Will's Good Idea for the Week of 5/19/24

Good Sunday afternoon, Stroock's Books celebrants. 

We spent Saturday morning rehanging a plank that was slowly falling off the side of the deck. Those deck screws went through some parts of the plank, but not others seemingly without rhyme or reason.  And no, they weren't hitting a metal bracket or anything like that. We remain flummoxed. 

Israel is under tremendous pressure from Hezbollah, from the United States, and internally as Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and cabinet member Benny Gantz both publicly criticize Netanyahu. But the IDF has also hurt Hezbollah (which has hurt Israel back) and made a lot of progress in Rafah. We're not prepared to say Israel had a good week or a bad week. We'll call it a rough week and a productive week, though. As we've been saying, dark days lie ahead. 

The great Steve Sailer, after publishing Noticing, an anthology of his favorite columns, wonders what he should write next. We wonder the same thing.

As for Will's Good Idea for the Week of 5/19/24...Our best idea at the moment is to write a Blue and the Red short story compilation. We've got juju, and we think we can expand our audience among Civil War fans. Also we had a new idea for the anthology; a story about HMS Warrior. Cool huh? We also know that the British fleet, after slagging NYC, sails up the Hudson. So there's another idea. This autumn? Baaah! We swipe the air and sip our coffee. 

Till then we've to finish War Night and Other Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975. We've yet to start the nuclear artillery story, and the Haig story. Soon(ish).

In the Lexington story, Mayor Pettit leaves his police HQ and goes to Central Baptist Hospital to see what's happening there. The scene is fine, but we're not sure the mayor would actually be driving around town after nukes go off in nearby Frankfurt, Louisville, and Cincinatti. Actually, Lexington opens with the mayor at the University of Kentucky discussing emergency plans with the university president. 'I like to see things for myself,' the mayor says. So we foreshadow his need to get out and see things for himself.  These scenes enable us to show what's happening in Lexington. But we've a nagging feeling the mayor would remain at police HQ taking radio reports.

Huh...Here we are on 15 October, 2017 noting out 1000th post. Devotees will recall we seriously thought about shutting this blog down in 2022 with our 5000th post. We're thinking seriously again about shutting this blog down next year, for its 10 year anniversary. We shall see. Exit question, how many posts have made? Answer: What is 5561?