Thursday Thumps
From pinterest.com. Sorry, no attribution. Apologies to whoever took the shot:
From Facts About Famous Authors With Strange Habits by Adam Garcia, msm.com, edited by yours truly:
Victor Hugo: Deadlines terrified him. To stop himself from leaving the house, he locked away all his clothes and wrote wrapped in a blanket.
Friedrich Schiller kept rotting apples in his desk drawer, claiming the smell helped him think.
Maya Angelou needed emptiness. She wrote in anonymous hotel rooms, bringing only a Bible, a deck of cards, a bottle of sherry, and her tools.
Ernest Hemingway wrote standing up — always. He said it kept his mind sharp and his prose lean.
Gertrude Stein’s car was her studio. She’d park somewhere quiet and write from the front seat, surrounded by open fields and the slow rhythm of cows.
Honore de Balzac’s obsession was coffee. He drank up to fifty cups a day — sometimes chewing the grounds for an extra jolt. Not surprising, he died of heart failure at 51 in 1850. Appropriate photo from Google Images:
Leave it to the NY Post to entertain as well as inform:
For those who succumbed to cynicism and voted for Cuomo rather than Curtis, I may forgive you in time.
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The Queen of insider-trading is retiring. She made fools of everyone and is laughing all the way to the bank. If polled, I wonder what percentage of Americans would favor a ban of congressional insider-trading?
Headline from foxnews.com: “Study finds ABC, NBC, CBS give Democrats favorable coverage during government shutdown.” I’m shocked — shocked! Not!
From FN: “Coast Guard’s record-breaking cocaine haul in 2025 could have poisoned half the US.” Kudos.
Dems are milking the affordability issue. One question: when have politicians ever made things more affordable? Their track record is 100% in the opposite direction.
Not as windy as expected, so I was able to set up the Anti-Inflation Book Shop at its usual nook. My thanks to the young man who donated several miscellaneous items, and to the elderly one who delivered two packages of adult diapers; and to the gentleman who bought seven hardcovers in Russian; and to the woman who purchased The Woods by Harlan Coben; and to the gent who chose Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky; and to the woman who took home eleven more Glucerna Homemade Vanilla drinks.
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