The star actor in my favorite scene from a favorite movie of mine. Here’s to you, Ben.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Best TSLA Non-Event Pix
Capturing the worries of the weekend (TSLA will plunge by hundreds at the open!!) versus the reality of Monday (inched down less than 5%).
Tuba Mirum Spargens Sonum
I rarely got told ‘no” as a child.
The reason, mainly, was that I asked for so little. It’s not like we were destitute. We were a perfectly normal middle-class family. It’s just that, for whatever reason, I never felt inclined to bug my parents for this-or-that. Even if the thing I wanted cost maybe two bucks, I didn’t have the heart to bug them.
It isn’t that I didn’t want anything, though. I would see things on television, or in stores, which would absolutely captivate me, but even though I was never admonished to not ask for “stuff”, I instinctively refrained from doing so. Maybe it was a sense of decency toward my family. Or maybe I was too afraid of being disappointed. Whatever the reason, I didn’t ask.
But the memories are still there. Allow me to share with you some of the trifles that I wanted so badly as a child, but never asked my parents to buy.
(more…)Killer Rainbows
This is a hysterical Beware-of-the-Homosexual movie made for schoolchildren back in the 1950s. Evidently, all gay people were either pedophiles or murderers. I’m glad this kind of nonsense isn’t distributed to young minds anymore. Of course, there’s such a thing as going too far.
NFT… arrrRH
Dear Slope people, this is a different post than my usual. If Tim decides it is worth posting please take it in the spirit intended, which is the spirit of despising bubbles and especially bubbles that are so transparent and promoted at the hands of the media/celebrity complex. –Gary
Response from Tim: Nah, Gary, I’m delighted you did this post. I think the NFT thing is insane too, with one obvious exception.
NOTES FROM THE rabbit hole…NFTrh
The NFT part is all that matters. Not the words “notes from the”, implying information delivered from somewhere. Not “rabbit hole”, implying that somewhere is a pretty different, even weird place.
You see, with my antiquated notions of sound market management, which includes investment and/or speculation in real assets, including real monetary value (gold), equities of real companies doing real things and the commodities consumed during real… okay, manufactured economic growth, it is really pretty odd that I am now seen, because of 3 stupid letters, by some as part of the newest craze in the financial markets, the Non Fungible Tokens craze.
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