8 years ago – Slope of Hope with Tim Knight

Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Two Ways Of Hedging Disney

By Dpinsen - 8 years ago (06, Nov 2015 8:06:59 PM)

Dying To See Star Wars

One of the trending hashtags on Twitter in recent weeks was #ForceForDaniel, a campaign to get an early screening of the new Star Wars movie for a dying fan, Daniel Fleetwood. Director J.J. Abrams had the film screened for the man at his home, as The Verge noted below.

J.J. Abrams helped a dying Star Wars fan see The Force Awakens early https://t.co/mXv5d0gAVv pic.twitter.com/bSjd5tdjEc

— The Verge (@verge) November 5, 2015

It wasn’t the first time, incidentally, that Abrams accommodated a dying fan: In 2009, he gave the late Randy Pausch (of Last Lecture fame) a cameo in his Star Trek reboot.

A Boost For Disney (more…)

The King of Head and Shoulders

By Tim Knight - 8 years ago (06, Nov 2015 4:09:11 PM)

Remember Iconix? I prattled on about its head and shoulders pattern (tinted in yellow below) so much that I got embarrassed mentioning the symbol any more, but I did “re-mention” it in this post from earlier this year. Well, I’d never have guessed it could fall so far, but the 85% plunge is nothing short of breathtaking. I mean, just…………wow.