Friday Night, Holiday in Sight

It was about 20 degrees here today at the warmest point. I stayed in all day and got caught up on all those little things that you never get to take care of. A few items and then on to the Friday festivities as the holiday's are in sight and it is time to relax and reflect on the year that was.

On the Hunt for A Home at Age 70
Caught this strange Q&A over at Mortgage Insider:

Judy in Laguna Woods asks:
Q. My husband and I need to buy a home before our two-year lease is up (in Laguna Woods) mid March 2010. He hasn’t owned a home in 10 years. I owned a home until my late husband passed away. At that time, I sold my home of 17 years in 2007. To get to the point, it has NOT been three years since I was a homeowner (August 2010 will be three years). We need both incomes to qualify. We are both 70 years old. If someone who owns a home now can “trade up,” and still get the home-buyer tax credit, doesn’t it seem like we are in a catch-22 position?! It is not like we are home flippers. Are there any exceptions to this new extension to the tax credit?

Two incomes and looking to buy at age 70? I guess it's true, you never can stop working.

Great Google Search Feature
The Mess that Greenspan Made has a great Google search map of the following terms:
-Housing Bubble
-Stock Bubble
-Gold Bubble
I cannot embed it here, so go check it out.
Seems gold has been thought to be in a bubble for a LONG time.

Piling on Citi
Last post I ran some numbers on Citi and their crazy outstanding share position. Bespoke Investment Group goes further:

4.22 Citi Shares For Each Person in the World
A comment on Zero Hedge today offered up an interesting stat -- that there are 4 shares of Citigroup for each person on the planet. Wow.

We looked at all US stocks and found that Citi has by far the most shares per person on the planet. With 28,260,770,000 shares outstanding and 6,692,030,277 people in the world in 2008, the Citi shares/person ratio is 4.22. There are only four other US stocks that have enough shares outstanding to give every person in the world at least one share -- General Electric (1.59 shares/person), Bank of America (1.48), Microsoft (1.33), and Pfizer (1.21). Bill Gates held 681,395,074 shares of MSFT in his last Form 4 filing. That's enough to give everyone in the world a tenth of a share of MSFT just from his holdings.

I do not even have 1 share of C!

Friday Night Entertainment
A little of this, a little of that, and then you have something!

Top 10 Films of the Decade
This is not my personal list, it was compiled by Gawker and here was their methodology:

So what we've done is added up all the Best lists we could find online — from the New Yorker to spitefulcritic.com; anywhere where people had made a list. We gave each film a point for every inclusion on every top ten list. Some lists made it a bit difficult, doing say an unordered top 15's, but we've included as much as we can to try and get an accurate count.

Seems reasonable enough. You can check the link for the full on list and descriptions or just the top 5 list below:
#1-12 Votes
There Will Be Blood

#2-11 Votes
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Lord of the Rings films

#3-10 Votes
No Country For Old Men

#4-8 Votes
Momento

#5-7 Votes
Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight

Again, not my list. Discuss!

Funny Pictures
What better way to get your blog tons of hits from image searches than to include a bunch of LOL Cat captions? I also add some Fail Blog entries as well.

This looks like me on Sunday when the NFL is on and the wife wants me to do something:

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Christmas Carol Kitties new lyrics:

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A new site, Epic Win, has this to offer for us Star Wars fanatics:

Instant classic!

Who needs luck when the cards are fixed?:

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Count em!

Do you think this place survived the housing bubble bust?:

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Film Clip
In a film with too many moments of great cinema, enjoy one clip form "The Godfather":

"You straightened my Brother out?" Scary.

Rock Blogging
There were actually a few requests, I was shocked!

Anon wanted Elvis and "Blue Christmas" and here you get what you ask for (unless it's the Beatles):


Loyal reader Watchtower requested the Foo Fighters and "Hero":

Nice!

My favorite Def Leppard song is "Bringin' on the Heartbreak" and you absolutley must see this live performance (starts at 1:45 mark):


Complete with vintage 80's video, here is The Clash and "Rock the Casbah":


Last call!

Randy Rhoads was a real genius. One of his greatest triumphs was blending his classical guitar background with wicked metal crossover in the song "Diary of a Madman" with Ozzy. If you have never heard this song, do me a favor and listen to at least:
-the first 50 seconds
-the 2:00 minute mark through the 4:30 mark
-the last 30 seconds rock as well

True beauty.

Have a good night.