In 1939, In the Mood was the top song in the country. It was the product of big band leader Glenn Miller, his use of clarinet, tenor saxophone and saxophone produced a melodic symphony that tugged on the pulse of America. Time magazine wrote that of the 12 to 24 records in any jutebox in America, two to six are Glenn Miller's. His music is smooth and well rehearsed, his critics accused him of being over polished, that his music was 'too commercial'.

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Soon, I intend to begin my series on the various stories in the Fallout: Equestria milieu. I intend to review ten (plus) stories, Fallout Equestria by Kkat, Pink Eyes by mimezinga, Heroes By NoOne, Project Horizons By Somber, Murky No 7 by FuzzyVeeVee, Daily Unlife by Nyreguds, Anywhere But Here by Stonershy, Misfits by DancingOnTheAshes, Heroes with Wing by JustMoth, and Origin Story by Kkat.

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It is the Anniversary of the end of the Great War yet again.

To all veteran, past, present, and future, thank you.

In 1915, the war was over a year old. It will rage on for three more years, in the end killing 17 million and wounding 20 million more.

If only it truly had been the war to end all wars.

research links after the break...

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She is the princess of the sun, she holds all her little ponies in her heart. She has shielded Equestria for at least a thousand years. When the lord of chaos enslaved the ponies with his unrule of chaos, she stood with her sister and tricked the trickster. When the dark unicorn enslaved the crystal ponies she banished the dark lord but was unable to save the crystal ponies. And when her sister succumbed to nightmare and darkness, she turned her greatest weapon against her own flesh and

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Season five is back, and the newest episode showed one of the characters finally achieving a series long dream. Rarity opens a boutique in Canterlot, becomes the sensation she deserves to be and finds her dream is not all she imagined it would be.

The set up and rising action through the first two acts was nothing special, but as Rarity was caught in he trap of success I was enraptured, I was wishing with all my heart that she would remember that she was an artist, not a craftsman.

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It wasn't high noon, but two gunfighters were set to do battle on a crisp autumn afternoon. Dog Boy was well known, and well respected, throughout the southwest and beyond, a cool head and a steady hand had seen him through many a shootout. Calico Jack was a relative unknown, one of dozens, perhaps hundreds of gunslingers trying to make a name for themselves in the southwest territory. As the two gunfighters stepped up, the crack of rifles and the boom of artillery sounded, the union

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November 11th, 1918 marked the end of combat in the single largest conflict the world had ever seen. It was called the War to End All Wars. A complex series of alliances lead to Europe being plunged into a war that no one was truly prepared for. Modern industry and innovation, machine guns, flame throwers, barbed wire, poison gas, rapid fire artillery, aviation and tanks all combined to create a war that had no parallel in history.

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Poor old Jack. Damned to wander the earth for all eternity. He tricked Satan into never taking his soul, but heaven had no place for him.

So in honor of the Irish trickster...

Callout to any of my followers who may have a historic bend. What would you call a Napoleonic unit that specializes in fortifications and defensive tactics? For example, Dragoons and Hussarrs are cavalry units, as are Lancers, Fussiliers were specialized technical units, but what would the equivalent of an engineering corp have been called? I am not as proficient in Napoleonic formations as I would like, and I need to name an earth pony heavy regiment, ther nickname is 'Celestias

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Sometimes, as I read stories here on FimFiction, I wind up in a rut where I am only leaving critical or neutral comments. The stories that I read that I enjoy are not the sort of good that I can articulate, I just kinda enjoy them. So I end up leaving a string of comments like "This story really didn't work for me", if I comment at all. This week was one of those, where even stories by authors for whom I have a deep admiration have left me cold, or I end up leaving a comment on a story (that

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