Counting Blessings Goes to Second Edition; Crowds Are out of Control

OK, Waferinos: you've been asking about it for a long time, so here it is, with a brand new publisher (One Spirit Press, the one that did "Spinning Straw Into Gold") and a brand new front cover (Cliffs of Moher, off the coast of Doolin, which will be the site of the International Wafer Summit Conference of 1-5 June 2015):

http://www.amazon.com/Counting-Blessings-Morris-Berman/dp/189307529X/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385256725&sr=1-9&keywords=morris+berman

Remember to get one for the kitchen, one for the bathroom. And as for the ideal Xmas gift, don' get me started...

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9/11 and Counting: What Have We Learned?

http://youtu.be/2itgLqHFMJM

Interview with WLUR-FM

http://wlurarchive.wlu.edu/Radio IE/Fall 2013/111813RadioIE.mp3

On My Way to Ol' Virginny

Well Waferinos, this is it: on Sunday I'll be Virginny-bound. For those of you within striking distance of Lexington, my lecture will be Nov. 19, 5 p.m., on the Washington & Lee University campus (Northen Auditorium). Word has it that they'll be serving crab cakes rather than chopped liver canapes, but inasmuch as I spent two years in Baltimore during the era of my wasted youth, I'm hip. I look forward to seeing a few of you there, in any case, and hope you enjoy it. Just keep in mind at all times that there are Wafers, and then there's everybody else.

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200

Well, Wafers: We did it! 7.5 years after this world-changing blog was launched, we reached the 200th post. They laughed; they said It couldn't be done; but we did it. Like the Wright Bros. at Kitty Hawk, we soared, a kind of mental drone, revealing the disintegration of the American empire, for all to see. They quaked in their boots, the DoD, NSA, NYSE, FBI, CIA, and the W.H., for they knew that Belman and the Wafers (sounds like a fifies rock band, like Danny and the Juniors--be sure to Google them; I remember at Cornell when I was a freshman, there was a group called Pontius Pilate and the Nail-Drivin' Five, which many of us thought was a tad out of taste, but you gotta understand the climate of the times) had their number, and that the jig was up.

Still, even way back in 2006, who could have predicted the depth, the intensity, of the Cranial-Rectal Embedment (CRE) that would come to be everyday fare in this fair land of ours? Could we have imagined this?:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/abraham-lincoln-democrat-northeastern-illinois/

Or this?:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/05/us-usa-shooting-newjersey-idUSBRE9A403W20131105

It's things such as these that inspire us Wafers to renewed efforts, and new heights. So I say to you all: Onward to the next 200 posts! What awaits us 7.5 years hence, God only knows.

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Dear Wafers, and Waferettes:

Your comments have been coming in so fast and furious that we are already onto another post; and it won't be too long till the 200th post is upon us. Like the millionth hit we recently celebrated, it seems hard to believe. The Pentagon, White House, Wall Street, and all of the major corporations listed in Fortune's 500 are quaking in their boots as a result; they sense that as the power of this blog has grown, and its ideas have revolutionized America, lifting The American People to a new level of consciousness, their own power is waning. What can I say? What started out as modest beginnings have now overturned the dominant, outmoded ways of thought, and Waferism is now set to sweep the globe. It's a tsunami of awakening, and I doubt even Kim's buttocks, massive though they are, can resist this tidal wave of intelligence. Like a phoenix rising, we see Shep with his mayo and his mandolin, and Cube with his logic and his turkey sandwiches. And of course, I sit in the corner of my study, weeping tears of joy into my matzo ball soup. It's all good (I actually hate that expression; how is it all good?).

Anyway, as I mentioned before, I'm going to be giving a talk at Washington & Lee University in Lexington VA on November 19, then spend a few days doing deli research in NY, and then go back home to continue working on my Japan book, which is like giving birth to a rhinoceros. But it's about 2/3 done, and I'll be giving a series of lectures on it at the University of Tokyo during the week of April 14, for those of you who care to fly over (just kidding). Needless to say, I'll be lecturing in English, as my Japanese is pretty basic: Toire wa doko des ka? (Where's the bathroom?).

But the world is our oyster; we are Wafers, after all, and that single, fabulous fact of our existence carries us through any and all forms of adversity. Banzai!

-mb