10 Cinematic Robberies Gone Wrong
Today marks the release of the most sophisticated murder & robbery simulator our generation has ever seen. Robbing is still hard. How hard? Let’s see…
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One at a time, please! Here come the Dow Jones resignations.
We should probably wait until the resignations subside before we do a post about it, but we don’t work on the weekend so we’ll get started now.
German billionaire Dieter von Holtzbrinck (anyone give him a job?) has resigned from the Dow Jones board of directors to protest the sale of the company to Rupert Murdoch.
Even though the Bancrofts and News Corp have said they will create ‘Special Committees’ to prevent the hiring and firing of any Dow Jones editors, von Holtzbrinck wasn’t convinced.
“I do not believe that the…
Time to help McSweeney’s
The fantastic publishing house McSweeney’s is feeling the financial bite from their distributor’s bankruptcy. McSweeney’s has lost about $130,000 since their distributor went bankrupt last December, not projected income, but money they had earned, now erased.
In order to persevere McSweeney’s is auctioning off their stock cheap: original artwork by Tony Millionaire and Dave Eggers; music mixes by Nick Hornby; subscriptions and backstock are absurdly discounted.
Help these guys out so they can get back to making the hotness we love–Wholphin, Believer, McSweeney’s Quarterly–and discovering new authors that keep literature alive.…
Paying Taxes For the Spanish-American War
We here at LVHRD are good citizens. We pay our taxes, walk old ladies across the street, and even, occasionally, throw parties to celebrate the end of Prohibition. But when we find out that the American government has been making us pay a telephone tax that goes as far back as the Spanish-American War, well, that we just won’t stand for.
The Federal Telephone Excise Tax was introduced in 1898 to help pay for the Spanish-American War. Back then, telephones were only owned by the very rich (think railroad owners who…
Comical Commerce
What could possibly be funny about money? No, seriously, can you think of a single thing that’s hilarious about Greenbacks or fat stacks besides Charlie Sheen’s performance in the movie Wall Street? It’s hard, we know, and but that’s where LVHRD member and comedian Jeff Kreisler comes in.
Writer of the column Funny Money for the financial website The Street.com, Kreisler pokes fun at everything from Starbucks to Geico, all while revealing the little truths that we’d often prefer to ignore. It’s satire that Dennis Miller would be proud of.
And we’re not the only…
Watch this week's installment of the LVHRD VDO Series. This episode:LVHRD VDO: DNCHRD IV IS MAY 20th
- 1. Time to help McSweeney's
- 2. Paying Taxes For the S…
- 3. 10 Cinematic Robberies…
- 4. Comical Commerce
- 5. One at a time, please!…
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