Content Warning: This post contains language regarding option trading. Readers looking for the usual crap should peruse old posts or copies of Mad Magazine. Any discussion of investments herein is for entertainment purposes only. Dirt Lease does not give investment advice. Readers should consult their own advisers before making an investment decision. Writers should avoid …
The Dirtlease staff just returned from a literary tour of Ireland. We read to a packed hall at The Printworks, in Dublin Castle. We mansplained to a writer’s group in Crumlin. We partied at Connor McGregor’s pub. We turned down sexual advances from Eve Hewson. We swam in the snotgreen sea at Forty Foot. When …
Three Pillars is an investment fund that is buying up communities on the west coast and in the southeast. Here is a disquisition that one of their founders posted about park management. Pretty much everything to say on the subject, he says well. Disclosure: I have no connection with Three Pillars Communities, their equity owners, …
The other day, while I was driving to the gym, a guy in an Acura cut me off. I rolled down the window and lifted my palm in a WTF gesture. He rolled down his window and gave me the finger. If we were Greek, I would have given him the moutsa. People who tail …
Your Truly will read a story about a flood in a mobile home park at the launch of Channel Magazine’s ninth issue at The Printworks in Dublin as part of the Dublin Book Festival, this coming Sunday. Dirtleasers who are in the neighborhood are invited to come by and heckle.
A friend emailed me yesterday about a new rent control regulation that has been passed for manufactured housing communities in unincorporated areas of Sonoma County. The day before, a maiden aunt sent me an article about Maine’s new right-of-first-refusal law for manufactured housing communities. Frank Rolfe sends articles decrying new instances of the regulation of …
Garrison Keillor was badly done by the Me Too movement. He misreads social cues because he is on the autism spectrum. He touched the back of a woman who worked for him once. She did not understand the gesture. Because of that, he was fired from MPR and put in the same bucket as Harvey …
Cert. denied https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2023/10/02/supreme-court-rejects-ny-rent-law-challenge/
The angel’s share is the portion of a batch of whiskey that evaporates when the whiskey is aged in wooden barrels. Up to one percent of a batch of can be lost each year this way. That is a cost of doing business that whiskey producers factor in when they do their planning. The angels …
In an earlier post in which I discussed the etymology of the -FU acronyms, I mentioned the term BOHICA. Like GPS and nuclear power, the word was developed by the military but is now used in the civilian world (while GPS and nuclear power benefit everyone, the term BOHICA outside the military is now restricted …