I’m trying to reserve judgment, but there’s a fundamental conflict that I just can’t get around with regards to the latest Star Trek. William Shatner’s James T. Kirk is one of the most compelling fictional characters ever developed, but is largely the result of an accident; Shatner’s mediocre acting combined unexpectedly with Roddenberry’s mediocre writing to create something magical. A recreation of Kirk can go in one of two directions. On the one hand, the actor can attempt to imitate Shatner; this would seem difficult to accomplish and self-defeating if successfully executed. On the other hand, the actor can attempt to develop a new Kirk; this runs up against the problem that James T. Kirk is, sans Shatner, just not a very interesting character concept.
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Itinerant musician and former LGM guest blogger Matt Duss was on Rachel Maddow last night:
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The market is lower in early trading, likely on profit taking after a huge rally this week. I heard on CNBC that this has been the strongest bounce (I think they said 20-day) over such a short period since 1938. Kudos to my buddy Doug Kass who nailed this bottom call.
The University of Kentucky does not tolerate failure. At least where basketball is concerned.
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Delatorro L McNeal II discusses the 5 constant pillars of success.
1. You are a person of PURPOSE.
2. You have tremendous POTENTIAL.
3. Life is going to hand you PAIN.
4. Pursue your PASSION.
5. Unleash your POWER.
In the thread about the Madoff scam a couple days ago, Weiner noted this classic analysis of various scams from Teresa Neilsen Hayden. As it happens, spending my college years in Montreal with medicore French and an unemployment rate ~15% caused me to spend some days in jobs specalizing in #2 — summer in a boiler room selling sports memorabilia, two hellishly miserable days selling Kirby vaccum cleaners (Me: “Why aren’t we stopping in [relatively affluent Montreal suburb?” Driver of van: “These people didn’t get rich paying 2 grand for vacuum cleaners. Hmm, I guess that truism might no longer be true…) And because my friends shared the same economic climate, I also had friends make me sit through Amway pitches and actually spend three months working for Kirby, often pulling in 6 14-hour days a week and getting paid bupkis. So I’ve always been interested in this stuff.
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The market is strong again in early trading. Yesterday’s action was impressive, in that the early rally completely reversed mid-day, but then a late day rally pulled the indexes back into positive territory by a wide margin. Felt like more short-covering to me, but I’ll take it.
