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Monday, October 16, 2017

The Writer's Life 10/16 - Forces

For those who are contemplating a Star Wars theme for Halloween decoration, it will be hard to top what a guy in Parma, Ohio has done:



As of October 13th, President Trump has signed 49 executive orders. How does this compare to others in that span? IKE: 60, LBJ: 58, JFK: 56, Obama: 29.

Botox may be on the way out. A dermatology clinic on the Upper East Side of Manhattan is offering an alternative - platelet rich plasma injections - taken from one's own blood. The blood is first purified, in 15 minutes, by an in-house device. Each shot costs $1000. Maybe the frozen face of of those men and women who use Botox will be eliminated from society, which is a good thing. (From an article in the NY Post.)

How often has it been said that the ice-caps are melting? If so, explain the following, which I gleaned from a blurb in the Post and will put into my owns. Thousands of penguin chicks died of starvation in the Antarctic last summer. The catastrophe wiped out nearly all of them. An ecologist attributed the cause to unusually large amounts of sea ice, which forced the parents to travel farther for food. A similar event occurred 40 years ago.

Here's a neat bit of trivia: There was a first in NFL history yesterday - a Harvard-to-Harvard TD connection between QB Ryan Fitzpatrick and TE Cameron Brate of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Fitzpatrick entered the game when starting QB Jameis Winston was injured. He rallied the team from a deep hole, but it still fell short. There's an inside joke in the league dubbed the "Fitzgerald Curse." Several times he has ascended to the throne due to a season-ending injury to the #1... As for the rest of the league - parity is its hallmark, the results unpredictable from week to week. This seems to indicate that New England will again be the last team standing. The call that overturned the Jets TD was especially galling because it benefited the Patriots. The Raiders have regressed, the Chiefs lost their first game, at home, to what heretofore appeared to be a weak Steelers squad; the Falcons blew a 17-0 lead at home to the Dolphins, who are led by Jay Cutler, one of the biggest underachievers in league history; the Broncos lost at home to the 0-5 Giants.

My thanks to Wolf, the kind elderly gentleman who has been so supportive of the floating book shop, who bought the massive paperback Natchez Burning by Greg Iles. It looked like that would be the only sale of the day until the final moments of operation when a tall gentleman pulled his SUV to the curb and bought five thrillers, among them The Forgotten by David Baldacci.
Vic's Sixth novel: http://tinyurl.com/zpuhucj 
Vic's Short Works: http://tinyurl.com/jy55pzc
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