Weinie, Scrank & Gino
These days the literary market place is more crowded than NYC subway platforms. Competition is stiff, an apt word for the rest of this item. The appropriately named Anthony Weiner is shopping for a book deal. An amusing article rife with — brace yourself — innuendo in today’s NY Post by Ian Mohr offers juicy details, using terms such as “Longfellow” and “flaccid.” He also suggests these titles: The Schlong Also Rises, Wankenstein, I Know Why the Aged Nerd Swings, Clear and Present Danger. Woe-be Dick, Little Women (I’ve Sexted), Portrait of the Perv as a Young Man, The Lord of the Pings. So far, no traditional publisher has shown interest. I hope Weiner doesn’t learn he can self-publish for free at Amazon. It would be irksome if his book leaves the rest of self-published authors in the dust. He would be perfect for porn if the pay for guys was better. Unfortunately, the awesome fringe benefits are also probably a lot less than what cums a politician’s way.
The Post also offers two terms I’d not heard previously. In Rich Lowry’s op-ed piece on white supremacist whack jobs, he cites “Real-Life Effort-Posting,” which the slimes use to describe mayhem they wish to perpetrate. In his business column, John Crudele devotes space to someone who cajoled people into contacting the FED about alleged secret bank accounts it holds in every American’s name. It’s called “scrank,” a combo of scam and prank. So far, it looks like the idiots who submitted their social security number are not in danger of identity theft. It seems the scam artist was simply engaging in a twisted bit of fun.
Sadly, it looks like the only solution in Venezuela will come from civil war.
RIP NFL legend Gino Marchetti, 9, son of Italian immigrants. He played from 1952–1966, all but that first season with the Baltimore Colts. He was named to the Pro Bowl eleven times. He suffered a broken ankle in the 1958 championship vs. the Giants, dubbed “The Greatest Game Ever Played.” It was the first of back to back titles. In the list of the league’s 100 all-time greatest players, he is ranked 39th. Naturally, he’s a member of the National Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame. More impressive than all that, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a machine-gunner. He is survived by his wife, children, stepdaughter, 16 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Awesome, goombah.
My thanks to the kind folks who bought books today. Most of those that sold were in Russian, the exceptions being two sci-fi paperbacks and a bio of the renowned Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of the Ukraine, 1740–1810.
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