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.

All For Freedom and For Pleasure

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Well, today is interesting. I entered it with 73 shorts, and every single one is profitable. I am trading huge positions in GLD with good success.

Typepad, my blog platform, was down for about an hour, which is pretty bad on a day like this. Far worse, RealTick – – for which my broker pays something like $800 per MONTH for each customer – – has been down all day long. So I have to place trades through freakin' instant messager.

Anyway, let's enjoy a little music. Here's one of the great songs of the early 80s:

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Festival Depresso

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I think I'm finally getting a handle on my lifelong state of almost constant depression: it's 70s music.

When I was a youngster, I was surrounded by 70s music because (a) it was the 70s; (b) there was always music on. I was much younger than my siblings, so I tended to get the EZ-Listening version of it, since my mom didn't listen to the original stuff that often.

Anyway, when a Sloper made a comment recently that my musical choices were lilting toward the EZ-listening spectrum recently, I pondered as to why that might be. I fired up a song on YouTube that I knew I heard many times as a kid, but I had never listened to the lyrics. Well, today, I took the time to do so:

What I formerly had thought of as a jaunty, catchy melody is, in fact, a song about jumping off a tower to one's grisly death because of an acknowledgement of love's constant betrayal. Good God in heaven! No wonder I'm so screwed up!

Naturally.