From the Introduction: You have economic hard times to thank for
this book. I am by profession a bookseller. In 2007, a friend
suggested a newsletter as a way of enhancing book sales. I think
she had monthly specials, promo sheets and upcoming new titles in
mind, but I was too dense for that. Instead I wrote on topics of my
own fancy. The first two years, 2007-9, when the newsletter
appeared monthly were, well, dreadful. The week that Venus went
retrograde in March, 2009, with the stock market stabilizing after
months of plunging, I shifted from a monthly single-page
newsletter, to a weekly three-pager. I followed a three-page format
for a couple of years. Most of the worth-while essays were compiled
in my first book, Skeet Shooting for Astrologers. Two years later
in March, 2011, with the economy ever more bleak and myself running
out of ideas, I started writing celebrity delineations and in the
process broke out of a rigid format. The delineation of Jon
Stewart, of the Daily Show, was the first of these. Retrograde
Venus has turned up in a surprising number of the charts I've
written about, given its rarity, among them, the chart for the
Republican Party, as well as the charts for Rep. Ron Paul, Mayor
Michael Bloomberg, Jon Stewart, and some others. No, my Venus is
not retrograde. Essays are in order of publication, in part as I
think organizing by topic makes for a boring block of reading. The
book starts with the last of the 2-column essays from the original
3-page weekly. Meanwhile the economy is now in the fifth year of
straight decline. I do wish the people in charge of the country
would just send us all envelopes stuffed with cash. I can live on
barter just as well as money, but when that happens there will be
no authors, there will be no books, there will be no commerce.
Money has its uses.
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