Grift Medium

RIDDLE: Must a real-life prince 'isolate' a gem-baron at a derby 'insurance-game' crossing for an egg-trophy for a race horse (Arklow)?

A cool New Year's adaptation of The Grifters (John Cusack). Enjoy, 

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What's so special about capitalism? Is it the lure of the race and of the competition spirit? Is it the fan-appeal of the Kentucky Derby (Churchill Downs) or the Netflix-demand for Oliver Stone's searing portrait of '80s commerce-savvy picture Wall Street (Michael Douglas)? Well, an Earth-prince and inheritor of fortunes studying a blood-diamond baron named Amlan Satan felt it was Churchill Downs, where the evil 'conflict-zone' smuggler and insurance corruptor Ion was investing on a special micro-race horse named Arklow, the very-same one Satan the prince eyed.

AMLAN: I'm choreographing a special media-stunt for Ion-statement about capitalism-society treasure-insurance chess (US).

Amlan was a boy-teen in a difficult age of Algerian political shift before moving to the United States with his mother and sister who were 'trained' to live hard. His mother (Nina) taught him the values of going street-wise and not relying spiritually on his prince-inherited fortunes and to go 'dark' in the world of the Grifter, the philosophical real-life Artful-Dodger of the real-world who conceived of fortune-practicality by constantly investing/shifting/swindling/calculating. Amlan Satan thought of his mother/sister (Inuyasha) as he conceived of a gem-insurance media-statement tied with Churchill Downs for a social-media 'chess' ideation on the capitalist race 'value' of the Grift medium of the cyber-culture (wow).

ION: What's this messages-list I've been getting from street-folks about Arklow-run inflation from this 'Grifter' named Satan?
ASSOCIATE: I dunno, boss, but Arklow's a 'cool' investment, so maybe this guy's some 'secret-prince' looking for an 'angle' now.

ION: Keep an eye on Arklow...make sure he's not invested in by some Interpol-relation body (or something), alright?
ASSOCIATE: No worry; Arklow, meanwhile, has been getting 'good play' on social-media, boss.

ION: Good; very good; I love the chess of it all (Churchill Downs).

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond corruption today threatens the world-gem exchange and makes 'rogue' terrorism-finance(s) woe!

NINA: You know I worked as a tough stewardess in the East before marrying your father; life's a sweat-house; chess is gold.

AMLAN: Thanks, mother...for the hard-nose advice on what makes capitalism a labyrinth (ha).

NINA: Don't take this light, Amlan, my darling-boy...the Grift (for capitalism or anything else) is all about a human formula!

AMLAN: Right...thanks, mother (really); I feel wiser (now).

NINA: Good!

Prince Satan (Amlan) fashioned himself a real patriot of the world of capitalism-lore/chess, and he taught himself how to play chess, and play well. In fact, he'd play some of those old 'sages' in Harvard-Square while he was in college, in the summertime, before he became more 'keenly' interested in the underground 'intelligence-chess' linked to blood-diamond highway motions and the insurance Hellmouth it'd create for 21st-Century (Interpol-relation) danger(s).

INUYASHA (Sister): I got you these patriot-comics art-panels for your b-day, Amlan; remember mom's advice; stay patriot!

ION: What do you want with me here/now kid?
AMLAN: I got you this replica-edition print of a Bernie Kosar McDonald's 'cool' street-consumerism token-treasure, Baron.

ION: Why me?
AMLAN: You know why...post on social-media you're (now) into capitalism motion insurance, for Western intelligence-stories!

ION: You're making me some Wall Street celebrity...what's your angle here, Prince Satan?
AMLAN: You know the angle here, Baron; I want a 'cool-customer' associate tied to my cyber-showcase of sports-treasures.

ION: Why me?
AMLAN: You know why...I want your 'name' tied with mine for the Arklow-investment at Churchill Downs, good fellow of Hell.

ION: Why me?
AMLAN: Insurance is everything; this Kosar-McD card is the 'color' of modern street-lore; take the name-wager (Arklow-IQ).

ION: Alright!

INTERVIEW: Do you know why Baron Ion's been tied to media-messages about diamond-market insurance chess (now)?
AMLAN SATAN: Not really...though I appreciated all the Derby-chatter on Facebook about Kosar-Arklow in my company!

INTERVIEW: You don't feel 'weird' tying your work(s) with a reputed blood-diamond baron linked to insurance worries?

AMLAN SATAN: Hey, Ion gave me some 'cool' commerce-life Ego treasure-insurance 'teamwork' ad-work at the Derby (Arklow).

INTERVIEW: You must really be into horses/races.

AMLAN SATAN: I actually purchased a 'fantastic' Churchill-Downs model-set for my sister (Inuyasha)...all's for Freudian Ego.

INTERVIEW: Excellence!

"The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal" (Jimmy Breslin).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)