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Monday, May 18, 2015

The Writer's Life 5/18 - Rhyme & Reason

On his radio talk show this morning, Mark Simone quipped that we've gone from Martin Luther King"s "I have a dream" to Al Sharpton's "I have a scheme." Kudos.

The temperature took a big drop today. Still, one guy overdid it. He had his hood pulled over his head and earmuffs on top of them. I suppose it's possible he has a medical issue -- or a mental one.

Red-faced, smiling and reeking of booze, one of the newest members of the local drinking crew offered me a dollar this afternoon. "For good luck," she said in a Russian accent. "No, thank you," I replied, knowing she would soon need it for a refill. She seems a lot younger than the middle age man whose company she keeps, but she is aging fast.

Herbie, one of my regulars, says Russian women knock each other over at the library to get at Danielle Steel translations. Yet the dozen or so I have on display at the floating book shop are being ignored. Herbie is in the midst of a misadventure. Sound asleep at two in the morning last night, there was a knock at his door. It was the woman in the apartment below him. She has complained to management about noise. It is either coming from another flat or there is a plot to harass him out of his rent-controlled living space or the woman is nuts. In a large complex, it is difficult to pinpoint the exact origin of sound.

My thanks to the kind folks who made purchases today, and to the Russian woman who donated a bunch of children's books, including a pristine copy of Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
Vic's 5th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/okxkwh5Vic's 4th novel: tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
Vic's Short Story Collection: http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tiny.cc/0iHLb Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kx3d3uf
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tinyurl.com/l84h63j
Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp
Vic's Horror Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f

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