Lola Kirke … I like her gray eyes and horsey face and her voice of course, gives a little bit of a Trust Fund kid vibe, who knows though:
Jeni's Powdered Jelly Donut Review
After making an obscene amount of money day trading the other day, I decided to splurge on some mail-order Jeni’s ice cream, getting a number of flavors which are not available to me in the backwoods of Appalachia. I will review all of them one by one.
The haul
First up is Powdered Jelly Donut.
The raspberry jelly is very good, very jelly doughnut like, but the "brown sugar donut crumble” is where this falls down. Sometimes Jeni nails the pastry bits of her ice cream, but here it just doesn’t work; there’s nothing doughnut like about it, it’s more like cookie dough, and heavily nutmeg’d at that.
Cutesy side story
It’s a good gimmick flavor though and you should try at least a scoop if you’re lucky enough to have a local scoop shop near you. But I wouldn’t order another $12 pint (plus $15 shipping).
Cartier Crash
Never seen this watch before, but I love it….
First Quarter 2022 ATS Stats
Dark Pool activity in the US Banana Republic stock market with its 14? exchanges plus these guys (sorted by average trade size):
ATS Name - MPID - Total Trades - Total Shares - Average Trade Size
DEALERWEB - DLTA - 5101 - 1041492231 - 204,174
LUMINEX ATS - LMNX - 8899 - 315839790 - 35,492
LIQUIDNET NEGOTIATION ATS - LQNT - 12643 - 386048880 - 30,535
CITIBLOC - CBLC - 4915 - 75574361 - 15,376
INSTINET BLOCKCROSS - BLKX - 89988 - 1057162530 - 11,748
LIQUIDNET H2O ATS - LQNA - 82638 - 861865790 - 10,429
AQUA - AQUA - 1319 - 13350019 - 10,121
XE - PJCX - 1241 - 9244489 - 7,449
BIDS ATS - BIDS - 3232891 - 3362038053 - 1,040
CROSSSTREAM - XSTM - 3295858 - 1359096449 - 412
POSIT - ITGP - 4499402 - 1435430232 - 319
INSTINCT X - MLIX - 8287638 - 1916808025 - 231
MS POOL (ATS-4) - MSPL - 23383374 - 5029274782 - 215
MS TRAJECTORY CROSS (ATS-1) - MSTX - 10266619 - 2188509508 - 213
IBKR ATS - IATS - 15262296 - 3134192508 - 205
CODA - CODA - 2612071 - 498241755 - 191
CBX - ICBX - 3910393 - 676572622 - 173
VIRTU MATCHIT ATS - KCGM - 18775998 - 2863359187 - 153
CROSSFINDER - CROS - 50927155 - 7531785443 - 148
LEVEL ATS - EBXL - 36468122 - 5194480422 - 142
THE BARCLAYS ATS - LATS - 25392463 - 3443666550 - 136
MS RPOOL (ATS-6) - MSRP - 9208241 - 1213279997 - 132
JPM-X - JPMX - 55749358 - 6423783608 - 115
BNPP CORTEX ATS - BNPX - 7503721 - 858161252 - 114
STIFEL X - STFX - 3106 - 326287 - 105
CITI-ONE ATS - ONEC - 2 - 200 - 100
SIGMA X2 - SGMT - 104027106 - 10178515187 - 98
UBS ATS - UBSA - 136406512 - 13284933436 - 97
INTELLIGENT CROSS LLC - INCR - 60212444 - 5523428040 - 92
BOATS - BLUE - 210374 - 14012281 - 67
JPB-X - JPBX - 20735217 - 1175783290 - 57
PURESTREAM - PURE - 3626321 - 56758405 - 16
Movies Watched -- Match Point (2005)
124 minute running time so at least half an hour too long … this is Woody Allen imagining how awful upper class British people are and holy shit Scarlett Johansson can’t act to save her life … the reason she was so good in Under the Skin was because she was playing an alien, sort of like why Arnold Schwarzenegger was such a great Terminator … anyway this was pretty awful … Rex Reed in a rare misstep loved it. You can avoid or watch on fast forward with subtitles on.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers going for the pooper poke
Movies Watched -- Betty Blue (1986)
In French … 188 minute running time, yes, my friends, a self-indulgent French movie that runs over three hours long … it’s about a crazy French girl with a giant mouth and her boyfriend who has an above-average size penis and great abs … I didn’t make it very far in before going to fast forward … it looked like it may have been fun or funny in parts, but three hours long, sweet Jesus … this is a total avoid
Sleepy warm slug...
My Brother Come Shield Me
I love Uwade’s voice … Columbia class of ‘21, now at Oxford … “she was raised listening to the likes of Fela Kuti and Sir Victor Uwaifo….”
I Don't Know Where I End Or Where You Start
Janne Schra (Dutch) with What I Really Want To Do … I dig it:
100 Best-Ever Children's Books, Sorted Chronologically
Penguin put out this nice list, which I’ve rearranged here chronologically:
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm (1812)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (1863)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870)
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (1872)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde (1888)
The Happy Prince & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde (1888)
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (1898)
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (1898)
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905)
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906)
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit (1907)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (1908)
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter (1908)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1911)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne (1926)
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner (1929)
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936)
The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett (1937)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein (1937)
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley (1939)
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1943)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950)
My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards & Shirley Hughes (1952)
The Complete Borrowers by Mary Norton (1952)
Brother Dusty-Feet by Rosemary Sutcliff (1952)
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (1952)
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (1954)
Mrs Pepperpot Stories by Alf Proysen (1956)
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier (1956)
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith (1956)
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1958)
Paddington: Please Look After This Bear & Other Stories by Michael Bond (1958)
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1961)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1964)
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (1964)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle & Bill Martin Jr (1967)
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines (1968)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
Ladybird Tales: Sleeping Beauty by Vera Southgate (1968)
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer (1969)
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1970)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)
The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy (1974)
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1975)
Dogger by Shirley Hughes (1977)
The Twits by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1980)
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1981)
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian (1981)
The BFG by Roald Dahl (1982)
Matilda by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1988)
Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl (1989)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (1990)
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (1995)
Zagazoo by Quentin Blake (1998)
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman (2001)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (2002)
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (2003)
The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney (2004)
Biggles and Co. by W. E. Johns (2004)
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (2005)
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (2005)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (2006)
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights translated by Malcolm C. Lyons & Ursula Lyons (2008)
Nation by Terry Pratchett (2008)
Wonder by R. J. Palacio (2012)
Turtles All The Way Down by John Green (2017)
Movies Watched -- Red Rocket (2021)
128 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long … I like some of Sean Baker’s stuff but this one didn’t work … it was too long and the “story” was weak and ultimately pointless .. the ageing porn star was far too intelligent and articulate, it did’t ring true at all … and what are we supposed to think about him? He’s a terrible, manipulative guy, or just a pathetic goofball? He can’t be both. There is no way I can recommend this one, give it a miss.
Kathleen Sachs gets it right: “There is indeed f*ckin’, fightin’, and full-frontal nudity to be found in Baker’s overlong, ragtag character study of a suitcase pimp going home to Texas City after falling from stardom in the porn industry. But what it dispenses in salaciousness fails to account for the lack of any meaningful undercurrent that might make the vulgarity interesting.”
Alison Willmore writes: “The always-admired ability to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and keep going has never looked so depressing."
Dick Brody also wasn’t thrilled.
Junk swinging in Texas City