From Matthew Engel’s column in today’s FT, “Hell is other people’s vuvuzelas”:
Non-football fans who wish to understand this phenomenon can log onto vuvuzela.fm or download an iPhone app. You may find yourself agreeing with the spokesman for the American National Hockey League who warned: “Anyone who brings a vuvuzela to an NHL game will be [...]
Way late to this, but since no one in Hollywood or on Broadway cares what I think, I guess there’s no harm in the delay. Cheryl recorded the Tony Awards Sunday Night when we were out, and then fast-forwarded through it when we got back to see if Sherrie Rene Scott won the best actress [...]
I haven’t watched David Letterman in years. Back in college, when my roommates and I lacked cable and were up late, we’d watch him occasionally. I always thought there was an emperor-has-no-clothes aspect about him in that he usually wasn’t funny, but college kids acted as if he were. Or they thought that he was [...]
Three of the put positions I bought in lieu of shorting earlier this year are going to expire worthless this week, the ones on UAUA, VMED, and TBSI. One mistake I made here was buying out-of-the-money puts, in a couple of cases far OTM1. Despite that mistake, I could have still made money on the [...]
Christmas, Everytown…
Update: For those who didn’t catch the allusion:
From Mr. Show w/ David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, “The Story of the Story of Everest”:
Actually, this was posted by Geoff 10 days ago, but I just saw it today (HT: Eric Falkenstein):