Kudos & More
According to an article at nypost.com: “Florida’s ritzy Fisher Island community unanimously voted Friday not to accept a $2 million federal loan meant for small businesses.” Kudos… The Rolling Stones have been around since the early ‘60’s. On Thursday the band released a single, Living in a Ghost Town, accompanied by a video. It’s their first №1 hit in 40 years. Kudos. Here’s a link to the four-minute clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNNPNweSbp8
Here’s an uplifting story from the Post website, edited by yours truly: Founded in the early ’80s by real-estate agent Mayisha Akbar, the Compton Cowboys offers ex-gang members a way out of thug life, featuring tough love. It’s one of the first black-owned horse ranches in the USA. “Rule number one is you have to clean up the stables before you can ride the horses. Rule number two is you have to feed the horses, brush their coats, and clean their hooves. After that, and only after that, you can ride.” The group’s motto is “Streets raised us. Horses saved us.” Here’s Akbar:
And here’s the cover of a book on the subject:
If Kim Jong Un is indeed dead, dare we hope that North and South Korea will at last reunite? That scenario would go a long way to making the world a better place.
In an article at nypost.com, Ryan Dunleavy grades each NFL team’s draft haul. He gives the Jets a B+, the Giants a B. Of course, the grades don’t account for sleepers. Recall that Tom Brady, one of the greatest QBs of all-time. was not taken until the sixth round. 17 Hall of Famers were never even drafted. It’s far from an exact science. Big Blue had the honor of selecting the last player in the 2020 draft, dubbed yearly as Mr. Irrelevant. Surprisingly, he is from a football factory, the University of Georgia, LB Tae Crowder. Show ’em, young man. Here he is in action:
I have some literary income this month. Amazon deposited $4.84 into my bank account. I believe that covers royalties for a print and Kindle copy of Vito’s Day. My thanks… I made a couple of adjustments to the file of the novella on which I’m working. I widened the margin a bit and, even though I increased the font size to 14-point, the book still came in at only 139 pages. It will read like half that. What I’m hoping is to bring the cost of a print copy to no more than five bucks. I’ll now take a break from it other than jotting any notes that may occur to me. I’ll have to find something else to fill the hour-and-a-half I’ve spent on it each day for the past month or so. I filled five minutes today sorting through a bag of books Rob, a local building porter, gave me last Monday. I kept them in the car, hoping any germs that might have attached to them have died off. Still, I handled them with gloves. It’s a nice haul. If only I could go out and sell them. Considering what many have suffered lately, that’s not even a blip on the scale of problems.
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