Hey it's all white!
That never happens in Brooklyn. Just sayn'
Michaleen Flynn: No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats
Michaleen Flynn: No patty-fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times. Hold on to your hats
It's snowing here now. Thanks for nothing!
ReplyDeleteYou call that snow? That's a slight dusting.
ReplyDeleteNice view, by the way. Beautiful place. Lovely neighborhood.
Too bad I am going to say good bye.
ReplyDeleteI think I want to live in Florida on the water and have a set up like I saw on Justified.
ReplyDeleteWhere I can hang visitors over the dock and alligators can jump up and eat them.
You gonna move to Florida and change your name to Trooper Doc?
ReplyDeleteOr Trooper Grumpy, whichever?
Then you can learn about what crackers call "gator bait".
ReplyDeleteAnd, for that matter, you can learn what a Florida Cracker is. Yeah, it's a country thing and you are a city slicker, but the cowboy tradition in FLA is as old as the state itself. Think of a western set in Florida. It would have it all. Characters, exotic trees, exotic babes! Oh yeah!
Didn't Robert Newton Peck already write a sweeping Florida western?
ReplyDeleteOr two?
I'm sitting in my cabin. The snow is tits deep, with more coming. The wind chill has been at -20 all day. We are warned of a propane shortage in this part of the Midwest and are wondering if we'll get a refill any time soon.
ReplyDeleteThe television is broken. But there's the internet, which has kept Mrs Haz occupied all afternoon.
"What are you looking at?" I ask.
"Condos in Naples" she answers.
LOL @Haz. Or Mrs. Haz. If you have been to Naples and like that part of the state, well there you go.
ReplyDelete@CJ - I know nothing of that author, but I sure love the central part of the state, especially south of lake Okeechobee. Beautiful countryside.
If you want some humorous reading set in Florida, I recommend any of Carl Hiaasen's novels. They are mostly who-done-its, set locally and quite entertaining.
ReplyDeleteRobert Newton Peck wrote mostly "young adult" novels and stories. Soup, Soup and Me and so forth, about boys getting in trouble growing up in rural Vermont, A Day No Pigs Would Die, about growing up on his families small farm and his father dying, as well as several other books including a couple about cattle ranching in FLA around the turn of the century or thereabouts.
ReplyDeleteI never developed any skill with Hiasan's (sp) books, but I know lots of people who adore them so if you haven't checked them out, I'd do so.
Mr. Haz, where is Rock Lake WI and is there supposed to be a "sea monster" there?
ReplyDeleteHave her check out Deerfield Beach. We can be neighbors.
ReplyDeleteCity of Deerfield Beach has an adult exercise program.
ReplyDeleteBonus.
That's a very nice area, Troop, or at least it was last time I was there.
ReplyDeleteCody,
ReplyDeleterock Lake is a body of Water in the Village of Lake Mills, about 30 miles east of Madison and 50 miles west of Milwaukee.
I haven't heard stories of a monster, but there are stories of pyramids and other structures in the lake.
More info.
I'm checking Deerfield Beach.
ReplyDeleteShe's not so much looking at Naples, but at Ave Maria which is about 30 miles inland, I'm told.
Thanks. I'm watching an episode of "America Unearthed" on demand (from the H2 channel).
ReplyDeleteThe guy tends to be a nutcase.
But he's riding a personal sub to look at the "pyramids".
If you haven't been there you really need to spend some time roaming around Florida - it is very varied.
ReplyDeleteI have driven all over that state, used to go there a lot on business, but have never lived there. Have vacationed there a bunch.
All I can say is, if Troop tells you to move to Liberty City don't trust him.
Two words:
ReplyDeleteKey west
You want comedy material don't you?
ReplyDeleteKey West? Two words: Naked boobs.
ReplyDeleteOr: Prices suck.
A cousin bought a place on Big Pine Key and suggested we look there. Most of it is un-touristy, so that's a possibility.
The west side of Florida is interesting to me, especially the Naples area. It's too far for most of the snow birds to drive to.
Since I'm likely to be a snow bird, I don't want to be near my kind. I don't like us.
My friend the cop say about Florida: If you pick up the United States and give it a good shake, all the nuts fall to Florida.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you pick up a map of Florida and give it a good shake, all the nuts and fruits fall to Key West.
Another bit of his wisdom: "Perps who go on the run wind up either in Las Vegas or Florida. Bank on it."
I made it as far south on the west coast as Marco Island - and that seemed like an endless drive. I think Naples was about 500 miles further south.
ReplyDeleteI was last in Key West in '75 - I liked the Hemingway house, the James J. Audubon house.
They have build a new road to the place - that's a very good thing.
The Keys rock.
ReplyDeleteDidja ever notice that it sorta looks like American is pissing on Cuba?
Too many obnoxious NYers in Deerfield Beach. We stayed there once when the kids were little. NYers are apparently unaware there's a Gulf Coast, so "Shhh."
ReplyDeleteHaz, We stayed in Naples and Marco for 2 vacations back in the 90's. Really liked it.
ReplyDeleteNick, thanks for the tip. New Yorkers? Guys wandering around wearing Yankees caps? That'll hurt property values.
ReplyDeleteOur friends in Naples assure us there's at least one good Packer bar in town.
America, America
ReplyDeleteStep out into the light
You're best dream
Man has ever dreamed
And may all your Christmases
Be White
Robert Newton Peck also wrote a great book on how to write. I'd recommend it to Troop, actually.
ReplyDelete"Stay in the phone booth with the gorilla" is a great piece of advice writers forget all the time.
Thank you, blake, for at least knowing who I was talking about!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for mentioning that book, cuz I didn't know he'd writ one like that and will check 'er out.
Thanks.
blake, do you mean Fiction is Folks or the How To Write book, btw?
ReplyDeleteHaz, The Gulf Coast was settled primarily by Midwesterners. The Atlantic Coast by Nyer's and other northeasterners. Including a lot of ricpic's people in Boca.
ReplyDeleteDid De Blasio come plow your street.
ReplyDeleteOne of the problems on the Atlantic Coast is the high rise condos. They block out the afternoon sun. It's like the fucking ballpark built by Norwegians[Fireman's Park] in Cottage Grove. I coached Legion ball there. Nice field, but the batter faces west!! If it was sunny, around 6-7p, depending on the month, we had to have sunset delays, sometimes for close to a fucking hour.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is de Blaiso lives about twenty blocks from me so we will always get plowed now.
ReplyDeleteThe Upper East Side not so much.
The book of his I read is "Secrets of Successful Fiction" which came out in '80 and I think is out of print (though Amazon has it cheap).
ReplyDeleteHe's done others since then.
The "Fiction is Folks" one looked like it would be good for Troop, since he's heavy into 'folks'.
ReplyDeletePeck writes "quick reads". I'd get all his stuff together and read it.
ReplyDeleteAlso great is John Gardner's "The Art of Fiction".
A hearty second on the John Gardner book.
ReplyDeleteI was going to mention it but it is a little heavy--but Gardner's a true genius.
Well, he was a true genius anyway.
ReplyDeleteNo argument. Parts of that book make me seethe with jealousy.
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