Pandora's Other Box

…but if you try real hard, you can get what you need” ... Stones This morning… a Sunday morning with an overcast sky and slowly waking up since I am alone at the house due to my wife and family traipsing somewhere on the other side of the world, the only company was the TV set. I dutifully turned it on and –again- being Sunday morning… it was a veritable deathbed for any decent programming. I turned to the movies and started going down the line… HBO, MAX and down at the bottom of the Showtime listing, just about as I was ready to turn off the machine and go back to sleep… I found gold. Yes, gold!! There it was… a two (YES…TWO) hour doc movie about the Rolling Stones’ Return to Hyde Park concert in 2013. Music Heaven… for me, anyway. Some years ago ( more than I care to remember ) I was being interviewed by the host of a local talk show somewhere in CT. I guess his producer ( Mr. Bubble… his dog, I think ) couldn’t find anyone to fill the late spot and I, after all, had been an...

The old saying of “the monkey on your back” takes a whole new meaning . Several years ago, during the beginning of what would become sort of an ongoing ( well, at least it has until this moment… don’t know about the future though …) pursuit in the “007 like” world of private independent investments, I came to know several folk who populated my life, much like a fungus populates a wet piece of old, rotting wood… Hmmm… come to think about this, not a good, nice start for an entry. But then, that is the way it was. I also know that along the way, it would also be my fate to become a “fungus” in someone else’s daily affairs, I guess… so, it kind of evens out. Thinking back about my initial steps into this shadowy world of “independent investments”, vague shapes and memories of confused and confusing human beings begin to take form and come out of a never ending murky fog. And never ending it has been. At every turn, when you think that finally the weaving and searching are comin...