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Sunday, September 3, 2017

The Writer's Life 9/3 - Objects

From the NY Post.com, in my own words: The circular metal object in the picture below was taken out of the waters off Westerly, Rhode Island. No one knows what it is.  At first it was believed to be an acoustic Doppler profiler that monitor's currents. It is about twice the size of that. Any ideas?



From Yahoo's Odd News, heavily edited by yours truly: There's an annual ritual in Santa Fe, New Mexico - the burning of Zozobra, which attracts thousands to a city park. People put crumpled, handwritten notes inside it in the hope in the hope that troubles and travails will be left behind. It was the invention of Will Shuster, a Philadelphian who migrated to the area, first built and ignited in 1924, adding a madcap celebration to week-long community fiestas that include historic and religious processions. The name is derived from a Spanish word for anguish. The burning is preceded by hours of live music and performances. A team of a dozen puppeteers pulls on cords to flex the marionette's arms, head and jaw. Included among the messages this year were credit card bills, paid-off mortgage papers, worries about nuclear war and, naturally, political opinions. Here's what it looked like before the fire:



Larry Getlen devotes his article in today's NY Post to a new book: Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy by Mark Regnerus. A caption in large print reads: "Sex in the modern age is so cheap men don't need to marry anymore." A picture of Leonardo DiCaprio, who seems to have a different paramour each month, accompanies the piece. It seems like old news.

Howard University went into its game last night at UNLV as a 45-point underdog. It won 43-40, the largest ever upset in terms of the spread. The brother of Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton, Caylin, was responsible for three TD's. Kudos to the entire team and coaches.

After the optimistic news of the upward revision of economic growth in July to 3.0%, the job creation numbers were disappointing, below expectations. And prior months were revised downward. Add the bill for Hurricane Harvey to the tab, and it seems the road to recovery has become tougher. This underscores the need for Congressmen to get off their butts and work on tax legislation. I hope they do it piecemeal, as should have been done with Obamacare, instead of in one big bill that would be easier for opponents to scuttle. Lower the corporate tax, then repatriate the overseas money and stipulate how businesses should use it, then lower taxes on the middle class.

My thanks to Bad News Billy, who bought the last 20 or so CDs I had on display. As has happened several times in the past, he was the floating book shop's only customer of the day. Among the haul were collections by Sinatra, Streisand, Tony Bennett and Dean Martin. All the best, sir.
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