[Northkeep] Talana Plunders Medici Bank - Film at Eleven

Angus glnn_jhn at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 1 14:33:01 PST 2011


For those of us out of town someone, for the love of god, had better DVR this

Angus

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On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:05, Jennifer Carlson <talana1 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Good evening, Northkeep,
> 
> Since some of you may see it on the news tomorrow, I figured I'd best be pre-emptive and explain why you will see me acting like an idiot on TV. . . .
> 
> A couple of years ago, I found a broken pendant on the sidewalk.  Although the markings on the back were worn nearly away, I could tell it was good stuff, not electroplated.  I put it in my pocket, because that's what you do with things you find when you're out walking, and when I got home I tossed it in a drawer and forgot about it, until last month, during the blizzard.  
> 
> After three days stuck at home, I had cleaned the house, reorganized my fabric stash (no mean feat, that), and had gotten down to straightening out my desk drawers, when the pendant resurfaced.  I thought "gold prices have shot up over the last couple of years.  I ought to sell this."  I put it back in the now semi-tidy drawer, and again forgot about it until last week, when I was helping a friend clean out her mother's house, and she made a remark about having found a place to sell some old coins and jewelry.  I remembered I needed to sell that pendant, since Diarmaid and I will be driving to Virginia in March (while you all are at Gulf Wars), and every little bit helps when gas prices are what they are.  A few days later, a co-worker suggested I use Tulsa Gold and Gems (this is a shameless plug for TG&G, but you'll understand in a minute), which is close to where I live.  I had some errands to do in that part of town on Saturday, so I stuck the pendant in my pocket and head
> ed over.
> 
> Let me tell you, the spirit of the di Medici lives on.  You go from the street into a tiny hallway, and from thence into an elevator.  An elevator that is, I must say, obscenely tricked out in oak paneling and acanthus-leaf crown molding.  It deposits you in a hallway of rich, dark wood lined with benches, which made me recall my Roman history professor talking about the great Roman patricians and how their cliente (people who wanted to get favors from/do business with them) would wait in the vestibule of the patrician's villa for their turn to do business.  After getting past the door guard - a security lock by which you are buzzed into an inner chamber - I filled out some paperwork, and was instructed to wait until they had assayed my paltry little pendant.  I sat on a very nice leather sofa, watching three HD TVs, mounted on walls covered in gold-tone wall paper and more expensive panelling, and decided that this definitely was the modern equivalent of the business wing of
>  a Florentine palazzo.
> 
> A few minutes later, a clerk called my name, and gave me a very good price for my little piece of gold.  He told me that Tulsa Gold and Gems holds a contest every month in which you guess what the closing price of gold will be on the last business day of the month.  I asked what it had closed at on Friday, considered that the Asian and Middle Eastern markets would be open on Sunday, and that the craziness raging in Bahrain and Libya wasn't going to resolve overnight, and rattled off a figure.
> 
> Well, I won.  I came within seven cents of nailing yesterday's closing price.  So, this morning, I stepped into the Money Booth, a plexiglass case the size of a small shower stall, with a pile of cash on the floor.  They locked me in and turned on a fan, and gave me thirty seconds to catch as many flying bills as I could.  For half a minute, I grabbed money and stuffed it into my sweater like a mad woman.  My take came to $1,170.
> 
> I declare to one and all that I am more than satisfied with my first Tulsa Gold and Gems customer experience.
> 
> You can watch my brazen display of greed and my total lack of dignity on Channel 6 tomorrow on the 10:00 pm broadcast.  And yes, Diarmaid took pictures and will post them on his Flickr page tonight.
> 
> Feeling like a condottieri after a good campaign season,
> 
> Talana                         
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