- After forty episodes of On the Log, I was not able to put out an episode last week; I had too much work to do, and not enough cycles and energy to do it. This week, in order to hopefully jump start my creativity I released my first “B-side” episode. In a B-side episode, I try to turn my show upside down; different tone and different material.
One thing I have to say, I had more fun putting this episode together than any other in recent times. If you’re having fun creating something, something must be ringing true 
I especially enjoyed writing “A Reading from the Book of Economics”, reproduced below:
A reading from the book of economics, Chapter 11, beginning at the 1st verse:
And happy were the rich in that time, for the Lord Greenspan had spake unto them:
“Unregulated shalt thou be, in the manner of thine acquisitions. And bountiful shall thy derivatives be, though mortal mind knoweth not the way of their being. And to the poor, ill-favoured by the Lord, shalt I say: Verily, verily, verily, suckest-it to be thee.”
And the rich saw that it was good. Oh my, was it good.
But presently did the rich say to one another, there is a land afar, its name being Iraq, whose bounty liest under the sands; how hast this bounty escaped our entitlement? Hath not the Lord promised all wealth to us, including this thing they callest oil? How can these riches be, and not belongest to us? And they petitioned the Lord with prayer, saying “Send us a savior who can reclaim these stolen riches for us.”
And the Lord heard their cry, and sent forth his angels Bush and Cheny. And Bush did comfort the rich, saying, “The Lord hath heard thee, and shall grant thee succor; for I shall cause a great conflict to arise in Iraq, and the riches and blood shall flow mingled together; the Lord shall make separate the ways of the riches and blood; the riches he will bestoest on thee, and the blood shall be a burden on the poor. And the poor. made fearful and compliant, shall gladly accept the gift of blood, the price of which they payest.”
But after a time, a scourge of economic reality came upon the land, in the form of the sub prime mortgage crisis; foreclosed were the mansions, and many were the treasures that were repossessed. And crieth out the rich again, saying “Lord, wilt thou not come to the aide of thine chosen
ones at our hour of need?”
And the Lord smiled upon them and said “Fear not. As long the poor exist, shalt they not bear the brunt of the economic dislocation? 700 billions of dollars shall I cause to be taken from them, and the generations of the poor that follow, and I will tell them them that it is for their own good, and the good of the world. So weepest not, my children. Consequences are for the poor, and all they have, shall be thine in the end.”
Here endeth the reading.
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