Disney-Marvel team-up spawns new rivalries
The folks over at Woot (and a few thousand others online) are already mapping out the possibilities of Disney’s $4 billion purchase of Marvel. My favorite: Colossus vs. Pinnochio.
Mary Poppins vs. Dr. Strange: The Cloak of the Vishanti vs. A Spoonful of Sugar! The Faltine dimension vs. the racetrack full of penguins! “Abracadabra” vs. “Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious”!
Spider-Man vs. Jiminy Cricket: Seized by arachnid instinct, the way-out web-slinger craves cricket meat! Will an enchanted umbrella be enough to shock him back to his spider-senses?
Hercules vs Hercules: The battle the public domain laws demanded! Not a dream! Not a hoax! Not covered under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act!
Colossus vs. Pinocchio: The building materials who walk like men! Who will triumph: Italian wood… or Russian steel? There’s no flesh in this supersaga – but plenty of blood!
Wolverine vs. Tramp: One is a scruffy loner with heroic instincts and a heart of gold! The other has giant adamantium claws! Who will win the good girl’s heart?
Bambi’s Mother vs Uncle Ben: “With great power comes great responsibility” – or, “If you’d just been a better kid, I’d still be alive.” The neuroses of tomorrow begin here!
More here.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
Vendors and clients
Investors pricing stocks for earnings growth
Based on this chart of price-to-earnings ratio among S&P 500 stocks, which has surged since the early March bottom, stock buyers are anticipating that corporate earnings are going to grow. The latest spike shows a 50 percent rise in the index while earnings have declined.
Bespoke Investment Group, which produced the chart, notes: “Obviously if the current bull is going to have any sustainability at all, earnings will have to start growing again. But for now, as evidenced by the skyrocketing P/E ratio, investors are paying up on the hopes of future earnings growth.”
That reflects a surprising level of optimism. (via Felix Salmon)
Don Mecoy
Business News
“District 9″ director started with commercials
“District 9″ is getting rave reviews, including this solid thumbs up from our own George Lang. Director Neill Blomkamp displayed his creativity and ability to work with special effects in several television commercials, including this classic.
For more examples, go here.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
iPhone won’t stop a bullet
This guy is seriously fed up with Apple, and he takes it out on his iPhone.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
The Lincoln at Central Park
Oklahoma City developer Richard Tanenbaum had all his staff at the Lincoln at Central Park show up for a photo the day photographer David McDaniel and I were there last week to update the apartment project. This snapshot didn’t quite fit the coverage. But it’s a nice shot, and I thought it deserved a little play here. Thanks for being there, y’all.
Here’s the story:
Lincoln at Central Park will rank third in size in city
Richard Mize
Real Estate Editor
Developer Richard Tanenbaum poses for a photo with the staff of Lincoln at Central Park apartments, west of Lincoln Boulevard on the south side of Interstate 44 in Oklahoma City: Katelyn Neilson, Megan Ridgeway, Lori Clifton, Kathy Tisland, Tara Ford, Wendy Lingerfelt and Charles Dodson.
