The Writer's Life 7/4 - Punk

"He punked-out," we used to say in Brooklyn about someone who backed down from a tough task or a fight. That's what I did today regarding the floating bookshop, which I eschewed because of the heat and humidity. Man, am I getting soft. In high school, we had two practice sessions in such weather. When I trained for the marathon, I jogged ten miles in it. If the forecast is right, tomorrow will be the last day of the current heat wave, only 90 degrees - "a mere bag of shells," as Ralph Kramden would say. What will the accu-weather  real-feel be - 95? "Big deal," as Classie Freddie Blassie would say.

I had a real ginzo lunch at my sister's: tomato & muhtzarell, fried zucchini, and a thin slice of roast beef. Leftovers have piled up in her fridge since her grand-daughter Danielle arrived earlier in the week, craving delicacies that are hard to get in her neck of Jersey. As I was enjoying the feast, I learned that my eldest niece Isabel was due to fly out to Denver to visit her sister Tanya. She hadn't asked for a ride, feeling bad since I'd been back and forth umpteen times when her kids visited from Italy to say goodbye to their grandpa. The Sicilian in me wouldn't let her spend money on car service. Of course, I will someday ask for something in return, recalling the great line, of the many great ones from The Godfather: "Someday - and that day may never come - I will call on you to perform a service for me." When she finally gets a computer, she will be assigned to do reviews of my books, which she has all read.

Let's have a blast of trumpets - for the first time ever I made an airport run without a single wrong turn, going and coming. And I did it without writing down directions. Hmmm - I wonder if the green tea extract I've been adding to bottles of seltzer has done wonders for my brain. Of course, this is probably nonsense. I will later do trivia quizzes at sporcle.com and be appalled at all I've forgotten.

Visit Vic’s sites:
Vic’s Third Novel (Print or Kindle): http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic’s Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic’s Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic’s 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic’s 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic’s Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f