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A Curmudgeon’s Guide to Vice & Immorality (Vol. 2) presents a compendium of spurious but hilarious guidance about vice and immorality from a who’s who of cultural iconoclasts. Herein, you’ll find advice and admonitions about sex, money, lying, cussing, smoking, drinking… all of our favorite vices!

My first encounter with curmudgeons came through an introduction to the wits of the Algonquin Round Table, that storied group of writers, critics, actors and columnists who gathered daily to lunch and kvetch at New York’s famed Algonquin Hotel. Leading members of the group included Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. They were preceded by their esteemed ancestors, Mark Twain and Will Rogers, and joined by their contemporaries, William Claude Dukenfield, a.k.a. W. C. Fields, Mae West and Groucho Marx. Across the pond, their crotchety cousins, Oscar Wilde, G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw, wielded an unmatched facility with the timely bon mot or illuminating adage, all the while creating a deep reservoir of humor for leading comedians and commentators of today such as Chris Rock, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, and David Letterman, not to mention the world-class malcontents H. L. Mencken and Woody Allen.

To wit, this advice from George Carlin: “Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” Or Jonathan Winters’ honest confession as to the trials of sexual temptation: “God is in my mind but the devil’s in my pants.” Mae West suggested that “To err is human, but it feels divine,” while William Somerset Maugham assessed that many well-meaning reformers “have their hearts in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.”

I’m not suggesting that all of these entries should be taken at face value, for example P. J. O’Rourke’s observation that “Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good,” or Hunter S. Thompson’s confession that, “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” Not shy to broach the big issues of life and death, you’ll find Woody Allen’s admission that “Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions,” or George Burns’ rationale for refusing to die: “I don’t believe in dying. It’s been done before. Besides, I can’t die now—I’m booked.”

Please enjoy this collection of aphorisms and adages, full of concision and cogency as delivered by a unique coterie of cantankerous contrarians. Their pronouncements are often meant to be both entertaining and enlightening, providing both fresh insight and perhaps a corrective impetus for change to otherwise obstinate opinions and boorish behavior.

Tom Willett
Valhalla on the Harpeth

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Born on May 30, 1853 in the south of The Netherlands, Vincent van Gogh was the oldest child of a Dutch Reformed pastor and an amateur artist. Intense and moody from an early age, he received public, private and home schooling before dropping out at the age of 15 to assist with the family finances. With the help of an uncle, young Vincent got a job as an apprentice at the internationally renowned art firm of Goupil and Cie. After a clerkship in The Hague, he was promoted to sales representative, working successively in the London and Paris offices. Although initially happy, van Gogh's argumentative personality and strong opinions about all things artistic and religious eventually led to his dismissal. After a series of short-term jobs as a teacher and bookstore clerk, Vincent decided to follow in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and pursue the ministry. Although he took preparatory courses in Latin, Greek and Theology, he failed to gain entrance to the university. Undeterred, he sought opportunities to teach and preach as a part-time evangelist in the coal-mining district of Belgium. So fervent was his commitment to his work that he insisted on living under the same deplorable conditions as the miners-giving away much of his money, clothes and food. After six months, the local church hierarchy, who seemed as alarmed by his zeal as by his declining physical and mental health, urged him to consider another calling. During this period, van Gogh had begun sketching the local peasants, and with his brother, Theo's, assistance decided to pursue art full time. Eschewing formal art education, van Gogh was largely self-taught, but over the course of a 10 year career he amassed a body of work that includes 864 oil paintings, 1,039 drawings, 150 water colors, 10 lithographs and 133 letter sketches, many of which are considered to be among the world's great masterpieces, several selling in excess of $100 Million USD.

Tom Willett (1950- ) is an American musician, author and entertainment industry executive. He toured and recorded extensively as a bass player during the '60s and '70s, worked in Nashville as booking agent and manager for numerous artists in the '80s, and served in Los Angeles and New York as an Artist & Repertoire and Marketing executive in the '90s. In the '00s he co-founded a fully-accredited artists' colony on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, MA where he and the staff mentored more than 1,000 college-aged musicians and entrepreneurs. Willett was Adjunct Professor at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business for Nashville's Belmont University before becoming Music Business Instructor, Director of Education and finally President at Dark Horse Institute. He currently entertains fantasies of a restless retirement in Montmartre-on-the-Cumberland, Tennessee.

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