Thursday, October 9, 2008
The stock market tanked and I didn't even know it till I heard it on the Sports Station.
The stock market tanked and dropped more than 600 points and I had no idea. Mike Francesa mentioned it while I was listening to WFAN the sports station. I was wondering why my office phone was ringing off the hook. I wasn't picking up the phone because it is Yon Kippur and we are supposed to be closed and I didn't want to answer everyones questions. Especially today. Thank God for answering machines.
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Why are you closed for Yom Kippur? I thought you were Irish? Italian? From the Althouse meet-up pic, I thought you were black....
Now I'm thinking you're Jewish. Italian-black Irish-Jewish.
I refuse to look at my 401K until 2011.
Right now I recommend investing in casinos and booze distributors.
I went to the Phils game tonight Troop. One of the guys mentioned his 401K was dropping (he has cancer too).
Later in the game I said to him:
"You know Joe Torre , the Dodgers manager, has probably made $30-$40 Million in the last ten years. So don't feel too bad for yourself, just think how much money Torre must have lost in the last week or so".
Great fing game btw. I hope it goes six games cause I have tickets for game six also. 75 degrees almost the whole game. Your boy Elvis had the winning homer/ RBI.
Four of us went to the game. All four went to the same parochial school in N.E. Philly and we are no more than six months apart in age. Damn we are geting up there though- 42 years since we got out of 8th grade.
My boss is Jewish as is a lot of my client base and they were in schul. So most of them got on the horn as soon as sundown hit. The Irish/Italian guy holds down the fort during the Jewish Holidays. Not a lot of fun on a day like yesterday you betcha.
There was a big discussion on the FAN as to how Yankee fans would want the series to shape up. I went Phillies/Tampa Bay as I always hated the Dodgers and the Red Sox. GO PHILLIES!!!!
AJ, I also have friends since the first grade and we still hang out together in the neighborhood and go to Yankee games. My wife has a friend who was in her first grade class working in the store. I think we have a "rootedness" that a lot of American's don't have anymore in this transient socieity. It's a great thing.
Troop--
I'm envious of the "rooted" part. Here in So Cal, we move every five years or so, on average.
Most everyone I went to school with moved away.
I also think there's a model there of ethnicity that is representative of a lot of the best of America, where people can be Italian or Irish or Jewish but still be proud Americans.
Hey it is the same for the Chinese and the Dominicans and the Puerto Ricans and the Mexicans. I go to those neighborhoods all the time to eat or shop. It just different groups. I get off the subway stop where Brooklyn Tech High School is which is just about the best public high school in NYC in which you need to take a test to get in. Before it was full of wimpy Jewish and waspy kids, but now it is full of Chinese and Indian and Arab kids. And they are good kids just like we were. Just ball busters is all. The future will be ok in those kids hands. They are pretty smart.
That's reassuring.
I don't worry about the people, really, but I do worry about the educational environment promoting divisiveness.
Hey the kids were fighting and arguing and doing what kids will do. But when you see a nerdy Chinese kid holding hands with an Indian girl wearing a sari then you know that the melting pot is still bubbling. Don't listen to the elitist asshole talking heads. They don't know what's going on right in front of their face.
Well, that's true. We do get a lot of that here.
The Boy and the Flower both have black best friends.
The Flower and her friend are particularly cute: The Flower thinks her friend is the epitome of beauty and wishes she had dark skin, while her friend wishes she had The Flower's hair and skin.
They all love the Mexican girl who lives on the corner. And so it goes.
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