The Writer's Life 6/26 - Creativity

Hats off to Hondo, whose social and political commentary in his baseball betting column is often hilarious. Today he inspired me to track down an interesting story which is now among my favorites of 2015. Since Michele Obama's eating healthy edict has gone into effect, kids have fought back by bringing salt and sugar to school to eradicate the blandness of the food. In some cases they are selling packets to classmates. How I love the underground economy. These kids should all get an A in Economics, and I hope they have learned to be wary of government intrusion and over-reach. Kudos.

Blessed with the fourth pick in the NBA draft, the Knicks did what is called as a reach, a gamble, selecting 19-year-old Latvian Kristaps Porzingas, who played professionally in Spain. The fans in attendance booed. I have no idea how this will turn out, but it seems Phil Jackson is not in any hurry to win. He passed up a lot of talented black Americans for a white European. I wonder if any yahoos will attack him for it.

RIP Patrick Macnee, 93, the dapper star of The Avengers, who appeared in 161 episodes opposite his lovely sidekicks, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson, as well as 27 of The New Avengers. To my surprise, he has 169 credits listed at IMDb, not including multiple appearances on many TV series in the UK. Quietly, he challenged James Brown as the "hardest working man in show biz."

It looked like it was going to be another disappointing session of the floating book shop for the first two-hours-and-twenty-nine minutes of operation, and then it turned around in a most unusual way. I'd sold only two books, one each in English and Russian to a gentleman. At the eleventh hour an Asian couple and their teenage son stopped and looked at the wares. I was hoping the dad would spot a book that has alternating pages of Chinese and English. Before he had a chance to walk away, I dug it out and showed it to him, although I worried that he might be Korean or Japanese and might take offense. He bought it and asked what I had in "Good writing." I wasn't sure if he meant popular stuff. Then he spotted Dickens' Oliver Twist and three of Shakespeare's plays in paperback. My thanks, sir, and to the other gentleman.

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