A toast to my man

I'll take that over as well. and the rally in the Dow will carry ten points for each bank failure.

300 banks this year? I'll take the under.

By the time it's all over? I'll take the over and bet +150 for calendar year 09

+200 for CY10 as they'll have ramped up hiring by then.

That's 4, right?

I bet 5.

How come nobody posted that Reader's Digest filed bk?
Only banks count?

I'm expecting 300 failures during 2010 but I think she means total over the two years.

Readers Digest had a financial arm too? Good grief. I need a cup of tea and a lie down.

C

And then there's poor little Sid:

YouTube - The Sex Pistols - My Way

I want Whitney to be the wife and this bloomberg chick to be my mistress.

I didn't say that!!!

(click on chopper for more bullshit)

Despite encouraging signs on many fronts, American retailers have reported unexpectedly weak sales in the past week — a sign that that consumer spending could drag down economic growth in the months ahead. And on Thursday, the Labor Department reported that new unemployment claims jumped again.

From dead thread,

LawyerLiz,
Do you know anything about Seacoast Bank in Stuart? I read the OCC agreement and it's basically orders them to start running their bank like it's a bank. $2.3bn in "assets", but I know they're up to their eyeballs in CRE down there that is stinking up the joint. The would've been in RRE & condos, but Bear Stearns had been funding the developers down there.

The family has some assets down there(all below FDIC limits and less than .05% of assets) but It sure would be fun to be the guy who helps pull out the wrong piece of the jenga puzzle.

Hasn't posted lately. LL

The girls have gone off together and left the poor schmuck weeping in his Depends.

Does anyone know what the expected number of bank failures and losses was that the US budget had baked in to the cake, BEFORE they went and said recently that it would be LESS expensive than they thought, and therefor the deficit would be lower?

(click my cloud)

See hot sweaty pix of Meredith in cloud

Doc, I was the one that poo-poo'ed your early BFF poll; however, I am inclined to request an icon < a href > lesson.

I just hope that my Ohio regional bank doesn't make the 300, at least before my 2 year CD with them matures. I managed to lock it at 4.5 % last year right before Lehman collapsed.

bend over banksters!

changed it to queen.

if an href gets changed in the intertubes does anyone get paid?

< (click my snout)

Snout Speak: "Mark: In a word, money is what is driving the recovery. The money supply in most countries is rising at a very rapid pace. This money is finding its way into the economic system and is driving prices and economic activity. Added to this are the US$600 trillion in financial derivatives which amplifies money supply."

This is how you make banking again the most popular destination among the young hotshots. Who wouldn't want to be "Mr. Bond" ?

From WSJ

MUNICH -- A young woman appeared at the offices of a small law firm here three summers ago to interview for a job as a lawyer. After impressing one partner, she was invited back to speak to the lawyer handling one of the firm's most important cases, a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Deutsche Bank AG.
The partner and the young woman discussed the case for nearly two hours, according to people familiar with the meeting. When they finished talking, the partner offered her a job.
German authorities are now investigating whether the woman, German law graduate Traudel Schmitt, already had a job -- as a spy for Deutsche Bank, according to people close to the probe.
The suspected attempt to infiltrate the law firm, Bub, Gauweiler & Partner, is part of a complicated spy tale involving Germany's largest bank. The cast of characters also includes a gadfly Deutsche Bank shareholder, an apparent Brazilian seductress and a list of about 20 alleged spying targets. Frankfurt prosecutors, government privacy-law officials, and Germany's banking regulatory agency, Bafin, are all investigating the affair.
...
After the bank's chairman requested information about Mr. Bohndorf, the gadfly shareholder, Deutsche Bank's head of investor relations, Mr. Schmitt, contacted the bank's head of German security, according to the Cleary report. Soon thereafter, they brought in Bernd Bühner, a former German Army security officer who runs a private-detective agency, the report says.
Mr. Bühner was asked to figure out whether Messrs. Bohndorf and Kirch were working together, according to the report. Mr. Bühner says bank officials also handed him a list of about 20 other investigative targets, including the law firm handling Mr. Kirch's suit, Bub Gauweiler. He says he put together a plan involving two teams, code-named Team Deutschland and Team Balearia.
In July 2006, Mr. Bühner activated his agents, according to both the Cleary report and Mr. Bühner, in an interview. Team Balearia was dispatched to Ibiza, a Spanish island in the Mediterranean where Mr. Bohndorf owns a home.
A few weeks later, Mr. Bohndorf says, he was sitting in an outdoor cafe when a Brazilian woman sat down at a neighboring table. "This is such a romantic island," she said, smiling at him, Mr. Bohndorf recalls. She introduced herself as Adriane.
"She was 23, and I was 66," Mr. Bohndorf said in a recent interview at Bar Es Canto, the cafe on Ibiza where he says he first met the young woman. She told him she was a student, he says, and "asked lots of unusual questions about my work and my home."
A weeklong romance ensued, Mr. Bohndorf said. He gave her a total of €100 after their liaisons, as "taxi money," although she didn't ask for anything, he says. Then she disappeared without saying goodbye, he says, and without leaving him any phone number or email address. Mr. Bohndorf says he believes the romance was part of Deutsche Bank's operation to gather information on him, because the woman asked many questions about his work and the photos in his home, and fiddled with his belongings.

locked

Oh wow, that was fun. I copied the bubble emoticon about 50 times, iteratively, and then tried to post. It gave a blank post, and then crashed the system!

I don't believe I have ever seen the same version of the same song linked twice on a single thread, but this is, after all, one of the great recordings of the 20th Century:

Frank Sinatra, My Way

So I'll link it again.

I Queen & Freddie.

He did fight to the end.

Wondered how you got your name without anything else.

Queen & Freddie. He did fight to the end.

Yeah. And who wants to live forever?

YouTube - Queen - Who Wants to Live Forever

They're waiting to hear back from the bank so it's time for the hired guns to take a rest.

The banks aren't dealing. They want full pop. They think it's over. Bernanke told them so.

<= blowing bubbles

Heehee, I read that as Crisco.

For fans and haters of ZeroHedge - from nakedcapitalism
Who is Tyler Durden? « naked capitalism

This money is finding its way into the economic system and is driving prices and economic activity.

that's a shockingly idiotic statement, coming from a so-called economist.

Econ 101 teaches that increasing the money supply alone simply devalues money, making "stuff" increase in price only relative to fiat paper (or gold, silver, whatever.)
Nobody gets any wealthier, they just think they did, until they realize that everything they need is more expensive.

Real economic growth comes from productivity, in the form of mining, farming, or advances in technology such as the invention of the telephone. And guess what, all this funny money keeping the zombies afloat accomplishes is to rob other sectors of the economy of needed capital.

Here's another thought ... are prices really going up? If I can walk into a dealer this weekend, and pay 20-30% less for a new car than I would have last year, given all the incentives and "cash for clunkers" nonsense, I don't think so.

Has anybody used the icon?

Yes, there have been a couple of spammers lately.

Liz - yes, but only with wieners.

And hawkers.

C

I guess no more failures for the day.

""radical liberal". That's quite precisely correct, but by current American usage of those terms rather amusing. "

I find the people who call themselves "19th Century" or "classical" or "old-fashioned" liberal mildly amusing. A liberal is open to progressive change by definition.

except the money isn't in the hands of anybody that is gonna
spend it.

yeah, got it t, but functionality was not ready, Koop musta been watchin the werk last night.

Well, it could be that there would be a little bit of inflation.

In my mind that is possible, but unlikely. It is the best possible
scenario of all the rotten choices we have.

You know that book, um the Long Wave, has a number of graphs with
inflation spikes followed by deflation cliff diving, going quite far
back in history.

It was published in 99. Wish he'd update it with a newer edition.

sportsfan (profile) wrote (in reply to...) on Fri, 8/21/2009 - 9:35 pm

The banks aren't dealing. They want full pop. They think it's over. Bernanke told them so.

I have some interesting observations but it's difficult to anonymize them sufficiently to protect everyone involved. It was a nice spell in the trenches and very educational. I bought a couple new computers with the proceeds too.

I'd link Cibo Matto's Working For Vacation here but the only one online is a live show that really doesn't work.

whoa, crustless PBJ's ......WTF?

Gee whiz CR I posted this about 3 thread ago.....

Let me hit you with some more sobering news because Larry Flynt has it totally right

The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of powerful elites, the people President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "economic royalists," who choose our elected officials -- indeed, our very form of government. Both Democrats and Republicans dance to the tune of their corporate masters. In America, corporations do not control the government. In America, corporations are the government.

This was never more obvious than with the Wall Street bailout, whereby the very corporations that caused the collapse of our economy were rewarded with taxpayer dollars. So arrogant, so smug were they that, without a moment's hesitation, they took our money -- yours and mine -- to pay their executives multimillion-dollar bonuses, something they continue doing to this very day. They have no shame.

More here
Larry Flynt: Common Sense 2009

there is only one way to eat a PB&J,

thin layer of peanut buter, thin layer of blackberry jam, buttered and fried.

glass o' milk....

Just got back from Inglourious Basterds (wow!), and see the gore hasn't been limited to the big screen...

I heeeaar, America Snoring...

YouTube - Grant Lee Buffalo - America Snoring

Very tiring BFF.

C

I have some interesting observations but it's difficult to anonymize them . . . .

That's okay. Our fantasies can run wild with thoughts of the deals.

Seriously, I don't think most banks have had to deal with reality yet. I try to tell them thirtycent is the new dollar, but they don't want to listen.

Next year it'll be twentycent. Maybe they'll be listening then.

testing

'scuz me? - kc

If you repeat the bubble emoticon past a certain point, and then save, you get a blank post. Then my system crashed. Fun!

west of the fields ,

No!

this machine kills fascists

I'll put a space between parts:

< A HREF=" " > : fallingknife :

Banks for the memories
Fridays are seldom in vain
When Sheila bears her fangs
And bankruptcy does reign...

Readers Digest filed bk? I think I've been paying $10 a year for a while now, maybe the last time it was even free, or maybe they were paying me to subscribe, I can't remember. Great light reading and good jokes. Sad loss. Worse than the stupid banks.

this machine kills fascists

I don't know what you're thinking, but that device is used to blow bubbles.

You put soap in it and then blow into it.

km4,

re: Larry Flynt

"the enemy of my enemy is my friend"

national strike? I'm all in ...

I don't mind a blank post so much under these circumstances, but can you define crashed? Your browser? The server? (This last one doesn't show any signs of problems after your blank post) What'd you have to do to recover?

Oh, I didn't crash the server. That's too much to hope for. Just my machine. Locked up and then fell off the internet. Then it locked up, and I had to do a hard reset. Which is odd.

By my count, we have 45 banks left on the unofficial problem bank list with assets over $1 billion. We know one, Corus, is about to be resolved. Al the other banks on the list are smaller regional or community banks, Other than Corus, it may be next year before we have a bank with more than $5 billion of assets go down, after the super-regionals and larger regionals are forced to write down CRE and put securitized assets back on their balance sheets. We may have 5-6 banks a week go down, but they will have smaller aggregate hits on the DIF, at least for now.

scone
you know Nina Hagen's music... funny story, last time I saw her I was dancing next to her at Studio 54 in '81
after it just re-opened after Rubell came back... I was remember she was about 5 months preggers but still looked hot...
does that qualify me for Dancin' with the Stars? mover over Tom Delay... aka Mr Orkin on the dance floor

The savage shook his head, "It all seems quite so horrible."

"Of course it does, Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparision with the over-compensations for misery. And , of course, stability isn't nearly so spectactular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptations, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."

p. 150 "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley

I think it is possible for all these banks to fall. A repeat of last fall is possible.
I am puzzled by why the banks are giving for credit cards signup at zero interest rates?
Would these disappear soon?
-- link deleted by kcoop --

I don't think MW limited it to this year, but aggregate failures during this crisis.

Actually the crustless bread thing has been around for a while.

When do you cross the line? Salad bags?

Health food store sweet potato frozen fries?

I use both of them, and lots of other frozen stuff too.

Spreading peanut butter on bread hardly qualifies as cooking
anyway. Disclaimer: I don't like peanut butter.

:spoilsport:

:pitchforks&torches:

Hoocoudanode CR could evolve into an icon art blog.

Evolution produces wondrous results.

I do not understand the "crustless bread" controversy. At all.

Spoilsport? I'm saying you can do it, and in fact giving you more info on how to do so (the filter was just making Doc Holiday's description less clear). Am I missing something?

Uncommon wisdom from Larry Flynt in a weary world.

Larry Flynt was never stupid. Obnoxious, but never stupid.

law...

Re: "Actually the crustless bread thing has been around for a while.
When do you cross the line? Salad bags?
Health food store sweet potato frozen fries?"

I just didn't know, when did that all happen, was I like in a coma or just in denial?

@ Comrade Coinz (homepage, profile) wrote on Fri, 8/21/2009 - 7:32 pm
Uncommon wisdom from Larry Flynt in a weary world.

Yes sobering reality i.e if you have a working brain!

When's the last time you went shopping?

Why don't we, as a failing society, just do away with bread...DH

Honey, you need to slow it down a tad. One glass of water for every glass of or Just sayin'.

Anyway, sometimes, you have to let the Cosmic Slop just slide on by: YouTube -

When posters refer to BBVA as a "Basque bank," it's showing narrow-minded American ignorance.

Several autonomous regions of Spain have their own cultures, traditions, festivals, etc.

The Basques and also the Catalans in the Barcelona area have their own language.

But Bilbao and Barcelona are cosmopolitan cities and Spanish cities, too. BBVA is an international bank that has retained its headquarters in Bilbao, even though it probably employs more people in Madrid and has branches all over Spain.

Some of the comments about Basques on this board frankly have been elitist and racist.

The one thing you can say about the Basques seguro is that every great jai alai player who has ever lived is Basque.

Americans revel in showing narrow-minded American ignorance.

It's like a badge of honor or something.

Ah but Dickie Betts delivers Jessica and Elizabeth Reed live and gorgeous.

picosec (profile) wrote on Fri, 8/21/2009 - FWIW - I'm 3 for 4 on the BFF poll, and would have been 4/4 except for that "after the buzzer' one a few weeks ago.

I know; can't he do something useful with all that time on his hands?

why doesn't the FDIC just hire you and wire you up like one of the girls in Minority Report ... a see a stream of balls rollling down the cute each week

Kcoop old boy, that pirate above really has gone too far. He's tacked his bally shillhole to the old hoo'.

Calls for a short sharp digital in the eye, hmm?

C

sportsfan (profile) wrote (in reply to...) on Fri, 8/21/2009 - 10:29 pm

Byz, sounds like a serious machine, but I'm not the technie others here are.

It's basically a dual processor smartphone with a lot of resources so it doesn't bind on anything but its athsmatic little single-pipleine CPU cluster. It cost less than 300 bucks to build, including shipping, and runs the hell out of PSX / GBA titles and gnugo, as well as doing all the regular desktop stuff as well as any other machine. My little postmodern comment on the state of modern computing.

i think mr flynt is onto something.

could americas' lazy, apathetic citizens be motivated and organized enough to pull off a 1 day strike?

America as a mass movement hasn't really been on strike since the 70's, might be a little crusty?

So, be honest here, is Meredith Whitney Pregnant , or just really going overboard with crustless PBJ's?

Alright, bANK fAILURE, this one's for you.

. . . postmodern comment on the state of modern computing.

I'm just a tad surprised no one here has asked you more about it . . . yet.

I don't want to sound countertech, but I want my phone to be a phone and my computer to be a computer. If I bring one and not the other, there's a reason for that . . . and it's rarely a mistake.

So do I have to buy a or or or or something to hear about some deals . . . 'cause I'm willing?

I saw the Allman Brothers perform twice when Duane and Berry Oakley were alive. Once at Vanderbilt when I was a student . Once in Murphreesboro.

Top that.

never bring a phone to a computer fight

I'm just a good old fashioned word doctor, but those icons are the real McCoy.

yagij (profile) wrote on Fri, 8/21/2009 - 10:52 pm

OMFG! It never dawned on me that there was a GNU version to play Go.

It's a command line prog. qgo seems to be the best front end I have found in the Ubuntu repositories. cgoban is another one -- not as good as qgo but probably works on more *nix variants. Both use gnugo as an engine for automated opponents.

It's ~5 kyu so if you are dan-ranked, it will be a beatdown festival. It beats my DDK ass handily. =) If you are that good, tho, the whole go community has embraced the online world, as you can imagine, what with no mechanical opponents worth a damn, and there are a number of servers where you can watch 5d v 5d matches any time of the day or night. Pandanet and King's Go Sever just off the top of my head.

OMFG! Time to get my far eastern long-term view side owned again! Seriously Love Go, and I firmly believe playing it is important if you want to better understand far eastern thinking.

I really like go but I suck at it. Maybe one day I'll be decent but it's fun even if I suck. I don't bore the computer beating me senseless. =)

CR must enjoy Friday nights. Let the BFF thing run its course, have one post to throw up a little after 6 PDT, then out for a nice dinner.

But... he earned it!!

and some better than FDIC's

i dont know if its cause its friday nite

or reality just settin in

but jas jain is startin to make a whole lotta more sense to me

born and bred dopes... and all that

I don't want to sound countertech, but I want my phone to be a phone and my computer to be a computer.

While I think the Blackberry is for text communications, I think the iPhone is definitely the most recent step to the "datapad". The UI can be customized for the application's needs. It can communicate using multiple different wireless methods to function seemlessly. I can foresee a future of iPhones form factor devices functioning as laptops/PDAs/voice communications.

As soon as it dawned on me that I could store emergency medical information on it that could be access with a touch of a screen, I realized how much more we can grow with the uses of such devices and how quickly the "desktop" will disappear where children will heckle us for having a micro form factor desktop vs. the latest wizbang.

KCoop wrote: Just got back from Inglourious Basterds (wow!)...
that Quentin is a nutter, nothing gets in his way not even historical fact ...
how was Pitt's new move? that jutting jaw... made me wish Bob Gibson
were around to toss him a high inside fast ball, here's a little chin music Brad...

The doctor is well money'd, and his friends.

Rofl... I think maybe 10 people on this board got that. Damn, now I need to watch season one again

like i said the other day, im firmly now in the camp that bubble #3 (status quo) will be achieved, only to end in tears perhaps many years later.

Face it folks, we're going to have to endure the BB hagiography for a good while, just as we did the Greenspan worship, before he was shown to be the clown he really is.

Be prepared, steel yourself, it will be painful.

alright i kinda meant it

but not as an insult

One other thing.....one way BB might fail earlier of course, is that all his gentlemen agreements with our creditors unravel when they realize just how much $ we are talking about throwing down the rats hole. But again, I suspect that could also go on much longer than we can remain solvent if we are betting against it. (NB. Im not)

As soon as I can get augmented reality in wireless stylish glasses for my iPhone, desktops are completely toast. Not far off now.

there is a point to all this.

We are not there yet.

but, we are getting there.

199 ignores 9,

yes, i've read the thread.

Mock
never bring a knife to a gun fight
is that an old saying?
I thought it was an original line written by Mamet for The Untouchables

sportsfan (profile) wrote (in reply to...) on Fri, 8/21/2009 - 11:06 pm

All right, I'll admit it. Both of my kids have iphones. I'm just old-school. They remind me of that.

Once they get the form factor up to about 12" it will be hell on wheels and I will own one post-haste, although probably not an Apple one. For now, an interesting toy.

The desktop has some interesting advantages over the laptop, mostly due to how easy it is to get inside and monkey around, and the lack of space constraints.

It's ~5 kyu so if you are dan-ranked, it will be a beatdown festival.

Ha! I'm not even sure where I can earn a dan rank in my part of 'merica. I definitely don't mind starting at the lowest kyu ranking and working up from there. While I haven't played go with another person in person in years, I can attest that I wasn't probably go-kyu ranked skill-wise then! I Go.

Very simple interface and pieces and one of the most complex games I can imagine. 17x17 is still too broad for my mind to comprehend.

Dawg, douple posting double polls on a BFF is bad :knurd: form.

BTW, watching Quentin T on Charlie Rose totally coked up, is rather disconcerrting. Poor Charlie...practically steamrolled. He deserves it.

Duke:

Knife to a gun fight is something that I'd heard previously.

My old man used to say something akin to that in relation to being cocky and hence, unprepared.

...using a calculator was considered cheating

Just because I know how to use a slide rule doesn't mean I won't use a calculator! Besides, I'm amazed how I can still do math... by hand... on paper... and how some people I've helped want to know how to do it on a calculator... which tells me...

Reality is overrated. Waiting my iMplant wetware upgrade. So I can watch reruns of Red Dwarf.

I bet there was more than ten... a LOT more than ten... ah smegs, now I'm gonna have to look it up too.

I was experimenting and some characters and edits screwed up. i've asked Ken to remove them. I didn't even press the publish button.

Ken

and

You da man!

I thought was the great start!

Now to catch up on bank failure Friday drinking. Light night overall... Only four. Then again, CR went out to play, so maybe we met our five quota.

Got ?

Neil

C, nice parallel... this really surprised me though, as if with the recession she put up like 40 pounds.

i bet her previous employer is thinking: "you see? this is what trying not to be a wage-slave and starting your own company does to you"

Don't worry, if she keeps talking smack about the banks, they'll invite her to a WH roast beef diet; all roast beef, all the time.

"WH roast beef diet; all roast beef, all the time. "

cannibalism is not the answer

Ummm, how does Santana at the Fillmore East, Pink Floyd at Madison Square Garden in 1981 (I think it was 1981) & Firesign Theater at My Father's Place in Roslyn, NY, can't remember when but My Father's Place has been closed or something else for years. Don't know if that tops.

if by the Wailers you mean the 3 black women

No the Wailers were the band. The women were the Ireeites. One of them - Rita - was his wife.
I saw the same tour. Don't think he lived but a few more years after that. I and I Rastafari.

So I didn't get my 7. One day...

Speaking of waltzing Christophers, googtube Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice and Christopher Walken does a quite remarkable dance. Can't be arsed linking.

nytol

C

You guys have something against sweater puppies? Its what happens when they get on CNBC a little too often...

Sh!t, I'll play the game...

Bill Cosby in 1964 at Berkeley
Harry Belefonte in 1963 at Berkeley
Harry Truman in 1948 in J-town, PA - [I remember him chiding the Republicans; said GOP stood for "Good Old Pop"]

Sh!t, I'll play the game...

I'll play any game with the same thought in mind:

The Clarke / Duke Project " Winners " 1981

Winning is a game I like to play.

Duke, I'm jealous. That would have been an incredible show. Best show at the Greek for me would have been Dead Can Dance.

I'm a big fan of small venues. There used to be a guitar shop in LA where big names would sometimes drop by and do all acoustic sets. I can't remember the name of the place but we used to go all the time. My favorite show there was Camper Van Beethoven. My favorite small show was the Kinks at the Roxy followed by Oingo Boingo in a circus tent in an aerospace parking lot in Long Beach.

Most memorable show would have to be toss up between Talking Heads at the Pantages (yes that show) or the Pouges at the Fillmore in SF.

Then there are the legions of Dead shows .... but those only matter to other deadheads >; )

Best show at the Greek

Carole King, the year Tapestry was released

Just sayin'

It was guaranteed.

I agree with you, Kill Bill could have been chopped. Can you imagine being his editor, though?

FWIW (I'm no serious film hound, just like watching 'em), I found this one much tighter.

Defationary Jane,
remember Club 88? I saw the Talkinh Heads in LA in early '81, that was at some theatre,
but I also saw themin Chicago at this club near Lincoln Park... saw Oingo Boingo at least 4 times
and yes I saw Black Flag, Gun Club, Darby Crash before he died, etc but my band was X! Exene Cervenka,
John Doe, Billy Zoom and Din Bonebrake...

First concert was the Doobie Brothers as the opening act for Rare Earth. The Doobs blew em away. You could smoke canabis and ciggarettes indoors at the time. How times have changed.

The Electric Factory in Philly in the 60s was a very small warehouse that saw some big names for the times. I was Cream there, Jethro Tull, Arthur Brown, more who come to mind any more.

btw, i'm watching tarantino with charlie rose as we speak... didn't know he was gay

Renter,
I don't remember him being gay but he is very weird in a Crispin Glover kind of way. He was a rave regular in LA in the early 90s.

Speaking of action movies on of my favorite of all time is Ong Bak with Tony Ja. No stuntmen used, he did all the moves himself.

Wow, Talking Heads at the Pantages. I only got to see the Tom-Tom Club.

I saw Oingo Boingo in my college gym. They were great. Peter Gabriel at the Berkeley Greek, where he fell back into the crowd. A few New Year's Dead shows, Pat Metheny and BB King in small SF clubs...

Kids have kind of put a damper on live music. Best I've done for some time is Keb Mo, at Zoo Tunes in Seattle (though I did get to see Bill Frisell in a tiny club right here in Bellingham).

"Yea Duke, Capote. They were good friends. Truman used to drag him out to Studio 54, and more often than not, Dad would roll up his raincoat as a pillow and sack out until Truman wanted to go back uptown. For a while he and Truman and Andy Warhol were a triumvirate."

so dad hang out with teh swans?

Anon Bosch
your dad was Halston? you ever read any Gore Vidal (forget Chomsky if you want to read about the ruling class) on Truman...
hilarious! years ago I met Gore, what a raconteur... get him going about Jackie as the perfect geisha, etc...
but Truman did sell out Perry Smith big time... those men had to swing to make it a masterpiece.
to Dick Hickcock's credit he saw the con coming down the pike and didn't give Capote the time of day...

You're taking back.... I saw Exene Cervenka at that guitar shop venue. Another good show there was Michelle Shocked. Damn what was name of that place?

Saw the Dickies in 1981. My friend's big brother smuggled us into club. I still have my Stukas Over Disneyland t shirt that I bought in the parking lot for $10.

Most surreal show was James Brown at the Circle Star theater down on the BA peninsula.

Anon Bosch
your dad (maybe Pete Hamill or Plimpton), Truman and Andy... a triumvirate indeed! one has to go back to
say Mark Antony, Pompey, and Octavius for a power parallel in human civilzation...

Not those either, Duke. "Civil War Ironclads - Dawn of Naval Armor" was his first book. He also illustrated it. It's dedicated to his father, my brother and I. Being stupid kids, we both lost our sopies, but I have the copy he signed for my grandfather.
Later he wrote "The Automated State" (Both Chilton)

Here's something funny I can tell because it's the middle of the night. We deal with all kinds of numbers here everyday. Numbers become accepted because they're repeated, but almost no one does any original research. And yet, those numbers are accepted as fact, (mostly.)

At Truman's suggestion, Dad started researching for a book on transsexuals. It was the mid-70s and the subject had never been documented. So for months Dad crisscrossed the country trying to find out just how many people were electing to "experience" this transformation. No one really knew. But he began adding this from here, that from there, and eventually arrived at 12,000 across the country. (He told me all this.) For reasons I no longer remember, he never wrote the book.

Not long afterward news of this "new" sexual phenomenon began making its way into newspapers and magazines. Without fail, the number quoted was... 12,000.

oh yes, the cobbled together chapters of Capote's future masterwork that never came to fruition...
got his first advance I think around '66... two chapters I remember clearly in Esquire: Kate McCloud and
Le Cote Basque which got him kicked out of 'babe Paley's circle which he mistakenly thought was the
ruling class' said Vidal.
...
funny about the Stones twice I saw them on Mick's b-day, in '72 and '81 ... saw them at the Garden about 8 years ago, great seats
at 200 a pop but that's it for me - a very tired act... Jagger's a parody now.
...
KCoop
saw the opening of Pulp Fiction at the NY Film Festival at Lincoln Center and right during the scene where they
are giving Mia Wallace (Uma) an intercardial shot some guy in the audience has a heart attack... then some woman
started screaming and the house lights went on the flim kept playing for awhile and then was toped, they wheeled the guy out on a stretcher
Quentin came out on stage and said 'boy, that was the weirdest thing I've seen in a long time went on to say the man was ok, it was
just an angina attack and they wound the film back and we started over with the same scene...

. . . what was name of that place?

McCabe's

BTW, I hate signing back in. Takes way too many keystrokes.

Nite all.

I used to play backgammon, and I'm good but not great. My brother can play half a dozen people at a time and win all the matches.

'nite sportsfan.

Margin Call of Cthulhu (profile) wrote on Fri, 8/21/2009 - 8:57 pm
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Ong Bak is quite good. Great fight choreography. Like Jackie Chan when he was young, but without any of the slapstick.

My brother lives in BK, Thailand and used to do a lot of extras type work on movies shot in Thailand.

He was speaking to a guy who was an extra in Ong Bak.  The guy got to watch the shot scenes when Tony Ja was fighting the monstrous white guy at the end.  They had to carry the guy off the set on a stretcher because he couldn't walk after all the leg kicks.

Duke, you're in "the movies?"

Maybe you can answer me a question.

? coop?

Why do all movies showing silenced pistols make that silly whistling noise? Is it like that famous scream that just gets spliced into movie after movie after movie?

I've heard quite a few and none of them ever whistled. There's a low "pop" and a smack when the bullet hits something.

FDIC lets some shit bank take over a failed bank, this is the problem with the systemic meltdown and denial! This should be investigated and FDIC should have to be accountable!

Moody’s issues BBVA downgrade - Houston Business Journal:

Off topic, but...

Sales tax revenue plummets, cities suffer
Sacramento - -- In an unprecedented move, state officials this year have notified hundreds of cities and counties that their share of the state sales tax revenue has been cut because sales have dropped more severely than expected.

The latest round of letters was sent Friday by the state Board of Equalization, informing 337 cities, counties and transportation agencies of their reduced payments. Of those, 14 cities and one county were told revenue had declined so steeply they bottomed out - and would receive not a cent. Those unlucky 15 included the Bay Area cities of Petaluma, Cotati, Hercules and Portola Valley.

"Of those, 14 cities and one county were told revenue had declined so steeply they bottomed out - and would receive not a cent."

wtf???

Austin-based Guaranty Bank was closed Friday and sold to BBVA Compass of Birmingham, Ala.

The move was widely expected given Guaranty Bank’s financial straits. Guaranty Bank warned in late June that it was close to failure.

DOWNGRADE OF BBVA's BFSR

Moody's downgrade of BBVA's BFSR reflects the following concerns: (i) asset quality is likely to continue to deteriorate over the next 12 to 18 months across the group's core markets, particularly acute in Spain -- which accounts for more than 60% of the group's loan portfolio and close to 50% of its earnings, Mexico (8% of loans and 29% of earnings), and the US (10% of loans with a 3% earnings contribution); (ii) This is likely to lead to higher credit-related write-downs than previously anticipated in the ratings and could exert adverse pressure on profitability and capitalization.

Negative pressure on BBVA's BFSR could ultimately result from an inadequate lower risk absorption capacity (i.e. recurrent earnings, excess capital and loan loss reserves levels) when compared to the group's risk profile. A lower share of recurring earnings, which could itself be driven by an increased exposure to inherently volatile markets and/or market segments as well as any adverse changes to the perceived risk profile of the Latin American franchise, particularly Mexico, could also exert pressure on BBVA's BFSR.
https://www.theasianbanker.com/A556C5/Update.nsf/webTodayNews/484C2C238EB3D73B4825760400133305?Opendocument..

< Goodnight!

1960? pico, are you ancient? (I was 9)

1960? pico, are you ancient? (I was 9)

Anonymous Bosch, are you ancient? My parents weren't even born in 1960.

See how that works?

Doc Holiday...
that press release and credit downgrade just gave me an acid flashback from my days at Solly!
:bong:

S' OK. We're all friends here. It's kinda nice not dealing with economic trauma all the time.

Final comment before

I'll be in the OC and San Diego for the next week. If any of you see me, give me that secret "oink."

I'm on the other coast, pico, but you can have an "oink" anytime you want one, friend.

Jane, roomie said what about what?