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I have a new idea for a business. Here in St. Louis, we’re having the coldest winter in some time. It’s so cold that water vapor has been condensing into “snow” and “ice,” substances which leave my neighbors in great distress when it comes to driving, or keeping schools open. As such, people here are beginning to experience a strange …
I come to understand that Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is a day that y’all American wage-slave debt-monkeys are supposed to get out there and buy some Asian-manufactured consumer goods from a Big Box retail operation for a member of your family. This is now tradition in the United States, if you hadn’t yet received your instructions on the …
As a professional bassist, I buy a lot of musical gear. Let me highlight that, I buy as much musical gear as I possibly can, more than is reasonable or smart. As such, I patronize music stores – all kinds. I love ’em. There is no better therapy than OPG – Other People’s Guitars. One of the places I inhabit …
Ever been to the Champs-Elysées in Paris? It’s really quite nice! There are a lot of luxury shops there too – Louis Vuitton, car companies, that kind of thing. Just in case you were wondering what the tangible effects of wealth concentration really were, commercial rent on the Champs-Elysées, flooded with Chinese and Korean tourists looking for 10,000 euro handbags, …