In the movie, “The Princess Bride,” Inigo and Fezzik bring the dead Westley to Miracle Max in hopes that Max can revive him. (And if you’ve never seen this movie, you should, cuz it’s fucking classic).

Anyway, the swashbuckling hero of the flick, Westley, is dead at the hands of Count Rugen and “The Machine.” But Max isn’t so sure Westley’s "all dead" when he says, “It just so happens there's different kinds of dead… There's sort of dead, mostly dead, and all dead. Lucky for you this fella here, he's only mostly dead. Once they get to be all dead, there's only one thing you can do…”

And if you’ve never seen “The Princess Bride,” you probably don’t know the one thing to do when someone’s “all dead.” You go through their pockets looking for loose change, that’s what you do.

So you’re probably wondering why I’m writing this stuff about “The Princess Bride.” Well, I’m making an analogy… or a simile or a metaphor, I always get them confused. Anyway, I’m using this little bit from the “The Princess Bride” to make a point. And the point’s got to do with my friends Marty Turkel and Ed Kail and the fact that they’ve left VCA.

Cuz ya see, when LFP bought VCA, VCA became “sort of dead,” maybe even “mostly dead.” But now that Marty and Ed have left, VCA is “all dead.”

Good luck Marty! Good luck Ed! I know you guys will breathe new life into the companies you’re heading for.

As for VCA... not LFP/VCA, but VCA --- RIP.




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