"Use All The Crayons!" ... Space
5-star amazon “Last Baby Boomer” review …
“I finished The Last Baby Boomer over the weekend. Great premise. Sharp writing. The end was my favorite part, not because Marty McCrae finally died, but because of the way he died. Such an ironic death. This book reminded me of another book I read a few years ago, Channel Blue by Jay Martel. It was just as wacky as The Last Baby Boomer. Rodell’s book reminds us we all need some eccentricity in our lives.”
— Beth M., Long Beach, California
Thursday is my last class at Point Park U. for the Spring ’23. As it’s creative non-fiction, we do not have a final, per se. So I asked the students — all freshman — if they want to come to class or find something better to do. It was unanimous. They’re coming anyway! I’m more popular in college than I was back when I was in college.
OUTER SPACE
• Speculate on how long it’ll be before the number of earthlings living in space outnumber the number of earthlings living on earth.
• NASA 8.8 billion planet discovery means the phrase “men are from Mars/women from Venus” may one day be less metaphorical.
• NASA deserves ridicule for saying there are 8.8 billion Earth-like planets. Wrong! None of them have Trump!
• What do they call earthquakes on other planets?
• NASA probes continue to scan the cosmos for evidence of planets with life-sustaining water. Life-sustaining? Listen, I'm not going anywhere until they find a planet with life-sustaining pizza.
• It would take a solar powered golf cart traveling 36,400 mph about 9.5 years to reach Pluto -- 9.7 years if you stopped for pee breaks.
• I suspect it’s universal for every region to have a neighborly punching bag to make fun of for perceived or obvious stupidity. It’s why N. Dakotans make fun of S. Dakotans, Ohioans mock West Virginians, etc. But is it truly universal? And if so how often are we the butt of the jokes? Like is some alien wise guy on Kepler-23b entertaining his friends by saying, “Three Earthlings walk into a bar …”
• Which is older: Earth or Sun? Trick question: Earth is 4.5 bil yrs old. Sun only 1 day old. Sun cannot have another day til it has a night.
• I wonder how long it'll be before the whole world is on fire and if there's some extra-terrestrial volunteer fire department that is right now racing across the universe to save Planet Earth. And I wonder how much they're going to charge and if they take Discover.
RANDOMS
• We used to snobbishly brag how we never watched TV. Now we speak almost exclusively in movie reviews.
• A friend just posted she and a buddy have been stuck in I-95 gridlock for 3 hours. Haven't moved an inch. I said it'll be tolerable until one or the other begins to consider the Donner Party option. Question: If you had to resort to cannibalism, would you rather consume a chum or someone you despised? Would you prepare the meal differently?
• “Ozark” is a Netflix story about a couple whose ambition is to make money by perpetuating evil. A story about couples whose ambition is to 2-by-2 make offspring to perpetuate the species is “Noahzark”
• I’m unfamiliar with the procedure, whether it involves either a seamstress or an exorcist, but I have to imagine when one "darns" a sock one is condemning the sock's soul to heck.
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