This Saturday of A Visiting Sister, Farmer's Market, Crock Pots

My sister came down. We survived our wandering around Muncie. 

We went to the Farmer's Market at Minnetrista. There were maybe a dozen vendors, a crowd of under fifty people. The vendors were all locals. I saw peaches as big as a softball, She bought nothing; I got a pork shoulder. That I will fix tomorrow. 

From there we went downtown. I had called CC before sister's arrival, she said to call her back and then did not answer her phone. That annoyed me. Downtown, I led sister to the toy sore. We bought presents for her grandson, my great-nephew. Then it was to Walmart for more groceries, and a crock pot.

She dropped me off around 2:30. Then I got back to work.

I got out the first newsletter for this blog. 

Then turned to my email. Here are the pickings:

1. The Most Banned Books in the U.S. Are Not New Books: Book Censorship News, July 7, 2023 - I do not see the sense of censorship, it draws more attention than it stops whatever evil censors want to keep from us, it presupposes we do not have the sense to understand the rightness or wrongness of literature, it is self-defeating. More importantly to me: it proves the cowardice of the censors.
   
2. How Re-releasing Classic Movies Fits Into The Current Remake Frenzy - I remember when movies were always being re-released. I think I saw Gone With the Wind on its last outing in theaters; the remakes seem all too half-baked rip-offs of better movies. I wish they would remake movies that either the tech or the culture was ready for them, but have solid story lines.
3. Robert Gerwarth's review of Rachel Chrastil's Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe, Auf Wiedersehen, Napoleon.
4. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? Well, some of that is recognizable from my past, but I must say my moods are much better, and I feel no need for recklessness. 
   

Another rejection arrived for one of my short stories:

Thank you for sending "The Sloe Gin Effect" to The Lakeshore Review.  We appreciate the opportunity to review your submission. We have decided against including your work within this issue, although we welcome your interest for future issues. Visit us at https://www.lakeshoreliterary.com/review for additional information about our reading windows and publication cadence.

Sincerely,

Garrett Stack

Co-Editor

The Lakeshore Review

I finally heard a Babe Ruth song - The Mexican -  and kind of impressed, for all they sound like their time, the early - mid-Seventies.

Etta James does Prince:

Wow.

I do not want to work on my pretrial detention journal. I have read the first page of the next entry and I am rolling my eyes. Too tired to put up my earlier self's pedantic ways. I do have drafts far more recent that can be knocked off tonight. 

It is 5:42 pm, and I really have no business feeling this kind of fatigue. 

Taking a break from this post.

It is nice to know Sheila Kennedy still lives. She has a blog here. My recollection is she was a Republican; my reading says there has been a change in affiliation. She is writing about politics and law, both Indiana and nationally. No fire breathing diatribes, just good common-sense.

I did a fuller post on The Master, Margarita, and I: Paul Goldberg on the Third Rail of the Russian Classic by Paul Goldberg that I am scheduling for July 28. 

I started reading Jane Smiley's How the Essay and the Novel Inform and Influence Each Other, thinking only to note it here. Instead, I have a short post scheduled for July 29.

While writing a fuller post on Is Multiculturalism an Oxymoron? On Martin Puchner’s “Culture” by Robert N. Watson, published by the Los Angeles Review of Books, I perked up enough to some skimming of philosophical articles: William James, A Pluralistic Universe. A New Philosophical Reading (review), and INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM JAMES. Just for kicks, I read On Reading Hume’s History of Liberty. I have scheduled that post for July 29.

I am leaving here now, I plan on reading about David Hume for a few more minutes.

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