Introducing the Blue Belt Weekly
As the one-year anniversary of me embarking upon this new life nears, I have begun contemplating on things undone and resolutions for what I can do in year two of my blue belt life. One of these is upping my game on contributions to this site. And so I unveil version 2.0 of the Duss Weekly.
The previous version of the Weekly lasted, well, a week. I simply wouldn’t devote that much of my week (even if it was only one day) to studying and writing about the market. So in 2.0 I am going to review something a little closer to my real interests, and the single area that has changed the most for me in the last year – my diet. My dad jokes that my mom always needs to hear about what I had for lunch every time we speak. Well, now she will know, in graphic detail! Time and interest permitting, I’ll also throw in some tidbits on music, thoughts on life, and yes, even some market commentary. Here’s what we have for this week:
Saturday, Sep 20: Tim’s Asian steamed fish with wasabi soy sauce, mung bean soup with kale (recipe), salad with raspberry vinaigrette (recipe)
Sunday, Sep 21: Breakfast Tamale from Thug Kitchen (recipe)
Monday, Sep 22: Homemade Paneer Bhurji (recipe)
Tuesday, Sep 23: Gingered Carrot Orange Soup (recipe)
Thursday, Sep 25: Chickpea Tabouleh from Thug Kitchen (recipe)
Saturday, Sep 27: BURGERS from Thug Kitchen (recipe) and Carrot and Raisin Muffins (recipe)
Daily breakfast: soaked oatmeal (soaking method explained here) over homemade whole wheat chapati (recipe)
On tap for this week: Ginger Soy Bean Soup with Spinach (from “Pressure Cooking”, contact me for recipe), Joe’s Spicy Marinara, Paneer Kofta (recipe), Kabocha Nimono (recipe), Kuri Gohan (practice your Japanese with this recipe)
Current listening: Katy B, Sun Kil Moon, Major Lazer, St. Vincent, Rick Ross, Ty Dolla $ign, Kelis, Schoolboy Q, Woods, Cam’ron and A Trak, Ex Hex, Future, Avey Tare’s Slasher Flick, Hamilton Leithauser, Curren$y, Todd Terje, The Men, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Juan Maclean
Podcasts: What On Earth is Happening #25-26 (The Monetary System)
Personal production: finished writing “My Little Flipper Girl”, a song for my love; “Stir to Sleep” – music for a video on my pre-sleep Ujjayi meditation; “Radiohead Park” – music for a future “Tokyo Beach” video
1. The dollar has broken out to the upside! Time to cover shorts in GLD set back in the first Duss Weekly 1.0.
2. With the parabolic rise starting in 2010 in silver fully corrected, it’s time to buy silver as an investment. I will also look into selling puts.
3. The Yen is approaching our next investment buy level at 110. I will look at selling puts on FXY, the Yen ETF.
I don’t think there are enough singers who have replaced s’s in their name with $’s in your musical repertoire. There is a disturbing lack of Ke$ha amongst other true artists. Your weekly menu sounds amazing, but those muffins your holding in your promo shot look underwhelming. Presentation is half the experience of food. Of course, content is always the more important part.
Ah, snap you reminded me I should start calling it the Du$$ Weekly – how could I hope achieve a blog of status without referencing money in the title – surely Mr. Money Mustache corroborates this. Um, as for the muffins, I blame the photographer. Haru, where you at?