Friday Reading Meme..

Recently finished Alec Baldwin's memoir, Nevertheless, which, while moving and compelling in places, is a book in desperate need of a good editor. Also yet another example of how the US trade publishing industry is failing in the editing department. Carrie Fisher's memoir, The Princess Diarist had some of the same issues.[deleted rant].

Baldwin meanders, rambles, and repeats himself. I really wanted to edit the hell out of it. He also seems to have a fondness for gushing over people -- with the words, "I fell in love with so and so".
That said? There are passages that are rather compelling, not mention inspiring, and hopeful. The writer, Baldwin, went through a lot of pits and valleys...stumbling through a nasty divorce and an even worse custody battle, which had left him bereft at various points, along with a drug addiction and not one but several career set-backs.

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New York - Proposition #1

Any New Yorker's out there? If so, what do you think of... Proposition #1?

I have no idea how to vote on this issue. It's very controversial.
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