Showing posts with label Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Show all posts
Saturday, August 23, 2014

All Hail and Farewell, the Trophy Kids

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Adolphe-William Bouguereau, The Birth of Venus, 1879 Mildred: “That Ted Forrester’s nice-looking, isn’t he? Veda likes him.” Monte: ...
Monday, July 7, 2014

You Go First

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Don’t shit where you eat. — Anonymous Way back in the Dark Ages of Investment Banking, O Dearly Beloved—say in the 1970s or 1980s, befor...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

The School of Hard Knocks

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Power Figure, Kongo Peoples, 19th C. I am no student (We’re going down to meet Feel those vibrations) Of ancient culture (I know a neat...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

A Fine Disregard for the Rules

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to share with you, O Dearly Beloved, just why it is that the current snowballing trend of reducing workin...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The Invention of Leisure

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“Get a job.” — Famous chorus from a popular song O Dearest and Most Beloved of All Indiscriminate Internet Content Consumers (that’s you...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

To Whom It May Concern

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“There are two kinds of people who are staying on this beach: those who are dead and those who are going to die. Now let’s get the hell out...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

Go Ahead, Live a Little

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Longtime followers of this cut-rate opinion emporium will recall your Humble Bloggist to be a gushing fan of Financial Times management inq...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Curriculum Vitae

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Such a clever Toad. Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix Ex aliis alias reddit natura figuras. Nec perit in toto quidquam, m...