own computer is more Arctic than my current foothold. Our latest journey into the vaulted halls of boozedom…
Read MoreJDRB: A Comment on a Political Situation
Generally, we here along the River Booze like to keep things fun(ny) and light hearted. Sure we vote, “early and often”, as was advised by a certain political analyst in Chicago, but rather than fill endless globulins of bandwidth beating you folks over the head with our position, we prefer to humor you with the…
Read MoreJDRB 01/21/2003
My birthday holds little significance to most human beings other than myself, namely because it is my birthday. However, it will always have a special significance to a few of those hearty souls in the rancid State of New York, who enjoy the opening day of deer season the same day. Do not confuse yourself;…
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