Sometimes you have to sing a verse of "Alice's Restaurant" to see whether you're crazy or part of a movement

LYRICS - Alice's Restaurant: "('KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?') I went over to the sargent, said, 'Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug.' He looked at me and said, 'Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints off to Washington.'

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say 'Shrink, You can get anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.'. And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar. With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and sing it when it does. Here it comes.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant"

You Leave and You LO$E

An Open Letter to OfficeMax.

Dear Mr. Bonner,

I don't intend to shop again at OfficeMax until you reverse this decision about the corporate headquarters. I am hoping others across Ohio will feel the same. You have not justified this departure to the community and it mocks your Code of Ethics. It is about the extra burden you will place on the unemployment roles. It is not simply about lost taxes in Shaker Heights, nor no new gain in Cleveland. I have been over a year trying to find employment in my profession in Northeast Ohio. Now you've added to the competition.

This is one time it is easy to vote with my feet. My attachment (to the original letter) is a copy of my $15 purchase made at Staples today. I hope you see many more from businesses and individuals in the near future, both retail and contract. May they return unopened merchandise and cancel your contracts.

Please forward this message to Mr. Duncan's office.

Copyright 2005 Harlan R. Cohen MBA,CPIM