China is repoing our pandas! I mean why can’t they just take all our bankers? I mean we don’t need those. I know that apparently there is a lot “talent” on Wall Street that is in danger of extinction, so maybe we can do an exchange. They can take all our “talented” bankers and investors and we can keep the pandas.

Butterstick is gone. AKA Tai Shan.
Oh….the ridiculousness of it all. Repoing pandas. Sad Panda. Seriously. I mean how did that meeting go with Obama? We don’t have any money so take our pandas?
I become very sad about this whole thing and stayed in. My husband went out and I curled up on the couch with a movie I’ve been meaning to watch for awhile. The Match King was fascinating. I wish they showed this movie to those who got Harvard MBA’s. All those people of “talent” who took the panda away. I had never heard of this film, but I’m wondering why these films are not more popular now. I mean this guy, this character Paul Kroll was based on Ivar Kreuger who created the financial model which has been used by Enron and is the basis for most of the international corporate structure we know today. Okay, I gotta ask, why are we not talking more about the fact that the current financial model being used is being based on a famous fraud?
The Match King gives a version of the life of Ivan Kruegar who makes Ken Lay and Bernie Maddoff look like amateurs. The story in the film is that of a man who makes an empire and a monopoly by giving loans off of future earnings and ultimately kills himself when the counterfeit bonds he uses to make a payment on a loan that was due is exposed by the stock market crash. Sound familiar?
What is also fascinating is the obvious sociopath that the character Paul Kroll is. So here’s a film which obviously tells us what we should have been paying attention to all along. Right there under our noses. (I mean if it was on, knew it existed and could find it.) Well now I’m telling you, find this movie and show it to any “talented” business person you know. Hell, buy it for your boss for Christmas. I’m sure it’s available somewhere on DVD. Here’s another interesting fact that they talked about in the movies. Have you ever heard that expression “Three on a match”? You know the one that says that three people shouldn’t share the same match because the third will have bad luck? Well the character Paul Kroll in the movie makes it up to sell more matches!

So what does this have to do with repoing pandas? Well, if we didn’t have so many Paul Kroll’s or Ivan Krueger’s still wandering around messing things up I think we would have more pandas not none.

So if you love pandas, watch this movie. There. .

I have alot of good friends. Supportive, lovely people. I am a very lucky person. My friends and family have been incredibly supportive throughout the dating, engagement and my recent wedding. I have been thinking alot as to how to thank them. Thank you notes seem just not enough. Gifts seem to express the wrong thing. How would I ever buy them something that is the equivalent of what I feel. (Well I’m sure if I had the ability to give out cars no one would be to offended) This is my attempt to thank them. I was thinking of what precode films my friends may enjoy. My dear friend who assisted me in my wardrobe choices I was thinking this little gem I recently found. The Search for Beauty (1934)


about debauched connoisseurs of young flesh. It just sounds like so much fun. Three on a Match is another one which I think is a good film. I love the idea that it is about girls talking about old times in a restaurant and light up a cigarette. (I don’t think that the superstition that the third member to use the match will become unlucky is what I’m trying to suggest) What I like about it, is that it follows the lives of friends who separate, live their lives and then reunite.