Year: 2008

Excerpted from today’s NYT: But as panic gripped financial markets last week after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, WaMu customers started withdrawing their deposits. The government then stepped up its efforts, at points going behind WaMu’s back to work privately with four potential bidders on a deal. On Wednesday afternoon, the government solicited formal written bids. On Thursday morning, regulators notified James Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, that he was the likely…

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Went to Meaux Bar to split a delicious burger with gruyere cheese and have a Ketel One cosmo before going to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s new film. Highly recommend. Think that Bardem and Cruz were so awesome together that their characters practically leapt off the screen. See it while you can – it left Canal Place after only being there a week – DON’T ASK – sometimes living in a third world state…

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Four years ago for the election Bush scared the shit out of the American public by making them believe that if they voted for anyone but him the terrorist were going to come over and decimate us. Night before last, FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTION, he almost cried as he told the American public that we are going to hell in a hand basket – the EMPIRE is crumbling – and we need this bailout which…

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In 1998, I was sitting at a restaurant having a glass of wine in San Francisco and the four women sitting at the table next to me were not talking about shoes, men, or children. They were talking about their portfolios. One gushed that she had moved more of her money into equities and another and another said that she had upped the amount she was putting into her Schwab account. Fast forward. Ten years…

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The Who released this song in 1978 and how appropriate because that was the decade of my coming of age. I had a brief encounter of the good kind today and was reminded that who I am right now is not really who I ought to be. I had this feeling before, the same person caused it, and today I had it in spades. I used to be a maverick, a renegade, a rogue player…

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Walking along the lagoon and looking at the immature herons with their snowy white plumage waiting to change to dark, I thought about Loca and how happy she seemed walking in the park on this fall morning. I thought how we have animals at three stages of life. Loca is a puppy who wants to chase just for the chase, she doesn’t care what, or why, or when. Bam Bam is in the prime of…

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I was walking along the park this morning and Loca and I ran into the friendly Airedale. When the two dogs meet, they crouch down on their dog knees and army crawl towards each other. The Airedale is 4 but acts like Loca’s 1.5 years of puppiness. I woke to a gorgeous fall morning and lying beside me was a Croatian princess (although she looks like a young prince), Bam Bam was sitting on the…

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When I was young I had a recurring dream that I was standing in a grassy meadow looking up peacefully at the full moon in the night sky. In my peripheral vision a small plane appeared and suddenly my heart started racing and then the plane collided with the moon and a nuclear holocaust erupted. This was my cold war dream. If I had looked up the dream in a dream book, looking up plane…

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What a beautiful fall day here on the bayou – the light has that quality that Faulkner described as he looked at it through his glass of whiskey and the bayou is ripe for the pelicans to return. There is a nice dry breeze blowing through this city and we are all the grateful for it.

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When you’re ship comes in, will you be ready? I got head hunted for a $1 million a year job this week – and while it was flattering, it made me take a good look at where I am. In a discussion about matters of life, T said if she were offered 20% more salary but it meant 20% less time with me, she wouldn’t take it. I said I wonder if most successful men…

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