Comments | rivlee: Bill Sloan on Hillbilly Jones

rivlee

Bill Sloan on Hillbilly Jones

Jul 14, 2010 06:45

Edit 7.18.2010: Added a bit from the pages on Hillbilly and his family. I won't put every last fact Sloan writes about Hillbilly, Ack-Ack, Snafu etc in these notes as a)some are repetitive, b) it's a good book, I encourage people to read it if at all able, and c) legally speaking, there's only so much of a book I can quote, even in terms of ( Read more... )

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shanghai_jim July 15 2010, 01:11:52 UTC

scuse me gotta go BAWL now. Talk amongst yaselves

rivlee July 15 2010, 01:18:29 UTC

I'm not going to lie, I got all verklempt the first time I read through Sloan's book.

augustbird July 15 2010, 01:59:31 UTC

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spirograph July 15 2010, 02:08:00 UTC

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF YOU BEAT ME TO IT !!!!!!!

rivlee July 15 2010, 02:16:18 UTC

All I'm saying is that if someone wants to do the fic of Hillbilly the wandering minstrel, I'd bake them fake internet cookies.

Or the not-dying-god-damn-it modern-day-au of Hillbilly the (insert some Hillbilly awesome job thing here) and Ack-Ack the ever earnest football coach. Or something.

augustbird July 15 2010, 02:17:41 UTC

Or the not-dying-god-damn-it modern-day-au of Hillbilly the (insert some Hillbilly awesome job thing here) and Ack-Ack the ever earnest football coach. Or something.

OH MY GOD SERIOUSLY DO I NEED ANOTHER WIP

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cutting onions spirograph July 15 2010, 05:11:12 UTC

You're thinking about a friend of yours that we don't know who is dying? :((

rivlee July 15 2010, 10:26:39 UTC

*pets*

miriamus July 15 2010, 06:47:30 UTC

Snuffle.

rivlee July 15 2010, 10:29:17 UTC

I know. The first time I read through just how Hillbilly died it was all, "they shot him in the ribcaeg and he just got back up again, and then they shot him one more time? Damn."

teaspoonery July 15 2010, 07:58:42 UTC

NOES T.T

but adkdjgdfjds I love boys with guitars

rivlee July 15 2010, 10:30:46 UTC

I love both notes and boys with guitars. I'm actually feeling kind of robbed by HBO in reflection, b/c if you read Sloan and Burgin's books it was such a part of who Hillbilly was to his men. But, *sigh*, I know, not part of the main point of the mini-series.

teaspoonery July 15 2010, 10:53:07 UTC

Ohhh :(( I'm not sure, couldn't see very well who it was, but in ep 3 you actually see one of the guys holding a guitar (I went nuts when I saw it *blush*). It might be Hillbilly (but it might as well be somebody else).

rivlee July 15 2010, 11:16:16 UTC

Oh, I will have to do a re-watch and see if it was him. Thank you for pointing it out. Honestly, anyone out there with a guitar would make me glee-face since there's always stories, in all the military branches and all the fronts and theaters, of someone breaking out the random found guitar and spreading something close to joy or fun with the music.

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