Interesting article about the "Lost Films" of #Hollywood (and elsewhere). #history #film #Hitchcock #GreatGatsby https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/04/10/the-lost-films-hitchcock-gatsby-and-oscar-winning-movies-that-vanished/?utm_source=drip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weekend+Conversation+Starters&utm_content=Weekend+Conversation+Starters

@rbreich Robert, as an American with a few decades of economic-ish experience, you know good and well there is not nor has there ever been any such thing as a "free market."

Capitalism has been rigged at every turn and always has it been so. Who gets a seat on the NY Stock Exchange? Not you or me. Who makes the rules? Not you or me.

The market always has been controlled by oligarchs; it's just a smaller number skimming off the top than has been the case in recent decades.

#GreatGatsby

Greg Olear writes,

"If we can distill [Great] Gatsby to its essence, this quote comes the closest:

'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

A century later, nothing has changed."

#GreatGatsby #Republicans #EconomicElites

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-the-great-gatsby

Still thinking about this piece. Should inform my annual #GreatGatsby reading, anyway. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/03/great-gatsby-book-fitzgerald-race-interpretation/672778/?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Weekly:%20January%2030-February%203%2C%202023&utm_term=lithub_weekly_master_list

I think this is a perfect quote for me for 2023. #greatgatsby #newyear #lifelonglearning

I wonder what exciting projects will be and have been now that #SherlockHolmes is fully in the #PublicDomain - Jack Russel Terrior Nick from #GreatGatsby was a funny one I heard about

Happy holidays, night the first of Bartesian’s advent calendar.

Great Gatsby is delicious and I’m glad I splurged for two sets because my wife just took the glass from me.

#bartesian #AdventCalendar #cocktail #GreatGatsby #HappyHolidays #alcohol

boats beating against
the tide; you'll need a pair o'
docks to tie them fast

#575prompt
#haiku
#poetry
#greatgatsby