“EEKS – am listening to sleigh bells now – too much distortion – is that effect on all their songs? i don’t dig it”
ugh yeah – i have to set the stereo special to play their album. one song is worse than the others as far as the distortion goes tho. the vocals are crackly
It’s completely undevelopable, so the land itself is not worth very much at all. Taxes are very low.
But it’s got loads of red oak timber. I’ll buy it at more or less the current saleable value of the standing timber plus resale value of the land without the timber.
Left alone, the volume of saleable wood will increase by about 8% a year. And you can leave it there growing just as long as you want. They’re trees. What are they going to do, get up and walk away? Very minimal risk of things like forest fire.
And of course in an inflationary environment, timber is a great hedge. Increases in timber prices are of course on top of the 8%. Risk is basically fluctuation in timber prices as the economy goes up and down.
Best of all – timber is a capital asset. So when you cut the timber, your gain above basis is taxed at capital gain rates.
And it’s pretty. There’s a nice beaver dam full of brook trout.
Heh, not “broadway” as in show tunes.
More like Broadway Joe. But, not in the football sense… more like, the kinda nickname you might give a homeless guy who lives on a particular street, like Broadway. My girlfriend came up with that name when I had an apt that was on Broadway (the street, not the theater district). She said, many years from now, she could imagine people calling me broadwayron, as I laid assed-out-passed-out under a bridge, or on the side of Broadway, way up north.
“Usually when I hear a male Republican politician (or fundamentalist / televangelist) spouting anti-gay sentiments, I prepare myself to read 3 or 4 years down the road about some young guy coming forward to expose a homosexual dalliance”
Biff, on Weekend Update, Seth Meyers did a story about some male Republican NC Congressman doing just that the other day . . . and ended the bit with “Cue the Countdown Clock for the gay male escort to come forward . . .”
Mariah was fabulous in Glitter.
*rob*
“EEKS – am listening to sleigh bells now – too much distortion – is that effect on all their songs? i don’t dig it”
ugh yeah – i have to set the stereo special to play their album. one song is worse than the others as far as the distortion goes tho. the vocals are crackly
Speaking of investing and the herd….
I’m coming up with my own inflation hedge.
Buying 220 acres of timber land in Massachusetts.
It’s completely undevelopable, so the land itself is not worth very much at all. Taxes are very low.
But it’s got loads of red oak timber. I’ll buy it at more or less the current saleable value of the standing timber plus resale value of the land without the timber.
Left alone, the volume of saleable wood will increase by about 8% a year. And you can leave it there growing just as long as you want. They’re trees. What are they going to do, get up and walk away? Very minimal risk of things like forest fire.
And of course in an inflationary environment, timber is a great hedge. Increases in timber prices are of course on top of the 8%. Risk is basically fluctuation in timber prices as the economy goes up and down.
Best of all – timber is a capital asset. So when you cut the timber, your gain above basis is taxed at capital gain rates.
And it’s pretty. There’s a nice beaver dam full of brook trout.
Comparing a special effects driven movie with a cheesey love story to a movie about an internet lawsuit seems pretty silly. Baaa.
Heh, not “broadway” as in show tunes.
More like Broadway Joe. But, not in the football sense… more like, the kinda nickname you might give a homeless guy who lives on a particular street, like Broadway. My girlfriend came up with that name when I had an apt that was on Broadway (the street, not the theater district). She said, many years from now, she could imagine people calling me broadwayron, as I laid assed-out-passed-out under a bridge, or on the side of Broadway, way up north.
Is Deerhunter the one that sounds like Led Zeppelin? Or it that another Deer something?
“why are people such sheep?”
Are you asking this because you loved the movie Glitter and everybody else said they hated it?
“Usually when I hear a male Republican politician (or fundamentalist / televangelist) spouting anti-gay sentiments, I prepare myself to read 3 or 4 years down the road about some young guy coming forward to expose a homosexual dalliance”
Biff, on Weekend Update, Seth Meyers did a story about some male Republican NC Congressman doing just that the other day . . . and ended the bit with “Cue the Countdown Clock for the gay male escort to come forward . . .”
EEKS – am listening to sleigh bells now – too much distortion – is that effect on all their songs? i don’t dig it
M4l – AGREED! that’s what I thought when I watched it – like um yeah, how is this different from pulling the slot machine