• 05 Sep 2008 at 5:17 PM

Write-Offs: 09.05.08

$$$$ Cats on a bank-owned roof: Bobcats claim foreclosed house [LATimes]
$$$$Dear Leveraged Sellout, I’m You…Only Better…Bitch“– Tim Sykes [TS]
$$$$ Time for Big Tobacco to Give Up? [Deal Journal]

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Comments (19)

  1. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 5:23 PM

    BESS! GO TO HELL! NO MORE SYKES!

  2. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 5:25 PM

    better idea, cause this buffoonery is too good to miss. copy and paste and dont give him the pageviews:
    Dear Leveraged Sellout, I’m You…Only Better…Bitch
    Tags: Breakdowns, Haters, Rants, idiots
    Remember I wrote THIS post about the horrific timing/outright failure of Leveraged Sellout’s book “Damn It Feels Dumb To Be A Published Author?”
    Well, now he tries to fight back in THIS interview with WSF…saying “Who the fuck is Timothy Sykes?”
    I’ll respond to that in a sec, but understand his publisher is so desperate for sales, they even sprung for a THIS bad ass video and while it’s actually pretty funny/well done, it still isn’t helping him sell many copies of his over-hyped book (Amazon sales rank of 500 means 150 books/week)
    Okay here’s my response:
    1. Amit, you represent investment bankers, aka scum of the earth aka soulless aka universally despised…not only does my little publishing startup make more money than most IBers, I’m only getting started and I actually help others too. Damn it feels dumb to be a published author on such a hyped but shitty industry.
    2. You’re wittier/funnier/smarter than me–how the f$%^ haven’t you figured out how to make more $/be more helpful to society than me?
    3. Your industry/blog has been dying a slow death for the past several months/years and everyone knows it but you. You and your publisher shoulda woulda coulda admitted your failure outright and saved us the desperate attempts to hide the fact that your book is the financial equivalent of Little Nicky
    4. I’m done wasting my time on this post cuz while it’s entertaining, it doesn’t do much good. Kinda like your blog/book/life/industry. You want lessons on how to be a better person/businessman, contact me HERE, you’re young so there’s still time for you to change.
    Talk to ya soon bitch.

  3. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 5:40 PM

    I heard Santos L. Halper is providing the financing for those cats…

  4. Posted by Anal_yst | September 5, 2008 at 5:49 PM

    What I think my friend Tim is missing (maybe intentionally so?) that LSO is a JOKE.
    J.O.K.E.
    While bankers may talk like that sometimes and throw lines like that (and try to convince ourselves that 80+ hour weeks are rationalized as such), it is still a f&cking JOKE.
    Chillax

  5. Posted by american bandersnatch | September 5, 2008 at 5:59 PM

    For once I think Sykes is right. LSO is a shadow of its former self and his timing on the book’s debut couldn’t be worse.

  6. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 6:37 PM

    Sure the LSO book came a bit late… which is unfortunate.
    On the other hand I am ashamed to be a part of the same religious/cultural group as Sykes.

  7. Posted by Cincinnatus C | September 5, 2008 at 7:36 PM

    i posted on TS’ web site in favor of LSO, but personally, I do not read LSO at all anymore, and i used to read it fairly often. then i got hooked on DB. but i also don’t read LoS anymore, but i think it’s a good site…clever ideas.
    but TS needs a xanax suppository cuz that dude seriously needs to chill out and get a sense of humor. i mean, how does he not see that it’s a joke?? is he high all the time …not that that would be an excuse…

  8. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 7:56 PM

    TIMMAY is attacking a fictional character..
    this takes the cake

  9. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 8:40 PM

    Sykes looks really dumb, it went completely over his head. That and his grammar is terrible, “BY A LEAVING BREATHING WANNABE BANKER SCUMBAG?”. I think Palin’s baby has a better grasp on the english language.
    P.S. Chatwani is not a banker. You look just like the retards who get made fun of on LSO’s comments sections for not knowing what satire is.
    -HEDGEmony

  10. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 9:19 PM

    if it was cougars on the roof you could say, “Bess, come off that roof now.”

  11. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 9:20 PM

    the best satire is the kind nobody gets.
    trust me on this.

  12. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 9:24 PM

    @10– do you know what a cougar is? it’s an older woman (like 40s+) who goes for younger guys. bess is 24.

  13. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 9:25 PM

    this is definitely another write-off:
    Clarium Declines 13% in August, Biggest Monthly Loss (Update1)
    By Saijel Kishan
    Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) — Clarium Capital Management LLC, the $7 billion hedge-fund firm founded by Peter Thiel, fell about 13 percent in August, its biggest monthly loss, as it bet against the U.S. dollar.
    Love this quote:
    “Clarium is a rather aggressive fund, so even if these returns are disappointing, they’re in line with what investors should reasonably expect,” said Luc Estenne, chief executive officer of Geneva-based Partners Advisers SA, which advises clients on investing in hedge funds.
    Oh yeah, Francois, it’s “in line” with what they expect, all right.

  14. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 9:26 PM

    @12 wow. she writes like she’s an adult.

  15. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 9:28 PM

    sykes- STOP

  16. Posted by guest | September 5, 2008 at 9:29 PM

    how is 24 not an adult?

  17. Posted by guest | September 6, 2008 at 2:14 AM

    the jew obviously pays to be linked to on this site, nothing bess can do about it

  18. Posted by albuddy | September 6, 2008 at 5:08 AM

    Who the fuck is Timothy Sykes?”
    sounds like someone who wants their 15 minutes of fame from 2 years ago back

  19. Posted by NotNasser | September 6, 2008 at 11:49 AM

    Bummer. Last night’s NBC program on Sammy Israel. Nothing about inter-species love and the baby-man-egret freak that may result. Not a word.
    A bit more seriously: they worked rather hard to make Dan Marino seem like a nearly-innocent sidekick, rather than a partner-in-crime. What was that all about?

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