is a new blog begun today. Have decided not to post money-related information in Rhodingeedaddee in 2009 and years beyond, though I may have only days beyond. Rho00252
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Money Rho
about an AU ADR
from Tuesday December 30th, 2008 Money Morning By Horacio Marquez Contributing Editor Buy, Sell or Hold: NYSE ADR: BHP Rho00250
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
6 Romantic poets today
So this morning while in the kitchen a curious wondering dallied within: What would Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats; and, oh, Clare be like today? Here are some guesses: William Blake: mystical visual poet William Wordsworth: angular nature poet S T Coleridge: philosophical beat poet Lord Byron: actively anarchistic flarf poet P B Shelley: atheistic vegetarian performance poet John Keats: formalist indeterminate poet John Clare: deranged clandestine nature poet Rho00249
Sunday, December 28, 2008
AOL Pictures
will no longer be AOL Pictures by year's end, and I'd moved some already; but, because of a glitch, I moved all 51 today. This meant I had to search for duplicates since I had made 80 moves. The first one came up corrupted. It is now in the Recycle Bin. Another had been moved three times. I just love/ dull lengthy tasks, oh yah. However, it is done. Rho00248
Friday, December 26, 2008
Downturn letter shapes
Here is a helpful article By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning/Money Map Report Rho00247
Tao Lin Eats
might be a good name for a chain of restaurants, if Tao Lin wished to establish such; but the real questions are: What? / Where? / Why? / When? / How? and While? Rho00246
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
In the latest from JHK
this: "What seems to spook people now is the possibility that everybody in charge of everything is a fraud or a crook." James Howard Kunstler's post for this week is entitled: Legitimacy Dwindles. Rho00245
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Using money rationally
Last night I said in a comment: - Down with debt addiction. Live simply. Save money. . . . In an email received today, Keith Fitz-Gerald wrote: - "In the next ten years, we will see a return of . . . · Savings and frugality · Personal responsibility: paying bills on time, not living beyond one's means · Risk management as central to investing · Stock market investing as a way to get ahead, not 'place bets' on 'lucky stocks'" Rho00244
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Aristophanes, Juvenal, Boccaccio
Aristophanes Juvenal Boccaccio Question: - How are authors such as these relevant today? - Rho00243
Friday, December 19, 2008
Fitz-Gerald on Buying Stocks
By Keith Fitz-Gerald Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report Friday December 19th, 2008 Stocks May Not be Cheap Enough, Yet -- And Here's Why Rho00242
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Gilani on Debt Rating Agencies
[ . . . . ] [ extra-note: Read today that Obama is prepared to go all the way back to the Civil War to correct financial errors made during various administrations. ] Rho00241
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
This article on sensible investing
By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning is dated Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 and is entitled How to Avoid Madoff Mayhem. Rho00239
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Chicago Board Options Exchange
cboe - 2008-12-14 See this Wikipedia entry and check reference link. If you search the title of this entry, other explanatory sites will come up. As fascinating as all this is, it is really only useful for wealthy traders, people who have at least $25,000 and are able to purchase 100 to 1000 shares using options contracts. Even then the limit of what can be lost is more than the limit of what can be gained, so it was in one example anyway; but the Chicago Board Options Exchange does provide courses for beginners. Rho00238
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Ever
is a novella written by Blake Butler with help from God in the form of an Atlanta tornado and Blake's consequent decision to return to the room he grew up in, and with help from the caring and creative Derek White, editor of Calamari Press. For my knowledge of this I am indebted to Johannes Göransson, who posted about it on his Exoskeleton blog, and Rauan Klassnik, who conducted an Ever e-mail interview of Blake Butler which he posted on his blog. Ron Silliman asked in one of his posts: What comes next? From what I have been learning recently from blog posts about works by younger authors, I think that "what comes next" is already here. What is most noticeable to me is twofold: 1) The willingness to draw from all available aesthetics. 2) The strength to allow intuition to prevail. I favor a sense of play over a sense of control, or at least space for play within a controlled universe. No One Does That is the best first place to scroll through and click around in. Both a writer of fiction and poems, Mr. Butler can be found in many locations. The Collected Poems: 1951-1971 by A. R. Ammons was or is on his wish list at Amazon. Speaking of lists, list #2 of a projected 50 lists of 50 items each. * Rho00236
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Big Three opinion article
"The Big Three Need a Shakeout, Not a Bailout" by Keith Fitz-Gerald ----- Investment Director Money Morning/The Money Map Report 2008-12-09 makes sense to me, but in it is a "would not" which, as I read it, was meant to be a "would now"-- it will be obvious. Got any horses? Rho00235
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Matthew Zapruder
My current interest in this poet began with a poem by him in a post by J J Gallaher. Gleaned from what Zapruder says about himself is, among other facts, that he sees himself as/ a peripatetic collagist. interview information with embedded interview information Rho00234
Friday, December 5, 2008
Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander
in conversation 2005 Fall BOMB issue 93 Eliot Weinberger Eliot Weinberger - Forrest Gander Forrest Gander This post is because of Forrest Gander's latter posts at Poetry Foundation's Harriet, particularly because of his final post. * Rho00233
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
some worthy attributes
[ Note: For most humans the following are not easily attained. ] 1. empathetic love 2. prudent hope 3. openness to believing in unknowns 4. choosing well 5. healthful persistence Rho00231
Monday, December 1, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Springfield's weather
was forecast to be partly cloudy but, at slightly above freezing, this year's first snow is sifting blithely by, and has a 60% chance of continuing to most of today. The ghost of Ezra Pound waltzing/ with the ghost of Robert Frost. The snow leopard? The snow goose? Snowy owls? Something more later perhaps. 11:35 AM -- two quotes Curtis Faville in a Silliman's Blog comment to Ed [Baker]: "In the ideal society, all public identity would be banned in the campaign against the cult of personality, all works would be by 'anonymous.' Self-efacement is the new paradigm. All Hail, Anon!" See ronsilliman.blogspot.com/search/label/history Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - Robert Archambeau in an interview of him published in ChicagoPostmodernPoetry.Com: "Roland Barthes was on to something when he said that the author, in the romantic sense of the isolated visionary, is dead. What we have now is the scriptor, whose sole power is to mingle writing. I like this notion, and see it as a sign of vigor in our literary culture, complaints from pessimists like Frederic Jameson notwithstanding." See Robert Archambeau link in my Rho00227 post. While I know both Faville and Archambeau express valid positions in that ultimately planet Earth will cease and that we are now not only post-agendas but are also becoming post-Homosapiens/ I remain committed to-- however self-congratulatory--the presence of signature. History (even corrupted history--remembrance, continuity, perception) matters. Nonetheless, I do not favor the my-car's-better-than-your-car attitude. My favorite flavor of ice cream was mint, and might still be, but these days chocolate chips are blended into mint ice cream. Tomorrow it will be chocolate ice cream with mint chips. I would rather there be no literary canons and no poetics skirmishes, but it can't be avoided. Humans--myself included--are always searching for new ways of seeing. 6 x 2 = 12 and 6 x 3 = 18. 6 x 17 = 102 and 6 x 18 = 108. 6 x 32 = 192 and 6 x 33 = 198. And the important number here is: 15. Just something else in my weather today. So what's new to me is old to you and what's new to you is old to me, or, or. You should read what that K. Silem Mohammad man posted recently. - 9:54 PM A comment by Dale Smith over at PFHarriet has moved me to add a link to a 17-page pdf excerpt from Timothy Morton's Harvard University Press book: Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics I am going to try to get this book through a library here. Rho00228
Friday, November 28, 2008
Avant-Garde Vigor
(or whatever one construes to be the leading edge of aesthetic thinking at a given time) tends to dilute over time, and so must/ be refreshed if the art it addresses is to remain vital mainly because there always is a general culture ready to put any new thinking to its own uses and into its favorite boxes, and no one has yet (or is ever likely to) construct an aesthetic some general culture cannot absorb. Nonetheless, valuable insights are not lacking. In issue 8 of Action Yes is an article by Robert Archambeau about Per Bäckström's analyis of the central movements since the Nineteenth Century with a nod to Renato Poggioli and with further insights of his own. At the core of this article is the acceptance of linguistic entropy. - Rho00227
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Lemur soft surrealism poetry
is meant to be a poetry which is cuddly yet rabid, which does not wish to supplant other visionings but does wish to implant isolate rhizomic tangles, to be purposefully minor and strange, to not care about the future. Over at Exoskeleton a nascent manifesto unfolds. I have read it several times and feel I do not fully understand it, but the comments beneath it, especially Arthur Durkee's comment, strengthened my understanding. I am now going to see what more I can learn about a Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey). Rho00226
employment contraction article
from 24/7 Wall St. by Douglas A. McIntyre October 15, 2008 as many as 6 million more jobs could be lost Rho00225
Monday, November 24, 2008
We need time
to perfect the technologies which will allow us to proceed appropriately; therefore, while his post today does not mention those technologies, JHK's "Zombie Economics" does detail the step back--a step some places in this nation have been implementing--which will provide that time we need. Also, do read the early comments beneath his post. I am, with good reason, a fairly avid reader of comments. - Rho00223
Saturday, November 22, 2008
welcome to humanity
You're gonna luv it. - Yah. - - Homo sapiens is an imperfect being. As soon as/ one is conceived// death begins. Whether that death will occur in utero or more than twelve decades later is an unknown. - body - heart - soul - mind - Sometimes the body knows before the mind knows. See Floyd Skloot review by Andrew Shields. * Sometimes the heart knows before the mind knows. Examples abound. * Sometimes the soul/spirit knows before the mind knows. Will be getting back to this. - This morning and yesterday morning just before awakening/ I had an unsettling dream. The two dreams were not the same dream even though each exemplified the same reality. * During yesterday I encountered at different websites unsettling knowledges (mind recognitions). - Dreams and imaginings are extensions of mind. For all its inadequacies, Homo sapiens is a special being, a being capable of what appears to be infinite growth. There are conflicting views as to the why. See Rho00221 and Rho00015. Also my mind/seasons/time villanelle. Will be getting back to this. 1:30 PM -- 3:12 PM -- I believe in the existence of a Supreme Being. I believe that Being, being supreme, is constantly active; and even though I cannot know that Being as that Being knows me, I believe that if I am open to it, that Being's presence is accessible/ especially in that that Being provides guidance for me and opens doors for me. In spite of my not having recognized those guidances as often as I could have and not knocking on those doors I could have, I have come to call such: Watch God Moments. * I could cite instance upon instance to support what I believe/ even while I realize most others would say they were luck or fate or coincidence. I believe that out in the universe there exist civilizations greater than Homo sapiens, and yet that we of planet Earth--if we are able to solve in time each problem which mitigates against our continuance--will one day be welcomed by such greater civilizations. Read article by Michio Kaku in civilizations folder. * I believe the Supreme Being is not only from-Whom-all but also is to-Whom-all. I believe in the idea of the Omega Point, that time is speeding up (or, as some say, collapsing), that human knowledges--and therefore the creations and understandings arising from them-- are growing exponentially. Still, Nature does have its limits. What about the time machine? If it does get invented, will time stop then? Complexification? Simplification? A smooth round stone can be used in good ways and in equally evil ways. An atom likewise. God exists, or does not. * We exist, and are potentially God-like. * What we surmise is God/ exists within each of us. * Because it is possible to imagine, however inaccurately, humans at a far higher level than we are now, those humans are/ like gods to us. At any one moment, the collective human mind cannot know more than it collectively knows. * On the other hand, the collective human soul transcends the realms of knowledge. Alas, thus thus, the collective human mind cannot grasp what the collective human soul contemplates. Rho00222
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