The Writer's Life 11/28 - Contact

From a blurb in today's NY Post, edited by yours truly: Akdeniz University in Turkey is offering a unique new course, anticipating contact with aliens: UFO-ology and Exopolitics. Two of its lessons will be: Galactic Diplomacy and the History of Cover-ups of Knowledge of Extraterrestrial Beings. No word yet if Fox Muldaur will be on the faculty.

Dictionary.com has chosen "complicit" as its word of the year. It has had a 300% rise in people looking up its meaning, spiked by its use in a Trump lampoon on SNL, and other uses in regard to the President.

From the Post's Page Six column, edited by YT: Jordan Peele, writer-director of the breakout film Get Out, insinuated that Tiger Woods was being brainwashed and exploited by Donald Trump. The two played golf the day after Thanksgiving in a foursome that included pros Dustin Johnson and Brad Faxon. The auteur tweeted a picture of the two, captioned: “Now you’re in the Sunken Place,” a reference to a state of mind in the movie - blacks hypnotized before being sold to whites in a secret, bizarre auction involving bingo cards. Hopefully it's clever free publicity and not more Hollywood paranoia. Meanwhile, here's a clever take off on Trump's campaign catchphrase:

Watching NFL week twelve highlights on youtube, three players stood out. The excellence of veteran WR's Antonio Brown of the Steelers and Julio Jones of the Falcons is familiar to fans. Rookie RB Alvin Kamara of the Saints was spectacular, rushing and receiving, in a loss to the Rams. He was taken in third round of this year's draft after having played collegiately at Tennessee. Wow! The Giants and Jets each had two cracks at acquiring him. Speaking of Big Blue, Coach Ben McAdoo has decided to bench Eli Manning in favor of Geno Smith. I've always believed Manning, a class individual and good soldier, an average QB, despite two Super Bowl victories, but how is Smith, who failed miserably with the Jets, a better option? Manning's streak of 210 consecutive starts will end Sunday - unless McAdoo comes to his senses.

My thanks to the woman who bought a book in Russian, and to Ira, who purchased two pictorials; and to the gentleman who bought Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol; and to Marty, who bought a CCR compilation on vinyl; and to the gentleman who selected albums by Neil Diamond, Brook Benton, Dion, Elvis and Dean Martin. Lovin' the mild weather.

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