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No, I’m not speaking of Mssr. Le Fly counting his Broken Robot Coin in his Counting House, whilst tossing flaming egg-nogs at his trader servant, Mssr. Le Cratchet.
I’m talking about the classic The Year Without A Santa Claus double production numbers from those brothers of Sun and Snow, the Heat and Cold Misers.
This piece is actually a cover by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (an RC favourite, no doubt). While I prefer Dick Shawn’s Snow Miser in the original version, I have to give the overall production medal to BBVD, as they are large, bad, magical, and also your father. Besides, Heat Miser is a mite too drag queenish in the original…
As I suspected, after a month’s worth of work, the market [[SPX]] tipped over the 50% fibonacci line today at $1121.50 or so, and is now seemingly out of the box like a busted robot and headed to $1227, where awaits our Golden Ratio of 61.8%. As I’ve mentioned, I think we will eventually get there, but not before a pullback, which could be quite gland-challenging.
With [[TBT]] breaking out quite convincingly here, equities have been put on watch that their discount rates will continue to increase. As well, the dollar pullback, as shown by DXY and [[UUP]] today has also been de minimus. Maybe all the rules of finance will continue to be suspended in honor of Santa and Rudolph, but I wouldn’t bet my Christmas gelt on it.
That’s why I haven’t yet jumped in the molten gold pool yet, either, as appetizing as Royal Gold, Inc. [[RGLD]] and Silver Wheaton Corp. (USA) [[SLW]] are looking today. I could be wrong, but I don’t think the dollar is done shagging with us yet. No real worries, though, my Pagans. Santa Ben will soon take up his ink stamping device and all fans of the continued mass portraiture of the Inventor of Electricity will be appeased.
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May all your families have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, even if it may be Pagan, or whatever. It’s all about the kids, and what you make of them in the end, anyway.
Best to you all, and thanks for your well wishes and support in 2009.
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Bonus Clip, Humour Division:
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A great Christmas and an even better 2010 to you and the family, Jake.
Thanks AC, to you and yours as well. Maybe we’ll get out to the Left Coast this year and do the French Laundry or something sybaretic like that…
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Jake – This was in the local paper yesterday re: French Laundry. Michael Bauer (probably no relation to Jack) is a pretty good food critic, but he had nothing to criticize in this review.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/24/DDQ81B7A2L.DTL
Let me know when you’re coming this way and we’ll see if we can’t put together some sort of economic stimulus package for the wine, beer and spirits industries.
It is a date, Anton.
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French Laundry’s chef was recently on top chef.. We all went there a few yes back, no?
March of the wooden soldiers on now on ch 11 here in new yawk.
Sweet, stay close to L on that one… can be scary.
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check out this “lost ending” to Frank Capra’s masterpiece:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4267/saturday-night-live-its-a-wonderful-life-lost-ending
I have seen that… and even pointed it out to the wife, whose father won’t even watch the movie anymore because the lack of Potter comeuppance drives him so crazy.
In reviewing the CD “extras” — Capra’s son claims that the non-catch on Potter was his dad tweaking the censor board, which at the time actually had a regulation saying that all criminal acts had to be punished by the end of the movie.
A little bit of cutting your nose off to spite your face, maybe, but whatever…..
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LOL. Oldest got “Lego Rock Star” (tamer than reg’lar) for the drums… it’s like “home karioke (sp?)” — the whole house has to take a turn, hilarity ensuing, with the singing and the drumming both.
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ROFL: It’s a wonderful…Bill!
Interesting(?) tidbit about mr Jean Shepherd, creator of “a Xmas story”… Lived in sanibel fl and was apparently a miserable bastard that none of his neighbors could stand.
I’ve been to Sanibel and I can’t quite fathom how anyone could be unhappy there…
He must’ve gotten a pink bunny suit at some point in his life as well!
Sanibel gets africa hot during the sumer.
Irregardless (sic), if you’re an assehole, you’re an asshole, nicht va, purdy?
Scheiss edit: summer
Another tidbit …. Like Hitchcock, Shepard can be seen doing a cameo in his own flick
Picked up avatar on DVD today… Figh dollah..gotta love new yawk schitty!
You’ll find this appropriately funny then:
Making of AVATAR, the bootleg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thsc60UTUIE
Buh bye Giants. That was ugly.
Uh-greud!
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Hey Jake:
What do you make of this? British Pound Teetering On The Verge Of Euro Collapse (http://www.businessinsider.com/sdfd-2009-12)
It seems one thing the dollar has going for it is that everything else sucks worse.
Eggsactly!
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China takes out ETQ:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTLgCsLzEt0k&pos=7
Following the first Rule of Jake, as you know.
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Apologies for my absence today… had an unexpected “Stage Two” on my dental emergency from earlier this month, and was in the warm embraces of my comely dentist all day (well, not exactly, but…).
Less painful, but more time consuming. Speak to you all tonight.
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Dental stuff is no fun. Necessary, but no fun. Hope you feel better tomorrow.