Today’s Feast

A fellow Lafayette H.S. grad, class of ’64, has published two volumes of poetry available at Amazon. I’ve never met her, she having been three years ahead, but I’m happy to alert others to the books. Best of luck, madam. Here’s her Wiki profile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LindaAnn_Loschiavo

Headline from nypost.com: “Worm ‘burgers’ could solve world hunger, scientists claim.” The accompanying article by Brooke Kato reveals that South Korean researchers have come up with a nutritious meat substitute. Recall that cows are in the sights of environmental zealots, who cite their flatulence as a major contributor of global warming. I wonder if worms will someday be condemned.

The affidavit that justified the raid on Mar a Lago has been released. As predicted, it has been heavily redacted. So much for transparency.

Headline from foxnews.com: “Tractor beam? Toyota developing ‘hitchless towing’ system.” As Captain Picard would say:

Last night Movies!, channel 5–2 on OTA in NYC, ran two entries in a series I’d first heard of only recently: The Whistler (1944) and The Power of the Whistler (1945), the latter the third installment. Richard Dix stars. Oddly, he plays a different character in each. He is not the eponymous character, who does the narration, only his shadow visible. In the first he is the target of murder, in the second he is the killer. They are entertaining B pictures, running time about an hour. Scanning Dix’s canon at IMDb, he played a different character in the other three movies as well. His most famous role is in Cimarron (1931), which received seven Oscar nominations, winning two, including Best Picture. Dix and co-star Irene Dunne were nominated, but neither took home the coveted statuette. There are 100 titles under his name at IMDb in a career that spanned 1917-’47. Tragically, he succumbed to a heart attack at 56 in 1949. Married twice, he was a father of four.

This morning I waited at least an hour for AAA to show. The young man put the spare tire in place, then filled the flat. Six hours later, it hadn’t flattened. Is it a very slow leak? It’s in the trunk, beneath a big box of books. I’ll wait a couple of days to see what’s what.

My thanks to the gentleman who bought Killer Dreams by Iris Johansen, the only sale of today’s session of the floating book shop.

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