What To Watch Today: ISO-NE And ISO-NE -- August 4, 2022

Forecast for 104°F in NYC today. 

ISO-NE.

ISO-NY. Prices already starting to move up.

ERCOT.

• forecast peak at 5:00 p.m. CT
• demand peak: 79,956
• committed capacity at that time, 5:00 p.m CT: 85,733
• available capacity at that time, 5:00 p.m. CT: 85, 893

I posted a screenshot of the ERCOT graph yesterday. It's probably one of of the most straightforward / easy-to-read graphs of all the graphs I post. A reader sent me a note asking if I could "explain" the graph. Truly amazing.  

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Woke Goes Broke

Warner Bros shelves $90 million "Batgirl" film.

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The Book Page

Must read. "How one middle-aged novelist single-handedly invented the look of the classic sex scene."

Link here.

Every cliché has its origin story. Many of the over-familiar visual signposts of the modern romance began with an eccentric middle-aged British sex novelist with flaming red hair and a fondness for cats. During the 1920s, while Prohibition roared, Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) created the mold for how the modern love scene looked. Glyn invented, and then literally staged, these and many other familiar scenes. 

Her dozens of “trashy” bestsellers drove the romance novel in a more explicitly erotic direction, adding the special sauce that would make it the 20th century’s bestselling genre. Later, on movie sets, she taught the founders of the Hollywood movie colony that they could make the display of sex tasteful—just acceptable enough to the moralists—by making it glamorous. Madame Glyn (as she insisted on being called when she came to Los Angeles) personally styled Hollywood’s first sirens and Don Juans, teaching them how to walk, dress, talk, make love, and—most importantly—manage the attention that they courted and feared in equal measure.

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood, Hilary A. Hallett, July 26, 2022.

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The Golf Page

LIV and PGA go to court.

Tiger Woods turned down $750 million to join LIV.