Convince my wife!

[Fred Douglass]

That "huge great painting in Maui" was.....was....how can I say this?...yup, you went ahead and guessed---an ORIGINAL GAUGUIN!!!!!---so, here's The Plan...............let's see, that cruddy pre-cubist poster is going to get you: 1) a complete new office space, 2) a Kirkham in each of the primary colors, 3) that High Sierras retreat/ski-lodge, 4) the big yacht(s) and 4) a quickie divorce (if you're lucky that's all she'll want to do) "How do they 'make' oxen, Daddy?". Considering that the painting was purchased in a moment of ethanol-based euphoria---maybe she won't miss it. There's even potential for divine vengeance---wait 'til your better half's outta town---and sell it to Nancy Pelosi's staff for her new office in Wash-me-down AC/DC!!!! BTW, I may be seeing you "out there" in January*---(DEFCON 4: "daughters of Fresno--lock up your mothers!!!") BTW2 My uncle, Charlie Douglass (b. 1895), moved out to FRESNO! in the 30's started some (?) business there! It probably augered in. My step-uncle, William Weld, used to fly "his" P-51D (wh/ he "surveyed" out of the USAF in 1954) out and about c. your home turf. He did NOT auger in, but he DID fly wing with Arkas Duntoff (?)** he of air-racing AND car-racing fame while he was out in Reno (which is where your better half'll be heading soon's she she's the bright spot on the wall where the Gauguin was....

PS: I have more articles, re Butler, Carrol Shelby's archaeological "find". etc. I noticed (on your old cah) you had those "old" nifty gold BBS-type rims...

*for several reasons, actually
**it wasn't the Corvette guy, though, but it was a similar Slavic/Russian sounding name---big guy in racing in the 50's--he flew a Sea Fury, which Bill Weld said he used to pick up a dust-wake, off the desert floor.

Chow