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We discuss the disturbing...and poetic chapter 12 where the gang ambushes a community for scalps. 

And...we notice significant dates in the novel. We have a Substack page and we have created a list of dates and astronomical movements/descriptions. It's free to subscribe and read!

Blood Meridian was published only ten years after the Vietnam war effort of the USA. A lot of movies centered on the Vietnam experience were produced in the late 1970s but especially in the 1980s. Some of those movies were...

The Deer Hunter

Streamers

Birdy

4th of July

Full Metal Jacket

Platoon

Hamburger Hill

Good Morning Vietnam

Bat*21

The Expendables (yeah we were surprised that was an 80's movie too!)

Rambo

Air America

John Woo's Bullet In The Head

Dogfight

For The Boys

Forrest Gump

Dead Presidents