Oflag IV-C: The Celebrity Fit Club of German POW Camps

[Cross-posted from tumblr]:

Camp guards collected so much escape equipment that they established a “Kommandant’s Escape Museum”. Local photographer Johannes Langetook photographs of the would-be escapers in their disguises or re-enacting their attempts for the camera… Security officer Reinhold Eggers made them a regular part of Das Abwehrblatt, a weekly magazine for the German POW camps.

Oflag IV-C was the Celebrity Fit Club of German prisoner-of-war camps during the Second World War.  “Celebrity” because the camp hosted the VIP contingent of Allied POWs, mostly relatives of high-ranking Allied politicians.  “Fit Club” because the lengths to which the camp inmates went in their attempts to escape are on the level of the absurd physical challenges faced by the show’s contestants.  The difference, I suppose, being that they were POWs trying to escape to freedom, instead of rehab washouts trying to reignite their 15 minutes of fame performing dog tricks in front of a national audience.

[Continued…]

Yeah right more like DUMBlr

I started a tumblr without really thinking about why I should start another bloggy-thing I don’t really update, but I think I’ve got a vague organizational structure I’ll try to outline here.

WordPress: Long-form essays, articles, rants, what-have-you. Things I have to sit down and think about as I write. Naturally, this will be updated not as frequently as the others.

Tumblr: Short-form. Longer than 140 characters, but which require an immediacy I can’t give a full-length blog post. Also, photos, videos, quotes, things that require little outside commentary on my part.

Twitter: Your daily dose of insanity. The great slush pile from whence may come tumblr and wordpress musings, but don’t hold your breath.

That’s how I’d like it to work, at any rate. Now to go snare me a muse and ride her til she bleeds ambition.

Twitter side project

Announcing, for one day and one day only, a Twitter side-project inspired by an earlier Twitter-rant and about James Cameron’s Avatar.

The project goes live tomorrow morning, and dies in the afternoon (by which I mean it’ll stop updating – I’ll leave it up for the johnny-come-latelys).  Enjoy: @BradleyLoganRDA

Jerkcity Explained, 2/22/2010

In this installment, Spigot, shown left, contents himself by singing a Frank Sinatra song, ignoring (willfully?) the pressing sexual desires of Deuce, shown right.

ALTERNATELY: Deuce, expanding upon the personification of Luck as a female, wishes to have good luck, expressed within the metaphor as being the recipient of oral sex.

Deicide: An RPG Drama

July, 2009.

The Clarksburg Inn, a one-story bar on Stagecoach Road in Clarksburg, NJ, burns down in the early morning hours.  The bar had been a popular drinking establishment with many local twentysomethings.

The cause of the fire was “an act of God.”

One man refused to take this sitting down.

I hereby present to you the first installment of my comic DEICIDE: The RPG Drama.  For the sake of not uploading a shit-ton of .jpegs I threw them all into a Powerpoint and posted it on Scribd (I recommend full-screen and zooming in!).  If I don’t get lazy or whatever there might be three of these in total.  After the jump!