Would You Pay $4,000 For a Bruce Springsteen Ticket?

 I studied this story from today.

Tickets presently are running $4k each.

What they say is these are platinum tickets.....you get special treatment....special seats, etc.  There's probably a drink or two in the mix.  

For some act that hasn't really been noticed in twenty years.....no, I would not pay $4k.  I might be willing to go up to $80....that's it.

How many of these $4,000 tickets will they sell?  It wouldn't shock me if they had five-hundred folks.....mostly over the age of sixty....willing pay that....if you threw in dinner and a special seating situation.  

Here's the thing.....are we in a recession if folks are throwing $4,000 out there like this?  Figure the wife and you....$8,000 total, in a recession?  

The 'Old' Days

 

Those were the days.....mid-1970s....hype of the great ice age coming.  

Folks would gather up and talk about how they'd move to Panama or Bangkok.  

Experts came out and talked of the thrilling days coming up.

As a kid, I'd be contemplating where I'd be living....thinking Venezuela sounded pretty good.

What happened?  Yeah, that's the question.  We went from one zombie-version of an extreme to another zombie-version of an exact opposite extreme. 

The Best Burger Ever?

I saw this on social media today.

For me....my favorite burger of all time comes fm none of the nine.  

As a kid growing up in Alabama....there was a local pool-hall in the county 'seat'....which made extremely greasy and loaded burgers.  There was probably a shot-glass of grease that you could squeeze out at the end when the plate got set down in front of you.

On nutritional value....it was probably a minus-5, on a scale of one to ten.

There must have been a coffee-cup of smoke-taste added to it.

The place no longer exists, and it's one of the sad things about things 'changing'. 
 

Imbalance Chatter

 I noticed this talked about on social media, and the story comes from a piece in the London Telegraph.  

The topic?  "Depression is not a chemical imbalance in the brain and scientists have no idea how antidepressants work."  It's a medical review by the University College London.

Yes, in a simplistic study....there is NO chemical imbalance in the brain, and therefore....the use of antidepressants for the past seventy-odd years....is a mystery. 

They are basically saying that low points in your life occur....some people work their way through them, and some linger in the 'pit'.

This brings one to the odd conclusion....that if you didn't have a chemical imbalance in the brain....in the first place....you definitely have an imbalance after you start on the antidepressants.  

Destruction of the industry?  Well....it just makes you wonder....why continue with your antidepressant pills, if they have no affect other than dulling your senses?

Someone ought to put these guys up for a Nobel Prize or something.