Baaaa....A tired, groggy, cold and dark morning.
Some much needed rain is on the way.
We spied a drone last night. It's clear the Jews own the skies. They're clever.
Sports wrap. The Giants suck. Randos are flying banners over the Meadowlands now. We haven't seen that since the 70s. The Jets blew a lead. Mrs. Stroock's Eagles eked out a win against the hapless Panthers. See 'trap game' in your NFL dictionary. The Eagles have won nine in a row? Rutgers got a bowl invite, apparently. There's plenty of Rutgers fans in New Jersey, and we hope to become one this fall. Seton Hall will do, though. The Mets have signed Juan Soto to a 15-year $700 million contract. Wow. Let's go Mets: F-A-N! If you know you know. Do the Mets have any money left? Adeau Pete Alonso, we guess.
This blog admits it's been underestimating how good the fall of Assad is for Israel - in the short term. In the long term we've no idea. Reader(s) will forgive us for not wanting to see a Christian bloodbath in Syria. This Jolani guy (we haven't settled on a spelling yet) is an Islamist. Only a fool, or William Kristol, believes Jolani is some kind of secular moderate, a Syrian Boris Yeltsin (who was a disaster for Russia) whom the west can control. Uncertain days lie ahead.
We wrote about some of our good ideas yesterday, Sunday being the day we write about good ideas, and all. Today we'll write about a bad idea. It's Bad Ideas Week here at Stroock's books, and all week we'll go through novel ideas which are, for various reasons, bad ideas. Some ideas are difficult to execute. Some ideas aren't executable. Some ideas are executable but won't sell. Selling is the big part. One must needs make money of course, college ain't cheap. But in the end an author's goal is to be read and that comes through sales. Unless the author is just giving it away [like this blog or your Substack?-Ed]. Hey!
Let's start Bad Ideas week topically: Israel Strikes. The Israel Strikes series, two books at the moment, was supposed to be three. We ended War of the Red Sea with a cliffhanger. The third book would have been about a massive war between Israel and the Muslin Brotherhood run Egypt. We got sidetracked by our little World War 1990 project but always planned to get back to Israel. In the long run we were overtaken by events. Egypt is back to being a secular and sclerotic Arab kleptocracy. We long considered doing a third novel anyway, until October 7th. Actually, a lot of the ideas for a third Israel Strikes novel ended up in various World War 1990 novels. So there.
Monday Metal, or not. You know, we haven't really picked up a guitar in at least a year. We've lost our calluses, essential for playing a guitar, and we doubt we'll get them back. Our guitar experiment is 20 years old now. Okay, we learned to do chord progression and can teach ourselves guitar solos and even shred. At one point we really impressed ourselves. But to be honest we were always kind of disappointed in the guitar player we became. We'll call the guitar experiment a success and end it thusly.
*Talk about a good idea! War of the Red Sea was a fantastic idea! Take a successful concept and expand that concept to a new theatre of operations. Show the Israeli Navy. Have the IDF launch a mini-invasion of Sudan. The public agrees. 600 + ratings, 4 + stars. Fun fact, the October 7th war has not led to an increase in Israel book sales. Which is fine.
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