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.: Friday, January 24, 2003 :.
George Bush Addresses the Nation And then it hit me, my stocks were doomed
I can draw lines between things. Nice straight lines, curves are for pussies.
So it comes up on the news today that the NASDAQ, Dow Jones, etc. are all losing points. The reasoning for this was a lash of arrests related to Terrorism in Spain, and a pending pubic address by the man, George Bush himself. Say what? Thats like telling me the reason you couldn't make it to school yesterday is because of your pending spaghetti dinner tonight. Pheh.
Here's a few reasons I think this BS occurs:
Investors are mindless drones:
To claim that these were actually the reasons for the decline, is also to claim that investors are a bunch of people who can't decide what they want to be intrested in, and so they remain intrested in general. Who cares what the news is! If its good news, act accordingly, bad news, ditto.
Investors can't take the heat, but they enjoy the smells of the kitchen:
When they screw up, or know they may screw up, they start looking for places to put the blame. No, they can't make a bad judgement call that results in some people losing money, that must be the fault of the American trade embargo with Cuba sending bad vibes into the market.
Its just one big joke on the media:
News stations are expected to report on these sorts of things, and they're always hungry for facts and reasons. In its simplest sense, the stock market goes up and down from people buying and selling stocks, of course, this really isn't all that appealing to hear. Perhaps Joe Investor got sick of trying to explain this to Conney Chung, and decided to have some fun. Joe tells Conney that the reason for the stock markets decline is 'The ailing knee of a poor Indonesian boy who was hit by a car while crossing the desert to purchase a broom for his mothers birthday with money that he'd been saving since before he was born'. Conney enthusiastically writes this down, and lo and behold, its on the eleven o clock news. Ever since investors have been coming up with even crazier reasons for point losses.
I know a duck lays eggs, and if asked for a reason I'd look at you like you were stupid, just as anyone else in their right mind would.
Peace Out Pyramids are really just fossilized space alien poop
.: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 :.
Avalanche in March 40 days is a long time
According to sources (Sunrise, The Edge102, etc) Matthew Good's new cd 'Avalanche' will be released on March 4th, with a new single debuting somewhere around February 10th (I beleive the song is titled 'In a World Called Catastrophe').
The current single 'Weapon' is fairing much better then his last release, Anti-Pop, on Canadian Music Charts. Currently 'Weapon' sits at #8 on the MuchMusic countdown, and #4 on The Edge 102's Top 30.
I threw a counter onto the top of the page to count down the days untill the cd's release. The counter i'm currently using doesn't show minutes or secounds, I plan on finding something a little more feature rich tommorow (time willing).
Peace Out True knowledge comes from a primitave upbringing in the deep recesses of the Mularian rainforest


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