“If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell” – Gordon Lightfoot
On rare occasion, the Gods of Comedy descend to Earth from Mount
Olympus, or Mount Catskills or Mount Airy Lodge in the Poconos (for those
keeping count of lazy writing, this makes two successive blogs with two Mount
Airy Lodge references, something one is very unlikely to see outside of the
romantic resort’s very own webpage) or from whatever brick wall, custard pie,
seltzer bottle laden paradise in which they dwell, to bestow upon a chosen
mortal a scarce, priceless and invaluable gift rife with comedic potential. In
the humble opinion of this observer, those deities of the double-take are very
likely named Groucho, Harpo, Chico and even Zeppo, reigning alongside the
members of the Python troupe, even the American one with the very strange
hybrid accent. For this particular posting we have been presented with a peculiar
picture of wannabe leader of the free world and insomniac’s best friend, Willard
Mitt Romney. The origin of this unusual image is unknown. The actual actions of
the universally unpopular in Massachusetts, job destroying, tax evading,
corporate conquistador, man of a thousand contradictory opinions and no
convictions ex-Governor are a puzzlement. The
reason for the reaction of the girl is a guess. But when you have the Great Equivocator,
the Prince of Prevarication, the Viceroy of Vacillation in your comedy line of
fire, the tee-hee trigger must be pulled with the hopes of making a belly-laugh
bull’s-eye. Let’s hope that among this multiplicity of captions applied to but
one solitary pictorial moment, we have achieved greater success than that of the
average unfortunate former employee of any of Bain Capital’s take-over
companies.
Note: Of course, all submissions can be enlarged with but a mouse click for easier reading.
We close with Gordon Lightfoot and a live performance of, “If You Could Read My Mind.” For any younger readers, I’m sure someday, someway “… and several butcher’s aprons” will conclude with a song and an artist that you may at least be vaguely familiar with, maybe. But until that far away day, I highly recommend giving this man and his composition a listen.
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