Back when Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima came out, I was so looking forward to seeing these movies. I enjoy some Clint Eastwood direction first of all, and the concept between two almost complimentary films seemed very novel.
I have still not seen either film despite renting and DVR’ing both of them. Lack of motivation and getting easily distracted are to blame.


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This image marks the first one I’ve done from start to finish completely digital. As you can see, my Photoshop skills are top notch. Hell, I don’t know why I didn’t consider a career in graphic arts. I would pwn it all with my skills. LEET!
There *was* a monkey in the original photo, but he got airbrushed out, due to his jackassery behavior of sitting on his ass and eating a granola bar while the soldiers did all the work.
Which reminds me of hiking in the mountains with my family as a child. After a good 4 hour hike, there would always be a granola bar or fruit snacks at the end of the trail. Trails that weren’t loops, so there was another 4 hours to get back down. I always looked forward to those snacks. At one point, one of my brothers mentioned that hiking wasn’t about granola bars and fruit snacks. Bullshit. Any Nature Valley commercial disproves that malarkey.
And look – there’s a whole channel devoted to people who like their granola bars after doing stuff. In your face, whichever brother that was!