Been awhile since I’ve done a Chairman Recommended post … this is the kitchen scale (“Ozeri Pronto Digital Multifunction Kitchen and Food Scale, White“) that I use. It has a nice big surface and a tare button and shows ounces, grams, milliliters, etc. It shuts itself off. Can’t go wrong for $13. No, that isn’t an “affiliate” link … I don’t need pennies from my dozen loyal followers … I send these recos from the heart (or stomach).
Trading Notes -- 20190103 Thursday
KTOV: Few shares avail pre-open, instantly pre-borrowed, nothing all day, FIDO n/a
09:25 1.95K, 10:00 10.2K, 16:00 25.8K
SESN: Yes borrow, FIDO n/a — drug fail, Squashed Toad. TC went dead fast, fell of radar as it went back sub $1
09:25 1.69K, 10:00 4.94K, 16:00 14.6K
VTVT: No borrow, FIDO n/a — back from dead only to get smashed again, note rank change from PO to 10AM
09:25 76, 10:00 4.55K, 16:00 11.2K
ALQA: No borrow, FIDO n/a — went super thin, good to avoid
09:25 496, 10:00 4.40K, 16:00 7.23K
DBVT: Yes borrow, FIDO n/a — weak from get-go but avoided 25x entry, went very thin, note 10AM TC
09:25 311, 10:00 1.65K, 16:00 6.94K
ADIL: No borrow, FIDO n/a — Latecomer, note 10AM TC, avoided given thinness
09:25 17 (not Top 50), 10:00 2.97K, 16:00 5.80K
Trading Notes -- 20190102 Wednesday
CCCL: No borrow, FIDO #19 — Day Two, good spots, no borrow alas
09:25 668, 10:00 18.1K, 16:00 40.8K
ENTG: Yes borrow, FIDO n/a — no news, mystery mover, shorted two legs (50x, 75x)
09:25 n/a, 10:00 7.99K, 16:00 27.1K
PRAN: Pre-borrow possible, none during regular hours, FIDO n/a, dumb PO PR, shorted one leg (25x rushed? bad.)
09:25 2.76K, 10:00 12.2K, 16:00 24.5K
VTVT: No borrow, FIDO n/a — Day Three, good spots, no borrow, big inside coil (see 12hr)
09:25 419, 10:00 5.06K, 16:00 17.4K
MRIN: Yes borrow, FIDO n/a — Latecomer, not even Top 50, shorted one leg b/c had borrow (50x)
09:25 n/a, 10:00 n/a, 16:00 8.79K
SFET: No borrow, FIDO n/a — semi-active PO but no borrow and just dead, #StuckAtaProfit
09:25 316, 10:00 801, 16:00 1.53K
Trading Notes -- 20181231 Monday
VTVT: No borrow, FIDO #11, Day Two
09:25 #2 1.33K, 10:00 #1 25.4K, 16:00 #1 77.9K
GOOS: Yes borrow, FIDO n/a
09:25 #4 163, 10:00 #3 6.26K, 16:00 #2 31.3K
CCCL: No borrow, FIDO #29, Latecomer, no news
09:25 N/A, 10:00 #5 2.13K, 16:00 #3 21.2K
APHA: Yes borrow, FIDO #30, Day Two
09:25 #3 773, 10:00 #4 4.76K, 16:00 #4 18.0K
SFET: No borrow, FIDO n/a
09:25 #1 1.58K, 10:00 #2 7.91K, 16:00 #5 11.2K
GOOS: Canada Goose's first China store draws eager crowds despite diplomatic headwinds (dumb “news”)
APHA: Aphria Responds To Green Growth Brands’ Hostile Takeover (Endless shadiness)
SFET: , Safe-T Receives an Order From the Largest Israeli Beverage Company for its SDA and SDE Solutions (Dumb PO PR)
Movies Watched -- George Washington (2000)
89 minute running time so the perfect length, but I still had to watch it at 2x fast forward because it was so depressing. It’s about a bunch of poor black (and some white) kids in some awful little town in the South … one of the kids is killed in an accident and the other kids cover up the death, but there’s not really a story here, it’s just recording misery and poverty and hopelessness. Some white guy’s low-budget Art House flick. Yuck.
I don't have much to look forward to
Movies Watched -- First Reformed (2018)
113 minute running time but felt much longer, at least 20 to 30 minutes too long. This movie was ridiculous, just an unfocused mess. The only thing it got right was the typical size of an upstate New York church congregation nowadays: six people. No idea why they used a church in Queens for an Albany county church, probably has to do with tax credits. And St. Barnabas hospital is in the Bronx so I don’t know why Ernst would go see the doctor there.
SPOILERS: Anyway, Ethan Hawke, he’s exactly my age and nearly as good looking as me… a minister in a dying church which is somehow affiliated with an evangelical megachurch inexplicably run by a black guy who makes toilet jokes. One of Ethan’s flock is a pretty bug-eyed girl whose husband is worried about environmental collapse … Ethan “counsels” him but doesn’t prevent his suicide. The husband had a suicide bomber vest that Ethan takes for himself.
The little church is being “re-consecrated” on its 250th anniversary, all underwritten by some BAD polluting company (like GE) so Ethan considers blowing it all up at the ceremony (including governor Cuomo), but pretty bug-eyed girl prevents this by showing up at the last minute and love conquers all I guess, especially when she’s 15 years your junior. Honey, why have you wrapped yourself in barbed wire?
God, this was a terrible movie. 93% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, which means the rating system there is absolutely worthless.
Read Armond White’s spot-on review:
Can I lie on top of you, Reverend?
This Life It Ain't Free
Love her sound and the song….
Movies Watched -- Lady Macbeth (2017)
89 minute running time so the perfect length. SPOILERS. I’m not sure why it’s titled Lady Macbeth, she doesn’t appear to be filled with guilt … a pretty girl in a loveless Victorian marriage … she has torrid sex with a gorgeous half-black, Derek-Jeter-like groomsman … scandalous of course … ends up poisoning her father-in-law … and then kills her husband … later she kills her husband’s half-black child (whom he had with another servant, some time before). Maybe you’re supposed to sympathize with her at first, but you don’t in the end, because she’s murderous after all. And she gets away with it: the groomsman and a black maid are taken away for the final crime.
This was made by a guy who looks like a trust fund kid. The lead actress is pretty, but there’s not much of a story here … the class and race and gender politics of it all seem confused.. Is she a seductress or a victim … or both? It’s a simple movie, all shot in one spot, could be a stage play. I didn’t hate it, but I’d never recommend it either. Yellow rating.
Claudia Puig correctly writes: “…it ultimately leaves the viewer unmoved, and possibly confounded … She starts out as an avenging angel and then devolves into almost campy serial-killer criminality … Birch and Oldroyd show little willingness to delve too deeply into the [race issues].“
Oliver Jones correctly writes: “Oldroyd appears to want to say something about race— Anna the maid is black and Sebastian and several other prominent characters appear to be of mixed race— but as with his thoughts on class, whatever his point is seems lost or a least clouded upon delivery … a film that feels emotionally vacant and somewhat pointless beyond its desire to disrupt the typical period piece.“
Tied up too long
Someone Else's Dime
Jewel from February 1999 … terrible quality but I love this song and her imperfect teeth (fixed once she got big):
Movies Watched -- Stronger (2017)
119 minute running time so at least 20 to 30 minutes too long. Boston Marathon bombing story. I like Jake Gyllenhaal even though he has an impossible to spell last name. I think he’s talented and hard working (“Nightcrawler” was one of my Ten Best movies from 2014).
There was a class angle here that interested me … Jake’s family is working class, stereotyped as a foul-mouthed, hard-drinking, dumb bunch. But his girlfriend is from a more solidly middle class family, so the dynamic between her and his morons-with-hearts-of-gold family was fun to watch.
They CGI’d out his legs to get those realistic looking stumps… very high tech. There was a weird sort of product placement for CostCo employee healthcare benefits, which gave me pause… I’d love to know what his whole recovery cost in dollars and cents terms, given the obscene costs people face in the corrupt US healthcare system.
It wasn’t terrible, but I can’t recommend it either… yellow rating.
Not your fault, Tatiana