Places like NorSD and VenCo will be losing huge numbers of good jobs and that means even inflation won't save home prices. It also looks like high energy prices are here to stay making these $1m mudhuts even less desireable. Aerospace, biopharma and financial services (incl RE transactionals) are all in relative decline over the next decade. At least NorSD will be spared the agriculture impolsion. Now don't get me wrong. This isn't all bleakness and abyss. It just means that housing prices aren't going to stabilize or go up for a very long time. If we could wave but one magic wand and that wand gave people a chance to buy a house or keep renting a place to live at 1997 prices then in their mind paradise would have returned. There is no magic wand and the real process of returning to rational pricing will be chunky, disruptive and for many, painful.
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I claim this coveted spot in the name of murse wearers everywhere.
First! I bang Giada! Tony Soprano bangs fleshlight!
DAMMIT!
Interview with "T," part 3 of 3.
at It's All Good blog.
http://itsallgoodsweet.blogspot.com
The last in the series of our interview with "T." Here we talk about the potential for Casey's ultimate suicide, what drives Casey to do the things he does, the likelihood of his future success, our guesses on how the whole Casey phenomenon will end, and more.
You touch Giada you sick fuck and you and me are going to have "words". Have you ever seen the bottom of the Sac River?
I'm in CA now dealing with family issues. I'm one hour away from Modesto. If I have a chance, I may drive up there and check out his last property. All I can say is the Central Valley sucks..
Rob, are you surprised by this? SoCal has been in a death spiral for quite some time. Attracting the best young minds is becoming difficult for CA employers, what with Austins' booming tech sector and great quality of life for 1/4 the price. Ditto Phoenix and biosci.
Everything has a threshold, and a 1MM shitbox starts to make 78 degree days not look so good.
Time is coming for the eastbound I-10 and I-40 to be backed up with refugees looking for a better life. The only people left in 10 years are going to be the established (like yourself). Enjoy!
-jbjbj
Are these the people that were complaining in 2004-2005 about their gas charges being $60/month in the 'winter season.'
I saw a story on the news when I lived out there in '04-'05 and was shocked. Born in the Midwest, we'd love to have $60 gas charges in the winter.
jbjbj said;
SoCal has been in a death spiral for quite some time.
Well, not so much death sprial as a long slow glide path of inertia. So many inate advantages it has taken a long time to get here and here is not looking pretty going forward. Not all of SoCal is LA/Orange counties. We will certainly reinvent ourselves yet again for a world where Hollywood is dispersed and manufacturing a smaller part of any economy. But yeah, it would suck to try and make a go here and now.
ev, I had Jan & Feb $60 heating bills this winter. This last was the coldest I've ever experienced. Doesn't make up for $3.29 gasoline however.
"10 Lethal Mistakes for RE Investors."
1. Planning as you go.
2. Thinking you'll "get rich quick."
3. Playing Lone Ranger.
4. Paying too much.
5. Skipping homework.
6. Ducking due diligence.
7. Misjudging cash flow.
8. Lowering the volume.
9. Painting yourself into a corner.
10. Miscalculating estimates.
This is from http://bankrate.com/brm/news/real-estate/reminiguide07/top-10-mistakes-investors-a1.asp?caret=3g
Nothing new but how many of those does KC say yes to?
You could basically sum all those up into:
1) not knowing what the **** they're doing.
Tony did you come through Portland Yet?
I was going to take you around and show you some sweet cash back deals (or as casey/nigel do them--cock-back deals).
There is a developer about 2 blocks from me working on a fairly large project...I kid you not, there is a sign up front that says 200k for a townhouse with 20k cash back.
Wow, snowflake would buy them all.
Upon closer inspection of the flyer I came to the following conclusions:
The 20k in retail must be spent on upgrades that they perform at a preset retail cost...their actual cost is closer to 5k by my figures.
Even then it is a bad deal, but people see dollar signs with cash back crap like that.
I know the market for 50 miles around me from MH, to stick built, to condos, to townhouses, to commercial buildings, to market buildings.
I bet I could give a off the fly price of a house from the outside and be within 10k of its actual price (proven later by the REAL comps) and analysis of the area.
So Tony, lets hook it up just like the time you got the appraiser to get all that money back from HUD and then your nemesis went and ruffed up your appraiser.
We can send the Transient from Lurchmont?? and rob dawg in there to strip the house of all the copper before we bail on the deal.
Another article on the front page of the USA Today(news lite) about foreclosure due to exotic loans, mortgage fraud, etc. Mostly about Atlanta but mentions that dozens of other cities are starting to see the same thing. Mentions Sacremento(surprise). Also states that the estimate of foreclosures was from 2006 BEFORE the credit tightening that we are starting to see. It's gonna be ugly. 2007 is going to look sweet in 2008 and 2009.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2007-04-12-foreclose-cover-usat_N.htm?csp=34
I won't be back to PDX until May 7&8th and that will be a quick in and out trip for the Oregon Offshore sailboat race from Astoria to Victoria BC. I am going to try and hit Higgins for lunch and Blue Hour for dinner though..Those crazy cash back deals...Man, I wish I could have gotten into the Pearl District about ten years ago. Bada Bing!
One thing that would have made Casey some quick cash was to strip the houses. I told him this months ago. There was enough money sitting there to maybe try and save one of them. Did Snowflake listen? No, because that would have ment doing some work, getting hands dirty ripping down drywall and cutting out the pipes and wire. I told him to take everything, stove, sink, fixtures, faucets, everything. I have pretty much given up on him. I wouldn't say I'm boycotting him, just there really isn't any need to post over there anymore. He doesn't do shit so why should I give advice?
TONS of zero down/cash back signes all over Merced plus lots of equity stripper signs around as well. Just fucked...
Off topic, but I haven't seen this mentioned and I didn't want to forget.
Pacer allows online checking of various courts. You need an account. If/when CS goes BK, Pacer will provide the case number and court.
I've heard good things about Portland but I have also heard that there seems to be a sizeable population of heroin addicts too.
bob dawg,
you left out Northern California and the Bay Area (SJ/SF). I know lots of techies who think twice about relocating to the Bay Area or are looking to leave due to real estate prices. And these are households with 250K+ annual incomes.
Google get it (see their expansions into NC, PHX, Oregon, and Ann Arbor, MI). Hopefully other companies will too.
Don't take this wrong, but CA is quickly becoming a two-class society: 1) those who bought in the late 90's or earlier and held on and 2) those who did not.
Apparently no one wants to be MURST!
At 11:34 AM, Sprezzatura said...
I've heard good things about Portland but I have also heard that there seems to be a sizeable population of heroin addicts too.
Being born and raised here I would have to say what are you shootin'?--Heroin?
We have allot of modern day hippies here that like to smoke allot of pot but the heroin addicts are next to nill. We have a bigger problem with meth addicts than that.
But I wouldnt really know..I live in the suburbs and dont see those "inner city" problems.
I could care less about the ghetto's because it doesnt affect me or what I do.
Now Tony, as far as the Pearl District...I did get in on that with a couple of units that I was planning on holding long term, but within 6 months of owning them I sold them out for roughly 70% more than what I paid for them.
I took half of that money and put it into the kids college funds another 40 percent and rolled it back into real estate and the other 10% and put it on black...well not roullete but gambling none the less on other games.
and after I was done I doubled that 10 percent to 20 percent and put it into the bank.
That is my mad money...I allow myself a budget of 500 bucks a month for mad money.
So far this month I have spent my mad money on new shoes, and a really nice utility trailer that I found on craigs list to haul around stuff.
I would like to spend my mad money on a cheap hotel and take stephanie J there after a day of whining and dining at chuck e. cheese and goodwill bargain bin shopping.
@ king:
you left out Northern California and the Bay Area (SJ/SF). I know lots of techies who think twice about relocating to the Bay Area or are looking to leave due to real estate prices.
*waves*
I'm one of 'em. The jobs that I'm qualified for don't pay enough for me to maintain the lifestyle I have now. There's also the risk associated with taking a new job that might not work out. I can weather a pretty long layoff where I am now, but those savings wouldn't float me for long at all in the bay area.
king,
Google is expanding into 4 other locations around the country one of them being where my parents live near Pryor OK. WHY? many reasons. Land is cheap(they bought 844 acres). The located within a mile of one of the largest power plants in the midwest(cheap cheap power). Again Why? My guess is that they need the power for a massive server storage complex. They are putting out so much software and offering storage for it now adays. Even the biggest companies with buku bucks will be leaving or migrating part of their operations to other places as things get worse out there. Look at the Charlotte area. Even there it is getting bad due to congestion.
Pryor is about to get a massive cash infusion. Not much to do out there unless you live on a lake. My folks are looking to sell here in a year or so. they have a 4,000 sq ft house that overlooks the lake. they own the property going down to the lake and they have a boathouse on the lake. they bought it for 450k 4 years ago. they had it on the market for 599 until google came in. with all those folks flush with cash they will have to live somewhere and the town of pryor isn't exactly happening. I figure most google folks are young and will want a place on a lake(so they have some place to play). My dad figures that by the time the plant is built lakefront property will be in even more demand(only decent sized lake close to pryor). they aren't making more of it!
king make that 5 since you listed 4.
Good USA Today article. Someone on here said a while back that foreclosures are going to be the comps. I think it was Rob Dawg. My buddy just put on offer in on a house and he based his offer on what the three foreclosures were priced at. He got the house.
Google's new outposts are server farms, not cubicle farms. The number of new jobs will be relatively small.
It's not easy to get really good tech folk to want to move to the middle of nowhere. Other cities, that's a different story. But bumf*** Kansas? No way.
I'll take bumf*** Kansas. I can spend 175K and get what you do for 700K in California, I pay $2.50 for gas, my bottle of Heineken is $3 and it doesn't take me 45 minutes to drive 2 miles.
I wake up in the morning, sit on my front porch and read the newspaper without listening to the traffic.
@CHJTS
With a date like that, you'd be lucky if you got to first base.
@Anon 3:14
Amen.
@Anon -- different folks, different priorities.
I'm not knocking it, just stating the fact that most people who come to the Bay Area to work in the tech business are making different choices.
In my industry, I've been seeing the 'brain drain' in CA happen steadily for about 4 years. Just a mass exodus of people in their 20's and 30's who can't afford to buy a house and are sick of being "paid in sun dollars."
Unfortunately, they're right. A white-collar job in this industry starts at $70k base in most major US markets. In SD, base is around $29k. Now shave approx. 40% off of cost of living in those inland markets, and the sun and surf start to have a very real price tag.
@sprezzatura --
well, I do know Google ultimately wants 5000 people in Ann Arbor, and about ~1000 or so in phoenix.
Also, there is a middle ground -- university towns. Lots of high-powered tech people from good schools want to stay near their families and friends.
This topic hits home for me -- I finishing my PhD in Computer Science. I've turned down several offers from search engine companies in the Bay Area already.
The salaries are not that much higher than offers from other areas. 20 - 25% difference. Which is closer to 10 - 15% after taxes, which barely covers the higher tax rate, auto insurance, grocery and gas prices in CA. Spare me the bullshit about "higher salary equals higher discretionary income".
And I forget housing. It takes $2K a month to rent a 2 bedroom apartment not next to a crackhouse or meth-lab in the Bay Area. That covers the mortgage on a $300K mansion in rural areas.
I resent having to choose a less fulfilling job intellectually to avoid commiting financial suicide.
thank you casey. muffle your welcomes to your cellmate Bubba, as he pushes your head into the pillow while showing you how "flipping" works in prison.
Lots of high-powered tech people from good schools want to stay near their families and friends.
Very true. Sadly, my family is in one of the highest-cost cities in the USA, so I am screwed either way.
I pay $1600 for a very nice 2-BR Bay Area apartment, actually. And I am neither near a crackhouse nor a meth lab. There is one dips*** who likes to smoke really skanky-smelling weed on his balcony, but other than that it's a nice place to live. I just can't afford to buy.
sweet, skunky weed on the balcony!
I live in SoCal. I live near the beach and bought a home when prices were going up. I waited until they stabilized and made my move. Some ask me why I bought and I say it's a nice place to live since I am not in this for an "investment". I am prepared for the inevitable decline in value as well as the influx of the increasing population of illegals and asians. I am not against any of these people, but I have no faith in our government to do the right thing.
What will destroy SoCal is a combination of losing key industries and this problem we seem to have with illegals who have no interest in integrating into American life.
Just read Casey's latest.
I think I'm going to be sick. He's resorting to quoting bible verses (an IAFF first, AFAIK) and blathering about how intent can create reality. Boy's truly gone off the deep end this time.
Oh - and the book sure didn't last long.
As much as I have come to loathe CS and his accomplices over the past several months I have at least enjoyed reading his latest, ridiculous post and the avalanche of negative commentary that ensued.
Lately I can't even get through his whole post before I'm disgusted enough to click on something else, much less 200 "get a job" comments.
Funny. Just at the point where his blog becomes so lame and boring it is unreadable, with traffic flagging and the last house going to foreclosure in the immediate future, that Idiot would decide to write a whole freaking book about failure,wheatgrass and the amazing saga of Nigel Swaby's rise to wealth and power through Olympic Pin sales and link swapping.
Unless I have verifiable proof that this book contains at least two chapters on Galina's lesbian adventures...with pictures..and the other girl better be hot...and I don't have to pay for it...and I can read it on the toilet at work and get paid for it- I'm afraid I just won't be able to bring myself to pick up this masterpiece.
At 7:03 PM, Honestly Wondering
I've only briefly scanned his post, but this does indeed to be another indication that the end of his sanity (as he knows it) is quickly coming to an end.
Posted:
"My hope is for all of you to turn from hatin’ to showing some love."
I used to root for you. But over the past 6 months it's become clear that you will not listen to the very sensible advice that so many people have given you. So I have become a loather.
Casey, you are still a child trapped in a young man's body. You and G like to pretend that you're hotshot investors. We can see this in your Flickr account. You read somewhere that a successful person has certain things (blue ball, Internet over your PDA, etc.) and think that you'll be a success with these things.
Spare us the religion. It's an insult to religious people who don't do what you did, and the rest of us aren't buying it. The Titanic is sinking and you are one of the many still left on the ship. The Haterz never even boarded. There's nothing you can do about it.
I was going through my iTunes library and stumbled upon the song "I've Tried Everything" by Eurythmics. Lyrics (in part): "Yeah, you're a loser now..."
Honestly Wondering @ 7:03 PM:
I guess I baited him when I posted the Biblical verse about how debt is bad, which speaks more directly to his situation than the verses he posted.
Looks like Moron remove the link to the DHC blog. Maybe he finally found the one thing that caused him shame.
Sprezz-
It's called "chronic." get hip to the jive.
I found a preliminary book cover for snowflake's book!
http://tinyurl.com/3adz44
I'm sorry I can't take anymore.
I only check back on Casey's site in the hope he has finally got what he deserves.
HE IS FREAKING DELUSIONAL
He needs meds, stat.
From IAFF:
"I used creativity to get into my foreclosure situation. Now I will have to use a lot more creativity to get out, and do it completely above-board.
That got me thinking. Over the last several months I’ve been exposed to many different ideas, some quite crazy. I’ve expanded on those ideas and thought of few crazy ideas of my own too. However, some of these ideas are so creative that I wonder if they will work. But at this point though, what do I have to lose?"
This dumbass will buy any sales pitch thrown at him as long as it's for easy money. (That's probably why he went cold on the book idea. He found out it wasn't so easy, thanks to EN commenters.)
Anyway, it gets me thinking. Haters, why should email scammers get to have all the fun? We're a very creative lot and can no doubt come up with many creative ways to help Casey make easy money. With the help of some semi-legit sounding throw-away email addresses, $2.50 domains, and some creative ideas to pitch to our favorite clueless idea man, I'm sure in no time several of us could be Casey's new secret partners.
Once Casey falls for the bait, we can go increasingly Nigerian 419 on him to the point of ridiculousness, then share the hilarious email correspondence. Perhaps even make it a contest where each "creative concept" gets judged for sweetness, winwinness, and general itsallgood. (The third place winner would receive the coveted Nigel Swaby third place out of seven award.)
You may say it's not cool to mess with someone like that, even Casey. But think about the scammers doing it now. Sure we would be making fun of him, but they're actively taking advantage of him and causing him to further screw up his life. The logical result would be that Casey would no longer trust any email he gets, which is in his best interest. Fun for us, and it's keeps Casey from doing more stupid scams. Winwin!
Casey, good things are coming. Go check your email for nuggets.
comeback? What comeback? To have a comeback would imply doing great or memorable things like creating a successful business or inventing something. How can one "comeback" from nothing?
Segfault,
I'm not a Christian myself, but I sure did grow up surrounded by a certain breed of Christian - the highly reality-challenged variety who spent all their time rationalizing insanity with out-of-context biblical quotes. I wasn't kidding when I said that his latest post made me feel ill.. it did. I know plenty of sane Christians who would be outraged. He's as much of an insult to Christianity as he is to entrepreneurship.
But this post has me convinced of one thing: Casey's headed towards a full-blown nervous breakdown. Not exaggerating - I've seen it before, I know what it looks like. Once you buy into the "my thoughts create reality" line of thinking (as he has), especially under high stress, you get the Lathe of Heaven effect. He's now on his way to a real bad place, and it'll probably happen before either the law or his creditors catch up to him.
I almost felt sorry for the guy this evening. If he hadn't been ignoring good advice for six months, I would have. But now he'll just have to cross the Valley of the Shadow on his own.. maybe he'll make it through, maybe he won't. But he's definitely on his way.
Likely, he always was.
Mary Tyler Moron @ 8:36 had a great idea that should be pursued:
"Once Casey falls for the bait, we can go increasingly Nigerian 419 on him to the point of ridiculousness, then share the hilarious email correspondence."
Some people engage in an interesting hobby, baiting the Nigerian 419 scammers that have conned mucho dinero from gullible and / or greedy-stupid people on the interwebs. See the following website for some hilarious examples of scambaiting:
http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/index.html
The gold standard for a sucessful scambait is to induce the conman into sending a picture of himself holding up a ridiculous sign, the meaning of which he doesn't comprehend .
I'm sure some of the crafty and creative people in the EN community could think of appropriate signage.
Remain, ask, and believe. I can definitely improve on “remaining”. I already know what I need to do for that. Next, I need a specific outcome. “Make money” is too vague. How will I know I’ve arrived if the goal is not measurable? And after that I just need to believe.
There's a reason why most Christian denominations consider this Prosperity Gospel stuff to be heresy. It takes pretty selective quoting to come to the conclusion that God wants us to be rich, let alone promises riches to those who believe. To jump from that to the idea that one can get money simply by deciding on an amount and believing in it is pure fantasy.
This stuff has a nasty flip side. If one can be assured of wealth simply by believing enough and being a good enough Christian, it follows that a person's worth can be measured by their bank account, and the poor have earned their fate. I wonder what Casey will think of that when he's homeless.
Bible quoting now eh...
So Casey, I guess this means that you are the cause of your own failure, with all your creativity and greedy little hopes, bottom line is, your OWN brain was telling you "Whatcha talkin' bout Willis?!!??!!" and that is why you failed. You just diodn't believe in your little scheme enough.
As for the "Faith the size of a mustard seed blah blah blah" Man, you don't even have the work ethic the size of a mustard seed.
"Sweet comeback here we go" LOL LOL LOL. Where have we heard this crap before?
"Early riser plan here we go!"
"10,000 dollars in passive income by September 2007 here we go!!"
"Foreclosure book here we go!"
"Plans for 2007 here we go!"
"Take out the garbage once a week here we go!"
"Pay off Galina's credit cards and save her credit here we go!"
"Not make Galina drop out of college here we go!"
"Get a job here we go!"
"Get a short sale done here we go!"
"Provide for my wife here we go!"
"Work on not getting foreclosed on here we go!"
"Cut down my cell phone bills here we go!"
"Gain 10 lbs of muscle this year here we go!"
"Pay back every dirty little penny here we go!"
"Avoid bankruptcy here we go!"
Reality"
"Circling the toilet here we go!"
"Running out of material here we go!"
"Running out of houses that get foreclosed on thus ending the blog here we go!"
"Running from the law here we go!"
"Getting arrested here we go!"
"Squealing on Nigel amongst other lenders and kickback kings here we go!"
"Getting divorced here we go!"
"Realizing that Nigel wasn't as BIG as he claimed to be compared to bubba here we go!"
Casey, give it up man. The only thing that you HAVE succeeded on and accomplished is completely ruining your life, your wife's life, and anyone's reputation who is dumb enough to get involved with you (Nigel not included, he already stunk of con man and loser before he even met you).
@Ogg
"I wonder what Casey will think of that when he's homeless"
I'll tell you what he will think;
"It could be worse, I could be Nigel, at least I have my hair"
We cover all the angles here. We're a liberal arts college seminar studying Casey Serin ology.
Probably time I stop lurking. Since Casey quoted the Bible out of context, I shot 2 quotes at him.
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
You reap what you sow: jail.
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
I'm the same age as Casey, but often wonder wtf my generation is doing. I don't know anyone as bad as Casey, but I know plenty of people my age that are just not good with money. Maybe it's a SoCal thing (I'm in Irvine)? MTV killed our brains. I apologize for my generation's stupidity.
@Eek, don't bother apologizing for your generation, you are not responsible for them, only for yourself, and from the looks of things, you are doing ok.
I wonder if Casey realizes that with all the "haterz" constantly thinking and hoping that he goes to jail or suffers the consequences..um, aren't we then able to "CREATE his reality?" I mean really, what's about 200 plus concentrated brains against one feeb with ADHD? The guy is toast! Not only are we using are 'creative thinking' (a lazy man's dream) but unlike him, we are actually working on getting him incarcerated.
Everytime he slaps us in the face with his troll posts and attempts to get more hits, all he is doing is making more people think about how he should get his comeuppance.
Galina "Casey did you go look for a job today?"
Casey "No, but I thought about it, and then for 4 hours straight I thought about us winning the lottery..so back the hell up wtih the nagging ok? I AM working"
@honestly wondering
I agree, the breakdown is coming. He has already shown how he CAN be affected by the loss of 'his' houses. I am sure the loss of his freedom to go out, eat out, vacations, just get up and go away for the weeekend, or even just live in his own home are starting to affect his little dreamworld. I think that's why he needed this corporate loan credit line thing to work so badly, he is reaching the end of his rope, and will pay ANY interest rate to keep his lifestyle in check.
The creating reality thing is also one of his last steps before meltdown. I think this will be preceeded by the loss of his final house, meeting wtih FBI agents for the first time, the realization that Galina IS leaving him once and for all, and the realization that there are no more scams to try and no more credit available to him.
Ahh screw him anyway, he hasn't done one thing to prevent any of his problems, and in fact has gone out of his way to exacerbate them.
Gleaned from Nigel's blog. There is such a massive influx of people trying to access the site that I had to wait almost 30 minutes to get thru. Here it is in all it's patheticness.
Bad Dawg - Now You've Ruined Everything!
You may have noticed a number of deleted posts in the last thread as well as a comment outage earlier today. Now comments are being moderated.
What or who caused this drastic policy change? Rob Dawg, the ignominious leader at EN. You see, he started threatening me on this blog, so I deleted his comment. No need for that here.
Flustered by this rejection, he utilized the best counter attack he could muster - copying the entire page and submitting it as a comment...multiple times. My how grown up Mr. Dawg. That sounds like something a frustrated and angry nine-year old might do.
Then he sent this comment threatening more cut and paste attacks:
Consider that happening 42 times for the 42 posts that were disrespected by having the conversation disrupted for personal reasons that hjave (sic) nothing to do with decorum or any other stated reason.
It kind of reminds me of the time he came over to my real estate blog and started spouting off about things he knows nothing about, further worsening his position. The way that broke down is worth the read.
I just wanted to clarify to you dear readers as his version of the story at EN is about as fair and balanced as a Bill O'Reilly episode.
So as you comment and have to go through moderation and enter anti-spam words, the person you need to thank is Rob Dawg. Thanks Rob!
PS - Has anybody else noticed his unnatural attraction to me? He made three top level posts about me today. I'm not sure whether to be flattered (sorry Rob, I don't swing that way) or scared. Can anyone say cyberstalker? Gee whiz! Give it up Rob, I'm not available!
Nigel got one comment out of this boring post. One, and it wasn't even on his side. Poor Nigel, he thought there would be a big jump to his defense, with a bunch of people clamoring for Rob's head on a platter.
Frankly, it just made Nigel look smaller than he already is, that attempt at mamking it seem like Rob was obsessed or attracted to him came off as lame, especially considering that it worked so effectively for T. Even the quote "I'm not available!" is sad, as in all seriousness, who really gives a shit if Nigel IS available. Lol. At least be original on YOUR blog Nigel, instead of using stuff 'borrowed' from the EN readers and posters.
"Can anyone say cyberstalker? "
Uh yeah "Mr. Out everyone" who makes him look bad, we CAN say cyberstalker. YOU fit the description perfectly, with all your investigations of posters at EN, the way you splash their picture on your site with demeaning comments, and with your 'anonymous' postings at EN.
Nigel said
"So as you comment and have to go through moderation and enter anti-spam words, the person you need to thank is Rob Dawg. Thanks Rob!"
Nigel, who the hell are your talking to? When you only have like 10 comments a day do you really think it wise to make it even more difficult and annoying to post on your blog? Oh yeah that's right, at least that way you can CONTROL what is said about you.
oh no, you mean nigel's blog isn't a free interchange of ideas anymore?
It is pretty frightening to read about the educational level of Los Angeles County (one of the lowest for a large city in the US), and the average wage in Riverside County (one of the lowest in the country). SoCal has seen better days. This is more of a Latin American city, with only an extremly wealthy class and a huge poor underclass.
New Casey Photoshop Image for your perusal..
here
Moronicus has a new post up. Good things just keep on coming!
Stock tips from the bellhops. Actually, even less worthwhile as at least in the 1920s, the bellhops were actually working for a living.
It appears that the world is in for a bumpy ride.
Goddamn Casey, harbinger of the apocalypse.
@Stephanie J.
For the love of god put your blog and name on that thing before he lifts it for his site and says he found it "out there somewhere".
That is some great work there. I think we should come up with some good titles for his book. Here are a couple. I'm just spitballing here...
"Failing forward, your guide to loosing millions by investing in stupid ideas"
"Sweet Deals for the Burgeoning Birddogger, organic advice from a seasoned paper shuffler"
"The immigrant's guide to working the system - how to put America's flawed banking system to work for you"
That most excellent cover is this early mornings' feature in a new post disecting Casey's latest screed.
@Benwa Mandelbrot
Not exactly...at least the bellhops had jobs (those loosers!)
@TK
How about 'Absolute Failure For Dummies' and the sister book 'The Idiot's Guide to Absolute Failure'
My initials are on it, and it's on my blog too.
SJ,
I'm sure I speak for many when I say we were hoping for the "top down" jeep driving "About the Author" picture on the back cover. ;-)
[Just teasing here Steph, wouldn't want no nappy PC bidnez a comin'; down on my head.]
Dawg, ma deah,
Since when have *I* ever been PC?
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