The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving -- meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York's ritziest caterers and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms. The number of meals is 10 times as many as last year and come at a time when more and more Americans are struggling to put food on the table.

Three hundred employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wall Street's richest firm, have volunteered for the holiday feast and will be tasked with taking out the garbage.

OK, OK, thanks $951 million. It was really great to have you take this albatross off my hands a couple of years ago. The timing could not have been better for me. And now, after your outstanding stewardship, I'm pleased to retake the helm at Crescent Real Estate Equities Co. now. Two-and-a-half years sitting by the pool, counting your my $6.5 billion is enough.

My new partners at Barclays want to thank you as well. They've proven pretty savvy over the last couple of years, but even they couldn't have imagined how well this would turn out for them. After all, they lent you $2 billion to buy a disaster. They never would have guessed they'd get to take over such a valuable real-estate portfolio just as the market begins to turn around.

So I was getting a haircut after lunch today (York Barbershop, 71st and Lex), and Oliver Stone & co. walked in to inspect the place. According to my barber, they're shooting MNS there, presumably all day, on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. However, I overheard murmurs that it might be too cramped, in which case the Waldorf barbershop would be a contender. No word on how this affects Shia's helmet hair.

This morning when she woke up underneath a pile of empty pints of Ben and Jerry's after crying herself to sleep, she couldn't even summon the strength to get out of bed. But then, something happened. In the other room, she heard Charlie Gasparino's voice on CNBC, which she'd left on the night before. She heard Lewis's name and, at first, figuring CG was just going to be talking shit about her man, pulled the covers over her head. Then Chaz started saying something about how the board still hasn't found a replacement and Divé shot out of bed. She ran into the other room wearing only the oversized tee-shirt bearing Lewis's face she'd had made a few years ago. Biting her nails in fear that her ears were playing tricks on her, Mrs. Lewis (someday?) rewound the DVR. It was true! BAC still hasn't come up with an ideal candidate willing to take the job. Feeling like her old self for the first time in a long time, she sat down to write. And write she did.

"Mr. Lewis was a key architect in the creation and management of Bank of America. He knows this company better than anyone else and he knows how to operate it," Bove wrote in a research note issued early Friday morning. "At this point in the company's history, this is the type of leader needed. Convincing him to return would be the biggest morale builder that management could get."

With the Feds spitting the bit on regulating an industry that never saw a mortgage-backed security or collateralized debt obligation it didn't want to give a triple-A rating and that showed the most remarkable propensity for figuring things out right after the credit markets imploded, Richard Cordray, attorney general of the Buckeye State, is following the Andy Cuomo's lead and attacking Fitch Ratings, Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's.

First to the post is British asset manager Gartmore Group, which said it will list on the London Stock Exchange next month. The reported £500 million stock sale will be used to cut debt, but also to allow its private equity masters, Hellman & Friedman, to finally earn a damned profit three-and-a-half years after financing Gartmore's management buyout.

Well, here's one in the controversial practice's corner: South Korea may allow institutional investors to short-sell bonds in an effort to boost liquidity in its nascent fixed-income market. Now, it isn't the short-selling, per se, that will boost liquidity, but the move could win Seoul a coveted place in Citigroup's World Government Bond Index. And then, just try to keep the money from rolling in.

The other day on Chicago-based radio show StocksandJocks, co-hosted by CNBC contributor Dr. J Najarian, a listener asked Gas-Bag if he was ready to handle a confrontational room of ex-Bear and Lehman traders who might want to throw down fisticuffs. Considering many of these guys are still unemployed, stuck with McMansion mortgages, and with ample time on their hands - we thought that was a valid concern. (Sam Molinaro, former Bear Stearns CFO, is a New Canaan resident.)

The show's other host Tom 'the Chief' Haugh asked Chaz, "Are you ready for a scene or a verbal confrontation? How do you think Cannanists will receive you?"

Gasparino responded, "Well you know, they can do whatever they want. What, you don't think I've never had a personal confrontation from peeps on Wall Street? For some reason personal confrontations don't scare me that much...you know.. I know how to handle myself."

"I'm not a punching bag I don't take their [shit]. I remind them it was their company's management that screwed up and I just reported it. I didn't engage in your risk taking practices. If you think I have anything to do with your implosion then you're nuts," Gasparino. said.

The requests are allegedly coming from PricewaterhouseCoopers, which is administering Lehman's estate in the UK. "More than 60% of my class received this letter around two weeks ago," says one former Lehman associate. "We're seeking legal opinions on whether we have to pay it back."

Harvard Poker Pro Says Texas Hold 'Em Can Teach Traders to Fold (Bloomberg)
"Someone who has made a successful living as a poker player for a few years would more likely be a good trader than someone who hasn't," said Aaron Brown, a 53-year-old former poker pro who is now a risk manager at AQR.

Lampert's Sears Narrows Its Loss as Gap's Profit Increases 25% (NYT)
This calls for a pizza party, on Eddie.

SEC Told to Improve Ways It Chooses Probe Targets (AP)
A report released by the office of Inspector General David Kotz proposes new requirements that the SEC's inspections office examine databases and documents related to investment advisers that may be inspected.

GM's Chairman Seeks Focus on Quality (WSJ)
Edward Whitacre wants to know why people think GM cars suck.

Oregon Democrat DeFazio Calls for Geithner's Resignation (Real Time Economics)
"I just do not feel that his orientation is other than Wall Street, and has not been other than Wall Street, and will not be other than Wall Street. And quite frankly all the gambling on Wall Street is doing nothing to put people back to work in America and rebuild our economy."

$$$ Dick Bove's Top BofA CEO Candidates [The Deal]

$$$ Felix Salmon: Henry Blodget Should Be Banned From The Industry [BI]

$$$ Wells Fargo Needs TARP Money More Than It Admits [Bloomberg]

Now, Citi chose to sell Hall's business, Phibro, to Occidental for a few nickels rather than simply spin it off as an independent hedge fund. Still, Hall knows where the money is (a lot of it is hidden in the keep of his German castle) and he's asked the Blackstone Group to find it.