Indeed, a person of Papa's financial standing is unlikely to obtain monetary resources through the "legitimate" economy. He would undoubtedly need to conduct his financial transactions through a shadow economy (as represented in the figure of the loan shark), part of the "illegitimate" social world that he almost exclusively inhabits. From this perspective, we must see Papa not as enforcer of the law and cornerstone of the reigning social structure--as in, say, Lacanian psychoanalysis, though we might be able to extend this thinking to the structuralism of Levi-Strauss--but as a symptom of chaos and a force for social disorder. As a result, it is a virtual certainty that the only legacy Papa has left for his legitimate family is a lifetime of illegitimate debt that will only serve to plunge his son into the shadow world of the informal economy from which his mother has sought to protect him. In this case, it is indeed "a loan" that the son inherits from the father, but this loan is not a gateway to economic freedom; rather, it is simply insurance that the parallel (anti)social world he embodies--built upon a foundation of false hope and deception--will be reproduced in future generations. Papa is, indeed, a "rolling stone", and his momentum leads in only one direction--downhill.

maybe he took out a PPP

"Papa Was a Rolling Stone" is a masterpiece, but I've always liked "Across 110th Street" better (as far as songs about the post-60s inner city go).

The theme to Good Times has them both beat.

The theme to Good Times has them both beat.

Crazy talk. Papa is a think piece. Makes you reevaluate every decision you've made in your life and its impact on those around you.

The act of taking a hat off your head might have implications.

After you get through the 5-minute intro.

Alright, I'm ready to break down the Good Times theme as a white, Irish, 50 year old man that grew up on a farm in about the whitest area in America.

Let's do it.

I did watch Good Times. I had no context as a yout' to understand the social implications but I liked the show.

Alright, I'm ready to break down the Good Times theme as a white, Irish, 50 year old man that grew up on a farm in about the whitest area in America.

Let's do it.

I did watch Good Times. I had no context as a yout' to understand the social implications but I liked the show.

The Chicago projects were scary to a young Zippy. Bob Newhart’s apartment seemed like a much safer area of town.

The Jefferson's song, "Moving on Up" was very underrated as well in my opinion.

The Chicago projects were scary to a young Zippy. Bob Newhart’s apartment seemed like a much safer area of town.

The degree of difficulty of breaking down the theme to The Bob Newhart show is significantly higher.

I did love that show, though. That might be prime for a rewatch.

You have to love the story of an Illinois guy that got his accounting degree and realized later in life that comedy was his real calling.

Plus a 35 year old Suzanne Pleshette was an obviously better fuck than a 45 year old Esther Rolle.

That was the height of bad clothing. The wide ties and plaid clothing is very distracting.

You don’t know that.

To a 12 year old, it was pretty obvious.

yeah probably. That smoky voice was enticing.

The degree of difficulty of breaking down the theme to The Bob Newhart show is significantly higher.

I did love that show, though. That might be prime for a rewatch.

You have to love the story of an Illinois guy that got his accounting degree and realized later in life that comedy was his real calling.

The Chicago projects were scary to a young Zippy. Bob Newhart’s apartment seemed like a much safer area of town.

Plus a 35 year old Suzanne Pleshette was an obviously better fuck than a 45 year old Esther Rolle.

Alright, I'm ready to break down the Good Times theme as a white, Irish, 50 year old man that grew up on a farm in about the whitest area in America.

Let's do it.

I did watch Good Times. I had no context as a yout' to understand the social implications but I liked the show.

Bob Newhart’s apartment seemed like a much safer area of town.

Where did that fucker live anyway? He definitely gets on the Brown Line heading north at Chicago Avenue but I'm not sure where he gets off. Is it Quincy? And then somehow he ends up in a building that looks like mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PLEhiOeVA

Where did that fucker live anyway? He definitely gets on the Brown Line heading north at Chicago Avenue but I'm not sure where he gets off. Is it Quincy? And then somehow he ends up in a building that looks like mine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PLEhiOeVA

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Isn't that building on the Inner Drive around Bryn Mawr?

I thought you lived in West Rogers Park around Lunt? There's no buildings like that in that part of the RP. Sounds like you're an Edgewater/Sheridan Rd. guy now.