Author Archives: Stephen Futterer

“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” — Matt tAIBBI in “ROLLING STONE” FROM APRIL 2010

When I looked up It passed through me How much the sky Was like the sea But, then, a change Came hard alee Without a sound And by degrees Switched cloud for lake Made brown of blue Like from God’s hand This something new.

It’s almost trite to describe the turn of the new year as bitter-sweet. And yet it still rings true. That inner warmth you get reviewing last year’s highlight reel (“you wanna check tape?”). Heck, your iPhone compiles it for you. And then there’s the hopeful aspect of what’s to come in the next. Maybe a little travel. Finish writing that book,Continue reading ““The TWILIGHT ZONE Zone””

New idea: why not chop up famous works into their smallest auctionable units? I think this half could be passed off as a Rothko-style color field painting and fetch a nice price. With its palette of pastel colors that pulse and suffuse into one another, what’s not to like? Set the reserve price at 7.25 million and letContinue reading ““Two-For-One Deal””