Favorite Stanley scenes

[Mitchell R Coffey]

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> Subject: Favorite Stanley scenes
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> "Full Metal Jacket" -- the very end, that amazing fucking
> end, with the platoon marching across the holocaust of flames like gods of
brutal
> banality, like jolly green giants, all the while singing the Mickey Mouse Club
song. . . .
[snip]

Yes, our soldiers marching through the ruins of Hue, buring, singing "Who's the
leader of the club that's made for you and me...".  This image is for the
Vietnam war what the "Slim Pickins rides the bomb down" scene in _Dr.
Stranglove_ is for the Cold War in full.

Mitchell Coffey
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Slim Pickins rode the bomb down laughing
Bucking to oblivion
In gravity's rainbow rodeo

 - Found anonymously felt-penned onto a wall
   in the Bancroft Library on the UC Berkeley
   campus, c. 1977