I’ll have you know, “The Fly” keeps a hideous blue radio in his kitchen, much to Mrs. Fly’s chagrin.
This radio has a broken antenna, broken CD door, held together with blue tape, and looks like its been punched in the face a few hundred times.
See, once upon a time, the radio was rather good looking, despite not matching with Mrs. Fly’s granite and steel kitchen paradise of luxury. However, after listening to many “short end of the stick” NY Met games, often times “The Fly” would rip the fucking radio out of the wall and beat it like an Iranian shoplifter.
Naturally, shortly thereafter, I’d make up with my little blue radio and place it back on the counter and listen to its scratchy, low grade audio.
However, Mrs. Fly’s attitude towards this “apparent eyesore” grew by the second. After the CD door “accidentally” broke, she started throwing it away.
As you know, she underestimated me.
Much to her chagrin, “The Fly” would fetch this gruesome blue radio out of the garbage, garage or closet, clean it off, then place it back on the counter—in order to listen to more losing NY Met contests.
This radio has been the root of many debates at Flydom, as Mrs. Fly and I jockey back and forth, “debating” the fate of the antenna-less blue radio. Basically, she throws it out upon sight, exclaiming: “go buy another one. This thing is disgusting.”
I do not agree.
See, the blue radio and I have a lot of history. Granted, it is unable to pick up any music channels or play a CD anymore; I am still loyal to it.
It picks up like 3 AM channels. That’s all I need. Fuck it.
So, the point of the story is this: if you want to get into heated, meaningless debates with your wife over “artsy” kitchen decor, place a monstrous blue radio on top of the counter, which is held together by tape (attached is a real pic of my beloved radio).
After all, we’re all blue radio’s, to a large extent, excluding “The Fly” of course.
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Personally I think it looks pretty good, makes a good contrasting element.
By the way I re-visted the Chase bank that took me for $5.00 this weekend and convinced the manager to explain how these could occur. He sat me down and had me watch the following video of Jamie Dimon explaining the tricks of the trade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgEV3tGMdY
A beer for your long-suffering wife.
Obama will make sure everybody gets a new CD player (kind of like a chicken in every pot).
Touching.
It could’ve been worse. It could’ve been an 8-Track player that actually worked.
hilarious
Reason #99 to be a Cubs Fan.
Fly, the next time she tosses your blue radio, try this tact.
disclaimer/caveat: If this backfires, you’re fucked.
Nice granite counter top. Which of his many obscenely-profitable trades did the Fly use to purchase it with?
PS: Just noticed that “granite counter top” produced an ad reference. Does this mean I earned Mr. Fly $25.00? If so, what is my cut?
That’s a 1 diamond radio.
Incidentally, my wife has all of my important “man objects” in the basement, next to the boiler. It’s where I go when I want to remember my “glory days.” Were you married to her, that radio would be in the boiler room, and that’s where you’d have to go to listen to the game.
Be thankful.
I’m a big fan of your “important matter” posts, btw.
-DT
Fuck you blue radio, you’re dead.
Do you have a red hooded sweatshirt also?
That is awesome….I’m copying and pasting that shit right now.
I’m surpised that ugly fucker survived the Mets last year…good thing CNBC isn’t on one of those poor stations or that thing would of been smashed with a bowling ball long ago. I hope Mrs Fly doesn’t Bowl.
The granite, trendy tile and stainless steel are more egregious. It’s going to end up like the mirrored rooms, green marble crap trends from the 80s.
Must be a Lawn Guyland thing. My aunt and uncle have the same granite-top/tile backsplash combo.
Fly, you’re not my uncle are you?
(Nope, I just remembered, he’s a rabid Yankee fan. Ironically, he is from Crooklyn (Poly Prep grad), and is known to beat various broadcast devices to shit whilst listening to Yankees and/or Giant games).
De big black knob on de left is de “BEHODE” button.
we’re all blue radio’s
it owns us all? wtf?
all hail our transistorized overlord.
What happened to “liveblogging the recession,” by the way?
Or is this the introduction?
Fly, did you see the barrons article on DCR? is this true re $111?
Tragic.
It appears The Fly took the picture with a shitty $100 Casio EX-Z77 toy camera he borrowed from the kids.
bulliSHIT: Yes the fund will be desolved at NAV should oil close above 111 for 3 days straight but not until June. Keep in mind oil has never closed above 111. Should oil turn down the premium will shoot back into it very very quickly.
By the way can you post what they said?
Fry: You said you were gonna blog the recession? WTF???
Yeah, the Nikkei took a swift 2.5% haircut.
Looks like Wachovia is doing the ol’ “dilute & infuse” maneuver, a.k.a. “the desperation dance” … how will the market respond?
Yet another bailout. Where is that fuck face Gasparino???
Wachovia Corp. on Sunday was hammering out the final terms of a deal that would provide a capital infusion of several billion dollars from outside investors, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Market will rip 300+ points tomorrow.
good call on SMN, fly
the tumbled marble back splash looks like a “home project” of yours, doesn’t go with the 1970’s style counter tops with a 1/2 inch beveled trim to make them look “thick”
Good news people – Wallachia, McFly’s minor prinicipality, is about to get a large dilution. They call it infusion, I call it what I call it. Dick Cow must think it’s a great thing, and judging from the reaction to UBS solvency issues, so will the market. Hooray for losses, up we go! Meanwhile the loony Isakoru Yamamoto has decided to push up the dollar, just in case he can’t unload his inventory on neighbors experiencing food shortages. MOre good news, another couple of dozen billion ameropesos parked at the BOJ. Dick Cow must like that too, and if Dick Cow likes it, I like it.
Jakey, I read Madison’s articles, and held him in very high regard for Trenton. I do not see what indicates to you he favored a plebiscite. Hamilton, less of a chance. You may choose to discount Lafayette and de Toqueville, at your own constraint to understanding. Instrumental to the republic.
hey you, fucknut, you got that backsplash tile from lowes. I got that same shit in my house ‘cept yours was layed by a finer group of mexicans. Mine slightly angles. But I picked up my mexi’s in front of lowes, probably drunk and shit.
Bad year that year?
Hey Mrs. Fly..You better check your ring and make sure that shits 4 real.
lowes: But you are renting, he owns.
Looks like the Japanese are getting Ginsu’d
gapping… uhhh, calling someone a renter this day and age… kind of a compliment.
I take it Mr Yapping that you are his Butt,ler?
And I’ll have you know I do not rent. I have a fine 100,000 estate in Southern ohio which I now know has a fancy New York style backsplash.
wow: Renters continue to get poor, unless you top ticked the market in buying and selling short term, you are always going to come out ahead owning. However, my comment was not meant as derogatory, he said his back splash was all fuck sided and I was implying that renting meant he could bail out of it and not have to live with it. Thought he mentioned renting in a previous comment. 100,000k though? 1 bedroom house or do they sell em cheap in Ohio?
this was the win? congrats on your “big personal win”, lol.
This is an important matter.
Keep rescuing that radio as if your balls depended on it. The women we live with often choose an object, usually one that clashes with their decorating vision, and attempt to get rid of it or put it out of their view regardless of how the men in their lives feel about it. They usually choose something manly, often related to sports or other manly activities.
It is kind of like two dogs pissing on a patch of grass to see who is alpha and who gets to eat scraps.
This entire activity is a test and it secretly pleases them to see us stand up for our nads.
Sometimes when the object goes it gets replaced by the pool man.
I think a new paradigm will emerge: banks that get cash infusions NEED cash infusions, and will be sold. Bad news, ultimately, is still bad news.
Call it “regression to the truth.”
I say elevator down tomorrow.
It’s a double wide dude.
Everybody knows they have 3 bedrooms.
You should stop gapping and yapping and pay attention.
it may start up but it’ll be either sideways or down by close based on how my indicators are reading. the vast majority of the time this signal goes off it’s a half bull signal.
we may see a short rally tuesday or wednesday.
word for monday: bull trap
gapping, no offense taken. But historically you’re just kind of right… housing has never been a particularly good “investment” averaging slightly better than inflation.
The past 8 years have fucked current owners for at least 5 years (if not more) to come… unless you are indeed lucky to have sold at the top of any housing bubble (especially this past one) you need to be deprogrammed about housing wealth.
Watch what happens to your property taxes in the coming years, it won’t be pretty… unless you live in Ohio… trust me, i’ve done the numbers and i know that not being an “owner/debtor” right now is incredibly beneficial… and i do want to be an owner at some point, but right now that’s looking like 2010 at the earliest.
Anybody seen my genitals? It appears they got sheared off.
Jakey, I read Madison’s articles, and held him in very high regard for Trenton. I do not see what indicates to you he favored a plebiscite. Hamilton, less of a chance. You may choose to discount Lafayette and de Toqueville, at your own constraint to understanding. Instrumental to the republic.
Not sure where you’re getting the plebiscite idea. Maybe it’s the Glenfiddich?
We should have never allowed the popular vote on Senators… twas the beginning of the end. The 16th and the 17th amendment– perhaps US’s two worst.
A Classic.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Wachovia Corp. said Sunday it will move up the release of its first-quarter financial results, an announcement that closely followed a report that the nation’s fourth-largest bank is about to get a multibillion-dollar cash infusion.
The Charlotte-based bank, which is struggling to digest its admittedly ill-timed purchase of mortgage lender Golden West Financial Corp., will report before the market opens Monday. The bank had been set to report its results Friday.
The change was announced shortly after The Wall Street Journal reported Wachovia was working on the final terms of a deal that would bring in between $6 billion and $7 billion of capital. In return, the investor group would get shares priced at roughly $23 to $24 apiece — about an 18 percent discount to Wachovia’s closing share price Friday of $27.81.
Guess they just want to get their announcement over with tomorrow…
What the fuck is with all of these kitchen decor comments?
Do you think I care about that shit?
All I know is, Frank the Contractor, charged me like 30k to renovate it, not including egregious Bosche and Viking appliances.
All i care about is the backyard.
WB is fucked
Another dilutive deal.
Skiffles!
What a treat!
Skiffles!
You’re so neat!
Gotta gehhhhhhht me,
Some Skiffles…
Todaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!!
(Some moah, ah means)
Reason #257 regarding Why Dino is Almost Always Wrong:
“The World that Works vs. The World that Does not Work.”
Fly gets touchy when you mention his apparently trendy tastes.
Viking appliances are a pain in the ass. If you actually use them, of course. If you just use them to decorate a “rich man’s” kitchen then they’re great. Same with Le Creuset “cookware”.
(However I suspect “The Fly” does not do a lot of cooking).
“The Fly” brings home the bacon. Why the fuck would he have to cook it too?
Ha!
Wrong again.
“The Fly” loves to cook. He is a regular Chef.
Recession hits hard…breaking news:
Breaking news:
Suspicious Package Industry Falls On Hard Times
Suspicious Package Industry Falls On Hard Times
I’m not a big cooker, but Iron Chef on The Food Channel is pretty bad ass.
That’s right, Fly did share an “asshat stew” recipe once.
Santelli and Shopkeeper Kneale discuss the State of the Market:
so we have a bank that has lost over $50 billion in market cap over the last year getting $7 billion and creating another 250-300 million shares (simple math) at another 20% discount to current prices… haha…
somehow this will be found as good news because people are stoopid…
The Shitty never sleeeps!
Shitty-Baaaaank!
The Fly digging through trash, man how was that MVIS idea.
Fly:
As Asia tanks, we need your normal Sunday night transportation update – what crazy drivers did you encounter this weekend – maybe a massive traffic jam at a WB ATM or at the HD parking lot?
Hmmmm… three radio stations.
Well, we know one of them is 660 AM, who I think still carry the Mets.
That’s the ole “Fatboy and Fruitloops” station. Fugging Francessa. Fat tard.
Next…. prolly 770 AM, so you can get your Yanks, when necessary. Also, Bob Grant if he’s still alive, that old pisser. Of course, they also have the amazing Levine, the radio equivalent to “the Fly.”
The third… hmmm… tough one. There’s a lot that are still pretty strong on the dial.
1010 Wins News?
WOR radio… what was that? 1080?
880… can’t remember who that is… Bloomberg maybe? Or is that 1130?
Last time I was driving through New York, I was astounded to find the whole right end of the dial filled up with Chinese language stations.
Who says Jim Rogers ever had to move his kids?
Why are you listening to baseball games on the radio? That is someone my dad did when he was a kid. I would assume that you have a 50+ inch plama screen to enjoy Met games on with the profuse amount of coin you bank.
BO:
Often times I am too busy to watch the games. So I listen.
Anyway, it reminds me of the times when I’d listen to them with my Grandfather, back in the old days.
Good memories.
No driving tonight. Just loads of cleaning.
Jake:
My three channels are 660, 1130 and 710.
Listening to baseball on the radio is actually superior to watching it on the tube.
Probably the only sport you can say that about.
Can’t believe that POS doesn’t get 770. It’s the strongest signal in NY.
Fly listens to Michael Savage?
and what’s with the matching blue tape.. did you borrow that from the Mexican painting crew.. the only application for that is edging.
..it’s Wallachia, stop calling it wachovia
Calvino, the blue tape works great for hanging your kids artwork all over the house. In elementary school these days it seems as if they bring things home every day. The blue tapes comes off the wall easy and off the paper if you want to keep the “work” for posterity.
By the way, the Fly IS Michael Savage.
Gap/Yap,
Per Barrons …. DCR’s NAV is based on $40 less price of oil divided by three hence $40-($110/3)=$3.33 with UCR’s NAV being the $110/3 or $36.67 …. with more demand for a short hedge against oil related stocks and few options, this etf has been trading at a premium to NAV and UCR at a discount. Should the UCR etf trade above $111 for three consecutive days it will stop trading and liquidate at its then NAV …. Currently UCR holders would make a premium of $3.52 over the last quote of $33.15 and DCR holders would lose $3.52 over last close of $6.85 …. so on day 2 7/8 go long UCR and short DCR and pray for the close above $111 or get your head handed to you by some wise guys dumping oil contracts into the close.
Rally time!
Goldman strategists say U.S. earnings are `awful’ – Bloomberg.com
Bloomberg.com reports according to Goldman Sachs an “awful” start to the first-quarter U.S. earnings season is a “harbinger of things to come” that will push stocks lower. “Early signs are awful. We expect generally disappointing results and a swath of lowered profit guidance that will drive the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index lower in coming weeks.” The S&P 500, the benchmark index for American equities, dropped 2.7% last week after General Electric (GE) said the credit-market crisis caused an unexpected earnings decline, while slowing economic growth and rising energy prices eroded profit at United Parcel Service (UPS) and Alcoa (AA). Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg have cut their projections for first-quarter earnings at S&P 500 companies every week since Jan. 4. They now predict a 12.3% drop, compared with an estimate for an increase of 4.7% at the start of 2008.
FLY
Sorry to pile on, but the color of your counters and backsplash are just gross. Did a blind person pick that combo out? Hopefully you were at work and had nothing to do with it.
Its nice to know that you live in a house with an ugly kitchen.
Mom-Dad look! My comment is on the front page of IBC!
Hey Fly,
Thanks for shopping a Home Depo!!! The color of the Granite top is a dead give away!!!
Between your plumbing disaster and your choice of kitchen granite/tile, imho, I would have to say that times have been tough for you.
Keep up the blog though, it may work out for you.
Home Depot Man where quality is non-existent.
Whoever posted the Bill Fleck newsletter last Friday, thanks. Thought it was a good read.
30k seems about right for a third tier set-up such as that.
agree with Cubs about the Fleck newsletter….very informative, a good read
now if we could only get Gartmans letter…….
Good god those GS comments are nasty! DIE WM!!
“This radio has a broken antenna, broken CD door, held together with blue tape, and looks like its been punched in the face a few hundred times.”
:clapping:
Fly could actually make zillions as a comedian (in romania of course)
Covered half my FED at $18.25 on the (possibly mistaken) notion that there was a fibonacci extension (161.8%) right around $18.00. This thing has no support here for ten years, though, so I could be being overcautious.
I agree with Mrs. Fly, that blue radio is tacky. You have a loser radio, listening to the loser Mets. Perhaps, Mrs. Fly would tolerate it if you listened to the yankee’s.
Hey you dorks complaining about the Fly’s tile and countertop work- I implore you to log in to the PG and post pictures of your “kitchen.” Please, it will be a blast.
Are shorts being setup for homo-hammer of death? This shit doesn’t want to go down at all!
I’ll take your challenge, wood. I’m pretty damn proud of this kitchen – did it all myself.
I think X is about done with the rah-rah. Earns season will shift X focus to demand and sustainability of steel prices.
Damn ott, at least you could have swept the floor before you snapped the pic.
Are you pulling my leg, okie?
I used my power washer on the floor that very morning.
Those marks on the floor are probably from using the nail gun to kill roaches. I don’t like to have to get up from the table to go over and squash them.
We’re talking kitchens?!!! OY.
Well if I must … the granite we just put in the condo kitchen is similar to the Fly’s pattern but not exact, and it was not purchased at freakin’ Home Depot. My husband insisted on all stainless steel appliances. I picked out the cherrywood (I think) cabinets. The tilework is Italian travertine style on the floor, and Italian villa mosaic style on the walls behind the counters and appliances. We are almost done, my husband did all the work himself. He also made an arch shaped “hole” in an internal kitchen wall and made it into a half-height archway and we put our large stained glass peacock artwork from Mexico into it, to make a stained glass window. I call this project “Kitchen Porn”.
I need to sell a whooole lot more books to finish paying for the rest of the condo renovations.
I’ll ask him to take some pictures on his phone.
Now can we go back to talking about stocks, or should we move onto Obama and politics?
ottnot, freakin hilarious
boca, you must sell a helluva lotta books…
Shed, I’ve been working really hard, 7 days a week, this is a big project and I’m running to keep the cash flow up. Sadly my stock trades sucked and it’s not going to pay for it, so books are my new love.
When I get the pictures, can you tell me how to post them here? Should I just use an html link or is there some code I can use to get them to display directly in my post? (Now you know how ignorant I am and why I can’t figure out how to post in the PG)
BTW we’re almost at 100 comments on this thread.
Boca, I’m an html idiot.
However, on the PG, it is easy. Just browse and upload your images, sizing them to around 600×900.
fuck the radio you have a beautiful MARBLE FLOOR. I love it.Italy Marble imported???
To all:
AM radio is not for the cool at heart. Please, for me, do give FM a try. I would like to suggest WEEI 105.5, home of the World Champion Boston Red Sox Radio Network. Unless you are a fan of the dreadful National League (that said in a haughty, sniveling, Thurston-Howell-the-3rd, lockjaw fashion).
Better still, purchase Sirius satellite radio that is now trading at $2.80 a share.