Here's a fun item from upi.com, edited by yours truly: Students at Warwick University in the UK have been awarded a Guinness World Record after constructing a 4651.73-square-foot blanket fort. It surpassed the previous record of 3303.44 square feet. In the process, funds were raised for a homeless shelter. Here's a pic:
The second proof copy of Inside Out has arrived, a day early. If you heard a howl of frustration just before 8PM last night, it was me. On page six, right after the expected error of no apostrophe on comin, was another. The next line, spoken by a different character, should have begun a new paragraph. Funny how the mind works, I almost hoped there would be more mistakes so that the process wouldn't have to begin again for just those two. Of course, there are, four in the first 28 pages. At one point I left out the word "be" and at another a contraction of they are, the "'re." Omissions are the hardest to spot. In other instances, I'm changing a word to make something more clear, and lopping off two others that make future action erroneous.
Since there were no favorable parking spaces near my usual nook, I took the floating book shop to Bay Parkway today and had nice luck. My thanks to the woman who bought four paperbacks in Russian, and to the other who purchased a novel by Yuri Mamleev, whom she'd always wanted to read; and to the woman who selected the huge pictorial on the North and South Pole; and to the woman who pounced on both The Gift and Zoya by Danielle Steele; and to the one who chose Firestarter by Stephen King; and to Bill Brown, author of Words and Guitar: A History of Lou Reed's Music, who bought a short works collection, stories and essays, by the critically acclaimed Raymond Carver.
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