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My lucky streak continues
I am blessed. Now people from all over the world are seeking out my wisdom and experience. The money is falling on me like rain:
From Mrs Aluwa Cabenca Williams & Son Benjamin.
Abidjan Cote d’Ivoire.
West Afrique .
Good Day.
My Name is MRS. ALUWA CABENCA WILLIAMS a citizen of Sierra-Leone. A widow being that I lost my late husband couple of months ago. When my late husband was alive he was dealing with international REAL ESTATE agency until his death. My late husband CHIEF CABENCA B. WILLIAMS left behind a total sum of (US$ 18.500.000 EIGHTEEN MILLION FIVE HOUNDRED THOUSAND U.S DOLLARS) My late husband package this money in one trunk box and deposited it in the Security Company here in Abidjan Cote D’Ivoire, and the Content was mentioned as a family valuable. He told me to look for a good foreign partnership and ship the trunk box for foreign investment. He advice me to invest this money on real estate or transport industry business.
Through I have not met with you before but I believe, one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life. Me and my only Son Benjamin have visited the Security Company and approached to to the director and presented to him the entire document my late husband left to us, bears with the name of my son Benjamin as the next of kin and including his death certificate.
I want to follow the instruction of my late husband to invest the money with my only son in your country, I will like to invest part of the money into any of these three investments plan in your Country as bellow. But if there is any other business with good profit, that is better than what I am suggesting, we will be very glad to follow your advice. Please come up with your idea.
1). Real estate
2). Transport industry
3). HotelI humbly request you to participate in this transaction and also give me professional directives If you are in interested and willing to assistance us. We will be pleased to offer you 25% of the total sum as compensation for your effort /input for the successful shipment of this Trunk box to your destinations address for the Investment Project.
Thank you for your understanding.
I await your soonest response.
Respectfully yours.
Mrs Aluwa Cabenca Williams & Son Benjamin.
You would have to be born with only a brain stem to fall for a scam like this. I have no sympathy for anyone that stupid.
My lucky week
I am on a big winning streak. A few days ago I won a BMW and $850,000. Now I’ve won €750,000. I can’t believe my luck. I am tempted to head straight to Las Vegas!
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Snapshots Gone
The Snapshots widget was really slowing down the loading of my blog, so I have deleted it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Snapshots
I have just added the Snapshot widget to my blog, which gives you a "snap shot" of the webpages I’ve linked to just by passing your cursor over the link. I’ve seen it on other blogs I visit (and I like it) so I decided to try it out on mine. Let me know what you think!
Nothing
I’ve seen three episodes of THE BIONIC WOMAN (including the lackluster pilot) and it’s obvious to me what the big problem with the show is: Nothing happens. I mean it. Nothing. The show is called THE BIONIC WOMAN, yet the heroine never does anything bionic…which, frankly, is the main reason why anybody would watch in the first place. The most she did in the last episode I saw was toss around a couple of bored stunt men in a nail salon (yeah, a nail salon) and wince real hard until her nose bled. That’s what passes for bionic action these days. I’d take Lindsay Wagner running in slow motion over that. Hell, I’d ever prefer to watch Maxmillion the Bionic Dog fetch a tennis ball. The new, improved, re-imagined Jaime Sommers spends the bulk of her time whining and sulking around, working out on the standing sets, and engaging in painfully forced, wanna-be GILMORE GIRLS repartee with her sister and her co-workers. It’s obvious that the producers desperately want THE BIONIC WOMAN to be a hip cross between LA FEMME NIKITA, GILMORE GIRLS and the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, but they are so busy trying to mimic the look, feel, and rhythm of those series that they’ve overlooked the most important element of any show, old, new or "re-imagined": A compelling story.
Eavesdropping
I can’t help it… I’m an eavesdropper. In restaurants, on airplanes, in buses…I am always listening. Most writers I know are eavesdroppers, too. Which bring me to my friend Mark Evanier, who took his mother to the ER the other night and heard a funny conversation.
SEA CHANGE
I caught up with last May’s JESSE STONE: SEA CHANGE, the Tom Selleck TV movie that was loosely based on Robert B. Parker’s novel. It was definitely the weakest of the four Stone movies…then again, it was also one of the weakest of the Stone novels. The plot of the movie was actually better than the plot of the book, but that’s not saying much. The mystery was no mystery and Stone was largely ineffectual and passive throughout. But I enjoyed the movie nonetheless, largely because of Selleck’s performance and the general mood of the piece, which is greatly helped by Robert Harmon’s directing and Jeff Beal’s score. Selleck is perfect in the role and I hope he decides to keep doing the movies long after he runs out of books to base them on, especially since the last Stone novel, HIGH PROFILE, was lousy (there is still one good Stone novel, TROUBLE IN PARADISE, that hasn’t been filmed). I wonder why CBS and Selleck haven’t turned JESSE STONE into a weekly series…though now that he’s busy on NBC’s LAS VEGAS, I suppose it’s a moot point for the time being.
A Saintly Radio Program
Roger Moore narrates a fun and fascinating BBC radio documentary on Leslie Charteris, author of the Saint. Among those interviewed is my Uncle Burl Barer, the Edgar-award winning author of a book on Charteris and the Saint (who must have crapped himself when he heard Moore, his childhood idol, introducing him).
(Thanks to William Simon for the heads-up!)
Civilization
I found an Internet cafe in Fontainebleau, so I can finally connect to the outside world. My novel MR. MONK AND THE TWO ASSISTANTS comes out on Monday, but I have already started receiving emails from people who bought the book as early as last Thursday. I look forward to hearing your comments about it!
This is the first book I’ve written that I haven’t been around to see published…so if you want to send me pictures of the book on display at a store near you, I would appreciate it. That way, I can vicariously enjoy the feeling of publication. I will post some of the photos here.