It’s summer! Time to crank up the A/C!
Bada Bing!
The cashier said, “Strip down facing me”.By the time I realized they meant the credit card, it was too late.
Does anyone know where to buy a longer dipstick? Mine doesn’t reach the oil anymore.
Mosquito bite? Heat a spoon with a torch and place it on the bite.The hot spoon will stop the itch fast.Tune in next week for “How to treat a bad burn”.
This bears repeating…If we’re not meant to have midnight snacks, why is there a light in the refrigerator?
Marbles…When you’re young you play with them.When you’re old you start losing them.
If you ask me, a worm is a pretty disappointing prize for getting up early.
There was a huge fight at the seafood restaurant.There were battered fish everywhere.
Older forms of English kept Latin’s gender-specific suffixes -tor and -trix; tor for men and trix for women.So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. Gladiator; gladiatrix, etc.This contrasts with the modern system where tor is both for men and women, and trix is for kids.
Tinkerbell finds out she has an overweight cousin.Tacobell.
Today is the birthday, in 1944, of Miguel Vicens Danus, bass guitarist for the Spanish group, Los Bravos. Here they are with their debut single, Black is Black, which reached number 4 in the US.
I just finished reading Deacon King Kong by James McBride. McBride is a wonderful writer and I really enjoyed this book as well as his previous books, The Good Lord Bird and The Color of Water.
Deacon King Kong is the story of Sportcoat and others in and around The Cause House housing project in south Brooklyn, Hot Sausage, Bam Bam, The Elephant and many others.
One day in 1969, Sportcoat, inebriated as usual on the local hooch called ‘King Kong’, strolls up to Deems, formerly the star pitcher on the neighborhood baseball team and now the number one drug dealer in the Cause project and shoots Deems ear off. Naturally, his friends all think Sportcoat is now walking dead because the drug dealer’s team is going to come after him, but things turn out differently.
Sportcoat is the only one who can hear his dead wife Hettie who walked into the bay leaving Sportcoat figure out where she hid the church Christmas fund between his many odd jobs and drinking. Many try to save him from what they expect will be certain death at the hands of Deem’s henchmen but he ignores all of them and keeps on trying to revive the baseball team and preparing for his first sermon as a deacon at the church.
The book is a crime novel, a mystery novel, a humor novel and many other things. McBride has a wonderful connection to his characters and is both beautifully written and profoundly humane. It’s clear he’s having fun writing the novel but he never loses sight of the suffering of the African American and Latino inhabitants of the projects. The ending is straight out of a Shakespearean comedy and I very much enjoyed it. You should read it; you will enjoy it too!
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