Cardinal rules for films

So my youngest told me tonight when I was talking with him on the phone that my '70s porn stache looks like caramel on the top and whipped cream on the tips. His older brother agreed when he got on the phone. It almost made me think I need to use Just For Men on the stache...

I have some cardinal rules for choosing which movies to see: 1) Absolutely NO Ben Afflack 2) Absolutely NO Nicholas Cage 3)Absolutely NO Leonardo DiCaprio 4) NO subtitles ever again after suffering through Cache and The House of Flying Daggers within one week of each other. I have not broken rule 1. Rule 2 has been broken because the boys like the National Treasure movies. Rule 3 is evolving since DiCaprio did an amazing job in The Departed and I am liking the previews for Inception. Rule 4 will not be broken. I am also thinking I Rule 2 will evolve because of the upcoming The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

I hit the gym this morning and Black Tank Top was there again and I actually had to share the pec deck with him.

The tape was a bit whacky today. I find it really suspicious that even the responsible media- that's be BBRG- has been gotten to; I say this because of their embrace of the phrase dark cross. First off, it has always been known as the death cross, not the frackin' dark cross. The death cross is when the 50 day moving average of a chart crosses the 200 day moving average on the way down- not good, usually indicates bad times. Yet it seems like the media has been told to not be so negative and not use terms that could induce fear or panic. I imagine they had a session on what to name it. The cross part had to be kept but the death part had to go. The phrase still had to evoke a certain direness but not the said fear and panic. I bet some of the suggestions were the gloomy cross, the not good cross, the oh my god not that cross, the uh-oh cross, the remain calm, all is well cross; the possibilities are endless. They went with dark because it is a d-word like death.

Last week I saw some strategist talk about how when looking at equities over the past two hundred years they have clearly outperformed and are a good investment. Seriously? What the fuck was she smoking because that is some seriously good shit. I don't know of anyone who has a two hundred year time horizon on with their investments. Hell, I would be hard pressed to name a publicly traded company that is two hundred years old.

Warehouse 13 season premiere is tonight. Haven on SciFi looks pretty good too. It is apparently based on a Stephen King short story- The Colorado Kid; never read it.