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Well, there won't be any more Chocolate Rain on Slope of Hope. That's for God-damned sure. The novelty and humor wore off about the 37th time that playing the song magically gave bulls back their power. That song is dead here.
I offer instead Man Up, which I've mentioned more than once. We all have a bear to cross, right? 2011. Time to ta ta.
OK, if there ever was a sign to short the living daylights out of AAPL, this is it:
An entire conference has been put together (which you can attend for $395) whose sole purpose is to talk about trading AAPL. Featuring Dancing-with-the-Stars celebrity Steve Wozniak, who will spin old yarns about his experience in the 1970s when he actually worked there.
Stick a fork in it, folks. We have reached complete cultural saturation. I'll say what no one else will dare say: not only will AAPL not reach the trillion-dollar market cap which seems to be a universal given, but it will lose half its value within the next three years.
This "summit" is just about the dumbest thing I've ever seen since the late-90s bubble. And I say this as a former Apple employee, 1984-Macintosh buyer, first-day iPhone buyer, first-day iPad buyer, and all-around Steve Jobs worshipper.
On my recent trip to New York, I met with a friend of mine whom I’ve known for thirty years. I mentioned to him that I had taken my daughter to the American Girl store in Manhattan. “American what?”, he asked. I was every bit as surprised as if I’d said “I hear Obama is in town” and he had replied, “Who??”
Here's a tidbit I tripped across early this morning – – Josh Gad, who stars brilliantly as Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon was also a correspondent for The Daily Show. The clip below, over two and a half years old, shows Josh explaining bank stress tests to Jon Stewart. Small world….
Those of you who have read my work for a while know that I have a paradoxical attitude which is not unique among Slopers; that is: loving America and really disliking Americans. Or at least disliking a lot of what constitutes American culture.
I came face to face with this not long ago when I did something I hardly ever do, which is fire up the television (ever since the series 24 went off the air, there's really nothing in particular I watch, although I dutifully pay my cable bill month after month). The show that was on was The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
