The Writer's Life 10/4 - Bread & Circuses

Here are two paragraphs from Michael Goodwin's op-ed piece in today's NY Post: "Chicago has an ongoing mass murder problem, even as it has among the nation’s strictest gun control laws, to little effect. Yet the Democratic media rarely mention the slaughter there or in Baltimore or Detroit, all of which take place under Democratic mayors with very restrictive gun laws... Murder carried out daily by illegal handguns, and involving mostly the death of black males living under liberal mayors, doesn’t motivate the national media. Could it be that there is no political advantage to be had, and thus no business interest in the carnage?"

Affluent New Yorkers are buying an artisanal bread at $20 a loaf. It must taste a lot better than it looks:

I wonder if California politicians are closely monitoring the secession attempt of the Catalonia region in Spain.

A blurb in the Post reports that the percentage of millionaires among white males has doubled (one in seven families) the past 25 years. Among blacks it remains frozen at two percent. I'm stuck halfway there and doubt I'll ever move higher. Fortunately, it's more than enough - barring catastrophic illness.

Anyone who watches Antiques Roadshow knows that the market for ancient items made in China is through the roof. At a Sotheby's auction yesterday, someone paid $37 million for a 900-year-old porcelain artist's brush bowl. The 20-minute bidding was intense. I think he/she may have paid a buck or two too much. Here it is: 

My thanks to the kind folks who bought books today, which made up a bit for yesterday's shutout. Early in the session, a woman approached and asked if I wanted books. I asked her to bring only ten. She brought about 40, 30 eminently marketable across a wide spectrum. I discarded a copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula that had many pages missing, and left the most obscure of the lot and a few pamphlets on health in the lobby of our co-op. Fortunately, I was able to fit everything into the trunk and back seat of the old Hyundai.

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