The Writer's Life 7/27 - Switcheroo

An alternate method of fracking may bolster the dormant economy of upstate New York, where abundant natural gas lies a mile underground in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. Propane fracking doesn’t require the injection or disposal of water. Introduced by a Canadian firm, the practice has been in use seven years. Of course, environmentalists who view fossil fuels as evil will do their best to ban this method as well, and liberal governor Andrew Cuomo very well may cave, despite the fact that the area just across the border in Pennsylvania has revived because of fracking. (From an article in the NY Post)

Pee outdoors at your peril in San Francisco, where nine walls have been coated with a special paint that repels liquids back at the source. Wasn't karma invented in SF in the 60's?

To my dismay, I just read that Alec Baldwin is in Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation, the fifth installment in the series. which I will not view until it becomes available at Netflix. I hope he plays a bad guy who gets his just desserts.

I had a vivid dream last night. I was walking toward the old house on Bay 37th, looked up and saw an icy cloud moving toward the roof. It glanced against it and showered the entrance with debris. Moments later I spotted a tall building moving in the background. Two businessmen were nearby, oblivious. I pulled them out of harm’s way. None of us seemed particularly fazed by the event. I wonder if the root of the dream is my attitude toward global warming. Oh, I forgot - it's now "climate change." All I know is that spring and summer in NYC have been great so far, but I'm sure there are places on the planet that are suffering extremes. Is it any different than in the past? I don't know. I hate the certainty of environmental zealots. I believe climate change, if it even exists, is just as likely to have been caused by the activity on the sun as by the burning of fossil fuels.

The ol' switcheroo worked wonders for the floating book shop the past two days. My thanks to Maria, who bought Killing today on Bay Parkway. Yesterday Alice bought A Hitch in Twilight in Park Slope. Since the total volume of sales was less than usual, I don't believe it was anything more than dumb luck, the right person happening along at the right time, not a trend. I sold only one other book, a fantasy to a cute teenager smoking a Marlboro. When I said "Enjoy," she replied "I shall." Love it!

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