Today's Tids Issue 3,197
Opening Stuff:
Is the stock market
saying October wipe-out or necessary temporary 10% correction? Why is my
heart in my throat? For years in this morning mess I labeled Wall Street as “Clueless
Lane” because it always appeared that the average investor was at the
mercy of “experts” who had no idea what was happening to the market next. It does
seem that the singular truth in the market is “I don’t know”. Maybe they could Google
it.
Or are the big
players just shuffling around money to themselves in a market that has
reached super high plateau?
Turkey, whose
borders are surrounded by ISIS victories, has decided to “Sit this war out”. Go
figure.
I really like the
KC-Baltimore series. It is great for baseball in my estimation, bringing to
the fore two cities with great fans and storied pasts. The Networks always want
the big towns, but this is America in its purest form…and baseball is supposed
to be America’s pastime.
The Question:
What are considered the top ten all time ballet’s.
The Headlines:
--Early Stock Rally Fizzles; Nasdaq Getting Clobbered, Led
by Assault On Semiconductors.
--UN Fears Massacre In Kobanl; Urges Turkey To Intervene.
--Nobel Peace Prize Goes To Brave Pakistan Teen Malala
Yousafai and India Children’s Rights Activist Kailish Satyarthi.
--Asian Stocks Sink After US Tumble.
--Where is Kim Jong?; Mysterious Absence Of NK Leader Fuels Speculation
About Health or Coup.
--Once Secure South Dakota Senate Race Seat for Repubs Sours
As Third Candidate, Former Mr. “Good” Republican Senator, Now Turned Liberal, Larry
Pressler Enters Race.
What’s with this fashion
movement towards clothing that shows the inner stitching outside. Is this
another in the cultural trend towards enabling stupidity, normalizing those who
don’t even think while getting dressed?
The latest in
Mod-Speak is “Throw Shade” which according to the Urban dictionary means to
talk trash about a friend or acquaintance or publicly denounce or disrespect. He
thrower of “Shade” is considered the uncool one. Just want you feel in the new
world of foreign language.
In yet another
fundraiser while the world burns, a gushing hostess Gwyneth “I can’t take
my eyes off of Mr. O’s Face” Paltrow said, that she was proud to be a “working
mother”. Say what? Does having $19 Million in the bank make you stupid, or just
condescending?
Can you tell me again
why Americans are so in love with celebrity?
I take it back,
NFL’s Adrian Peterson is not an intellectual. Yesterday he told urine testers
he smoked a little weed, which is a strict violation of the court order
associate with his alleged child abuse, and could send him immediately to jail
without passing Go.
The calling of the ticky-tack
defensive touches in the NFL is really beginning to irritate me.
I can see how a
Children’s Rights activists in place like India would be an important and
quite notable achievement. In the US, though, a parents rights activist might
be more appropriate.
Women like watching NASCAR
Most, followed by NFL football.
Blacks overwhelmingly like basketball. White men like any sport that provides
background noise to drinking beer.
Maybe financial
industry billionaires could each adopt 100 USA retirees.
Reading between the
Lines Movie Reviews:
--Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, very bad
Day is an amusing little film about an awful day in the lives a family used to smiling all the time, starring
Steve Caril and Jennifer Garner. Dad out of work for years has an interview
with all help breaks out among the kids an the mom who’s work demands 24/7
perfection. It’s not overdone and will be entertaining.
--The Judge could have been decent if they didn’t higher
actors with egos who overplayed their big moments. When a film gets lost in celebrity
a fair plot about a cocky lawyer son too good for his small town roots comes
home to help out estranged dear old dad a judge accused of murder. Along the
way he meets old girlfriend (With gorgeous in the way flirtatious daughter) and
rekindles the love of his family.
--The movie that intrigues me is thriller Two faces of January,
starring Vigge Mortenson, Kirtsen Dunst and Oscar Isaac is tale about tow
tourists and their guide in Greece that grows in complexities’ and
entanglements. The apparent normal couple undergoes a transformation as the dominoes
fall and they are on the run to the point where they need fake passports.
The Answer:
This is another of those consensus answers as there are many
experts with several lists. Tchaikivsky’s Swan Lake tops them all and is generally
followed by Mr. T’s Sleeping Beauty. Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet (I like
Berlios) is another strong contender as is Gizelle by Adolphe Adam. Of course
The Nutcracker, a third from Petyr T is always on top during Christmas. Some
other notables are Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream By Felix
Mendelssohn, Le Sacre du Printemps by Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird by the same
prolific composer, Coppelia from Leo Delibes. La Sylphide by Jean-Madeleine
Schneitzhoeffer, Ludwig Minkus again for La Bayader and Cinderella by
Prokofiev.
Since Swan Lake is
considered #1 in ballet land by several experts, how about tip-toeing into the weekend
with its most mesmerizing scene:
You have to wonder
how great she felt when she finally got off her toes.
Have a great
weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!
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