WELCOME TO WEEKLY WILSON, where a wealth of wit and wisdom awaits you. Or not. But, seriously, folks... there will be (no) blood, but there will be reviews (movies, plays, books, music), anecdotes, politics, humor and YOU can comment. [You just have to click the "Add Comment" or "Be the First to Comment" button at the end of the article to leave your comments and I hope you do.] After 52 years writing for newspapers, a couple of radio shows, and many years teaching English and Writing, you can now follow along as I slowly deteriorate to the point of making absolutely no sense at all.
That moment starts now.
Here’s the podcast from Asylum Management. We talked for 90 minutes. Mostly, we talked about the ghosts of Route 66, because of my trilogy set along that Mother Road. The last of the ghostly tales of route 66 is now out. Soon, I hope to have PayPal orderability on the website www.GhostlyTalesofRoute66.com.
Until then, you can always contact Quixote Press.
French researchers, using Belgian Malinois dogs, have discovered that that breed of dog can correctly pick out a man suffering from prostate cancer from sniffing the urine of the victims. The dogs, in 66 tests, sniffed out the sick individual’s urine from a field of 5 corectly 63 times out of 66. This accuracy is far higher than the standard PSA tests, which often given false positives.
Dogs can be trained to detect the characteristic odor of unique chemicals released into urine by prostate tumors according to Dr. Jean-Nicolas Cornu.
This new discovery could very well signal a new way to detect prostate cancer, as there were only 3 false positives and no false negatives when using the trained canines, far lower than PSA tests.
In 1988 Universal Studios used a farm in Dyersville, Iowa, as the main location for the movie Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Burt Reynolds and Ray Liotta.
Today, that baseball diamond carved out of a cornfield is for sale for $5.4 million dollars. The sellers are Don and Becky Lansing and the 193-acre plot has been used as a tourist stop ever since the movie came out, with the 2-bedroom farmhouse, 6 buildings including a concession stand and the diamond up for purchase.
Realtor for the sale is Ken Sanders who went 29-45 with a 2.97 Earned Run Average for 8 major league teams during 10 seasons in the 1960′s and 1970′s, before he became a real estate agent.
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