A home equity line of credit is a type of second mortgage. I took one out 25 years ago to do some remodeling.
The HELOC and the mortgage on this place were paid off long ago. The property is now in a real estate trust that is untouchable to any outsider — unless the property tax doesn’t get paid.
The seemingly endless consequences of the Great Recession include foreclosures that are issued without prior notice. Zombie mortgages live!
Ignite Films is an interesting little video outfit, specializing in meticulously restored independent productions from the past. I have their excellent premiere release, Invaders From Mars.
Ignite’s latest is a film with a title that sounds like it could be a breakfast at Denny’s. The Big Combo, now in the public domain, is a noir title from 1955.
https://www.ignite-films.com/products/the-big-combo
I ordered the regular Blu-ray edition, as my JVC video projector has the 2K resolution formerly known as “full HD.” Did you know that the 3-chip DLP projectors in movie theaters are “only” 4K? That’s right, your 4K TV at home has the same resolution as seen on those gigantic screens.
HBO Max occasionally has some of Eddie Muller’s ‘Noir Alley’ installments from Turner Classic Movies. Here is The Big Combo, in another DogRat simulation of a TCM presentation. My fingers remain crossed that TCM will become available without a cable TV subscription.
SUNDAY! BOSTON AND SEATTLE BATTLE IT OUT! Count on Boston coming out on top.
Update: Well … the Pats could have done better than they did.
On HBO Max I’m watching the outstanding 1931 pre-Code movie, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
The movie is part of the Turner Classic Movies “category” within HBO Max. Whoever the new owners are of Warner, I would like to see the Watch TCM streaming service become available without a cable TV subscription.
Women knew how to succeed in a man’s world, before all of that “woke” stuff.
After receiving notice from the The New York Times that its digital subscription would be increasing from $25 to $30 every four weeks, I canceled my Washington Post digital subscription. I mentally applied its very modest $4 rate to the extra $5 the Times now costs.
Now there’s the announcement of a massive Post layoff. Former Post editor Marty Baron, whose book Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post I have read, comments.
