the match king

Upset over Pandas

China is repoing our pandas! I mean why can’t they just take all our bankers? I mean we don’t need those. I know that apparently there is a lot “talent” on Wall Street that is in danger of extinction, so maybe we can do an exchange. They can take all our “talented” bankers and investors and we can keep the pandas.

Butterstick is gone. AKA Tai Shan.
Oh….the ridiculousness of it all. Repoing pandas. Sad Panda. Seriously. I mean how did that meeting go with Obama? We don’t have any money so take our pandas?
I become very sad about this whole thing and stayed in. My husband went out and I curled up on the couch with a movie I’ve been meaning to watch for awhile. The Match King was fascinating. I wish they showed this movie to those who got Harvard MBA’s. All those people of “talent” who took the panda away. I had never heard of this film, but I’m wondering why these films are not more popular now. I mean this guy, this character Paul Kroll was based on Ivar Kreuger who created the financial model which has been used by Enron and is the basis for most of the international corporate structure we know today. Okay, I gotta ask, why are we not talking more about the fact that the current financial model being used is being based on a famous fraud?
The Match King gives a version of the life of Ivan Kruegar who makes Ken Lay and Bernie Maddoff look like amateurs. The story in the film is that of a man who makes an empire and a monopoly by giving loans off of future earnings and ultimately kills himself when the counterfeit bonds he uses to make a payment on a loan that was due is exposed by the stock market crash. Sound familiar?
What is also fascinating is the obvious sociopath that the character Paul Kroll is. So here’s a film which obviously tells us what we should have been paying attention to all along. Right there under our noses. (I mean if it was on, knew it existed and could find it.) Well now I’m telling you, find this movie and show it to any “talented” business person you know. Hell, buy it for your boss for Christmas. I’m sure it’s available somewhere on DVD. Here’s another interesting fact that they talked about in the movies. Have you ever heard that expression “Three on a match”? You know the one that says that three people shouldn’t share the same match because the third will have bad luck? Well the character Paul Kroll in the movie makes it up to sell more matches!

So what does this have to do with repoing pandas? Well, if we didn’t have so many Paul Kroll’s or Ivan Krueger’s still wandering around messing things up I think we would have more pandas not none.

So if you love pandas, watch this movie. There. .

Snakes on a Train

So the Swine Flu has been bumped up by the World Health Organization to a level four and the cases in the US have gone from 10 to 50. Our quarantine is going to last awhile. So let’s explore what really has been bugging us all lately. The Man.

The man who gets it all, keeps it all, wants it for free, whines too much has no real identity beyond his job and no real emotional investment in anyone other than himself. You know this guy.

I had a bad altercation on a train recently after having survived a modern music concert

and enjoyed a drink after the show. I had missed my train and had to take the 1:30 am home which can be quite unpleasant. Not dangerous, just drunk. I was seated next to a gaggle of unbearable human beings. An older white man in a suit, a few younger very aggressive more casually dressed, they were joined later by more men in suits. Passing beers around and stories of prostitutes, cocaine and loud testaments to what their carnal plans were for women they saw on the street and didn’t speak to.
I cracked and went after them. It was not pretty. There are reasons why someone like me takes on these creatures, knowing I’m outnumbered and that they are ultimately more powerful. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of working for these people, I’m sick of putting up with them, I’m sick of them on bubble tv and I’m sick of people telling them they are fun or funny or interesting because they are sad and pathetic and shells of human beings. Luckily for me (and because I know exactly how to handle these people: Shock, humiliate, ignore and discard) I convinced the conductor the dispose of these dregs of society. They should also know, that NO ONE LIKES THEM RIGHT NOW! Now is not the time to swagger and brag about money, status and prowess. Now is not the time to wag your entitlement around. Try watching these fine films which Warner Brothers called “Americanism Stories” The Match King (1932), Skyscaper Souls (1932) and States Attorney (1932). Really, really indulgent greed movies. These films make Gordon Geckko look like an amateur. Maybe by watching these films they may learn to get a little humility and think of others before they drop that prostitute off of the balcony.