the war

speaking of documentaries, i've caught a few minutes of ken burns' the war on different people's tvs and figure that in the fullness of time, i'll have to view the whole thing. as a confirmed non-tv watcher and sporadic history buff, the last coupla things i watched on tv that really piqued my interest were burns' documentaries on the civil war and baseball (i only experienced jazz vicariously, through john bargas' nightly "i can't believe he didn't mention..." rants), and the oral history-based dramatic series band of brothers. this would seem to make the war right up my alley; some of the talking-head interview segments even looked like the ones from b.o.b. back when the earlier burns shows were new, my dad was taping them off the box and sending 'em to me. sadly, he's not able to do that now.