If you’re like us, you take pride in knowing that the work we are engaged in is critically important, just like that of nurses, doctors and firemen.
When we are
called up for active duty over the holidays we think not of ourselves or our
loved ones, but of all “those wonderful people out there in the dark,” as Norma
Desmond said; blindly fumbling around wondering which movie to go to, which TV
show to watch, which game to buy, which DVD to rent.
And here we are, like a beacon in the night, guiding the way with our subway 2-sheets and our super bus kings.
So keep up the good work, comrades. And rest assured that the project that kept you away from your family was of vital consequence and that deadline they gave you was in no way an arbitrary one.
From our archives.
"For what is an artist in this world but a servant, a lackey for the rich and powerful? Before we even begin to work, to feed this craving of ours, we must find a patron, a rich man of affairs, or a merchant, or a prince or... a Pope. We must bow, fawn, kiss hands to be able to do the things we must do or die. We are harlots always peddling beauty at the doorsteps of the mighty."
Posted by: Pooflinger | Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 10:26 AM