Money isn't real. Here's proof: a parable

Amazon.com's books on the strange history of "money"

Hooray for Mexico: Madam Pres. Sheinbaum

Will future President Stein fix relations with Mexico and work with Presidente Sheinbaum?

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Claudia Sheinbaum: How Mexican women’s movement paved the way for election of first female president

(Democracy Now!) June 4, 2024: In a historic election, Jewish Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has become the first woman elected president of Mexico (after 65 male presidents and 200 years of democracy). Pres. Elect Sheinbaum is a former climate scientist, former mayor of Mexico City, and close ally of sitting president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).

• The official name of Mexico is the United Mexican States (los Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

The United Mexican States: an ancient country

"She owes a lot to women's movements in Mexico," says Laura Carlsen, director of MIRA: Feminisms and Democracies.

"This is more than a symbolic victory. What it means is that there's an example for younger women that women can be leaders." Carlsen says feminist movements are hopeful Sheinbaum's administration will take on Mexico's high rates of gender-based violence and femicide.

Jill Stein for president 2024 (jillstein2024.com)

Presidente Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

Meanwhile, to the north, senile Pres. Biden is signing an executive order today that would temporarily shut down the U.S.-Mexico border after asylum requests made by migrants [at any entry point, not just official crossings] surpass 2,500 a day, and Mexico's cooperation will be key in enforcing the measure.

We've been waiting a long time for Stein.

[Will American Pres. Jill Stein, the first Jewish female elected in the U.S., extend a hand to our southern neighbor and make a good impression? Or will prisoner Trump find a way to tweet out of prison and spoil the proceeding as we inaugurate a new era of positive relations?]

Is Mexico violent? Yes, not as much as the US, but it's the cartels feeding US drug demand causing corruption

• Latest Shows. Support: democracynow.org/donate...
• Jimmy Dore, Kurt Metzger (jimmydore.com); Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, June 4, 2024); Mexican Institute of Sound, "Mexico"; Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Plant People Holiday Market, Los Angeles

Plant People; Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

Berbo Studio, Margaret Gallagher, and Arlington Garden invite PLANT PEOPLE with art, native plants, handmade goods, food, books, community, gifts: Arlington Garden.

The Holiday Market, Dec. 9th

Arlington Pasadena (reposted from @berbo.studio)

Arlington Garden Pasadena (arlingtongardenpasadena.org)

Everyone is invited to PLANT PEOPLE, a nature-centric holiday market hosted by @berbo.studio and @margaretgallagherart at @arlingtonpasadena on Saturday, December 9th.

We’ve hand-picked a lineup of artists, horticulturalists, craftspeople, food and drink makers, and nonprofits whose work centers around native plants and the natural world.

Join us to shop native and edible plants, handmade goods, books, food, and more, and mingle with these local plant-loving artists:

• Holiday Market
• Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023, 10:00 am-3:00 pm
• Arlington Garden in Pasadena
• 275 Arlington Dr., Pasadena, LA
• PasaDharma: Plant People Holiday Market, Arlington Garden, Pasadena, Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 10:00 AM | Meetup
• Disclosure Project: Plant People Holiday Market, Arlington Garden, Pasadena, Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 10:00 AM | Meetup
• Nature Center: Plant People Holiday Market, Arlington Garden, Pasadena, Sat, Dec 9, 2023, 10:00 AM | Meetup

Arlington Garden in Pasadena: PLANT PEOPLE is a nature-centric holiday market hosted by @berbo.studio and @margaretgallagherart at @arlingtonpasadena on Saturday, December 9. The work here centers around native plants and the natural world. Join us to shop for native and edible plants, handmade goods, books, food...

Mingle with these local plant-loving artists: @adeledesigns @arlingtonpasadena
@artemisia.nursery @berbo.studio @bluehourgoods @blueynco_cafe @californicanursery @cnps_sgm @eatshoor @falk_ceramics @formosanativeplants @fostering.flowers @golden_heron @heydaybooks @lanatureforall @lindahsiao @lesleygoren @margaretgallagherart @mustardbeetle @nocanyonhills @plantintelligenceagency @ruyi.studio @sentient.kin.apothecary @shadow.pies @urbanfarmsla.

Hope to see everyone there! Pasadena's water-wise, community-supported garden (arlingtongardenpasadena.org)

Autry Native American museum at 35 (9/30)

Autry Museum (autry.org, 9/30/23); Xochitl, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Blackfoot tribe members protecting their ancenstral land, Glacier Nat'l Park, Montana, 1913.

• Autry 35th Anniversary Celebration
• Saturday, September 30, 2023
• Autry 35th Anniversary Celebration | Autry Museum of the American West (theautry.org)

Say something, Chief. I'm recording.

The Autry in Griffith Park: Special 35th Anniversary (with tickets priced as if it were 1988). Join the Autry (with consumed the Southwest Museum's extensive American-Indian collection) for a day full of fun celebrating the Autry's 35th anniversary, with family-friendly activities museum-wide.

Special 35th-anniversary ticket prices are the same as they were when the Autry first opened in 1988.

• Trunk Show featuring local artist Laila Asgari
• Wild Horse Singers and Dancers
• Native Voices performance
• Presentations from Karla Buhlman and Rob Word
• Docent-led tours and trick ropers
• Carnival on the Lawn with games
• a Petting Zoo,
• Bouncy Houses,
• a mechanical bull, and
• a Ferris Wheel
• Market Vendors and Community Partner booths on the Lawn
• Live Music,
• Photo Booth,
• Game lounge (corn-hole, Jenga, shuffleboard, giant Connect Fours)
• PBS SoCal Daniel Tiger Meet and Greet downstairs in the garden
• Family Play Space with educational activities for kids and families
• Food trucks and [toxic] Fry bread…and so much more

See schedule and location of performances and activities. (Times and locations will be updated daily , so stay tuned for updates if it rains). SCHEDULE OF EVENTS... Details

Annual Picnic (altadenacommunitygarden.com) (RSVP)

Africa was richer than West: Here's why

• Economy, to "manage the house"? Or is it the "study of lack"?
• What is Economics? The study of scarcity - Department of Economics - University at Buffalo

Marketplace and Village Festival (10/16)

Eds., Wisdom Quarterly; Onochie, Rhythms of the Village; Oh Happy Days!; Wisdom Quarterly

UPDATE: It was a massive success despite the clouds overhead, which cozy up to the foothills and usually get squeezed like sponges overhead. The stage is full of Afro-rhythms and the crowd is dense. There were probably too many vendors and too much to choose from -- foods of all kinds, baked goods, crafts, jewelry, healings. It happens again in the spring. For once the gloomy weather did not keep Angelenos away.

LOS ANGELES - There's a place in the Foothills no one believes in. Daily people walk in -- enter a time warp where the 1960s are alive and well -- and say, "How long have you been open? I've lived in the area for years and never knew you were here."

We're grateful for this place, Man.

The proprietor, Doc John Hopkins takes it in stride: "Groovy, Man, you finally made it!" He's busy behind the counter serving up the day's homemade items -- hot entrees, a filling soup, sandwiches, a whole grocery store of things, cold drinks, herbs, bulk staples, and other odds and ends: Kombucha, CBD, candy, chips...

• Village Market & Festival — Rhythms of the Village
• Rhythms of the Village Marketplace and Festival (Behind Secret Vegan Cafe), Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 12:00 PM | Meetup

Village Market & Festival, Sunday, Oct. 16th

We have fashions that make a pro-African statement

Aztec gods like Los Angeles multiculturalism

Rhythms of the Village is an Afrocentric shop (of "authentic creative African inspired art") next door. The pot shop between them got raided twice recently and shut down, and Pizza Joe's tanked, but there's still an antique shop, all squeezed between a Post Office and Corporate Burger in a Box, across from the new Grocery Outlet and Aldi's high up on Lake Avenue in Altadena.

Get on the party bus to Zorthian Commune

On Sunday between noon and 7:00 pm the back lot will fill with music, dance, food, handcrafted goods, and more for its biannual festival. It'll be a an art festival and marketplace of vendors, workshops, multicultural foods, games, and family fun. It's good vibes in the village with a wide range of rhythms and talents, storytelling, African dance, Folklorico, Danza Azteca (Aztec Dance), and more!

• FEST: rhythmsofthevillage.com
• O Happy Days: Cosmic Vegan Cafe (Pasadena Weekly)
• Oh Happy Days Vegan Cafe - Altadena, CA )Happy Cow)
• O’ Happy Days Natural Food Store: photos and reviews 2283 N. Lake Ave., Altadena, CA (Yelp)

Joshua Tree Music Festival (May 16-19)

JoshuaTreeMusicFestival.com; Amber Larson, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly

Joshua Tree Music Festival, Joshua Tree, California, May 16-19, 2010

Safe bonds and risky stocks fall with market

Associated Press (ap.org); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

The day's Dow Jones industrial average volatility (Friday, Feb. 9, 2018) is worrisome.

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Even "safe" bond investments falter...

Don't worry, P Galore. I have bitcoin. - Get off.

NEW YORK, NY - The stock market is not the only thing dropping. Bonds, which are supposed to be the "safe" part of every investor's portfolio, have faltered, too. In what has been a rude awakening for some naive investors, bond funds have lost ground these past couple of weeks, unlike in past downturns for stocks. What is different this time is that the same things undercutting stocks are hurting bond prices: worries about inflation and the possibility of much higher interest rates. More

"Fifty Shades of Grey" (U.S. SEX mania video)

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Sally Herships

(Beyond the Trailer/Rated R) Sick, sad fantasy world: The sex is not the problem. The  problem is the capitalist-prostitute, domestic abuse angle. That's some imagination, E.L. James! Why write about intimacy when you can write about feeling safe due to a man's money?

(CollegeHumor) We have a preview of the super sexy script as read by Gilbert Gottfried.

Making porn mainstream (13som)

Happy Valentine's Day, readers! "Fifty Shades of Grey" is about to launch and is estimated to make $70 million in its opening weekend stateside. How will it fare around the world as Ms. E.L. James (Erika Mitchell) brings bondage, discipline, sadomascohism (BDSM), and sex toys to the largest audience ever for these practices.

Mara, the "Tempter" figure in Buddhism -- akin to Judeo-Christianity's infernal Satan and Islam's demonic tricksters the djinn (genies) -- does not work by hatred and anger, but by lust and delusion.

Sex Sells: 50 Shades of Merchandising
Sally Herships, Kai Ryssdal (marketplace.org, Feb. 12, 2015)

Trashiest pulp fiction romance novels to ever succeed precisely because they're so pulpy.

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For a movie about a salacious, secretive, and to some, potentially shameful subject such as S&M, it sure feels like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is well out of the closet -- or really, the dungeon.
 
Even the film's sequels are already being planned. Fandango, the online ticket company, says it’s setting a record, pre-selling more tickets than any other R-rated movie has.
 
And while it would seem the risque nature of this film could make selling spin-off merchandise a little more difficult than most, there is a lot of it for sale. It seems like there are as many variations of merchandise for the new film as there are Pantone color chips -- and don't worry, for the graphic designer fan of the soon-to-be-released film, there's something for you too. However, the question remains:  Who's buying?

The author meets another satisfied customer. (See "Peterotica" below).

 

If you were planning to crack open a bottle of "Fifty Shades of Grey"-branded White Silk or Red Satin on opening night, Paul Katz, a manager at L&P Wines and Liquors in Brooklyn, says perhaps you should reconsider. The wine has hardly been a best-seller, he says, with the bottles on store shelves mostly gathering dust.
 
"If you like the label you can get it," Katz says, "You’re taking on your own risk."

Stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson attend screening in NY (Mike Coppola/Getty Images).

 
He hasn't read the book, and his wife was responsible for the store's purchase, he says. And when he calls to check if she had read the book -- turns out she’d read all three -- he found himself planning to make another purchase, again to please his wife.
 
“Do you want to go to the movie -- to see it?” Katz says into his cellphone.

Another ticket sold. But there’s going to a movie, in the privacy of a darkened theater, and then there’s buying tie-in merchandise.
 
“I’m trying to be discrete,” says Kristi Faulkner, a co-founder and president of the martketing consultancy Womenkind, of the "Fifty Shades" merchandise. “But Target is selling them -- who knew? Who could believe that?”

Attention, Target shoppers

Indeed, Target is selling "Fifty Shades of Grey" adult devices – the kind with batteries. However, as Faulker points out, there’s a dichotomy between the book and its wider brand.
 
“So many people read these books digitally, privately, and yet these products are being sold in the most public way,” she says. “Are you going to throw your 'Fifty Shades of Grey' electronic device into your cart with your laundry detergent and your diet soda and your baby food and your pampers? Is that really going to happen?”
 
While the answer may be unclear, Faulkner says all this "Fifty Shades" merchandise is doing something. She calls it "permission marketing." After all, a "Fifty Shades of Grey" T-shirt could make a taboo subject like S&M a little more approachable.

What if "Sex in the City" were a box office success and racist, too?

 

Sometimes a gift is really a gift for the giver. “Men are notorious for buying lingerie and things for themselves,” she says. “It’s an opportunity for guys -- guys who didn’t read the book but want to benefit from the ideas, so to speak,” Faulkner says.

I got cuffs and a mask, b-tch, let's do this!

Which may be what purchasers of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company’s "Fifty Shades of Grey" bear have in mind. Innocently fuzzy, at first glance the bear looks like any typical teddy until you spot his tiny mask and handcuffs.

While only 20 percent of Fifty Shades readers were male, 54 percent of the bear’s buyers are men, says Bill Shouldice, president and CEO of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
 
But Jenn Drexler, a senior vice president with Insight Strategy Group, wants to make it clear that Mr. Bear, and most of the "Fifty Shades" merchandise work mainly as gag gifts.
 
“It’s one of those flip things where you can’t believe you live in a world where this can happen -- so it’s so awesome,” she says of the bear.

(TED 2) Hey, girls, if you want a sexy bear... (Seth MacFarlane)

 
And, FYI, the Vermont Teddy Bear company says so far this is its best-selling Valentine’s Day bear, but what may be good for the licensee may not always be good for the licensor.
 
“You have to wonder when does licensing crossover into value for the brand,” Drexler says. “When it goes into gag gifts?”
 

Baby's onesie for sale (inktastic.com)

While the "Fifty Shades" brand is paid a royalty based on the sales of the bears,  Drexler notes that if people aren't putting the teddy bear on their beds, or their baby in a onesie that says “9 Months ago mommy read 50 Shades of Grey” -- it won’t do much for the "Fifty Shades" brand.

“They’ll get wallet share, but I don’t think they’re going to get heart,” she says.
 
When consumers love a brand, Drexler says, they’ll go as far as to have it tattooed -- think Harley or Jack Daniels -- but “I don’t know if anyone is doing a 'Fifty Shades' tattoo any time soon.”
 

Author E.L. James (Erika Mitchell)

The problem with this particular brand is it’s one women like to keep private.
 
“There’s a reason women weren’t getting together and talking -- like 'I’ve always wanted to be tied up.' Like, that’s not replacing Oprah’s book club anytime soon,” Drexler says.
 
What title to read was up for discussion at a recent Brooklyn book club meeting. All the women in attendance are moms and while most were okay with the "Fifty Shades of Grey" baby clothes, host Megan Schade was not.
 

Girls' Day In: book club members Elizabeth Nelson, Renata Segura, Megan Schade, and Jen Hanssen check out the "Fifty Shades of Grey" teddy bear (Sally Herships/marketplace.org).

  
“I realize because it betrays my own Victorianism,” she says. “In the sense that, how else does baby get here than by two people having sex? And that’s what this shirt is referring to.”

Drink, f*ck, buy...What must Mara look like?

The wine, while deemed a flop, was also approved as a potential gag gift. “It tastes like a wine cooler,” says Elizabeth Nelson, another book clubber. “Very inoffensive. It’s probably what people who like the book, like to drink.”
 
“I don't think this 'wine' was made for drinking,” Schade says, “It was made as a gift. It's a giving wine.”

But the bear seemed to stir up the most discomfort. “Poor Mrs. Bear," Schade says. “Not okay,” says club member Renata Segura. "Is this for a child or a grownup?” “I see a crazy cat lady having that teddy bear,” Nelson says.
 

Cupid: Watch "TED 2"

But once some basic facts were established -- that the bear is a stuffed toy intended for adult play only, and that it costs $89.99 -- Seguara decided she wanted the bear, but only if she didn't have to foot the bill.
 
“If somebody gives it to me for free, not my husband buying it for me with my money, with our money,” she says. “Maybe from somebody else, but not from my bank account.” More

Erotic literature for KIDS: "Peterotica"
WARNING: Not suitable for kids under 18! Peter Griffin writes erotic literature, Peter-erotica, as read by "Golden Girl" Betty White ("Family Guy," Season 4, Episode 24, see FULL).

"GREED is good"? (Family Guy cartoon)

Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Natural Born Republican Oliver Stone, Hollywood Liberal Michael Douglas; IMDB.com; Stewie and Brian (Family Guy/FOX TV)

WARNING: Extreme, graphic, animated, gratuitous loan-repayment violence! Rated NC-17!

It says so right on the new American dollar, the trusty greenback, "In Greed We Trust"

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Gold dust day gecko (wiki)

In Oliver Stone's "Wall Street," the lead Reptilian (Naga), Gordon Gekko, explains:

"The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work. [The other] two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do -- stock and real estate speculation. It's b-llsh-t.

Violent US football, greed, gambling, drinking

"You got 90% of the American public out there with little or no net worth. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal. The news, war, peace, famine, upheaval, the price per paper clip -- we pick that rabbit out of the hat while everybody sits out there wondering how the hell we did it. Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you, buddy?

It's the free market. And you're a part of it. You've got that killer instinct. Stick around, pal, I've still got a lot to teach you...." "If you need a friend, get a dog.

Titan (asura) dragon Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Bud Fox: "Sun-Tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight. And if not, split and reevaluate."
 

Carl Fox: "Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow..."
 

Gordon Gekko: The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

 

Carl Fox: "Stop going for the easy buck, and start producing something with your life. Create instead of living off the buying and selling of others."

  

Lou Mannheim: "Man looks in the abyss; there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." "The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

 

Stealing on an industrial scale: Wall Street, NY, home of the brutal U.S. brand of capitalism.

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Wake up before you're "poor"!

Gordon Gekko: [At the Teldar Paper stockholder's meeting] "Well, I appreciate the opportunity you're giving me, Mr. Cromwell, as the single largest shareholder in Teldar Paper, to speak. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're not here to indulge in fantasy but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market, when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. 

Destroy us, but who cares? As long as I'm rich.

"The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company! All together, these men sitting up here own less than three percent of the company. And where does Mr. Cromwell put his million-dollar salary? Not in Teldar stock; he owns less than one percent. You own the company. That's right, you, the stockholder. And you are all being royally screwed over by these, these bureaucrats, with their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes."

Why feed the needy when you can feed the greedy? "End corporate welfare and maybe we can get people off welfare." Disaster capitalism means getting rich from public coffers.

  
Cromwell: "This is an outrage! You're out of line, Gekko!"

If too much is not enough, maybe more?

Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over $200,000.00 a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost $110,000,000.00 last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

In Benjamin I trust. It's all about the Bens!

"Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much."

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Stop runaway capitalism. End the climate crisis that's killing our planet! #FloodWallStreet

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"Fox, where the hell are you? I am losing MILLIONS! You got me into this airline, and you sure as hell better get me out or the only job you'll ever have on the Street is SWEEPING it! You hear me, Fox?"

 

Bud Fox: "You once told me, don't get emotional about stock. Don't! The bid is 16.5 and going down. As your broker, I advise you to take it."
 
Gordon Gekko: "Yeah. Well you TAKE IT! [shouting] right in the -ss, you f--king sc-mb-g c-cks-ck-r!"
 
Bud Fox: "It's two minutes to closing, Gordon. What do you want to do? Decide."
 

Gordon Gekko: [calming down] "Dump it." [Later, meeting alone together in Central Park] "Hiya, Buddy."

 

Bud Fox: [Nods as the both walk up to face one another] "Gordon."

 

Occupy Wall Street, Charlie Brown!

Gordon Gekko: [With a smirk on his face] "Sand bagged me on Bluestar, huh? I guess you think you taught the teacher a lesson that the tail can wag the dog, huh? Well, let me clue you in, pal. The ice is melting right underneath your feet." [Punches Bud and grabs him by the coattails] "Did you think you could've gotten this far this fast with anyone else, huh? That you'd be out there d-cking someone like Darien? No.

"I am the 1%." What are you?

"You'd still be cold-calling widows and dentists trying to sell them 20 shares of some dog sh-t stock. I took you in [hits him again] a NOBODY! [hits him again] I opened the doors for you! Showed you how the system works! The value of information! How to get it! Fulham Oil! Brant Resources! Geodynamics! And this is how you f-cking pay me back, you COCKROACH? [He hits him once again and Bud falls to the ground]. I GAVE you Darien. I GAVE you your manhood. I gave you EVERYTHING!"

Where's my money?

[He calms down then takes out his handkerchief and throws it to Bud to clean off the blood the way Stewie once threw a towel at Brian after beating and torturing him -- in the video above -- over a late loan payment saying, "Here, clean yourself off."]

 

Gordon Gekko: "You could've been one of the great ones, Buddy. I looked at you and saw myself. Why?"

(Showtime) Formerly Republican Oliver Stone goes good:  "Untold History of the United States," Episode 3, The Bomb

• Are you a fox or a wolf on MLK Day 2015? Don't confuse non-resistance with non-violent resistance. Resist like a ninja, like a flexible tree, like water that gives way only to come back again and again and again. "We shall overcome" as Malcolm X, SNCC, Marley and others would all agree.
• Global power project: Bilderberg Group and Int'l Monetary Fund (occupy.com)
• Canada casts global surveillance dragnet over file downloads (Glenn Greenwald)
• Middle class shrinks further as more fall out instead of climbing up
• Manufacturing TERROR: How FBI invents some plots and ignores others in their war on freedom
• Pressured by Monsanto, Europe backtracks on GMOs as food fight shifts
• London's supremacy grows as Britain's north-south economic divide widens

Scarcity? Here's my share. Don't touch it or I'll kill you! What did you get for yourself?