Monthly Archives: October 2011

Mipples For Moobs

October 6, 2011 – 10:49 am

“I’m like the Acropolis. In a state of ruins, but you can tell at one time I must have been splendid.” David Tidball said more than twenty years ago. The English painter was describing himself, but I have quoted his words on many occasions to Americans without a single reply. I attribute their lack of […]

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Bruins Rangers Brawl 1979

October 6, 2011 – 8:04 am
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LOVE WILL TEAR US APART / Joy Division

October 5, 2011 – 9:57 am
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Gesamtkunstwerk Macht Frei

October 5, 2011 – 9:53 am

The German word Gesamtkunstwerk is defined as the ideal work of art. Last night I arrived from Charleroi and immediately changed into a suit to attend a Chamber Music concert at the Luxembourg Theater. Annie Sofie von Otter was singing a series of song written by the inmates of Theresienstadt. The Nazis under SS Doktor […]

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Same Old Suspects

October 2, 2011 – 3:07 pm

International banks employ hundreds of thousands of highly educated people to invest funds through the global capital markets. These trades are overseered by top executives and governmental inspectors. Computers registered every transaction. Big or small. Two purchases of less than $15 pushed my account into the red and my bank issued a penalty of $35. […]

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