Will's Good Idea for the Week of 7/12/26

Good Sunday morn, you brave reader(s) of Stroock's Books. We awake meandering and listless with just a soupcon* of angst. 

More blessed rain yesterday. 

Last night was England's biggest win over Norway since King Alfred the Great defeated the Vikings' King Guthrum in the 890s. Hmmm...Argentina vs England. The jokes write themselves. We don't know for whom we will cheer [Hey!-Ed]. Shut up, Ed. 

Whoa, Senator Lindsey Graham, dead at 71.  We've always been less hostile to Graham than a lot of other MAGA hats. We admired his work when he was a house impeachment manager back in 98/99. And of course Senator Graham was a friend of the Jew.

In his long career there was a certain respectable consistency to Graham. He remained true (if sometimes very wrong) even as the GOP and the right changed. 

This blog had disagreements with the man too (Ukraine), but now’s not the time. Mensch.

Will's Good Idea (or ideas) for the week of 7/12/19.

Our magazine article query campaign has busted or ghosted. 

Maybe we should write another history book. Pershing in Command never caught fire. Buuuuut we never really thought it would. We've maybe 8 articles, or chapters about various AEF divisions sitting around. Should we gather those into a history? Which is what we planned way back in the teens.

Also...okay, next year, by which we mean 2027, we gotta write something other than World War 1990 and The Great Nuclear War of 1975. Don't know what. Maybe we finally do another To Defend the Earth novel. Maybe something new and radical [You always had a 1066 novel idea-Ed]. More Jake and Patricia? [Na-Ed]. Upon this problem, we shall dwell. 

Okay...looks like our services will be required for some short story compilations next year. It's a start. 

*That's French. Here's where we learned the word, lo those 20 + years ago.