Quit an hour in (with 40 minutes to go). Slow, cliche riddled, annoying "emotional cue" soundtrack, it didn't hold me. And the adopted son turned out to be gay? Ugh, I'm really glad I didn't watch to the end.
Q's Set Up on Monday
Here's my view of the Qs on Monday ... SQQQ is the ProShares 3x bear fund. Cross-currents across time frames, tricky biz.
Movies Watched -- We Steal Secrets (The Story of Wikileaks)
Assange strikes me as an egotist, the flowing mane, the sunglasses, the clothes ... he wanted to be a rock star (and became one). Manning is a troubled character ... feels like he would have imploded if Lamo? hadn't exposed him first ... of course there are atrocities being committed in war zones, probably every day, nothing that Ma and Pa back home want to know about ... anyway, movie is dated now in the "Snowden Era."
Trading idea for Mon. Aug. 4, 2014 | Netflix (NFLX)
See lots of longs after the recent rout, including Netflix.
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ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- August 1, 2014
Many important reversals to be made on Monday morning ... the Euro long is the oldest position to go, put on way back in December 2012.
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- July 25, 2014
Sorry, posting this a week late, but there were no changes last week.
Ghost of Prices Past
Food inflation ... can't just paper over these things.
People Gotta Lotta Nerve
Probably my favorite Neko Case song ... posted after watching the documentary, "Blackfish."
Movies Watched -- Blackfish
About orcas in captivity ... "killer whale" is a misnomer, I guess. Reminded of the great Neko Case song, "People Gotta Lotta Nerve," which I'll post above. An indictment of SeaWorld.
M, the Civilized Man
NOTES ON FASHION, By John Duka, NYTimes, 30 August 1983
AFTER what seems like years of sleep, the field of men's fashion publishing is about to be awakened by an editorial face-off between two publishing giants, Fairchild Publications, which produces Women's Wear Daily and W, and Conde Nast, whose magazines include Vogue, Glamour and Gentlemen's Quarterly.
The reason? John Fairchild is about to release his long-awaited fashion magazine for men, to be called M, the Civilized Man. Appearing in mid-September (at $3 an issue, 50 cents more than GQ), it could represent a turning point in the fortunes of men's fashion publishing simply because it is the first such magazine to appear in years and because its content is geared to men whose interests are considerably broader than what to wear tonight.
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There is one problem. The advertisements in the magazine - $1 million worth - are so mixed in with the articles that it is almost impossible to determine where one ends and the other begins.
Gentlemen's Quarterly has already gone a long way to meet its competitor head on. It has a new editor, Arthur Cooper, former editor of Family Weekly. It has revamped its format. The fashion spreads are neater, cleaner, simpler and more masculine. There is greater emphasis on serious feature articles. And, unlike M, according to Steven T. Florio, GQ's publisher, the editorial well will not be disrupted by advertisements and ''is sacrosanct.''
That is a policy that just might work in GQ's favor.