| Friday, November 21st, 2008 |
| 7:09 am |
The economic scare
World markets are on the low again today after a great upwards session yesterday. Economists worldwide say they can't explain this phenomena as it has never been seen before. They blame the instability on all sorts of announcements worldwide. To me, the real scare isn't the economic reality we're going into with recessions and all. It's that second sentence in my first paragraph. Economists aren't able to explain the situation of ever fluctuating markets. Everyday, we get headlines in newspapers about the stock market on the rise, in a free fall, on the rise again, free falling again and so on and so forth. Journalists cover the day's change with great hope or alarm depending. It's total bull on their part. We keep hearing that no one knows what's happening, that this is all new but I know a few people who've seen this before: anyone who ever played the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX). We get this kind of movement there anytime a movie IPOs or adjusts after it's opening weekend. It's created by mass speculation by the users. If a "movie stock" makes great money one day, you have to short it the next to keep making money because since everyone does the same, the stock plummets. And the next day, it's on the rise and so on and so forth. Exactly like what we're seeing now in the real market. It's not unforeseen, it's a frikkin' game. The stock market today is moved immensely by day traders, jumping on any bandwagon they see going in order to make a quick buck for the day or avoid losing their jobs. Basically, someone's playing fast and loose with all the money in the market to funnel it out into private accounts. Meanwhile, retirement investment funds plummet and people are seeing their future slip away. Day traders don't care whether the market actaully goes up or down. Speculators don't give a hoot about retirees under the poverty line. And it seems that journalists and economists are blind to the fact. That is the real scare. Current Mood:  aggravated |
| Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 |
| 9:44 am |
You are The DevilMateriality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition. Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it. What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out. |
| Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 |
| 11:17 am |
 | You scored as Friedrich Nietzsche. Well you're an egotistical maniac, and you are so very iconoclastic that you probably are currently lost in a post-modern Jupiter, I mean jungle of self-definition.
Don't let it get you down though, someday, through a willful onslaught of reinterpretation of dated forms and ideas, you will strike on something that passes as remotely new, and people WILL be into it on the basis of how hip it is alone. Also, the average espresso drinker looks up to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche | | 92% | Adolf Hitler | | 83% | Dante Alighieri | | 83% | C.G. Jung | | 83% | Jesus Christ | | 67% | O.J. Simpson | | 67% | Miyamoto Musashi | | 50% | Steven Morrissey | | 42% | Sigmund Freud | | 33% | Stephen Hawking | | 33% | Elvis Presley | | 33% | Mother Teresa | | 25% | Hugh Hefner | | 25% | Charles Manson | | 25% | </td>
What Pseudo Historical Figure Best Suits You?
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| Monday, November 20th, 2006 |
| 11:13 am |
You are The MagicianSkill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity. Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive. The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil. What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out. |
| Thursday, February 16th, 2006 |
| 10:39 pm |
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| Thursday, January 26th, 2006 |
| 4:14 pm |
It's either the bimbo or the mother...
I got actually got a tie on this. If I went for more cute than materialistic I would get Claire and the other way is this:  | You scored as Shannon. You're Shannon! Materialistic, self-centered and a little manipulative -- but if somebody calls you useless, you're ready to prove them wrong.
Claire | | 88% | Shannon | | 88% | Hurley | | 69% | Kate | | 63% | Locke | | 63% | Jack | | 63% | Charlie | | 56% | Jin | | 50% | Sayid | | 50% | Michael | | 50% | Sawyer | | 44% | Boone | | 44% | Sun | | 25% | </td>
Who is your "Lost" alter ego?
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What do think? Claire or Shannon for me? |
| Monday, January 23rd, 2006 |
| 10:51 pm |
 Don't forget to start saving those pennies to pledge your support for me at Biggest Webcomic Loser. And remember...I'll be doing a draw among all of those who pledge towards my goals. A buck a pound gets you an entry. 5 bucks a poun, 5 entries. The winner gets the original art for all the projects I'll post on that site!!! Current Mood:  cheerful |
| 11:38 am |
It's on!
The Biggest Webcomic Loser Challenge is on at http://www.biggestwebcomicloser.comStarting today, January 23,2006, with a comic by yours truly, you can go and encourage your favorite webcomickers as they try to lose weight to benefit UNICEF. There'll be a new comic on there by one of your favorite artists everyday for you to enjoy for as long as there are pounds to be lost. Of course, what I want most if for you all to sponsor my weight-loss. Go for a buck a pound and it'll only cost you 55$ when I'm done losing all the weight (which make take up to a year). That's not a lot per day. And all the money goes to UNICEF. And you get new comics from me! It's all good. Make a pledge, help out the children! |
| Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 |
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| Friday, January 13th, 2006 |
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| 12:38 pm |
Batgirl meme!
It took some time to get here but here's my piece:  You can check out a lot more batgirls with Jamie Dee Galey link page. |
| Thursday, January 12th, 2006 |
| 7:59 am |
Click on the banner!
  What's this banner on top of the comic? It's alink to my fellow grinder Jamie Dee Galey website. He's redone the whole thing a few months back and it looks really cool. Go read his adventures around the world or even better yet, his Girl Zeppelin storyline which so far is awesome. And if you do it through here, I may just get the original art! Woo-hoo! |
| Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 |
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| Thursday, January 5th, 2006 |
| 6:32 pm |
 That's right I'm back on a diet again. I swore off desserts and now it's eating at me like crazy. I haven't yet kicked the habit if you will. It's hard. Current Mood:  melancholy |
| Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 |
| 8:26 am |
 New Year's Resolutions: 1- More comics. more often 2- Lose weight, get healthy I plan to do both by starting up a charity. Here's how it would work: 1- I set up a website (address still to be determined) and a paypal account to receive donations and pledges. 2- Webcomickers interested in participating pledge to lose weight and post daily comics on the site (for instance 10 comickers would only have to produce 1 comic every two weeks to keep a steady M-F schedule). 3- On the website we post everybody's current weight and goal for the end of 2006. We then get people to pledge a certain amount (say a buck) for each pound lost by their favorite artist (or all of them together). 4- At the end of 2006, all pledges and donations are given away to charity. I was thinking of UNICEF. The money gained by us losing weight would then go to feeding children around the world. If someone objects to that choice, each artist could also choose his or her personal charity and all funds gained by that person would go there. There are some costs involved in setting all of this up and I don't really mind footing the bill for a good cause but I'd really like to know if I can get people on board. Anyone interested should check out the Crown Commission forums hereI'm also getting involved in the Project One Year Community http://www.livejournal.com/community/projectoneyear/I'm around 250 now and plan to drop to 200. |
| Thursday, December 15th, 2005 |
| 7:39 am |
This was requested by </a></b></a> ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bougiemanPost a list of your 5 favorite saturday morning cartoons as a kid, and the breakfast cereal you ate most often while watching them. I'm having a hard time delimiting when I stopped being a kid... At 30, I guess Yu-Gi-Oh doesn't count. Anyhoo: 5- Capitaine Flam (Captain Future) 4- Albator (Captain Harlock) 3- La force G (Gatchaman or Battle of the Planets) 2- The Three Musketeers (The dog version) 1- Goldorak Cereal: Kellogg's Raisin Bran I love those damn sugar-coated raisins. |
| Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 |
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| Monday, December 5th, 2005 |
| 1:10 pm |
This one was posted on my site November 25th  This one was posted today:  I took a whole week off because my girlfriend and I moved to a new house but I don't think that things will be back to normal so soon now that we've undertaken a lot of renovation work around the appartment. I will say this though: I love having a driveway! |
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