Michael Grogan

Film/Video producer, writer, financial advisor

[Michael Grogan @mgrogie]

… I’ve invested conservatively and wisely so I still have a nice nest egg. The good news is that despite all these drawdowns, with this bull market my balance has actually increased from six months ago.

[Michael Grogan @mgrogie]

It was six months ago today that I sold my most recent batch of stocks in order have extra cash for some bills. For years I’ve done the same amount, for years it lasted a year. With all the inflation, for the last three years, it’s only lasted nine months, this time only six. …

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… I slow down in the final pages, read aloud very slowly to make it last as finishing a great book is like saying goodbye to a great friend, heartbreaking. As a salute to all this, I give you today’s list of 17 great novels that are “notoriously long.” https://t.co/1yAuWVt1At

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I share with cousin Marnie a love of really long books. A great book that is really long becomes such a huge emotional investment that the characters evolve to feel like family members to you, something short works don’t do. In fact, when I’m loving a really long book, …

[Michael Grogan @mgrogie]

Community theater Broadway revival of “Head Over Heels” at Cranbrook tonight, a very gay play that was very nostalgic for me of memories of my years in Hollywood and the many colorful and flamboyant characters I lived amongst and shared the adventure with.

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I do clearly remember escorting Fr. Vin to visit the North Carolina Howards in June of 2010, but have zero recollection of being at an aquarium on June 12, as this photograph proves that I was. It’s odd that I only have photos of the diver and some fish, but no relatives.

[Michael Grogan @mgrogie]

Due at Midas at 2 pm Friday and I expect that by 2:30 they’ll be able to tell me whether they can fix the muffler at all or not. If so, I’ll just wait there until the job is done. If not, I’ll give Callahan’s another try. $2K repair in December, $600 for new tires last month.

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A Memory from 9 years ago this week --

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Sentiments from the Editor-In-Chief of The Atlantic were just too powerful not to share as we approach our nation’s 250th birthday. I still remember with great clarity the wonderful celebrations of the 200th in Boston, me a freshly minted BU grad. https://t.co/phRkVuKt0m

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… I guess audience enthusiasm at the actual ceremony is not really a reliable metric of who wins and who loses. Also noticed no one tried to stop any of the acceptance speeches, nor at the Grammys, nor at the Golden Globes. What do people have against the Oscars?

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Watching the Tonys last night I found it curious that Daniel Radcliffe, whose play “Every Brilliant Thing,” was nominated multiple times, and every time it was named, the volume of the applause thundered like triple the other nominees. Yet it didn’t win anything. …

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Stupidity never ceases to amaze me. I think Photobucket needs a new marketing manager. Do they really think that any potential customers are going to find this flattering and sign up? “You looked good back then.”

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I'm forwarding this for your amusement, but there was only one joke here that made me laugh -- "When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot. But I always found them." Rodney Dangerfield.

[Michael Grogan @mgrogie]

On Matlock last night, I was a little surprised to hear them arguing a court case for someone who died from taking an OTC pain reliever – Excedrinol. What a blatantly transparent merging of Excedrin and Tylenol, made me wonder why the lawyers let them get away with that.

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… own girlhood experiences in the Iran of the 1980s, and how her parents helped her escape Tehran for Paris. She passed away today in Paris at the very young age of 56.

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A fond farewell to the vastly talented Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author and filmmaker, writer and director of the Oscar nominated Best Animated Feature “Persepolis,” a scathing indictment of the brutally oppressive Iranian regime, especially against women, based on her …

[Michael Grogan @mgrogie]

… H.S. during my early weeks at McDonnell-Douglas. A 12 year old brat on a bike tried running me over on the track rudely shouting, “Out of my way, old man!” I grabbed his bike by the handlebars and knocked him over. I was 28 years old.

[Michael Grogan @mgrogie]

So Monday someone put out a message on FB, “Old man with disabled red car at LL & WW. Go assist.” I’m always amused by how young people see us seniors. Here I thought I was doing pretty well for 72. The first and last time I was called an “old man” was while jogging at Burbank …

[Michael Grogan @mgrogie]

… But I’m not sure of Jill’s medical facts of no testing after 70. I’m 72 and my doctor ordered a PSA on me this year. There are also prostate U/S, far more info but also far more expensive, and of course the digital. I’ve had them all, and all are normal. My doctors are great.

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Jill Biden on one of the talk shows today about Joe’s Stage 4 prostate cancer, that should have been detected much earlier but for the medical policy not to do PSAs on men over 70. I guess if a disease that serious can be missed even with a president, we’re all targets. …