Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, and Karl
Last night I caught a showing of the Marx brothers' Animal Crackers at the Stanford Theatre. As always, it's a good thing I wasn't drinking milk or it probably would have shot out my nose due to laughter. The audience at the Stanford is always very thoughtful and we applauded Chico and Harpo's musical turns as well as groaned at several of Groucho's atrocious puns. The print was rather uneven, especially the soundtrack, but I'm glad to have seen it on the big screen at all.
After the movie, I stopped by Kepler's and bought a copy of the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital. Guy has been reading it recently and I wanted to have a copy on hand just in case. Some colleagues and I also had a very interesting discussion on Marxism at lunch, trying to separate Marx's economic and political theories; we're all staunch capitalists but enjoy a good argument every now and then. As we armchair economists see it, Marxism has a massive bootstrap problem and even if it were successfully implemented is likely to suffer from the "bad apple" problem.
To cap off my lovely Marxist weekend, tonight I'll be returning to the Stanford for Duck Soup.
Posted by ned at October 26, 2002 12:20 PM