Movies Watched -- Son of Saul

In Yiddish (and Hungarian and German and Polish). 107 minutes. Broke the rule about never watching anything about the Holocaust, and I'm glad I did because this movie was fantastic. They keep the camera tight on Saul almost all the time, so the background is often fuzzy, and the pace is whirlwind, but you know what's going on ... and you can hear it (the screaming, the shots, the furnaces roaring, etc.) I was just amazed by it all, a solid green rating (go), recommended. 

David Edelstein has an interesting take on the movie (he didn't like it).

This is only the sixth movie from 2015 that I loved and can recommend (the first five are: Mad Max: Fury Road; The Revenant; Shaun the Sheep; Tangerine; and The Diary of a Teenage Girl). I only have a couple dozen left to watch from the original list of 80 (!), so I should be able to get a top ten list for 2015 by the end of it.

Kept his humanity, despite the horrors

Movies Watched -- Grandma

82 minute running time, which I think is the *shortest* of any of the 80! movies I have on the 2015 list that I'm working through, so that's a good length in this Age of the Overly Long Movie. Lily Tomlin plays a foul-mouthed, straight-talking (i.e., rude) grandma, and there are some very funny bits ... it's a W.D. By movie and though brief, it touches on a lot of taboo topics: abortion, lesbianism, bad "parenting," artificial insemination, money, pot smoking, ageing, death, grieving, etc. It wasn't bad but I did go to 2x fast forward (the highest speed I can use and still maintain the audio) after 20 minutes. I'll give it a yellow (consider) rating. 

Needs $630, today.

His Tastes Are Awfully Highbrow

Discovered via the Spotify algo (how else?). This kid is my kind of smartass. 

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ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- October 10, 2016

No changes this week.

Tweets for October 6, 2016

RT @AlderLaneeggs This was posted elsewhere so here are my slides: https://t.co/hfiFktLNMy | Nice to include weasel lawyer threat letter.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 6, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Walls work, Making breakfast a success, 57-yo Marshall Mathers, Suicide therapy.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 6, 2016

My beard has reached the unruly state where I'm scaring people in public ... sales clerks acting more nervous than usual around me.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 6, 2016

Tweets for October 5, 2016

If they can get Twitter $TWTR below $21.50 before the regular hours open tomorrow, that would cause maximum pain, no? pic.twitter.com/PHPJJRozFu

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 6, 2016

Kroger $KR below $29: | "You can observe a lot just by watching." https://t.co/jl5yTjwjsB

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 6, 2016

"Most entertainers don't know the difference between a balance sheet and a balance beam." -- Leonard Marks

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 6, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Skin-to-skin charge (fractional Mercedes payment), Push for a speech by The Donald

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 5, 2016

Tweets for October 4, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Dealing with cyber attack, legless woman climbs Katahdin, baby raccoon brawl.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 4, 2016

Tweets for October 3, 2016

It’s not just sheltered Millennial girls who can’t take criticism or cope with conflict, sheltered Millennial boys are similarly afflicted.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 3, 2016

Mainstream media continues to preach to the choir by revealing Trump's transgressions ... they don't matter a whit to his fans (voters).

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 3, 2016

RT @jacobinmag The American hillbilly isn’t suffering from a deficient culture. He’s just poor. https://t.co/IJWmrG7o0D | Wonderful takedown

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 3, 2016

Tweets for October 1, 2016

“Even as a kid growing up on the west side of Houston, Michael Thal (Dell) wanted to ‘make more money than any other kid in school.’”

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 2, 2016

“We got into pan pizza and a lot of other stuff — we even started growing our own mushrooms” -Domino’s Tom Monaghan on when he got off track

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 1, 2016

“They asked me at school what he [Dad] did, and I said he was a security analyst, and they thought he checked alarm systems.” -Susan Buffett

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 1, 2016

From 1991 magazine: “In 1987-88 the production of limousines peaked at between 4,000 and 5,000 a year.” | Never rebounded? 80s phenomenon?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 1, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | John Not So Greathouse apology, What kind of a GOP candidate rage tweets at 3 AM?

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 1, 2016

Monthly production for September for our solar panels on garage roof: 682.04 kWh

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) October 1, 2016

Tweets for September 30, 2016

Re-tweets to my popular stream: https://t.co/iDTYIeK87v | Decapitation poll, having you car stolen while black, sharks stepping on Legos.

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) September 30, 2016