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Throw me the whip! No, throw me the mortgage!

IndyMac Bank, a prolific mortgage specialist that helped fuel the housing boom, was seized Friday by federal regulators in one of the largest bank failures in U.S. history. The thrift was one of the largest savings and loans in the country, with about $32 billion in assets. It now joins an infamous list of collapsed banks, topped by Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co., which failed in 1984 with $40 billion of assets. The bank will be run by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., a federal regulator, and will reopen Monday.

Via Wall St Journal

Edit: Additional comedy from the full article: IndyMac specialized in Alt-A loans, a type of mortgage that can often be offered to borrowers who don’t fully document their incomes or assets. SO THERE’S NO CTRL-Z AMIRITE???

ITEMS!

  1. People who stand in line and take abuse to purchase an overpriced phone with a horrible shitty painful billing plan. THEY’RE FUNNY!
  2. Full Sail’s IPA isn’t so great. A salad made solely of artichoke hearts with olive oil and basil, however, is so great.
  3. Trying to figure out why I haven’t been able to read more than 3 paragraphs and I can’t get shit done, I noticed that I hadn’t taken my Adderall or even picked it up from the pharmacy for more than a week. I should pay more attention! HAW!
  4. http://www.peterkruger.com/lulzy/pages/birthofasupervillain_jpg.htm
  5. NASA sent me email with the subject line “What’s wrong with the Sun?” and I panicked a little. But it was just a tease. Apparently the Sun is still okay.
  6. I can’t believe Phil Gramm said the economic downturd was psychological and that we were a country of whiners. Did the Democrats pay him off with some hot toilet sex?
  7. I live in the only place with acceptable weather currently.
  8. I heard “I love a man in a uniform” on the muzak at Trader Joe’s yesterday while I was in line behind a woman who wore camo pants with “peace” on the ass.

I approve this salad.

I keep encountering this wonderful salad, once at a French place and twice at Russian restaurants. It consists of:

beets (cooked or canned)
garlic (I use that lebanese white garlic sauce)
yogurt or mayonnaise
walnut pieces

It’s so good. So very good. In fact, it’s very good and excellent. Go forth and make some.

in memoriam

Thomas Disch apparently died a suicide on the 4th.

He was a fine writer and a fascinating man. It was a privilege to talk with him on Livejournal after years of reading him, back to my childhood.

He’d been through a lot in his last years and was often a terribly bitter and angry man. It’s not surprising that he left this way, just very sad.