Madoff

This is about nothing - I am just writing this to poke fun at Bernie Madoff. He has become a celebrity by cheating people and being untrue to himself - a big fraud. A fake. An impostor. A cheater. A thief. A pretender. More unreal than a three dollar bill. It does not bother him because he can justify himself to himself. If he ever in his life dressed as Santa Claus, he looked like this guy. I never had any money with him - not rich enough. Don't pity his clients - they were just greedy fools.

Stainer

I had a very pleasant experience with Maricela this afternoon. (pause).... I emailed her a short message saying that I had a violin for sale - a Jacob Stainer. It's not original, of course. I simply asked her if she might know someone who might be looking for an inexpensive (not to say cheap) violin. She immediately forwarded my inquiry to her email contact list - about three hundred people!!!!! She also suggested I post it here, though this is not Ebay. There you have the whole story. Is she nice or what?