Gold
I don’t know about you, but you will never catch me buying gold from one of those pitchmen on the Fox Business Channel. Some of those characters look like they just got out of prison. Take a close look at the spokesperson from Merit Financial. He looks like a bad used car salesman. On the other hand, be sure to TIVO the Smithsonian Channel’s Aerial America series and CBS Sunday Morning. These are two of the best things going. Aerial America is like being a bird, flying over countryside and important monuments. I guarantee you will never get such a view by visiting those places in person. On another topic, we just got back from seeing the Bolshoi Ballet (repeat of a live performance). These opera and ballet performances at movie theatres are the best thing to happen in the world of “culture’” in a long time Unfortunately, they don’t promote themselves very well, so you have to dig to find out where and when the performances are shown. While watching tonight’s performance, my daughter Amy was reminded of high school, when a professional ballet troupe performed as part of a Christmas program. Unfortunately, one of the ballerinas got too close to a papier-mache snowman on the stage and knocked its head off! Though the audience laughed uproariously, the ballerina kept going without interruption. I wish I had been there. The contrast between the gentleness of the art and the violence of the act must have been something to behold. Oh, one final thing. I saw a great New Yorker cartoon. Someone is reading an obituary which states that the deceased is survived by a wife, two children, and 22 Twitter followers.
