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Thursday, December 21, 2017

The Writer's Life 12/21 - Speaking Out

As if another example of government insanity is needed, here's one of the difference in the amount of federal regulations in a 50-year span. They're now up to 1750,000 pages. President Trump has eliminated a few through executive orders:



Basketball dad LaVar Ball is trying to start a developmental league for young men who do not want to go to college. Players will be paid. I like it. Anything that threatens the farce of the one-and-done NCAA system is fine by me. Scholarships should go to true student-athletes. And while on the subject of BB, here's a shout out to Knicks' center Enes Kanter, born in Switzerland, raised in Turkey, who has spoken out against would-be dictator Erdogan, who is turning the country into an Islamic state. Kanter has been threatened with imprisonment upon his return to his homeland. Imagine how many U.S. citizens, under such rule, would be behind bars for speaking ill of its leaders.

According to a blurb in today's NY Post, Hollywood blowhard Rosie O'Donnell offered two million dollars each to two GOP senators in an effort to get them to vote against the tax bill. It went out in a tweet for all America to see. She may be charged with bribery. To anyone who hopes she will see prison time - don't hold your breath.

So far I've proofed 75 pages of Present and Past and spotted ten errors. Four were holdovers from long ago when I scanned the hard copy manuscript into my first PC. Somewhere along the line, using a hyphen to break up the last word of a sentence became passe... There is a freakishly odd quirk to the Word file. Many sentences don't stretch to the margin, although there is ample room for at least one other word, and none respond to correction. This means the book should probably be a few pages shorter than 321.

I left the apartment a lot earlier than usual this morning, and managed to get a parking spot near my usual nook for the first time this week while the alternate side regulation was winding down. Most sales were again of books in Russian. The lone one in English was The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity by Steven Kessler, selected by a young man. His companion purchased two vinyl albums, compilations of Sinatra and Blondie. And the same gentleman who has already bought about 20 records gobbled up five more, two by Old Blue Eyes and three by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, including one I once owned:


Thanks, folks.
Vic's Sixth novel: http://tinyurl.com/zpuhucj 
Vic's Short Works: http://tinyurl.com/jy55pzc
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