The Rebirth of the Blues

Bear markets for finance mean bull markets for the arts, entertainment, and street culture. This Peter Stothard fellow is dancing for joy nowadays 'as the bankers head for the exits.' And why not?

All those kids at Goldman, Lehmans, and every other bulwark mystical capitalist institution were never stupid just a li'l but greedy. They wanted to get rich as astronauts, that was their right, and those were the right places to do it.

Too Bad! That whole racket is bust now so they have to pursue other careers.

Just like within every insurance salesman is a lion tamer, inside every bond-flow desk clerk is a cinematic auteur, every CA wants to be Van Gogh, Merchant Bankers want to be Brecht, and every corporate lawyer would prefer to be Evelyn Waugh. (I might be generalizing but it's a trend I believe in.)

With chaos around the corner I recently took a little break from the logosophere to buy a metal slide and tuned my guitar to open D. All the better to play Skip James. That wasn't irrelvant trivia it fits in with my next point:



When finance collapses the Blues comes back baby!