Pie in the Eye Tuesday Tales May 22nd.

     Mayor Blumenthal was dressed in a three piece suit, heading to another ribbon cutting in Manhattan.  He stood in front of microphones, the place he liked to be the most before he cut the ribbon for the new Barclays building.

     He started to speak. when in front of the International media suddenly the Mayor’s face was a mixture of colors.  Then you saw a jeweled hand grinding the mess in his face.  Flash bulbs went off, the stunned police detail pulled the woman off and the Mayor stood unseeing in his shock.

     He finally wiped the cream out of his eyes and when he could look down, he was aghast.  ”Look at my suit!”  ”Sarah, why did you humiliate me like this?”

     Sarah Blumenthal, the Mayor’s wife smiled.  I could humiliate you.  Was that Slavic whore of an opera singer worth it?  Is she dead now, cause you didn’t wanna get caught?  Well, now I got you in front of International media Mr. Big Shot!”

     All the Mayor got for his pains was pie in his eye.

Destroy Wrigley Field?!

     I will just let you read Rich Cohen’s column http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304192704577404424241146562.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

      I’ve been to several games in Wrigley Field.  I am familiar with Fenway and was there many times.  

 

Fenway Park

 

 

If they are in danger of falling down, I can see it, otherwise they are wonderful places to watch baseball games.  

What Is a Polymath?

     Click on Wikipedia.  I realize that article needs work but I wanted to get you started.  I was looking up Goethe and wanted to bring up the idea of Polymath as Renaissance Person.

Why Napoleon Gave Up Haiti and the United States Got The Louisiana Purchase.

     Napoleon was in his Parisian quarter with his famous pose, hand under coat.  He had more of a stomach upset than usual.  Reports were coming in about how badly his troops were faring against rebelling slaves in Haiti.  (Well, rebelling slaves and yellow fever).  Some French muskets proved to be no match for dive bombing female mosquitoes.  Hell hath no fury like…

     Haiti had been France’s wealthiest colony.  It produced more sugar for food and drink and keeping dentists busy than anywhere else.  Now it drained Napoleon’s treasury.  ”I want to conquer Europe!”  It was a major tantrum.  What do do?

     An idea.  Let Haiti go.  Only a few planters will be angry and the ones who haven’t been massacred were royalists anyway.  Contact my good friend Thomas Jefferson.  No Haiti?  I don’t need all that land in America.  Bah America!  Uncivilized!  Europe is where it’s at!  (Napoleon might be singing a different tune today).

     He gave Jefferson a real estate deal he couldn’t refuse.  All that land, for all that money to conquer Europe?  Ya gotta love it!

 

 

A New Model for a Bookstore.

     This has been talked about on Kristen Lamb’s blog We Are Not Alone.  You go into Barnes and Noble and they have a cafe?  Instead, you have a cafe that has a few bestsellers and prints books on demand.

     Take this one step further.  What if authors were part or full owners of such cafes?

 

Yerbie Has Been a Bold Cat Today.

Yerbie Has Been a Bold Cat Today..

Yerbie Has Been a Bold Cat Today.

     Two things.  First my lad woke me up at 3:15, 45 minutes before the alarm.  Yerbie the cat wanted to be fed.  

     This was soooooo not happening.  I gave him a good play beating and he surrendered until the proper time.  

     He likes butter and margarine and licked it right off the piece of bread.  I would make him into a cat skin cap, but I would miss my little buddy and his antics.  All kidding aside, he’s a good guy.