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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
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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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, andrew McAfee author, Bruce Cockburn, Frank Genovese Babson College, Henry George, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, michael bloomberg occupy wall street, occupy wall street, tyler cowen author, W.C. Fields
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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
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
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Ben Bernanke, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Griffith, don knotts, federal reserve board, Gov. Rick Perry, Humphrey Bogart, Jim Rickards, John Heartfield, michael oher, Serge Gainsbourg, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud rat man, the blind side movie, W.C. Fields, Walter Benjamin
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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
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Wilder, Bing Crosby, Blake Edwards, Dudley Moore, Edward Copeland, Edwin S. Porter, Frank Sinatra, Fred Topel, Grace Kelly, Hays Commission, Jack Lemmon, Jack London, Jackie Gleason, James Cagney, Lee Remick, Nicholas Cage, Norman K. Denzin, Peter Mullan, Ray Davies, Ray Milland, Robert Hays, Steven Porter, Susan Hayward, W.C. Fields, Walter Matthau, William J. Felchner
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Diogenes, Fielding Tom Jones, Freud, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Ilya Repin, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Joseph D. Matarazzo, Michael Ferguson, Mike and the Mechanics, Plato, Polymathica, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Teddy Roosevelt, thepolymathicablog.blogspot.com, Tom Jones, Turgenev, W.C. Fields, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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