Episode 15: Remember, Remember

"Remember, Remember"

Recorded the day after Guy Fawkes day.  It's now 2 years since we first conceptualized the podcast with a pad of paper at Free Times Cafe after the Queen's Park Remembrance Day ceremony in 2008.  So we'll talk about World War One, which some people claim was "great".  Usually we claim nobody was hurt, but in World War One, many people died.

- Remembrance day, and the First World War:

• The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
  - http://www.amazon.ca/Guns-August-Barbara-W-Tuchman/dp/0345476093
• Vimy by Pierre Berton
  - http://www.amazon.ca/Vimy-Pierre-Berton/dp/0385658427

- XBox Live Arcade and the First World War:

• Toy Soldiers - the trial is great, the game's a slog
• Snoopy Flying Ace - just plain super duper great

- Televised British Comedy and the First World War:

• Blackadder Goes Forth: Private Plane ft. Lord Flashheart and Moustaches
  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/four_private.shtml

- Board Games about Being a Flying Ace:

• Wings of War: Billy Bishop vs. the Red Baron! - how it works, how our game went, all that good stuff.
  - http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=24 (WARNING: LINK HAS ANNOYING MUSIC)
• Ilan's Recommendation: get "Burning Drachens", "Top Fighters" and "Dogfight"
• BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR: Wednesday Nov. 10th at 8pm, CBC
  - http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2010/11/08/billy-bishop.html

- Movies it's okay... d'oh