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Archive for November, 2010

Nov 9

Don't wear suede shoes

Not that I will ever have to worry about this and apply his advice, but Michael Caine received some interesting advice from John Wayne when he first arrived in Hollywood in the 1960s.  Michael Caine had met John Wayne at the Beverly Hills Hotel and struck up a friendship from that point on.  Wayne advised:

‘Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much’ [and] ‘Don’t wear suede shoes.’ I said ‘Why can’t I wear suede shoes?’ and [John Wayne] said ‘You’ll be in the toilet, taking a pee and a guy will  recognize you
and he’ll turn and say ‘Michael Caine’ and he will have peed all over your shoes Michael.’ So I said ‘All right, I won’t wear suede shoes.’

It’s a fascinating interview.

Nov 3

The Two Year Cycle

It has been said political cycles last 30 years before change sets in.  Has that now become 2 year cycles?  Two years ago it was a Democratic triumph, today it’s a Republican triumph.  Will the pendulum swing back to the Democrats two years from now only to swing back again two years later. All election cycles lately have one word linking them all together: change!  Each election cycle will only devolve into attempts to undue what the previous party did. We are truly screwed…