The Frustrated CFO's Preface:
Seriously, guys, this just happened, like, 20 minutes ago (I had to scramble to make the picture). Quoted verbatim from an email sent by the CEO of an internationally-mixed company:
"Dear all,
In honor of Chinese New Year, the Year of Goat/Sheep/Lamb, we will have a Chinese lunch together to celebrate on Friday."
"Our modern life is such an unholy mix of voyeurism and exhibitionism. People are perpetually broadcasting their internal and external selves."
Stella Gibson
The Fall
Season 2, episode 4
Created, written,
and directed by
Allan Cubitt
The Frustrated CFO commentary:
When I heard these words spoken with a bitter sigh by Gillian Anderson I felt fortunate to have experienced once more the cultural sensation Alan Bennett described as the hand of an unknown but like-minded friend reaching out to you from far away. For confirmation, check out this post on social networking I wrote back in November 2013. You don't even have to bother yourself with all 1000+ words – just read the fourth paragraph.
I've never met you, Allan Cubitt, but you are my friend.
The Frustrated CFO's Preface:
Do you remember how in Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia (1993) Denzel Washington's character, an attorney Joe Miller, has the same request for everyone he is questioning: "Explain it to me like I am a four-year-old" (this is not the central quote of this post, by the way)? The phrase is used in a sarcastic, almost mocking, tone. Joe Miller implies that the subject matter is simple and obvious to everyone as is, but he wants to hear your version of it. Basically, it is an equivalent of "humor me" and it is a setup: you either going to admit his version of the truth or lie.
But the reality is that whatever it is you claim to know you actually should be able to break down into a comprehensive format digestible by, if not a four-year-old, but at the very least any layman. And if you cannot… here is the quote:
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Albert Einstein
“You know, I look at popular music, the stuff that’s selling millions of records in America, and it makes me angry, actually… If I see Nickelback I want to kill myself. Okay, I want to kill them and then I want to kill myself, and then I want to kill everybody who listens to them.”
Anthony Bourdain
Parts Unknown, Tokyo
The Frustrated CFO’s comment:
Oh, my God! My sentiment exactly! Nickelback, and fun., and MAGIC! (what’s up with all that stylizing, anyway?!), and the rest of them. And by the way, I love QOTSA and see them every time I have a chance! And I can outeat any Japanese person at a conveyor sushi restaurants in Tokyo! And I LOVE uni!!! Let’s be friends!
Once upon a time (but not very long ago), Kroshka Roo, the quick-witted sidekick of the mighty goddess Shiny Crow, was making a protein potion for himself – to keep his strength and virility at the level tantamount to the demands of his arduous life. The brew, prepared in accordance with a recently unearthed ancient recipe, looked like a swamp in South-Eastern Asia after an especially long winter season of inexhaustible rains: It was muddy-green and thick, with a texture that gave an appearance of something heavy and hairy swimming right under the surface.
Kroshka Roo took a sip.
"Does it taste vile?" asked Shiny Crow, testing her partner's commitment to the noble cause of survival in the Crumbling World.
Kroshka Roo didn't skip a bit. "I looked at the liquid," he replied, "And just knew exactly what it would taste like. My expectations were completely met and I am at peace with the potion." He then proceeded to consume the brew in its entirety.
The Frustrated CFO 