The Writer's Life 10/25 - Money to Burn

There is an insane amount of money thrown around in America. A little comes my way, but I often feel self conscious - at times even a loser - when I see some of the figures. All of the following were gleaned from today's NY Post. The Kardashian family has re-signed with the E! network to continue its reality show for another five years. The price tag: $150 million. None of those beauties seems to have any talent other than the ability to attract attention... Hillary's campaign and the Democratic National Committee forked over $9 million for the discredited Russian dossier on then candidate Trump... The Dodgers are paying $83.5 million to players not on their World Series roster. Their ace, future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw, makes $32 million per season. Will they, even if they win the championship, turn a profit this year? Then again, according to an article at ESPN.com, the average sold ticket price to last year's World Series was $2100. For this year's Game One, a fan paid StubHub $37,804 for two front-row seats behind the visitors dugout. Another paid $72,008 for four seats in the second row behind the L.A. dugout...

So Senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, who face steep odds of being re-elected, are calling it quits and bashing President Trump, who they see as the problem with politics. Although I have no idea if anti-swamp candidates will win their places, I say good riddance. Corker has been been in office since 2007, so he has probably accumulated a nice nest egg - the same for Flake, who has been a member of Congress since 2000. Both are eligible for the cushy pension plan, paid for by taxpayers. No politician is indispensable. So far, Trump has not behaved like a politician, which has at times been trying but a good thing overall.

According to fashionlady.in, Gucci’s "Genius Jeans" have been cited by Guinness World Records as the most expensive in the world. Its standard pair is available at a minimum price of $600. In 1998 their normal pair of distressed, ripped denim was priced at $3134. Here's a shot of a pair similar to ones I see girls on the street wearing, and has me scratching my head:

The floating book shop enjoyed its best session in a while. Here are some of the books that sold: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Practical Guide for Improving Communication by John Gray; a large paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings trilogy; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey; Night Sins by Tami Hoag; Blindside by Catherine Coulter; bios of Audrey Hepburn and Marlene Dietrich; and 3001: The Final Odyssey, the fourth novel in the series by the late Arthur C. Clarke. My thanks to the buyers, and to Herbie, who donated a hardcover thriller by Greg Iles, and to Wolf, who donated a Danielle Steel romance in Russian.

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