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Sunday, January 10, 2016

The Writer's Life 1/10 - Tidbits

Sean Penn is a terrific actor. Off-screen he comes off as an annoying know-it-all. Here's a pic of him shaking hands with the world's former number one fugitive from justice, drug dealer El Chapo, whom he interviewed for Rolling Stone. Apparently, El Chapo's fondness for the company of celebrities helped authorities track him. Hollywood does not have the derision for drug kingpins that it does for corporate types, most of whom do not break the law or leave a trail of bodies in their wake.


Sign of the times: the owner of the brothel where former NBA star Lamar Odom went on the big bender that left him unconscious is running for a state senate seat as a Libertarian.

On New Year's in Cologne, Germany,150 sexual assaults by Arab and North African males were reported. Yesterday, protesters both pro and anti-Muslim immigration took to the streets. Fortunately, no one was killed.

In 1977 North Korea began kidnapping people on foreign soil. While the government tried to determine how to use them, they were kept in a camp dubbed By Invitation Only, which is the title of a new book by Robert Boynton. It is believed that 500 people remain in captivity in that misbegotten rogue nation.

I had a scary dream last night. I was back working at the Commodity Exchange and came out of a blackout, a couple of hours lost out of my life. For some reason I recalled that I hadn't filled out the closing prices form. Colleagues looked at me warily. Some assumed I'd been drinking. I can attribute this only to my fear of the permanent blackout -- Alzheimer's.

The floating book shop was lucky in terms of weather but unlucky where it counts most -- sales. At least it got me out of the house for a few hours on an unusually balmy day in January.
Vic's 5th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/okxkwh5Vic's 4th novel: tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
Vic's Short Story Collection: http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tiny.cc/0iHLb Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kx3d3uf
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tinyurl.com/l84h63j
Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp
Vic's Horror Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f


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