My first post-ablation checkup looks excellent. I’ll wear a heart monitor in July and if, as expected, the results are unchanged from today, I can stop taking Eliquis, the most expensive of blood thinners.
Bond-Age
Trump will still be president when I have to start dealing with the Required Minimum Distributions for my IRA CDs. Where will those post-tax withdrawals go? I’m considering T-bills and notes for shorter-term interest, and perhaps bonds for when I’m gone. With that in mind, I’ve been following the bond market.
A Crumby King
Does Robert Crumb consider himself to be the king of underground comics? Let’s find out.
What’s the Platter, Charlie Brown?
It’s here! Something you never expected to see, but is interesting to know about. The Peanuts limited edition, 75th anniversary turntable with Ortofon cartridge, built-in phono pre-amp and Bluetooth support.
Angry Old Man Music
Green Day’s American Idiot was released shortly before Dubya was reelected. The idiots weren’t paying attention, because 20 years later they elected Trump to a second term.
Kray-Kray
Cambridge Dictionary
CRAY-CRAY meaning: 1. stupid or not reasonable 2. things that someone says or does that seem stupid, without meaning
I first heard Monty Python’s very funny ‘Ethel the Frog’ in high school, on WBCN-FM, the station that broke the Pythons in America. The mockumentary told the story of the criminal Piranha Brothers.
What I didn’t know at the time was, the Piranha Brothers were based on the all-too-real Kray brothers of London. In Boston there was Whitey Bulger, and Cape Cod had Melvin Reine. They were violent and, in a word, crazy. Compared to the Krays, the notorious Whitey was a misunderstood businessman.
Tom Hardy, perhaps the finest actor of this or almost any generation, portrayed both of the insanely dangerous Kray twins in 2015’s Legend.
After watching that, listen to this story, as told to me by Prue.