By Booker B on 4/13/2008 8:24 PM

if you get a chance to see Martin McDonagh's feckin' play The Lieutenant of Inishmore, do not feckin' hesitate. Nevermind the 6 gallons of feckin' fake blood or the 30+ gunshots. It's feckin' hilarious, as are the other McDonagh shows I've seen, but it goes way beyond those. He's known as a crazy feckin' feck, and this seems to be him saying to himself "What, they think THOSE were the work of a feckin' feck? Well THIS will feckin' show them!!"

Warning, though: Cat lovers will be simultaneously fascinated and repulsed.

By Booker B on 3/29/2008 8:51 PM

I can just hear the planning meeting: "Great concept! We'll need to get a spot for it that's got HUGE traffic so it gets the exposure it deserves."

By Booker B on 3/17/2008 8:48 PM

News: The Fed gives up trying to stick its finger further and further into the dike and resorts to frantic bailing. Diesel powered bilge pumps are on order, but running them on $4 a gallon fuel is going to hurt.

Views: So how will our economic regulators --
[Hmmmm? Snicker or barf? Snicker or barf? I can't decide which is the right reaction to that term.]
-- anyway, how will they affect incentives for market participants in the long term by placing this floor under their downside risk? Not saying intervention is bad or unneeded. When Bear Stearns is at risk, something pretty dramatic needs to happen.

But it just about has to encourage ever wilder speculation if the traders know they'll be allowed to fall only so far before being rescued for the go ... Read More »

By Booker B on 3/17/2008 8:41 PM

Sites for personal ads and online dating are mobbed by people earnestly hoping to be surveilled by someone nice. LinkedIn is much the same thing, only in business suits. And it's already gone a big step further, when Peter Morville enthuses about the happy day to come when our clever phones will chat among themselves to all in range, seeking through the sea of unknown faces around us for matches . . .

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