Wow! That's an oldie. Spring/Summer of 2007??

The psycho-pharm lost interest. He never lived up to his part. Barely gave me an outline. He read the first instalment. Loved it and made some good notes and set up some meetings.

He never came to the meeting. The other meetings were postponed because of his schedule. To my knowledge, he never read another thing I gave him.

Part of it was that in October 2007 I entered a full-service out-patient program at Roosevelt Hospital, so I couldn't see him for 6 months. There was no "outside" therapy allowed.

The program worked out fairly well for me. Not so much for most of the others. According to one of my fellow patients, only three of us 20-25 are left alive. Most of the group was CAMI [also classified MICA, CA = Chemically Addicted, MI = Mentally Ill].

It is not usual for me to be more enthusiastic about another's idea than they are. Most people who propose projects aren't prepared for the work that goes into them.

Part of it was that I'm not an addict. The publisher was much more interested in the lurid details of the vivid descent endemic to overcoming addiction than mental illness. There seems to be something voyeuristic or whatever about looking into the world of the addict for many.

The struggles of the mentally ill ... not so much.

Lastly and most importantly he really didn't write well. Which was a surprise, because he spoke well. I thought I just might be too critical or something until his buddy told me that his stuff was complete shit.

In the fall of 2008 when I became Medicare eligible I changed to St. Vincent's and over time lost contact with him.



Currently I'm working on a novel to entertain my buddy. He's a believer in the 9/11 conspiracies. So, it's a fictional historic novel that tries to ties all the disparate crackpot theories into a dramatic tale.

But, that's not going to see the light of any publisher.

I start it with a CIA figure, based on a real person we both know, walking a LI beach with the narrator the day after Flight 800 crashed.

I'm using his "version" of the 9/11 stuff, which has lots to do with the Rothschilds and the Federal Reserve Bank for some reason. But, my buddy keeps adding to it. Now the Ukraine crash with the Dutch on board is another brick in this wall. And, Sandy Hook, is part of it, too.