No TV, Vietnam War, Tet Offensive, Playboy Magazine and Vipassana

Googled playboy February 1968, around the time of the Tet Offensive and came up with this: Nice photo.


About 10 days without watching TV, like a Vipassana course, only no celibacy, ate dinner, and had a mango and an orange afterwards, plus craving for more mangoes, fanta, and less celibacy - in Iceland they never used to have TV transmission on Thursdays, and the suggestion is that many children were conceived on these days, might get lucky then, but thanks to Dr Chuvoon, the vas is all hopefully empty - plus I lied on a bank form a little bit and I threw several snails onto the roof of the carport when I found them in the bamboo and on the grapes. I also plan to try and kill the snails in the fish tank which I have tried to do on many occasions, but which seem to rise from the dead and multiply again. For those lacking the buddhist knowledge this goes against the strict regime of a Vipassana meditation course, and a few of the five precepts, if you include the peach schnapps we had the other night.

The no TV thing has improved my eye sight, I was walking to work today and saw how ugly many of the buildings were in Canberra, they also need some of those big pointy Egyptian things which I can't think of the name of, Obelisk comes to mind, but he is a big fat Gaul and I am thinking of a long pointy thing made of stone with a little pyramid shape on top. I noticed a nice proportion of women, with fond proportions, make up for the built environment, though not much in the way of style here, as you see on occasions in Melbourne, and a bit in Sydney. It's a public service town, like Rome in the Roman empire, but very little like Milan in the fashion empire.

Been reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to the kids, one of those books I read and think that there's not going to be much worth reading after this. Had that same feeling with Catcher in the Rye. Still going on with the Vietnam War diary of this digger dude, they weren't exaggerating in Platoon when the helicopters mow down rows of Viet Cong, Oliver Stone was there as well. Such machines of death we are able to produce, they could kill hundreds in a matter o minutes.

The war makes me think of vintage playboy magazines, haven't seen one for years, it was back in the days when they still had pubic hair. Playboy magazine plays a big part in the Vietnam War (or the American War as the Vietnamese call it). They do sell vintage copies on ebay, I think when I start my nature resort with natural pools and little cabins surrounded by vegie gardens and tropical fruit trees - red papaya in particular - I'll order a bunch of these for the guests to read maybe 1963 to 1973 - the bulk of Vietnam years, add some nostalgia to the place. The photos back then were tasteful, I'm going to do a search on some of the photos of the conflict from the period. I'm guessing they won't be as easy on the eye as the female form.