This is my first venture in the process of both
critiquing the art of others, and sharing my own “art” if I may be so bold. I have always had a passion and love for photography, and I know what I like and do not like. As a person whom loves art and tries to collect, I will never and have never done so to be what i like to call “THE NET-WORTHLESSLY MOTIVATED COLLECTOR” As a self-employed futures trader in Chicago for the last 24 years (yes people in the actual “Pit”), the lay person has no concept of the world traders live in. With a failure rate of about 98.4% there is no rhyme nor reason, why those that have made it vary from Rhodes scholars to road workers. Trust me, its true and I haven’t got the time or motivation to bullshit. It is often said that money can’t buy you this or that, can’t buy you hap-pi…... bull FC’N shit. I see plenty of loud mouthed, fat-headed no concept of any type of style, culture tact decorum, smack talk, loving the sound of their own voice piss-ants every day that I trade. Trust me some have taken the term imbecile to levels that haven’t been seen since the :Dot com rally in the mid 90’s. they have smiles on their puffy-ass faces and fools nodding their heads in unison two feet away. They might not be internally enlightened but I just don’t see all the sadness and despair that is slathered all over the homeless crack-head living in a May-tag box 2 zip codes away.
martin venit
DEAR DIARY
Written by:
martin venit
July 25, 2007
rikscot, 28 days ago
Marty, I don’t mean to be cruel,but, did you not have an advantage over the other 98.4%? I mean, for others that come into the arena, they must start with nothing. They must pay the man rent, for the privalege to roll the dice, and if they crap out, they are done. You know what I mean. Some people are privaleged, most are not. There was a time most of my life when I WISHED I was privaleged. Now, I just worry about how I will care for my parents, having kids and a wife are out of the question. Time just swallows you up after you hit 40. If you earn less than 100K in this society, you are fuk’d. No more mortgages, gotta pay hefty taxes one cannot get ahead unless you have a big company. Middle class cannot get to the next level. Count your blessings.