Idle Thoughts

• Helen knew herself to be a whore, but neither the Argives nor the Trojans believed her.

• Moses Maimonides wouldn't accept money for being a Torah sage, saying the prophets and sages were hewers of wood and drawers of water and that was how they got their living. Maimonides himself was in pharmaceuticals.

• Lady Liberty's Las Vegas doppleganger has a postage stamp. Botox was used to eliminate the old whore's verdigris. Another argument for iconism in meaningless abstractions.

• Gas at four bucks a gallon. An apocalypse for the consumer! Today I laughed at a woman driving a Hummer. I made sure she saw me.

• Walt Disney has eight times as many Facebook friends as Jesus.

• There are hardly any people in the Georgics. They all went to hell with Virgil.






• Listened to a couple of hayseeds who will be suckled cradle to grave on the government teat prattle on about fiscal responsibility. A couple of parricides.

• Led Zeppelin IV is still one of my favorite album covers. It has Cain with his bundle of thorns and The Hermit (would that it were from the Marseille Tarot!). The world and the proper response to it.