“Apply at least a 1-inch strip of the product onto a soft bristled toothbrush.” This always makes me laugh, but I’m a cheap date.
Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for August 2026
Here is the One a Day playlist for August 2026. Check out the One a Day playlists for July, June, May, April, March, February and January.
Another amazing collection of songs, clearly curated by a straight, white, over-educated, Gen-X male with an enormous amount of time on his hands.
The songs are ordered chronologically from latest to earliest:
Vulfmon, Jackie Evans, Leave You
Alela, Diane Could Be
Searows, Photograph of a Cyclone
Luna Li, That's Life
Brooke Combe, This Town
Charif Megardbane, Souk el Ahad
Mitski, The Frost
Jemba Groove, K.O.G., Sweet My Ear
Ana Layla, Someone
Kazam, Litchi
Jack Harlow, WHATS POPPIN
Vicente Amigo, Nina Pastori, Amor de Nadie
The Blind Boys of Alabama, Way Down in the Hole
People Under the Stairs, San Francisco Knights
Slide Five, Outerspace
Elia des Ochoa, Llora Mi Nena
4 non Blondes, What's Up?
De La Soul, (3 Is) The Magic Number
The Smiths, The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Just Like Honey
Martha and the Muffins, Echo Beach
The Jam, Girl on the Phone
John Renbourn, Stefan Grossman, Bermuda Triangle Exit
Bob Marley & the Wailers, Crazy Baldhead
Peter Tosh, Legalize It
Steely Dan, Kid Charlemagne
Tim Maia, Over Again
Elia y Elizabeth, Descripcion
The Braen's Machine, Description
Jeannie Piersol, The Nest
Nina Simone, Ain't Got No - I Got Life
Rec League Categories
There’s some new social media thingie someone told me about called Rec League. Their canned categories “that interest you” I found very interesting:
Books
Music
Film
Foundations and Historic Buildings
Art
Vintage
Antiques
Silver Things
Scent
Menwear
Lighting
Women’s Style
Brooches
Video
Parenting
Travel
Home Renovation
Wine
The Great Outdoors
Essays
Magazine Stand
Gardening
Great Rugs
Board Games
Pantry Shelf
Cooking
Ski & Bike & Climb
Beauty
Design
Retro Land Cruiser Looks Great
I’m late to this, but I like the look of the Land Cruiser now. Boxy. TNGA-F truck platform. Trail Dust / Grayscape.
Pee Wee's Big Red Bull Adventure
Viewer discretion is advised:
Coen Brothers' Movies, Ranked
I need to re-watch a lot of these, but this is my snap judgment:
1998 The Big Lebowski
1984 Blood Simple
2007 No Country for Old Men
1996 Fargo
2009 A Serious Man
1991 Barton Fink
1987 Raising Arizona
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
1990 Miller's Crossing
2010 True Grit
2004 The Ladykillers
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
2008 Burn After Reading
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
2016 Hail, Caesar!
Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for July 2026
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It’s unusual for me to include an artist more than once in the One a Day playlist since I combine the monthly lists to make the annual list … but I love Melissa Leveaux and Olive Jones and Ellen Mcilwaine enough to bend the rules for them. I also took perverse pleasure putting Billy Joel between Pablo Moses and Junior Murvin … hey, it’s just chronology.
The songs are ordered chronologically from latest to earliest:
The Sha La Das, Stop Using My Love
Foushee, war
Olive Jones, A Woman's Heart
The Lemon Twigs, My Golden Years
Nectar Woode, Good Vibrations
The Innocence Mission, On Your Side
Snoh Aalegra, I Want You Around
Melissa Leveaux, Nan fon bwa
Andrew Bird, Are You Serious
Mazzy Starr, In the Kingdom
Gnarls Barkley, Crazy
The Derek Trucks Band, Volunteered Slavery
Feist, Secret Heart
The Libertines, What Katie Did
Kurt Elling, Orange Blossoms in Summertime
Richard Ashcroft, A Song For The Lovers
Belle and Sebastian, Is It Wicked Not To Care?
Tarkan, Simarik
2Pac, Dear Mama
Massive Attack, Tracey Thorn, Better Things
Francky Vincent, Le jeu des cinq
Pablo Moses, Dubbing Is A Must
Billy Joel, Just the Way You Are
Junior Murvin, Police & Thieves
Ellen Mcilwaine, Higher Ground
Minnie Ripperton, Lovin' You
Smokey Robinson, The Tracks of My Tears
Millie Small, My Boy Lollipop
Nancy Wilson, I Wish You Love
Lorez Alexandria, Nature Boy
The Chordettes, Lollipop
Seven Guys Named Vinnie
This is a fun excerpt (with my edits) from this conversation between Barry Ritholtz and Chris Davis:
Davis: “I met Charlie [Munger] long before Warren [Buffett]. The reason was I was trying to sell a business. My grandfather, as I started going through his accounts and going in there on the weekends, he had a business called Securities Lending. And I don't know how well you know that business.”
Ritholtz: “Any time you're going to short a stock, you need to borrow from somebody and it's going to cost you a little.”
Davis: “It's going to cost you a little margin. So my grandfather's view was he had a portfolio of appreciated stocks that he was never going to sell. And he said if somebody wants to short the stock and pay me to borrow it, fine. And the number one borrowed stock in those days was Berkshire Hathaway, of course, because you couldn't borrow it anywhere because everybody had the certificates.”
Ritholtz: “They literally had the paper certificates.”
Davis: “Yeah, there was very little Berkshire that was in street name and it was an individual people and therefore you couldn’t borrow it.”
Ritholtz: “It was locked away and safe.”
Davis: “Yeah. So he had a big holding and he had a broker-dealer, Shelby Cullom Davis was a registered broker-dealer [CRD #767]. And so he could lend out the shares and make a couple hundred basis points a year extra return on top of the Berkshire return. So that's how he started in the securities lending business.
But gradually the guy who was doing it for him and administering it said, wow, you know, we can also help. We've got all these people that want to short all sorts of different securities, and we can act as what was called a broker finder. We'll go out and find the securities for these people to short, and we'll make a little, a little spread as they go through. Well, this business grew and grew and grew. And soon there were, you know, 17 employees in this securities lending business. And it was a big operation.
And my grandfather by then was, you know, probably in his 80s and was nervous because, you know, as I went through the list of counterparties with him, there were firms we had never heard of. There was this one called LTCM and I said, what is this LTCM, we've got like, you know, $500 million … $800 million lent out to them. What? Oh, that's Long Term Capital Management. So we talked about it. He said, yeah, I think we gotta get rid of this thing.
And he said, fine, well, see if you can find somebody to take it over, because we do have 17 employees and they made their careers here. We're not going to fire everybody. And so we started calling around and I thought, what characteristics do we need? We need a lot of excess capital, someone who holds ideally an appreciated portfolio of securities, you know, sort of a triple A type balance sheet. And somebody that can understand. So I thought, well, Berkshire.
So, a wonderful friend in those days named Bob Lenzner was a reporter at Forbes. Our kids were in the same elementary school. And I got to know him. Just, you know, watching basketball games for third graders or something, and I heard his name around and he said, he mentioned casually in the conversation that he had met this brilliant guy, Charlie Munger.
And I said, well, I know who Charlie is, but I'm dying to meet him. And so Bob arranged for us to have breakfast, and Charlie was in New York and I went down, it was at the Millennium Hotel, down by the World Trade Center. And I went down and I sat down and introduced myself to Mr. Munger. Pleased to meet you. I'm Chris Davis, and I said, you know, I'm working with my grandfather. Shelby Cullom Davis & Company. And have I got a business for you? And I pitched our securities lending business, and Charlie put up his hand after about four minutes and he said:
‘I have no intention of buying a business run by seven guys named Vinnie.’
And Barry, it was the perfect description. We had Vinnie, Tony, Mikey, Nicky. And so we did end up finding a buyer eventually. And it wasn't really a buyer. We just did sort of an earn-out. We just wanted everybody … we just wanted them to have jobs. And so they all got a job at a broker-dealer.”
As someone who pays hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for “locates” to a mysterious, opaque “lending pool,” I too found this story very funny.
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Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for June 2026
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I “discovered” Olivia Dean on YouTube a decade? ago and said this girl is gonna be a star. I have a HUGE crush on Mari Froes, who is super beautiful and has an amazing voice. Dent May is my kind of smartass. Then we have classic GenX stuff (Sade, David Bowie, The Cure). Then we have GenX baby-in-the-womb stuff: Ellen McIlwaine, Stevie Wonder, Janis Joplin, Roberta Flack, Allman Bros. And that old Cole Porter song takes me back to many a night spent in the Cafe Carlyle. R.I.P. Bobby!
The songs are ordered chronologically from latest to earliest:
spill tab, Suckerrr
Olivia Dean, A Couple Minutes
Andrea Laszlo De Simone, Per te
Mari Froes, Figa De Guine
Avenue A, Run Cold
Sababa 5, Bezani
Peter Cat Recording Co., Seed
Shay Hazan, Nitai Hershkovits, Sunflowers
Bloom Bat, Odd Friends
Albin de la Simone, Les cent prochaines annees
Joe Yorke, Dreaming
Wolfgang Valbrun, Keep Your Head Up
Tank and The Bangas, The Ton3s, Communion in my Cup
Benjamin Schoos, Dent May, All Night Every Night
CAKE, Mahna, Mahna
Portishead, Only You
Edwyn Collins, A Girl Like You
Gipsy Kings, Hotel California
The Cure, Close To Me
Sade, The Sweetest Taboo
David Bowie, Ashes To Ashes
Hugh Mundell, Run Revolution A Come
Ellen McIlwaine, Can't Find My Way Home
Stevie Wonder, You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
The Doobie Brothers, Listen to the Music
Bobby Short, Katie Went To Haiti
Janis Joplin, Cry Baby
Roberta Flack, Do What You Gotta Do
Allman Brothers Band, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Mahalia Jackson, A Satisfied Mind