Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Make sure your stocking’s large enough
Is it just me or are new cars looking
more like shoeboxes everyday?
The CUBE, by Nissan
The SOUL, by KIA
The SCION, by Toyota
Call me old fashioned, I guess.
And for our 2 wheel enthusiasts.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
You want fruitcake with that?
Forget sugarplums, Santa’s goin’ for the double
McRudolph with cheese.
with thanks to
Monday, December 13, 2010
in your calendar
Last month the ClockTowerTenants hosted a briefing from the 40th precinct and we made a very good impression upon them. They arrived with almost a dozen officers in tow, including an undercover plainclothes and the precinct commander. But we did our part, too.
Over 40 ClockTowerTenants attended that night and raised a series of important questions. We sent a loud and very clear message in the wake of Helen’s mugging about our concern and our eagerness to partner with them to ensure something like this never happens again.
Please... join us again this Wednesday night the 15th at 7pm in loft 418 for the second in this series of security related briefings. I have no doubt the cops will show up again in force.
It would be a very good thing for the ClockTower if we do, too.
Please put it in your calendar.
Thanks.
It’s just, y’know...
ClockTowerTenants may recall back in August I ran the numbers on the potential box office revenue for “The Social Network”...
...and at that time I opined:
“that’s still ten bucks per user or a 5 Billion (with a B) return on investment. To give you some idea of the magnitude of a figure like that, TITANIC at $1.84b has been the champ since 1997 until AVATAR just blew it away in 2009 with a collective $2.7b. With a little luck, “The Social Network” has a plausible shot at nearly twice that.”
Well the numbers are in and fine, I’ll stick to my day job.
First, the good news. It has a terrific cast and the critics loved it.
Rotten Tomatoes gave it “an average score of 9/10 and a critical consensus of: "Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest."
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it it four stars and wrote: "David Fincher's film has the rare quality of being not only as smart as its brilliant hero, but in the same way. It is cocksure, impatient, cold, exciting and instinctively perceptive."
Peter Travers of RollingStone “gave the film his first full four star rating of the year and said: "The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade."
Even the Harvard Crimson---the setting of the film itself---” called it "flawless" and gave it five stars.”
So how’d I do in my prediction? Eh, not so much.
At least it opened at #1 grossing $23 million and in its second weekend it was #1 again. But from there it fell away quickly.
This weekend chart shows that despite the strong opening, as of three days ago it was doing a paltry $280,000 a weekend. So it’s done.
And the total?
$185,391,000 world wide, or less than…... ohhhhh….. 4% of what I thought it could do.
“This is our time!” the Sean Parker character exclaims.
Yup. It’s just, y’know….. not mine. lol
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Oh Tannenbaum, oh Tannenbaum
A quick search for “live Christmas tree South Bronx” brought back exactly zero results.
Zero! Oh noes!
The closest tree stand is in Manhattan, at 124th and Madison, on the northeast corner of the Marcus Garvey Park. Whoa.
Well okay then, let’s do this! We walked one home from there.
Considering the cost of live trees these days, it’s not actually the Gopher who is going broke.
But this is a really nice tree stand, with huge, gorgeous, inexpensive trees.
Loft ceiling height is tempting, but I couldn’t even begin to lift it. lol
So with common sense prevailing….off we went, across Park Avenue to Third…
then up Third Avenue and across the bridge…
To Bruckner and Lincoln… and home.
Warmth! Lunch! Yayyyy….let’s get to it!
Fall on your knees, SoBro! Oh hear the angels voices!
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