This is WILD. I stumbled upon this clip by accident, but it’s Colonel Sanders on the show What’s My Line back at a time when no one had any idea who he was (which seems unreal, I know). Even if you just watch the first few minutes, it’s a kick.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
I Made Gilbert Laugh
As I mentioned off-handedly a few days ago, I was listening (as I always do) to Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, and I just about ran off the road when I heard them mention my name. See, I had whipped up a simple drinking game based on their show and tweeted it to them. It was such a throwaway, I didnt’ even save it. But they mentioned it on a preview, and yesterday when the full show was released, they spent several minutes talking and laughing about it and declared it the best tweet. So the fact I made Gilbert and Frank laugh loudly made my day.
It’s behind a paywall, so I can’t share it, but here’s what I saw this morning:
Oh, and here’s Billy Barty, just for the hell of it. Thanks, Gilly!
One Froggy Evening
Just something silly between serious posts – – probably one of the best Warner Brothers cartoons of all time (and it’s interesting to see what they thought life would be like right about now………..):
Time to Buy Everything
Let’s be reasonable. When faced with the choice of either:
(a) being part of the crowd, enjoying life, and participating happily in the social norm……..
versus
(b) sitting in a corner talking to yourself about what’s wrong with the world………..
What would YOU rather be doing? Those who know me can already guess my answer. Tim “devil-may-care, man-about-time, bon-vivant” would absolutely be in group (a), which this fine young scholar illustrates is the superior choice:
The Past Four Months
The web is littered with thousands of charts to try to unravel what the market has been like over the past four months, but I think this brief movie explains it better than anything I’ve seen yet:
