Carson wonders about the "sad trade-off" many people their age are forced to make when they have children.
For those of us not in a position to pay nearly $20,000 for a first edition of "The Big Sleep" or $12,500 for Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," perhaps this is the pleasure missed most, a sad trade-off against the benefits of progress, convenience and predictable pricing -- the social and literary ambience of the average workaday used-book stores.
How sad for free trade: such companies would provide much better illustrations of the success of globalisation than the familiar Western names do (unless you think Coca-colonisation sounds really cool).
MICACHU AND THE SHAPES Good Sad Happy Bad Rough Trade I remember when A$AP Rocky first exploded into the mainstream and backpack-rap types were losing their marbles thinking that it was like an Aesop Rock produced rap thing.
(Sad Guys on Trading Floors, an unrelated site, has a similar format but includes captions and is not limited to traders and their hands).
Recently, photographs of somber-looking floor traders, apparently distressed over the manic volatility of the last few months, became so widespread in the news media that two different Tumblr blogs – The Brokers With Hands on Their Faces Blog and Sad Guys on Trading Floors – began to collect them.
It's a sad but understandable trade-off.
The basic plot is this: In an alternate universe, our American lawmakers buck their traditional bases to come up with a plan -- it's a revision of an old plan, actually -- that singlehandedly eliminates the need for the Sad Guys On Trading Floors blog forever.
The bird-watching ladies trade a sad smile.
"I have two words: sickening and sad," DuVernay told the trade paper Variety at the Washington premiere of Selma.
The really sad part of this trade is that the Dodgers sent away my youngest daughter's two favorite players in Puig and Kemp.
