The Writer's Life 9/5 - Holes

From the NY Post, edited by yours truly: Screenwriters must be salivating over this story. A hole found in the International Space Station may have been the work of a psychologically disturbed astronaut, leaving the spacemen aboard eying each other nervously. The small but potentially deadly hole was discovered last week and initially was believed to have been caused by a tiny meteorite. Russian officials now say it may have been sabotage, and was even possibly drilled by a loopy space cadet who wanted to go home early. There are three Americans, two Russians and a German on board. A drop in pressure was noticed. The hole was patched with a rubber filling made from duct tape (LOL!), gauze and a vacuum-proof sealant. It is not surprising that something like this would eventually happen. Psych tests are not fool proof.

In other news involving space, a new film is stirring controversy. First Man stars Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong. The movie does not show the hero planting the American flag on the moon. This continues Hollywood a-holes' anti-American trend, another example being the dropping of the phrase "Truth, justice and the American way" from the recent Superman movies. Reviews of First Man will have to be awfully good for me to watch it when it gets to DVD. In the meantime:

I firmly believe that Washington D.C. is a swamp filled with venomous snakes. I've doubted that there is an organized deep state working behind the scenes. Today's news may change my opinion on that. There is an anonymous editorial in the NY Times by an a-hole megalomaniac on President's staff stating that he and others have been working to undermine Trump's agenda. That seems to prove that there is indeed a deep state. Imagine if an insider had made such an admission during the Obama administration. Meanwhile, Bob Woodward of Watergate fame is promoting his latest book, more Trump-bashing, a rehash of the same stuff heard daily in the a-hole mainstream media. At present it's an effort to affect the November elections, but it will probably continue until the democrats are fully back in charge, perish the thought.

Conditions were fine under the scaffold, despite the heat, which is supposed to last one more day. Unfortunately, business was bad. My thanks to the gentleman who rolled up on his bike and purchased a large print edition of W. E. B. Griffin's Men at War. As I was buying my dinner at Waj's food truck, he volunteered that business was slow for him too. It wasn't much consolation. I felt like an a-hole out there today.
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