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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

The Writer's Life 9/12 - All Good Things

Last night the Heroes and Icons channel, 140 on Cablevision in NYC, ran the series finale of Star Trek: Next Generation, season seven, episode 26, part two of All Good Things.... I was mesmerized as Captain Picard traveled between past, present and future, a puppet of the powerful Q, to solve a problem that threatened mankind. I've always been impressed by this show, its solid story-lines and interesting characters, especially Data and Deanna Troi. It was finally recognized by Hollywood in its last season when it became the first and only syndicated television series to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. In all, through the years, it received 19 Emmys, two Hugos, five Saturns, and a Peabody Award. In a great trivia note,  the finale was ranked #2 among all shows that week, between Home Improvement and Seinfeld. It went out on top of its game. (Facts from Wiki)... As I was brushing my teeth a commercial break, an interesting one aired. A law firm asked to be contacted by users of Viagra and similar products, as there is now evidence that usage may lead to skin cancer. This is not surprising on three fronts - that tampering with the natural process might lead to such a condition, that bottom feeding attorneys would capitalize on it, and that it would appeal to those who wanted their cake, have had their fill of it, and now want to cash in as well.

Since I don't have the patience to sit and watch sporting events anymore, I seek highlights on the web. As I was viewing footage from the Atlanta-Chicago game, rookie Tarik Cohen of the Bears made several big plays. Drafted in the fourth round in 2017, the RB out of North Carolina A&T stands only 5'8" and weighs but 179 pounds. He scored his first NFL touchdown on a pass reception from QB Mike Glennon. He kneeled and blessed himself. An average-sized young man excelled in a land of the giants. A black kid named Cohen made the sign of the cross - I love America!



From Yahoo's Odd News, edited by yours truly: Engineers have launched a war against a giant blob clogging London's sewers. It's likely to take three weeks to dissolve the fatberg. It's 250 yards long and weighs as much as eleven double-decker buses. It consists of congealed wet wipes, diapers, fat and oil. The task is "basically like trying to break up concrete." Eight workers are using high powered jet hoses to break it into pieces that will be sucked out into tankers for disposal at a recycling site. Yuck. Here's a pic:



My thanks to the kind folks who bought books yesterday and today, especially to the elderly woman who purchased two huge pictorials on gardening. A while back she bought A Hitch in Twilight. An infinitely better salesman than I, she talked it up to a woman who was browsing the display - and the woman caved! Here's how the shop looked this afternoon. The picture shows all but my Russian section, which was to the extreme left. That's my old Hyundai in the background.


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