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Monday, July 28, 2014

Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 7/28 - Silly-ville

The mind is an amazing apparatus. Saturday I had a McDonalds big breakfast for lunch. It’s about 1200 calories, not counting the Coke I had to go with it. Even though I gave the hash brown to my sister, ate only a third of the biscuit, and poured a couple of ounces of soda down the drain, I felt so guilty that I bought a ready to eat, pre-cut fruit salad for dinner. Another example of the brain’s odd function, at least in this 64-year-old male, is the continued desire for young women. Whether it’s the bodacious Miss Tits, as I’ve mentally dubbed her for obvious reasons, or the lovely, brainy Sue-Ellen, my mind wanders into silly-ville. Also in that vein, I just received a follow request on Twitter from a beautiful young woman who apparently has no connection to the literary world -- and I had to think twice before ignoring it, which happens at each similar come-on. Although I frequently tell myself: "What would she want with an old fool like you?", the mind insists.

In an op-ed piece syndicated in today’s NY Post, George Will writes about the race for a senate seat in Oregon. Monica Wehby, a former pediatric neurosurgeon, is the Republican candidate. Her campaign slogan is: “Keep Your Doctor, Change Your Senator.” Touche, madam.

The incomparable Hondo, the Post’s satiric handicapper, has come up with another gem. The Colorado Rockies had a T-shirt giveaway the other night featuring their most popular player, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. Unfortunately, the manufacturers left out the second T. Hondo wonders if this is a result of the legalization of marijuana in The Centennial State.

For the fourth straight Monday in Park Slope, the floating book shop set up on a different corner. It is dictated by where I find parking. I don't have the energy and patience to haul the crates long distances any more. Today I was on 7th Av. just inside 5th St., three-quarters of a block from my car, a few feet from the doors of an annex of Methodist Hospital, just up the street from Barnes & Noble. It looked like it was going to be a disappointing session until Francis came along and bought pictorials on maps and gods and goddesses, a children's book that had his name in the title, and P. L. Travers Mary Poppins. Thank you, sir, and also to the nurse who purchased a self help book.
Vic's 4th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic's Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Horror Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp
Vic’s Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx

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