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11/10/2007 11:04 #42068

Your Goth Past
Category: music
I was surfing around last night being a bit bored and came upon this page

Oh, Sunday night @ midnight I used to just wait with anticipation until the 1:06 minute mark of that introduction. If you remember the show "Forever Knight" it was an scary similarity to the show that the character Lacroix had.

I'm pretty convinced that listening to that music at a young age really took my mind places that it should not have been.
ladycroft - 11/10/07 13:04
forever night! haha. we used to play a drinking game to that show. you know, drink everytime they said 'vampire'.

11/07/2007 22:40 #42037

Oh, Jimbo Kramer
Category: economics


Communist, Eh?

Unregulated markets + Unscrupulous Businesses = Fleecing of the Common People. It was the Republicans that overturned most the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 sometime in the 90's to get us to the brink of Financial Oblivion. Citing such catch phrases as , "Uncompetitive" "Burdensom Regulation" and "Free Markets" they unwound all of the safety nets, safeguards and other legislation that prevented such an event for almost 80 years.

Great, just what we need more deregulation. Big Business has everyone's best interest at heart. I'm not saying that going the other way is in our best idea. To balance things where people can take their shot and succed in the free market and yet have a social safety net underneath them is the ideal, i.e. Canada.

It's just that now that we are on the brink of a major recession/Depression the ugly truth of Capitalism is coming to the limelight. THE LOSERS PAY OFF THE WINNERS! It's a Zero sum game. For everyone that is going to be on the street due to their house getting foreclosed on there is some bank somewhere that took the other side of the trade that is going to make a mint.

As far as I am concerned the game is over. Economically speaking unless you have a lot of money in a foreign currency or precious metals your wealth is depreciating by the day literally. There will be some great changes in store for us in the future. Real change is going to occur now that the formerly middle class and upper middle class people are going to lose their "STUFF" en mass.

Get ready for economic bloodbath as this month moves closer to the end. We're fucked.

  • My apologies if I sound like a raving lunatic...

metalpeter - 11/08/07 19:00
I will be the first to admit I'm not sure how to fix the housing problem but I do have two ideas. First of all there was a period when banks would give loans out to people they shouldn't. When they people wind up owing to much the bank takes the house. I believe that is what hurts the value of houses and the housing market. But maybe what will happen is houses will fall and fall and become a lot cheaper if that happens then people won't want to sell there homes and lose money but homes that were taken will be sold on the cheap to people who didn't have the money (and in the past would have been given a loan anyways) will buy houses. That will create a surge in the market. Markets go up and down and when the value of things weather they be stocks or houses is generaly a good time to buy then all the buying causes a serge. Hopefully that is what happens.

11/03/2007 23:26 #41968

Sabres Sucking
Category: hockey
This fact actually makes me quite happy. I never really liked the Sabres and what little I did was destroyed when they fired John Muckler and at that point I totally disowned any loyalty for that team. So when Ottawa eliminated the Sabres on their best run since '75 to win the cup I was quite satisfied. It was at that time a John Mucker managed team and I can only imagine how satisfying it was for him to snuff out any hope for a cup for many years, maybe forever given the Sabres Management operates.

So as a fan of the NHL why am I laying this foundation? We had all of these trendy bandwagon fans buy out the arena with season tickets. Now the team sucks and "other things" are coming up for them to do. SO this is a wonderful opportunity to go catch games. With a large season ticket base and falling demand, an opportunity to catch a quality team when they come to town is what we have.

In my situation I'm going to be going to at least 2 games very soon due to the people jumping off the bandwagon. I just love these Die Hard Sabres Fans.

Point #2 Ryan Miller Sucks. He's just a sound fundamental goalie that knows has his Angles down and that's about it. He not and never will be a pure athletic reaction goalie, a la Patrick Roy or Dominik Hasek. He's fine when you score 6 goals a night and the defense hangs back since you have a 2 goal lead. But when the pressure is on and the other team is pinching this guy is a sitting duck. Standing on his own and he's just mush, or #33 according to NHL.com
That means that there are 3 BACKUP goalie with better stats than he currently has!

So to me this fact just caps the unholy trinity of the Sabres F'ing up. Briere, Drury, and Miller. They should have kept Martin Biron and dumped Miller.



mrmike - 11/05/07 14:02
I agree with Josh, I saw a bit of both games over the weekend and both Miller and Thibault could sue for non-support. They were left to their own devices a lot which is a little strange considering the bulk of our defense is hold overs and should know how to play together. On the upside, some of the fair weather folks will get out of the way and it might be a little easier for us poor hardcore types to see a game.
joshua - 11/05/07 12:24
I appreciate the rip on the fair weathers, but we all knew this was going to happen anyway, didn't we? I used to get irritated with the fair weather support but I've turned a new leaf and just accept the fact that people around here fucking suck when it comes to supporting the team when they aren't Stanley Cup contenders. Most of those "DIE HARDS" were on a milk carton in 2004!

I think the jury is out on Miller - to an extent I think he is victimized by our shocking lack of any defense.... at all. Ultimately our defensive strategy leaves him hanging a lot, and what are we to expect - that he's going to be all-world when the odds are always stacked against him? I don't think he is or will be on the level of Roy, but I think he is an above average goalie that would do better for his own personal statistics if he weren't a Buffalo Sabre.
jason - 11/05/07 09:43
Luongo's also having a shitty year comparatively, and nobody's throwing him under the bus just yet. Just saying, let's let the season play out. That being said, the second goal the other day was just shocking. Just shocking.

11/03/2007 01:08 #41953

"It's the economy, Stupid!" Part II
Category: economy
Enjoy it while it lasts, but I think you may have seen Dow 14 K for a VERY, VERY, VERY Long time.

Ok I may have been reading this guy's blog too long but in practically there is no way things are going to go on as they have. I don't own Real Estate but at the same time I've had this vision with a friend of mine concerning 1930's style bank runs. We'll just have to see what banks were belligerent with giving deadbeats mortgages that never even made the first payment. Although to me that is just secondary.

What is going to F everyone is going to be $100 a barrel Oil. It could be inflation or just the devaluation of the Georgeback against every major currency that translates into higher fuel prices. At this point who really cares that Ben is droping $ out of helicopters to help his friends out at Citigroup. When people are now going to blow $100 a week in gas in the winter months, Who knows what is going to happen in 7 months when that "Summer Driving Season" kicks in. We should be sitting close to 5 when that happens. By the end of the month we'll be approximately 3.5 easy. That will be less stuff @ Target, Walmart and eating out at Crapplebees or other nasty chain.

My prediction is by the end of the Year we'll be seeing the Dow around 10K. This week is only the first wave. Adjust the 401K's to money markets. It's only going to get worse. The Financials are Fucked, banks are the fluid that keeps out economy floating.

Basically I'm pretty nervous. Except that my positions are just Silver and Gold. If you can afford it buy some silver stocks. With Gold being @ 800 an ounce the historic correlation should have it much higher than the 15 that it sits right now. The 1980 high is around 50 an ounce. We'll get there within a year...

Time for bed. It should be interesting to see what my laize fair Professor says this morning. In my opinion when the next Democratic President takes the election almost a year from now they will be running on a FDR platform. It will just be like shooting fish in a barrel. Deregulation Capitalists will be kept far away from sharp objects and Washington for decades after this mess really gains momentum.
drew - 11/03/07 09:14
You really think the Dow will drop 4,000 in two months? I think I am willing to bet that it won't (actually, since I am not adjusting my savings, I guess I am sort of making that bet.)

I've never known anybody who has invested in gold or silver. The commercials on the radio made it sound bad.
tinypliny - 11/03/07 02:08
Crapplebees. Yes, that's a good description of that particular establishment.

10/31/2007 00:41 #41899

Devil's Night
Category: goth
Yea

I'm trying to do some schoolwork and in a perfect world I should be watching the original movie "The Crow" Tonight. Not the shitty ass greedy Hollywood sequels. It's sad that the made 3 of those "other" one's.


Makes me thing of a time when being goth was original and not some dumb thing that is sold inside a mall...



metalpeter - 10/31/07 18:54
The Crow was really a great movie, it is amazing how good it was considering that Jason Lee died before it was finished. I also liked the TV series they came out with, I think they may have come out with one movie based off that. I think one of the problems with the sequels was that the bad guys where so evil in the first one and Lee was so good that even a decent movie would look bad in comparison. I also remember one the movies was dark and everything was a shade of green and the other one was a shade of yellow. They where ok movies.

I won't get into the selling of goth cause there are so many different kids of goth and everyone who likes to dress in black isn't feeling sad and down and a teenager who hates life. But I will admit Hot topic does sell some cool stuff. I love there club shirts of like spiderman, Gi JOE, the punisher and anything "nightmare before christmas". If you wana see something dark and kinda gothy you should look at my myspace page.
libertad - 10/31/07 17:33
I thought Hot Topic brought goth to this world...what are you talking about?