Seven days a week, are not enough to show I care....

As many readers may know, I have lately been very excited about the novel,
"The Mermaid of Brooklyn" imagined and written by Amy Shearn. 
I have been a fan of Shearn for many, many years. 

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama

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Here are some of my thoughts about the work....

If you are a mother or had one, you will like this book.

Funny as hell. Very solid observational humor. I get a "you are there" quality to their neighborhood, to Jenny's Brooklyn.

Now, this has got to be kept confidential. I don't want a giant twitter campaign... however,...Jenny Lipkin in "The Mermaid of Brooklyn" is kind of a weirdo.I can say that the young woman is...

ok..I won't spoil it for you.

read the book and you tell me.

Now for our winner,:
R. Nikles
General Delivery, California.

I will be sending a copy of The Mermaid of Brooklyn, to "R."

For R. knew that Jeri Ryan(the actress who played 7 of 9 on a Star Trek spin-off) was at one time married to Jack Ryan. Jack Ryan ran as a republican against Barack Obama, current president of the United States. The details contained in divorce proceedings of Mr and Mrs. painted a lurid picture of their sex lives. This led the republicans to remove Ryan to select Alan Keyes of Maryland to run aganst then state senator Obama. Insuring a landslide victory for the charismatic Chicagoan.

In fact, I will also be sending a copy of "The Mermaid of Brooklyn" to Michelle Obama as a mother's day present.

Buy two copies, one to read and one to share.

6.....of 7 or 6 of 8, of 7 of 9. The Mermaid of Brooklyn

I can't remember when I started this series if I promised 7 days of discussing the great new book "The Mermaid of Brooklyn" by Amy Shearn or 8 days.

However, as a special Trivia Contest.

What is the relationshiop between 7 of 9 and President Obama? The best explanation will win a free copy of The Mermaid of Brooklyn.

The free copy is courtesy of Don's Basement.

Send your answers on facebook or comments to the blog.

7 of 9....how did she help President Obama's rise to prominence.

Arguments in favor of 7.

God created the world in 7 days.

From my friends at The Comic Torah:

The Yiddish Song Bulbes
It's about eating potatoes every day. The Fugs changed it to "Nothing": but they made it dirty.




The Magnificent Seven

OR 8....

As in 8 Days a Week


Note Spanish subtitles and different harmony.



 8 Seconds

The rodeo movie

8 Days for celebrating Jewish Festivals in the diaspora

Here is a very simple explanation from Chabad..

Originally, the starting date of every new month was broadcast from Jerusalem to distant Jewish outposts via huge bonfires which would be lit on designated mountaintops. Lookouts stationed on other mountaintops would see that a fire had been lit and would light their own fire. This chain of communication led all the way to Babylon, and even very distant communities knew when the new month began. If there was a festival that month, they now knew when to celebrate it.
But a problem arose. The Sadducees, a sect of Jews who denied rabbinic authority and were constantly at odds with the Sanhedrin, started lighting fires on the wrong days in order to manipulate the calendar.1
To prevent this confusion, the fire-on-mountaintop method of communication was discontinued, and instead messengers were dispatched to Babylon and all other far-flung Jewish settlements.
Since news travels a lot slower that way, distant communities would not know when Rosh Chodesh (the "Head of the Month") had been declared in time to celebrate the festival on the proper day.
It was therefore decreed that outside of the Land of Israel people would celebrate two days for each festival – the day it would be if the previous month had been a 29 day month, and the day it would be if the previous month had been a 30 day month.


My conclusion is that 7 beats 8. I am particularly disturbed about the Sadducees who set fires on the wrong days to confuse the people.

So tomorrow will be the stirring conclusion of the 7 Days of  The Mermaid of Brooklyn.

Day 5, Brooklyn, a state of mind or an independent state.

We've been spending all this time talking about mermaids and rusalka's and the great new book,
"The Mermaid of Brooklyn" by Amy Shearn, 
let's talk about Brooklyn.

Famous Brooklyn Family

Here are the facts:

New York's five boroughs overview
Jurisdiction		Population	Land area
Borough of	County of	1 July 2011 Estimates	square miles	square km
Manhattan	New York	1,619,090	23	59
The Bronx	Bronx	1,408,473	42	109
Brooklyn	Kings	2,565,635	71	183
Queens	Queens	2,272,771	109	283
Staten Island	Richmond	470,728	58	151
City of New York		8,336,697	303	786
State of New York		19,570,261	47,214	122,2

Population:  2,565,635.
The largest of the 5 boroughs.

Here the countries that Brooklyn eclipses in population:

There are either 99 or 101.

142	Lesotho	2,240,000	July 1, 2013	0.032%	UN estimate
143	Namibia	2,104,900	August 28, 2011	0.03%	Preliminary 2011 census result
144	Macedonia	2,059,794	December 31, 2011	0.029%	Official estimate
145	Slovenia	2,059,334	March 23, 2013	0.029%	Official population clock
146	Latvia	2,027,000	February 1, 2013	0.029%	Monthly official estimate
147	Botswana	2,024,904	August 22, 2011	0.029%	Final 2011 census result
148	Qatar	1,917,116	February 28, 2013	0.027%	Monthly official estimate
149	Gambia	1,874,000	July 1, 2013	0.026%	UN estimate
150	Gabon	1,594,000	July 1, 2013	0.023%	UN estimate
151	Guinea-Bissau	1,520,830	March 1, 2009	0.021%	Final 2009 census result
152	Trinidad and Tobago	1,328,019	January 9, 2011	0.019%	2011 census result
153	Estonia	1,286,540	January 1, 2013	0.018%	Official estimate
154	Mauritius	1,257,900	July 3, 2011	0.018%	2011 census result
155	Swaziland	1,237,000	July 1, 2013	0.017%	UN estimate
156	Bahrain	1,234,571	April 27, 2010	0.017%	Final 2010 census result
157	Timor-Leste	1,066,409	July 11, 2010	0.015%	Final 2010 census result
158	Cyprus	862,000	December 31, 2011	0.012%	Official estimate
159	Fiji	858,038	July 1, 2012	0.012%	Yearly official estimate
160	Réunion (France)	821,136	January 1, 2010	0.012%	Official estimate
161	Djibouti	818,159	May 29, 2009	0.012%	2009 census result
162	Guyana	784,894	July 1, 2010	0.011%	Yearly official estimate
163	Equatorial Guinea	761,000	July 1, 2013	0.011%	UN estimate
164	Bhutan	732,280	March 23, 2013	0.01%	Official population clock
165	Comoros	724,300	July 1, 2012	0.01%	Official estimate
166	Montenegro	620,029	April 1, 2011	0.0088%	Final 2011 census result
167	Western Sahara[15]	585,000	July 1, 2013	0.0083%	UN estimate
168	Macau (China)[16]	568,700	June 30, 2012	0.008%	Official estimate
169	Suriname	534,189	August 13, 2012	0.0076%	Preliminary 2012 census result
170	Luxembourg	524,900	December 31, 2011	0.0074%	Yearly official estimate
171	Solomon Islands	515,870	November 23, 2009	0.0073%	2009 census result
172	Cape Verde	491,875	June 16, 2010	0.007%	Final 2010 census result
173	Malta	416,055	November 20, 2011	0.0059%	Preliminary 2011 census result
174	Guadeloupe (France)	403,355	January 1, 2010	0.0057%	Official estimate
175	Martinique (France)	394,173	January 1, 2010	0.0056%	Official estimate
176	Brunei	393,162	June 20, 2011	0.0056%	Preliminary 2011 census result
177	Bahamas	351,461	May 3, 2010	0.005%	Final 2010 census result
178	Iceland	321,857	January 1, 2013	0.0045%	Official estimate
179	Maldives	317,280	July 1, 2010	0.0045%	Official estimate
180	Belize	312,971	May 12, 2010	0.0044%	Preliminary 2010 census result
181	Barbados	274,200	July 1, 2010	0.0039%	Official estimate
182	French Polynesia (France)	268,270	August 22, 2012	0.0038%	Preliminary 2012 census result
183	Vanuatu	258,213	July 1, 2012	0.0037%	Yearly official estimate
184	New Caledonia (France)	255,651	July 1, 2012	0.0036%	Yearly official estimate
185	French Guiana (France)	229,040	January 1, 2010	0.0032%	Official estimate
186	Mayotte (France)	212,600	August 21, 2012	0.003%	2012 census result
187	Samoa	187,820	November 7, 2011	0.0027%	Final 2011 census result
188	São Tomé and Príncipe	187,356	May 13, 2012	0.0026%	2012 census result
189	Saint Lucia	166,526	May 10, 2010	0.0024%	Preliminary 2010 census result
190	Guam (USA)	159,358	April 1, 2010	0.0023%	Final 2010 census result
191	Curaçao (Netherlands)	149,679	March 26, 2011	0.0021%	2011 census result
192	United States Virgin Islands (USA)	106,405	April 1, 2010	0.0015%	Final 2010 census result
193	Kiribati	104,573	July 1, 2012	0.0015%	Yearly official estimate
194	Grenada	103,328	May 12, 2011	0.0015%	2011 census result
195	Tonga	103,036	November 30, 2011	0.0015%	2011 census result
196	Federated States of Micronesia	101,823	July 1, 2012	0.0014%	Yearly official estimate
197	Aruba (Netherlands)	101,484	September 29, 2010	0.0014%	2010 census result
198	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	100,892	July 1, 2009	0.0014%	Yearly official estimate
199	Jersey (UK)	97,857	March 27, 2011	0.0014%	2011 census result
200	Seychelles	90,945	August 26, 2010	0.0013%	Final 2010 census result
201	Antigua and Barbuda	86,295	May 27, 2011	0.0012%	Preliminary 2011 census result
202	Isle of Man (UK)	84,497	March 27, 2011	0.0012%	2011 census result
203	Andorra	76,246	July 1, 2012	0.0011%	Yearly official estimate
204	Dominica	71,293	May 14, 2011	0.001%	Preliminary 2011 census result
205	Bermuda (UK)	64,237	May 20, 2010	0.00091%	Final 2010 census result
206	Guernsey (UK)	62,431	March 31, 2010	0.00088%	Yearly official estimate
207	Greenland (Denmark)	56,370	January 1, 2013	0.0008%	Yearly official estimate
208	Marshall Islands	55,548	July 1, 2012	0.00079%	Yearly official estimate
209	American Samoa (USA)	55,519	April 1, 2010	0.00078%	Final 2010 census result
210	Cayman Islands (UK)	55,456	October 10, 2010	0.00078%	Final 2010 census result
211	Northern Mariana Islands (USA)	53,883	April 1, 2010	0.00076%	Final 2010 census result
212	Saint Kitts and Nevis	51,970	July 1, 2009	0.00073%	Yearly official estimate
213	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	48,204	January 1, 2013	0.00068%	Monthly official estimate
214	Sint Maarten (Netherlands)	37,429	January 1, 2010	0.00053%	Official estimate
215	Saint Martin (France)	36,979	January 1, 2010	0.00052%	Official estimate
216	Liechtenstein	36,842	December 31, 2012	0.00052%	Yearly official estimate
217	Monaco	35,352	June 9, 2008	0.0005%	2008 census result
218	San Marino	32,480	January 31, 2013	0.00046%	Monthly official estimate
219	Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	31,458	January 25, 2012	0.00044%	2012 census result
220	Gibraltar (UK)	29,752	July 1, 2011	0.00042%	Yearly official estimate
221	British Virgin Islands (UK)	29,537	July 1, 2010	0.00042%	Yearly official estimate
222	Åland Islands (Finland)	28,502	December 31, 2012	0.0004%	Official estimate
223	Caribbean Netherlands (Netherlands)	21,133	January 1, 2011	0.0003%	Official estimate
224	Palau	20,770	July 1, 2012	0.00029%	Yearly official estimate
225	Cook Islands (NZ)	14,974	December 1, 2011	0.00021%	Final 2011 census result
226	Anguilla (UK)	13,452	May 11, 2011	0.00019%	Preliminary 2011 census result
227	Wallis and Futuna (France)	13,152	July 1, 2012	0.00019%	Yearly official estimate
228	Tuvalu	11,264	July 1, 2012	0.00016%	Yearly official estimate
229	Nauru	9,945	October 30, 2011	0.00014%	2011 census result
230	Saint Barthélemy (France)	8,938	January 1, 2010	0.00013%	Official estimate
231	Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)	6,081	January 1, 2010	0.00006%	Official estimate
232	Montserrat (UK)	4,922	May 12, 2011	0.00005%	2011 census result
233	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)	3,981	February 10, 2008	0.00004%	2008 census result
234	Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Norway)	2,655	September 1, 2012	0.00003%	Official estimate
235	Falkland Islands (UK)	2,563	April 15, 2012	0.00003%	2012 census result
236	Norfolk Island (Australia)	2,302	August 9, 2011	0.00002%	2011 census result
237	Christmas Island (Australia)	2,072	August 9, 2011	0.00002%	2011 census result
238	Niue (NZ)	1,414	July 1, 2012	0.00001%	Yearly official estimate
239	Tokelau (NZ)	1,411	October 18, 2011	0.00001%	Final 2011 census result
240	Vatican City	800	July 1, 2012	0.00001%	Official estimate
241	Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	550	August 9, 2011	0.000001%	2011 census result
242	Pitcairn Islands (UK)

Famous Brooklyn people:

These are just the "A" s

• Aaliyah (1979–2001) – actress, dancer and singer^[1]
• Cal Abrams – Major League Baseball player (Madison)
• Masta Ace (born 1966) – rapper^[2](Brownsville)
• Marv Albert – sportscaster (Manhattan Beach)
• Tatyana Ali – actress
• Debbie Almontaser – educator and founder of Brooklyn's Khalil Gibran International Academy, a New York City Arab-themed public school
• Woody Allen – director (Midwood)^[3]
• Lyle Alzado – National Football League player
• Franco Ambriz – playwright
• Carmelo Anthony – National Basketball Association player (Red Hook)^[4]
• Darren Aronofsky – director^[5]
• Isaac Asimov^[6] – author and biochemist
• Red Auerbach – guard; National Basketball Association coach and general manager; Hall of Fame (Williamsburg)
• Ken Auletta – journalist and writer
• Paul Auster – author (Park Slope)

And if you like this, I have a bridge...etc