Professor Elam

 A few posts back I mentioned Twilight, the wildly popular vampire series about a girl with a vampire boyfriend. I linked this to the donwturn in markets, ie, popular culture refelcts and drives the economic evniroment. Some of you doubted the causality. Well, guess what

Dead Until Dark  is another populare vampire series again featuring a young gal with a vampire boyfriend. In this tale, vampires have come out of the dark so to speak and taken residence where else, in a town in northern Louisiana, Bobby Jindal take note. True Blood is the artifical drink of choice which keeps the vampires fed and off the local residents. This was such a great mainstream idea that, are you ready,

True Blood will debut this September on HBO as a regular show. In the prequel on how we made True Blood, the producers link vampire society to of course, everything social, sexual, racial, you name it.

The point from a socionomic standpoint is that this age old idea of vampires being creatures of the night has become quite mainstream. While readers will once agin question the causality of this, we would point out that HBO was certainly free to bring back musicals, say a contemporary version of Grease. They did not and we maintain this is no accident but a social phenomenon.  The show should debut just as the financial markets make a last high at least within a week or so would be my guess. If so, the mood of True Blood will match the mood of  the market which is to say down.

 Make mine a Oh Positive, shaken not stirred.