THE COAL SPEAKER

I am on a mission to find and buy presidents’ heads. Let me explain.

I’m talking about those iconic, oversized heads of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln that used to adorn classroom walls in the early 1900s. You know the ones—giant oval cutouts that loomed over children as they tackled their studies, offering a silent, patriotic presence, and in the case of honest Abe, a slightly melancholy and distinct stare..

But everyone I talk to says they are gone for good…

December 25, 2024 THE COAL SPEAKER

Let’s all join together and hawk tuah on ’24

Every year has its defining moments, but what happens when there are too many? When the deluge becomes too much to process, leaving us mentally drowning as we try to look back on the past twelve months?

November 29, 2024 THE COAL SPEAKER

AND THEY’RE….HOME! BLACK FRIDAY BECOMES A SHADOW OF ITS ONE SELF

All of this is not to say that corporations won’t make money on Black Friday and that people are done Christmas shopping. Quite the opposite. Companies have slickly entered the market place of ideas in the tech era, making often even larger profits than when we all got in cars and went to malls. But what we will lack are the fun images.. the frivolity of fights and battle scars cash register wars. Those days are gone.