This n That
Remember when the left was hysterical about John Bolton, calling him a warmonger and crazy. He may now be their last hope in the impeachment process. This morning, talk radio host Mark Simone said that Bolton has been working with Democrats for months, which conjures the old cliche: “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” This is an object lesson about people in government. Those one may admire today may very well disappoint in the future. For instance, I voted for Mitt Romney. Had I known what he would become, I would have sat out the election. An alleged conservative, Bolton has turned on a president who has governed as conservatively as Ronald Reagan.
The following creature was caught in Coney Island waters. It is believed to be a type of stingray:
Good news from an article at foxbusiness.com, edited by yours truly: Life expectancy in the United States is up for the first time in four years. The increase is small — just a month — but marks a temporary halt to a downward trend. The rise is due to lower death rates for cancer and drug overdoses. For males, it’s about 76 years, two months; females 81 years, one month. Death by cancer fell more than 2%, drug overdose 4%. May the trend continue.
Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on over the air antennas in NYC, ran It Should Happen to You (1954), an old fashion black and white romcom starring Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon and Peter Lawford, directed by George Cukor, screenplay by Garson Kanin. It’s about an ordinary woman who rents a billboard that contains only her name, and how it leads to fame and fortune. Researching the cast at IMDb, I found another name to add to my unofficial credits derby — Kenner G. Kemp, who has 555 titles listed under his name, most dubbed as uncredited in which he probably had no dialogue and simply appeared in the background among a gathering. His career spanned 1932-’72. He passed away in 1985 at 77. He places fifth in appearances behind Bess Flowers (913), Harold Miller (678), Frank O’Connor (650), and Jack Kehoe (620), and knocks Sidney Blystone (544) out of the top five. Here’s the new entry:
And here’s the ubiquitous Flowers:
Apparently, Jerry Seinfeld’s arch nemesis, Newman, has moved to Virginia. From an article at foxnews.com, edited by yt: A postal worker hid nearly 5000 pieces of mail inside a storage unit because he felt too overwhelmed to deliver it on time. “Oh, the humanity!”
Today’s session of the floating book shop showed just how stupid I was yesterday. I set up in the sunshine at my alternate site and was out of the wind. It was a snap despite the mid-thirties temperature. My thanks to the young man who bought The Making of Memory by Steven Rose, and treated an elderly woman to a book in Russian; and to the gentleman looking to improve his English with easy reads, who purchased Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell and The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by William P. Young; and to the woman who did a three-for-one swap, who was thrilled to find a Camus translation in Russian; and to Bad News Billy, who made a deposit on my next DVD inventory. He recently spent time in the hospital, having passed out, the cause not determined, which is scary. And I also got hugs from Bay 37th alum Lorraine and fellow Lafayette H.S. class of ’67 alum Dee, who is thrilled that her eldest of three daughters is finally getting married.
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