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Music Monday: In “honor” of the Pope
It seems like everybody has at some point today said “I didn’t know the Pope could quit!” A lot of us remember John Paul II spending a lot of years being rather frail, so I am forced to wonder about Benedict XVI’s “health” issues. Tim Minchin is hilariously funny, highly intelligent, a ridiculously good musician, and [...]
Music Monday: Musicology and Modern Popular Music
Free term theme idea: Recurring Thematic Material in the Collected Works of Flo Rida. If one were to listen to his entire discography, how many songs would seem to reference oral sex? Regrettably, there doesn’t seem to be an official music video I could embed. In Closing: a bounty I hope gets paid; waaah, the media [...]
Music Monday: Inspiration, Part 2
Last week I said I had two inspiring videos. This is the other one. It took guts to make this video. But no, don’t go off the antibiotics until the whole run is done, ever, ok? In Closing: gee I wonder why; some negatives??; this could be bad; “How dare researchers publish research that isn’t about [...]
Facebook is a social media site that I don’t use. At all. Ever. You see a Bridget Magnus over there? It’s not me. Probably that lady from Vancouver. Ok, disclosure out of the way. So, it seems that their stock is at a record low. And it’s expected to dump more altitude in a couple [...]
Music Monday: A Better Movie than I Expected
Admittedly, I liked seeking the “Vegas of 1964” shots. The race sequence is remarkable because I know those landmarks: they really did start downtown, head south to cross Hoover Dam, somehow or another end up north of town on Mt. Charleston, and then cruised back down Rancho back to downtown. By the way, you’ll notice [...]
Shorties: The Hands of Fate
The Things One Finds: Roman beads in ancient Japanese burial mound. Well, we all gotta go sometime: Ok, sure, we have more heart disease and cancer. We also have a whole lot less tuberculosis, flu, gastrointestinal infections, and diphtheria. Because the real purpose is to make Chertoff a nice chunk of change: Not a single terrorist has been arrested [...]
Things really are tough all over
Maybe you saw the report showing that the net worth of the average American family is down almost 40%. It’s down to the levels we had during the Original Bush Administration (oh, and Happy 88th Birthday to him). Now, of course that’s partly because home prices are down to where they were a decade ago. [...]
My Boss Had Some Things to Say about Fear
He gives us a video update every week at our office meeting. I thought this one was more general interest, not really about real estate this week. One thing though: why was he smiling about the idea of a knife to one’s throat? In closing: movie; Zoinks, a ghost ship!; REAL done; don’t let them [...]
A Few Words about “Nice, Safe Neighborhoods”
It isn’t very often that I have something to say worth posting to both my personal and professional websites. This is one of those posts. I am often asked by my relocating clients about “nice, safe neighborhoods.” This is honestly a trick question that I can’t really answer. I can point you to Metro‘s or [...]
Bikini Bloodbath Shorties
Where the heck does Hollywood keep coming up with absurd titles for horror movies? Anyways, on to the shorties. It wouldn’t be Shorties without the Economy: Yeah, turns out it is a recession if you stop playing games with inflation. Gee, really? Maybe that’s why the stock market is picking up their money and going [...]
