Today's Tids Issue
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For Gazing Out:
I
happened to walk a quiet path yesterday afternoon,
as I wracked my brain for the spark that would reignite the Parking Lot novel.
It’s truly amazing how easy it is to find a perfectly inert alcove right in the
middle of our cacophonous world. The trail was at peace, the air was still and
the ocean just yards way was trickling in against the rocks like cotton balls
rolling off a table. The tides were low, and the only signs of people were
creative little rock sculptures left behind, perhaps by lovers feeling the
comforting seclusion of God’s watery acres. My mind became clear, and the
engine began purring again . Perhaps the words will come.
Just
in case you had the Pollyanna thought that the inauguration
was going to be a picnic in the park, consider that there are ads out there
saying they will pay protestors $2,500. How’s that for spontaneous eruptions
from the heart!
Feeling
pangs for the boys of summer? Hey are washing the
equipment trucks as we speak; counting the uniforms, rubbing down baseballs,
conditioning bats. I can smell the grass and almost hear that first smack of
spring.
The
new word on the political trail of tears is that Bernie
Sanders is the new leader of the Democrat party. He revs up the most enthusiastic
crowds, and unfortunately, they believe that his socialist views are the way
for America to go. So, if Trumperino fails, we have definitely opened that proverbial
tube of toothpaste.
The
Question:
Name five Kevin Costner movies. Bonus: Bobby Goldsboro had a couple of tear-jerking hit love songs
about his wife who died. What was her name?
The
Headlines:
--GHW Bush In Hospital.
--Triple Quakes Hit A Central Italy Still Reeling
Form Last Year’s Terror.
--Obama Dumps Additional $500Mil Into World Climate
Fund Bringing US Total To $1 Bil Over Objections Of Congress.
--Market Futures Up.
--Garth Brooks Opts Out of Inauguration; Fans Upset.
--Obama Pardons Traitor Manning and Others Including
Lying General James Cartwright and ballplayer Willie McCovey.
You’ve
all heard of love/hate relationships. Repubs seem to have a
“I’d-love-to-like-you-Donald Trump, but-your-words-confound-the-hell-out-of-me!”
relationship.
Three
kinds of movies I don’t like are,
“Standing-on-the-edge-of-a-building-ready-to-jump” films,
“Anxious-negotiator-in-Hostage-situations” and Prison movies of all kinds. But,
that’s just me.
The
Synopsis:
Ah the novel is back, but so, so long between
episodes. The Parking Lot is about a young women of Wampanoag Indian heritage
who married into a fairly original Plymouth family (They missed the Mayflower,
and were left on the docks of Plymouth England but came a year later). She is trying
to protect a family’s land and a dark secret in modern day town of Sakonnet RI,
at the confluence of Sakonnet River and Mount Hope Bay. It’s about two families
who were early settler in in Plymouth, and who eventually went west for several
reasons to settle in the lands called Sakonnet. It’s about the French and
Indian war and one good brother of King Phillip. We see one family owning the rights
to the sea in the village and the other owning the farming lands inland. This
also about a modern day scheme to take lands from families for a casino and
developments, not know that all of the farmland was owned by one family. This
starts out in a parking lot in Newport where a writer was observing the comings
and goings of late night bar denizens for a TV series about what may happen to those
who left their cars behind for a fling or more. While standing by the window of
his home he sees our heroine Nancy being attacked by a monster of a guy and is
drawn into this conspiracy that has killers and conmen and lots of old secrets.
The novel moves back and forth from the from the 1600’s to the resent time as
loads of characters interact. A lot of history, action, love and cool murders.
The
Cheetos thief was caught orange handed.
The
gurus of gourmet culture are continually trying to sneak new
trends by the Tids food editor. The latest is Sriracha. It’s even spelled
funny. This is a sauce that showing up in recipes and on menus. Now, frankly, I
don’t eat anything that mysteriously hidden beneath a word of which I am not
familiar. Yes, folks, it yet another hot sauce made from chili peppers. It is
from a paste of the peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt. It is named
after the coastal city of Si Racha in the province of Chonburi, Thailand. It is
typically used for seafood dipping. Lets see, they are banning soda pop, but
exclaiming about this Thai sauce that contains all of the evils – salt and
sugar, and perhaps red hot chilies that are tearing at your stomach.
Most
of the headlines about the Trump programs are written
assuming worse case scenarios. I don’t read them right now, but the naysayers
are fueled by projections based basically nothing that has happened printed in
bold faced type.
It’s
looking like the Inauguration will be devoid of
celebrities but loaded with regular people. That in a nutshell is why Hillary
lost.
Elizabeth
Warren may have lost her “Darling of the Left”
status by hanging too long with Hillary. I expect she’ll be screeching louder
and louder to be heard. And, I always tough she was a quiet, progressive,
thoughtful intellectual.
The top “On-Time” airline is the rest in order are
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 72 continues…
Richard felt
the morning sun warming his back and as he had been doing for 45 years, he immediately
turned and looked to Elizabeth’s side of the bed. His heart dove into his
stomach at the sight of the vacant unslept side as it had for the past two weeks.
Now a surge
of urgency hit him. It appeared in the eyes of his friend’ Thomas’s sons, eyes
that seemed to follow him in his dreams during the night.. He felt something but
he didn’t know exactly what. He moved quickly, feeling a pinch from several rarely used muscles of late.
In his kitchen
he saw his daughter Martha who had assumed the role of his caretaker. It always
made him feel good to see her. But this morning, she was to step into a new
role, to learn more about her position in the family than she could have
imagined.
“Hi Mart”,
he said, trying to rise above his sorrow for the first time. She turned, looked
at him and smiled broadly, seeing for the first time in months her dad as she has
known him.
“Dad, you
look like you slept very well.” She moved over wiping her hands on her long
white apron and gently touched his shoulder.
“Better,”
he said. “Let’s eat”. His hand reached up and touched hers. He needed her more
than ever. “You and I have a lot work to do.”
The
Answer:
Kevin Costner has had some major bombs and big
winners along the way. The first I remember was a thriller, “No Way Out”. His
“Tin Cup” is played almost daily on the Golf Channel. He won an Oscar for
“Dances with Wolves”. His top ten movies as ranked beginning with #1 is Wolves,
then Field of Dreams, The Untouchables, Bull Durham, The Bodyguard, Tin Cup,
JFK, For Love of the Game, Open Range and Robin Hood. Bonus: “I laughed at her when she got mad. The first day she
planted it, it was just a twig. Then the first snow came and she ran out to
brush the snow away, so it wouldn’t Die.” That was “Honey”.
Trump
looks to be very good for the global Tums market.
Well,
folks, I have got to run out. Sorry this is a little
short.
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