Tag Archives: W.C. Fields

water of life

…Setting aside all the trivia about whisky, one can easily summarize the characteristics of this undeniably important fluid… Definition: A spirit distilled from malted barley or other grain- Oxford dictionary. Note that it is not described as “good to drink” … Continue reading

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the butler guards the gold

Are all these gains at the top of the pyramid illegal, immoral or frankly criminal riches the result of gaming the financial system, the large unearned increments as economist Frank Genovese has called them due to monopoly theories and barriers … Continue reading

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the future looks bright

Rube Goldberg.A fantasy world. And a fantasy not always in harmony with reality. W.C. Fields used to say “blame it on inertia” The inertia, the near fear and terror is technology in conflict with the established aesthetic rules of the … Continue reading

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approaches to relaxation

Jesse Marinoff Reyes Well, you know it was a product of its times when the lead cover line is “The Compleat Fallout Shelter” (although it was actually a fiction piece about a guy who’d made his shelter the ultimate bachelor … Continue reading

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when my ship comes in

The perceived incompetence of the ship’s captain.The image of the sinking ship always conjures up other traumatizing images of death by sea. Most notably by one of the pivotal paintings of romanticism,  the 1819  “Raft of the Medusa” by Theodore … Continue reading

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Broke bank: ballads of bonnie and clyde

Its a type of calling. A kind of priesthood. Except the fire and brimstone has been replaced metaphorically by the Biblical intonations of the high priests of economics. They have either found them and dusted them off from a new … Continue reading

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a thurber carnival: happy days are here again

The black, memorable year of 1929. Its 2011, three years since the great recession and the economic needle won’t budge.Employment is worse. And the housing crisis and foreclosures show little improvement. Are we in a socialized version of the dirty … Continue reading

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OH DEMON ALCOHOL: STRAIGHT UP

Here’s a story about a sinner, He used to be a winner who enjoyed a life of prominence and position, But the pressures at the office and his socialite engagements, And his selfish wife’s fanatical ambition, It turned him to … Continue reading

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HOLD ME MY DADDY SO I CAN LIFT YOU UP

” Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might’ve fired off a … Continue reading

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