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Let Us Eat Cake!

Let Us Eat Cake!

They attribute the famous quote ‘ Let them eat cake’ to Marie Antoinette, Queen Consort of King Louis XIV of France. Apparently, she was told that the peasants did not have enough bread to eat. Her retort Let them eat cake, famous for all the Super Rich...
A Farruggio Original: When They Were Little

A Farruggio Original: When They Were Little

The divorce was powerfully negative. No one is right when everyone is wrong. Yet, he still could enjoy those two little munchkins. Picking them up from elementary school on released time Weds. and shooting over to Brennan & Carr for an early dinner. The oldest...
UNComfortably Numb!

UNComfortably Numb!

Sailing back listening to Pink Floyd’s classic Comfortably Numb. The mood of melancholia is mixed with a musical yearning for something seemingly out of my reach. As the song ends I get tossed hard into the current reality. Oh, how  I wish I could replay that...
Seven Days in May… No! Five Days in November!

Seven Days in May… No! Five Days in November!

Every American who has even the slightest interest in our political and electoral system should watch the 1964 classic film Seven Days In May. Director John Frankenheimer, along with screenwriter Rod Serling ( he of The Twilight Zone fame) , captured the essence of...