Lounsbury: Various trivialities

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May 23, 2005

Various trivialities

First, I appear to have kidney stones. This is very unpleasant, but I have to confess given my habit of drinking vast quantities of coffee and probable constant state of dehydration, nothing that should be surprising. Better start watching my health, getting to be an old man after all. Ha. Have to look to hydration. [edit to add: I have to note that the women are all insisting that I go see a proper medical doctor about this. Rather like the broken foot incident (which has healed admirably except I can't move the toes anymore. Just bloody toes though.). In regards to the pain and all that, my personal rule is suffer for one week, see if it goes away. Hate doctors any way, always asking probing questions I don't particularly feel like answering, and so bloody disapproving hear if I answer honestly. UPDATE II: Amusingly have caved to the pressure I went to a doctor who ran all kinds of fun tests. Rather looks to be a minor if discomforting affaire, but better, complimented me on the health of my liver. Ha.]

Second, will be sparse again. Working on several proposals, one of which an exit strategy. Said to look good on the side of the US investors and 50 million is already lined up on the other side. We shall see. Maybe Mr. Get Kicked Out of His House didn't fuck things up so badly after all.

Third, a quick note on the World Economic Forum conference in Amman, Jordan. Actually only one phrase.

"The usual motherfucking useless posturing by the usual motherfucking media hog morons, gullible Western twits and corrupt players."

Why do I regard the WEF conference with such contempt? Because I know some of the main actors that get invited. The sort about which I say "Just because they speak good English doesn't mean you should trust them."

Case in point from my old Fund, the MD and his son were always invited (have no idea if that was the case this year); and they talked the talk. This is the same pair that corruptly ripped off US and other investors of a good and cool 50 million USD in hard capital, about whom I went nutso as you can tell in my early journal pages. But they were feature guests and invitees.

These conferences are, to be frank, useless wastes of time for empty posturing and grandstanding. I'm all for useful conferences focused on real practical issues, but these sweeping piece of filth do nothing but allow the corruptly connected to posture and often make connexions with the gullible "just came to town" twits ready to lap up the same old same old because they have no fucking background. See Liz Cheney, twit in chief. (Or else make idiotic posturing noises in re women and blah blah - repeating the same old Development Retards just so stories).

Otherwise, I was relatively recently amused to find a livejournal forum on Morocco that seemed to consist almost entirely of Western and especially American chicas that having once gotten shagged in Morocco by some or another skethcy Maghrebine lover, have fallen entirely and uncritically in love with the place. Amusing in its own way, although it does puzzle me about young chicas that come to a country to get fucked and fall so syruply and uncritically in love with a country. If only they knew what their boyfriends call them behind their backs (hanging out with young lads back in the day, I can attest it was rarely respectful nor complimentary. Gullibility. Shall never understand this particular form of it.

Finally, I received an amusing, for me if not its author, email from a friend, sent as a rant to his Lebanese partner who is two years in arrears. He copied me and followed up with a note that he had tried to make it as insulting as possible, especially to Muslims.

I have to say that it did not strike me as a particularly wise move - certainly it was fairly insulting, but on the other hand two years of arrears rather does suggest a typical Leb rip-off move. On the other hand, my amigo always knew that he'd get shafted at some point. I guess I would be upset too, but on the other hand... well, I mean really this should have been priced in. No sense getting this bent out of shape over all too typical practices in Leb Land.

May 23, 2005

Various trivialities

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