be glad your poor
fiction
edward w pritchard
Be glad you are poor. You have never screwed a friend over money and you are not fretting over the stock markets eating up your hard earned savings .
You are star dust you are golden. We have got to get ourselves back to the garden. [ Crosby, Stills and Young.]
the future lives in the past
fiction
edward w pritchard
The future lives in the past.
Rather than electric, hydrogen or gasoline being the future of the auto industry and peoples preferences of perpetual locomotion economic and environmental circumstances will dictate trains as the new source of locomotion for Americans.
Heed the future. Look for trains as the next best thing.
all the news that's fit to print
fiction
edward w pritchard
Everybody at some time in their life finds themselves working in some kind of a job to support themselves. In my case I sit in a very small space capsule traveling very fast at the edge of the solar system and transmit the stock market action across the universe as far as humans have settled to investors millions and millions of miles from home. What I do is routine but of great importance because I am the last link in the mother economy stretching from earth to the next galaxy. Still sometimes I get exasperated being involved with persons obsessed so much with money and I sometimes get in trouble for the sarcasm that I sneak into my financial reports
As example during the worse crash in the stock indexes in twenty years I began to sing during my broadcast the Kinks song " celluloid heroes" between my commentary on the DJ Industrial 11% fall this morning.
I remember myself singing " everybody's a dreamer, everybody's a star, and everybody's in movies, it doesn't matter where you are". I like to think that the writer of the song Ray Davies of the Kinks would smile if he could hear me now. Of course broadcasts traveling back to earth on financial matters are forbidden for a 30 day period as everyone knows. So it will take about five weeks for my boss to reprimand me for my disobedience.
wall street may 09, 2022
fiction
edward w pritchard
Another debacle on Wall Street today. Could be the start of serious times.
Here's today's summary of today's wall street action from Henry James in 1904, " The American Scene" New York chapters.
" confusion carried to chaos for any intelligence", any perception, any welter of sounds in which relief, detachment, dignity, meaning, perished utterly and lost all right. "
Couldn't have said it better myself.
