Passed on without comment -- well, except to say that if a year ago, you walked up to me and predicted that this weekend there'd be bankers and financiers having a Grateful Dead fest on the lawn of a mansion north of England while progressive activists met for policy debates, political strategery, poker, cigars and tequila shots in Las Vegas ... well, I'd have probably backed slowly away and called to get you a ride to the nearest rest home.
From the NYT this morning, I give you: "I Saw a Deadhead Sticker on a Bentley."
Hope everyone's having fun in LV this weekend. Wish I could be there and meet all the fine folks whose posts and comments I've read, nodded along with, argued with, shuddered in disbelief at ...
I kid you not:
The Who, who played at Woodstock, headlined Hedgestock, and the band's guitarist, Pete Townshend, now 61 years old, did, in fact, do his trademark windmill guitar moves.
"Ringo Starr's son was the drummer, and he was fantastic," Jeremy Polturak, with Solent Capital, said.
There was little evidence that hedge fund attendees were ingesting anything stronger than Moët & Chandon champagne, which had taken out a booth.
The watch maker Breitling and the luxury car manufacturer Bentley shared a display.