Ghee & More

It can and will get crazier. Headline from foxnews.com: “Seattle city group defends ‘reparations fee’ for White people at public event.” And I’m sure a few misguided folks will pay it.

RIP TV mainstay Joanne Linville, 93, whose career spanned 1950–2016. A California girl, she has 84 titles under her name at IMDb. While she never starred in a series of her own, she made appearances on many in prime time, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Playhouse 90, The Twilight Zone, Naked City, Gunsmoke, Columbo, L.A. Law and, her most famous turn, on Star Trek as a Romulan commander. She was a master teacher at Stella Adler’s Academy, which she attended herself, and later started her own acting school. Well done, madam. Thank you.

I’ve finished the re-reading of my novella, Class of ’67 and failed to spot the error I know is there. I just hope I made the correction to the Word file last year. I found two other mistakes, an “s” at the end of the word “cancer” and the lack of “ed” in light-haired. I added a bit of color to the co-protagonist, referring to his yearbook picture, the hairstyle coming to a point in the middle of the forehead. We called it a “ghee” back in the day, a term I’ve not heard since. I’m not even sure that’s how it was spelled. A google search defined the word as a form of butter, nothing about hair. I wonder if it was short for guinea, as in used by Italians. Is it possible that it was exclusive to the kids I knew? Am I remembering it wrong? Here’s what I mean:

Today’s iffy weather put the kibosh on the floating book shop.

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