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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.
Supertrain!
Well here’s a bit of 1970s kitsch I had never heard of in my life: Supertrain.
This was a short-lived flop on NBC back in 1979. From what I can tell, the pitch meeting went something like this:
“So you know what a smash hit Love Boat is, right?? So what we’ll do is the same thing, except we’ll change the method of transportation. We’ll put it on a train!”
And that’s precisely what they did. Here is the introduction. Brace yourself for character actors that are massively overdoing it for the camera. It looks absolutely dreadful.
And That’s The Way It Is
When I was a kid, Walter Cronkite would have announced the Martians had taken over the White House, and everyone would have taken it as the gospel truth. These days………not so much.
Streaming Tonight
It wasn’t that long ago that the Netflix earnings report was one of the biggest events of the earnings season, almost right up there with the likes of Apple. Having lost 77% of its value (!!!) in a matter of months, Netflix has gone from hero to almost-zero. All the same, it’s the biggest item on tonight’s earnings docket.
Best Trade of the Year So Far
