Let me be the first to tell you, it is inappropriate to boil water for more than 5 seconds when preparing tea, specifically black tea infused with bergamot. You do realize by scalding the water you are destroying any chance at a proper cup of tea, don’t you? In case you were wondering, “The Fly” spent his day shopping at the Mall at Short Hills. Doing my regular “channel checks” whilst Mrs. Fly made a go at emptying the old checking account. Little does she know, my checking account is like a bottomless pit. It would take her an eternity to bankrupt me. Actually, let me retract that. If Mrs. Fly ever got the urge to invest in stocks, I’d be zeroed out inside of a short week.
Back to the Mall at Short Hills. Women were ripping $5,000 aprons off the fucking mannequins. People had to buy shit and if it wasn’t retailing for more than $300, they were not interested. Dead smack in the middle of the mall was a fucking Rolls Royce. People passed that shit like “so fucking what, I have two of those in the driveway.” Aside from the vagrants found at a certain watch store that does not suit my taste, the mall was delightful. It has a certain feel to it, circa dot com bubble 1999. Life inside that mall epitomizes decadence and grotesqueness. Forget about depressing Italian bond yields and fucked up German hair cuts. Go buy your Grandmother a fucking Louis Vuitton bag for 10 grande!
I suppose you want to talk about the stock market, don’t you? I was afraid this blog would boil down to this. The futures are cordially higher this evening because people want to feel good when it doesn’t count. We are in the off-hours aka “fantasy time,” when investors day dream about German Santa Klaus’s and free money dropping from Bernnake air force jets onto a joyous Wall Street crowd. Obama in a Santa hat and Geithner dressed as an elf, making toys. In the off hours, we dream about a market that was supposed to be, but just didn’t happen because we destroyed the fucking planet.
No worries, your friendly local oil companies will horizontally drill your ass into the stone age soon, depleting all fresh water supplies, parching your family into raisins. As for me, I will continue fighting until my last round. I will attack bears while donning African masks and throw people onto beach rocks from my space shuttle. You do not need to worry about Le Fly, for he is a survivor. In 400 years from now, he will be here, blogging about the same shit, reminiscing about the time he participated in the melting of the moon, while mining for moon-rocks, while punching martians in the face with space knuckles.
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Amazing.
The iBC Front Page looks alot cleaner without the “aforementioned Featured Blogger redunduncy.” imo
Well done!
Note to Santa:
Please bring me some “space knuckles” for Christmas.
Thanks for the feedback. However, do it again, you’re banned.
Hey! I walk into a room…I know where the ottoman should go. I know how the area rug should be positioned. I know colors. I know scale. It’s a bit of a curse.
But, as I said, it looks alot cleaner. Well done.
Your name wouldn’t happen to be Jason Treu, would it?
What kind of pocket squares do you wear?
Actually, I’m more like Norm …from Cheers.
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btw, beautiful version of this song. Filled with sadness and melancholy. Haunting almost. Such a nice departure.
Thank you for posting!
Did I mention, get Long NUGT…and thank me in 2012?
HUH?
Did I?
Apparently. “Holiday Eggnog with the requisite Bourbon” has me “blubbering.”
Sorry!
I DO however expect to make a small fortune by being Long “miners” in early 2012!
now thats fucking funny !
Did you channel check Coldwater Creek? Long live Fat Mountian Bitches!!!
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it, and thought of other things if you did.” James Arthud Baldwin
Perfect.
That is why money gets boring at certain times.
What would be the monetary equivalent of getting some strange?
How about trading foreign currency, or bonds.
money never ever gets boring.
the ghosts of Christmas gave you a pass when your account went negative and returned positive the first time – but you didn’t listen
now you will end the year negative because you’re fat and greedy
BAC is the tell
I weigh 165lbs Sir. And I can crush you with my fists into your skull.
It’s treu. He is a skinny fucker.
I was sitting in a buddy’s court side seats the other day, mere feet from my favorite basketball team and favorite goombah coach, and they were throwing that ball down with abandon…
It was such a pleasure, I thought to myself — this is the one thing that might be better about being seriously mid 8 figure loaded over just “piker rich.” Everything else I’ve experienced in that world — and especially those frigging private jets — I could take it or leave it.
Unless you are the Emir of Dubai and your private jet is a 747, I don’t want to know from your freaking private jet.
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Louisville with Pitino or Kentucky with Calapari? You like to change sides when the W/L records suit.
Please punish this insolence with the aforementioned fists forthwith, with extreme prejudice.
I can not share your zeal for comsuming material items at the mall Mr. Fly. I would think your time would be better served being as far away from the entilted as possible.
That’s because you are young and poor. Plus, you don’t know jack shit yet.
After awhile, buying shit fills a void.
Generalization here, but classiest individuals I know were born poor, relative to their current monetary status.
Hmmm. Two fold story there. The biggest vagrants I know were poor too.
Interesting. There are so many ways to fill a void. And in addition, there are various ways of accepting and becoming comfortable with a void, as Buddhists and some other Eastern religions and people who meditate seem to do.
There is only one thing that will fill that void my friend.
And it’s already been bought, so no worries.
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Buying shit fills a void created by having too much meaningless shit. It never ends.
Halfblood, we each have our own tastes and desires. No one can tell any of us what we like. Only we ourselves know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum
I like Gymnopedie No. 1. Thanks for posting it, Fly. One of my favorite pieces of music, along with Pachelbel’s Canon which you posted in the past. DistantMirrors plays Gymnopedies very well.
That piece always reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel. I think the hippies some how co-opted it along the way.
Or maybe it was just Hollywood.
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the futures are behaving diametrically opposite of what was going on before.
Red as shot over night only to rally in the morning inot the open with a rip your face off finish at the market close.
What I find interesting is that everyone is now tlaking about the “Lehamn moment” e.g. your ECB link. Funny how when shit was hitting the fan evrything was “contained”. These comments now about Lehman make me think we will not get our momnet. It also does not mean we cant trade a little lower to scare the shit out of everyone so that we actually beg Uncle Ben to print. Afterall, that is waht he REALLY wants.
Yep. Yep.
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“Scaulding.” The Brits call it “burning” the tea.
I say, “Just blow on it harder.”
But you have to be clear that you’re talking about the tea with those Brits.
That’s because they have them snaggly teefs.
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FLY, do you still hold GMXR? The chart looks terrible.
The Malls are packed because no one is paying their mortgage. Amazing what living for free means to disposable income. If you plan to stop paying your mortgage and file bankruptcy, might as well run those credit cards up too. Whee!!!!
A packed mall in this economy is truly rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
the malls are packed because america does not give a fuck. land of the free fucknut.
honey badger mentality.
No, it’s Short Hills. That’s not America, per se. It’s a large group of very wealthy Americans and a smaller quotient of “Keeping up with the Joneses” types.
It’s a sickness, for sure.
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Have to say this was one of my favorite posts so far. Nice.
The usual taste, integrity, style, and dedication.
Well done, sir.
Indeud…
Well, there was a serious blow to my EGO today, thanks to an insane fervor for Vampire Gold…
But that may end up in your favor, especially if you dig you some gold teefs and other things shiny-like.
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APRONS?? Serious. They would have to pay me 5,000.00 to wear one. California is not doing good..too many stores are cutting prices 20% or more at peak shopping season,I am not seeing the buying at all…btw, didn’t know that about tea.
No one asked you.
I heard this weekend from an investment bank senior manager that total compensation on the Street will be down 70% this year and likely next year too. He said people are freaking out at the prospect of having to cut back their spending. Overpaid douches.
Fly.. looks like big price reductions will hit Short Hills Mall soon.
I want some space knuckles for Christmas now.
Not in the M&A space.
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Why is it I can’t help but read FLY’s blog every day, visiting the website several times a day like an uncontrollable itch that you HAVE TO scratch and that just wont go away..its worse than any drug addiction one could ever experience with triple the withdrawal side effects if you were to stop.
This mall sounds like Hong Kong on a regular day – sans waving kitties and gold gilded Buddhas.
head fake? will they fade the rally? housing starts up. all clear sounded? im still mostly cash, waiting for ????????
Traders monkeys will keep repeating until it stops working…which means they probably try to fade this open.
end of year dressing? i dont see any change. was lookin at rht, ego…hahahaha didnt pull the trigger. also fred
You should be aware that the quality of water for tea does not matter if boiled for 5 secs or 5 million years. What is important is the impurities in the water – ordinary chlorinated tap water should be left standing for at least 12 hours before boiling.
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