A surprise here in New Jersey this morning. We were supposed to get 3-6 inches of snow, but only got a couple. We didn't even break out the snow blower. Took us maybe 20 minutes to clear the driveway.
No surprises in Tampa last night. The Eagles suck. We wrote several times this season that the Eagles looked big, strong and tough. Last night the Eagles once again looked small, weak and flaccid. A lot of personnel changes are coming, and we'd consider firing the coach. Bill Belichick, white courtesy phone...No. The white phone.*
No surprises in Iowa last night. Trump romped.
We suppose we have to comment on Trump's blowout victory. We hadn't seen any results till our man on the ground there messaged us that Trump took his precinct with 50 percent of the vote. He's a Trump organizer and delighted. There's every reason to believe Trump will crush the opposition in New Hampshire as well. So much for our hope that DeSantis is outorganizing Trump. One glimmer of hope for those of us who want Desantis, Iowa is not necessarily predictive.
Powerline agrees with our Iowa caution and mentions the 1980 Iowa Caucus, 'I also recall the guy from NBC News — Tom Pettit — declaring on the air the following morning that “Ronald Reagan is dead.” Devotees will recall our father worked for NBC nightly news. As it happens Tom Petit's family founded the town of Petit, Kentucky, just up Route 431 from our ancestral home of Livermore. In 1991, at our father's behest, we and our sister stole the Petit town sign right off the highway in the dead of night and smuggled it back to New York. Authorities were none the wiser. 'Why do you know so much about ripping signposts out of the ground?' Our sister asked.
Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the race. To repeat, we often hear the man compared to used car salesmen, but he reminds us of a gameshow host. We'd say make the man press secretary in the second Trump Ministry [I love it when you talk British-Ed] but we wouldn't even bother with daily press conferences. We'd pass out the president's schedule for the day and walk away and then go do an interview with an outlet we trusted. This would include podcasters, bloggers, indy media websites, etc etc. Do a talk with Scott Adams, go on Joe Rogan.
But that probably won't happen. Reminder, the Dems want to face Trump. [So, they wanted to face Trump in 2016, and Reagan in 1980-Ed].
Alright, alright, alright*...we made much progress yesterday on the World War 1990: Norway epilogue chapter about the destruction of the Soviet Northern Fleet. We wrote a collection of short scenes showing Swedish, Norwegian, and Canadian aircraft flying north to attack Bodo. But this is a supporting effort preparatory to the main. The scenes are short, and our general rule is a scene should be at least 500 words. But no rule should be inflexible. We're still not sure how we depict the attack on the Northern Fleet. We might just go with narrative exposition. Reminder, that's two carriers and two Kirovs.
Screw it, we're gonna run a magazine advert for The Great Nuclear War of 1975 just to see what happens. The book has faded to the backlist now (which is the fate of all books), and we've never advertised 75 in this magazine or anywhere else. We are testing the theory that since we've never run ads for 75 in this place, we'll get some new readers. New readers should read 75 and continue right on to Aftermath and The New American Order. If this advert works, we'll consider running it elsewhere. If the advert doesn't work, we'll know magazine adverts won't work anymore.
*Reference. We understand that younger reader(s) might not know the white phone reference, which is why we did the asterisk. And we believe the *reference is often so obvious as to be funny, but also funny even if it isn't obvious. The asterisk is also our way of footnoting an idea as not being our own. See how that work's, Claudine Gay? 'Reader(s)' is all ours. 'Alert readers' is a saying we borrowed from blog pioneer Mickey Kaus. We cribbed 'devotees' from Arrested Development. The 'outside laboratory conditions' thing we read at AoS, but Ace must have gotten the phrase from somewhere else, right? AoS fandom ain't called the Moron Horde for nothing.
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