<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165</id><updated>2011-04-21T15:28:31.999-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Coffee and Cigarettes</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>70</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-116127111555078868</id><published>2006-10-19T11:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-19T11:25:32.186-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Is it me?</title><content type='html'>is it me, or is K-FED the saddest son of a bitch you have ever seen?  knocking up Mrs. K-FED, so that she can't leave his messy, slacker ass for someone better.  i mean, two nasty little alien spawn from this guy is enough. the world is already full of mutant celebrity kids, and i think there needs to be some kind of limit on how many they all can reproduce, adopt, or pick in a pumpkin patch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i actually saw K-FED on some wrestling show, and the audience was booing the shit out of him. then he got body slammed by some big dude, on the mat.  what the fuck is this guy thinking?  i guess his career, or lack of one, has got him all confused.  maybe he needs to keep his scum bag ass out of the lime light for a while. stay home, and help raise his kids. god knows his wife is clueless on how to.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ok i'm done...........&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-116127111555078868?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/116127111555078868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/116127111555078868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/10/is-it-me.html' title='Is it me?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-116120162702491558</id><published>2006-10-18T16:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-18T16:17:34.763-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Lenny is my bitch!</title><content type='html'>so if you know lenny from myspace, you know my bitch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we go back a few years. too many for me to like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i been gone awhile and he probably isn't too happy i am back. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you wanna know any shit about him....ask!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i have all the dirt. he ain't just a pretty face. does he have anyone fooled?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;did he mention he was one of those weight challenged people? i got pics......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ask him how he got the business......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-116120162702491558?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/116120162702491558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/116120162702491558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/10/lenny-is-my-bitch.html' title='Lenny is my bitch!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-116120005022555636</id><published>2006-10-18T15:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-10-18T15:40:55.370-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I'M BACK! AND YOU NEED TO TRY THE RJ!</title><content type='html'>yeah i've been gone a while, but now i am back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;where to start. the crime, the sentence, the victims, or the criminal? hard to say. i think i will just let it all stay on the DL for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so the world is falling apart arounds us and honestly, i don't care. the president is an idiot. the superpower "wanna be's" are coming in under 5'5" tall(yikes)!, and gas still ain't that cheap!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;even though i haven't beeen here, the site still makes money and you guys should be learning things from here and some of the links i hope. it is easier than most think, so take advantage of some of this stuff on here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well, gotta go feed the donkeys......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and check out my boy's site, the RJ! the shit works!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-1926852-10438746" target="_top"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.ftjcfx.com/image-1926852-10438746" width="336" height="280" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-116120005022555636?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/116120005022555636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/116120005022555636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/10/im-back-and-you-need-to-try-rj.html' title='I&apos;M BACK! AND YOU NEED TO TRY THE RJ!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-114288798671900679</id><published>2006-03-20T15:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-01T00:31:03.526-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Slot Machine Tips, Tricks and Winnings!</title><content type='html'>Here are a couple of choice places to get your casino and slot machine tips and tricks for your next visit to Vegas, Reno, or Atlantic City!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://louisdarke.slotbk.hop.clickbank.net" target="_top"&gt;Slot Tips!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://louisdarke.casgam.hop.clickbank.net" target="_top"&gt;Slot Tips and Tricks!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://louisdarke.jpatriar.hop.clickbank.net" target="_top"&gt;Casino Slot Tips and Tricks!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-114288798671900679?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/114288798671900679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/114288798671900679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/03/slot-machine-tips-tricks-and-winnings.html' title='Slot Machine Tips, Tricks and Winnings!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-114131856866176250</id><published>2006-03-02T11:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-02T11:56:08.683-05:00</updated><title type='text'>eHarmony Now Offering Free Profiles</title><content type='html'>Here's one for all you &lt;strong&gt;single&lt;/strong&gt; folks, looking for &lt;strong&gt;love&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;em&gt;eHarmony&lt;/em&gt; is one of the top &lt;strong&gt;online dating&lt;/strong&gt; networks out there! Give them a shot today! They are offering a &lt;strong&gt;free&lt;/strong&gt; profile today!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dpbolvw.net/click-1926852-10277046" target="_top"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height="60" alt="" src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-1926852-10277046" width="120" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before you know it, you'll be in someone's arms, and on your way to a whole new life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-114131856866176250?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/114131856866176250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/114131856866176250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/03/eharmony-now-offering-free-profiles.html' title='eHarmony Now Offering Free Profiles'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-114071533247674934</id><published>2006-02-23T12:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-23T12:22:12.496-05:00</updated><title type='text'>GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN IDIOT!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;FORGIVE THE PERSONAL POLITICAL VIEW TO FOLLOW, BUT I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A CRITICAL ISSUE FOR ALL AMERICANS:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who are not aware of the recent topic of giving the security to some of the &lt;strong&gt;Unites States&lt;/strong&gt; largest ports to the &lt;strong&gt;UAE&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;UNITED ARAB EMIRATES&lt;/strong&gt;, read on. If you already know about this, then you are already upset, I am sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seems like our great &lt;strong&gt;President&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;MONKEY BOY BUSH&lt;/em&gt;!, wants to hand over the security to several of our largest ports, like Miami, New Orleans, and Port Newark, to those friendly terrorist backing, haters of Americans, when it fits their agenda, camel riding fuckers across the globe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know about you, but it sounds like a piss poor idea to me. Is &lt;strong&gt;Mr. Pres&lt;/strong&gt; so desperate to line his already fat pockets with more of that blood stained cash?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me know what you think about this folks, because I'm pretty sure this shit will come back to haunt us. Can you say "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Twin Towers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next time you have the chance to vote for a &lt;strong&gt;President&lt;/strong&gt;, take a real good look at the candidates, will ya? Because someone screwed up the last two times around!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just my 2 cents.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;START SENDING YOU EMAILS AND LETTERS TO THE IDIOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND TELL HIM YOU ARE AGAINST THIS DEAL.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-114071533247674934?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/114071533247674934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/114071533247674934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/george-w-bush-is-idiot.html' title='GEORGE W. BUSH IS AN IDIOT!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-114047314353214653</id><published>2006-02-20T17:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-22T18:33:48.416-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Online dating blog offers single folks some assistance!</title><content type='html'>Stumbled upon this and thought it might help the single people out there. All of us look for a friend or lover at some pooint in our lives, and this site might help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://freeinternetdating.blogspot.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;DATING&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-114047314353214653?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/114047314353214653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/114047314353214653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/online-dating-blog-offers-single-folks.html' title='Online dating blog offers single folks some assistance!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113995348826383006</id><published>2006-02-14T16:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T16:44:48.306-05:00</updated><title type='text'>HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!</title><content type='html'>Go and tell that special someone that you LOVE them.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113995348826383006?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113995348826383006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113995348826383006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/happy-valentines-day.html' title='HAPPY VALENTINE&apos;S DAY!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113993417760048233</id><published>2006-02-14T11:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T11:25:19.873-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Saddam Hussein on a hunger strike.  Good! Let him die!</title><content type='html'>As if I or you should care if this piece of rat shit, &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Saddam Hussein&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, dies or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Updated: 9:16 a.m. ET Feb. 14, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;BAGHDAD, Iraq&lt;/em&gt; - &lt;strong&gt;Saddam Hussein&lt;/strong&gt; and three former officials in his regime on Tuesday told the court handling their trial that they were on a hunger strike in protest of the judge overseeing the proceedings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saddam&lt;/strong&gt; said he had not eaten in three days, while his former intelligence chief, &lt;strong&gt;Ibrahim Barzan&lt;/strong&gt;, said he had been on strike for two days. Their claims of a hunger strike could not be independently confirmed. The defendants are being held in U.S. detention, and &lt;em&gt;U.S. officials&lt;/em&gt; could not immediately be reached to comment.&lt;br /&gt;Investigative judge &lt;strong&gt;Raid Juhi&lt;/strong&gt; did not deny the defendants were refusing food when asked about the strike after the day’s three-hour session. “This is an administrative problem that the court is working to verify and it will work also to solve it... with the responsible parties in the custodial authorities,” he told reporters.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113993417760048233?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113993417760048233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113993417760048233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/saddam-hussein-on-hunger-strike-good.html' title='Saddam Hussein on a hunger strike.  Good! Let him die!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113984710086860145</id><published>2006-02-13T11:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-13T12:15:42.970-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Britney Spears:A singer/dancer, yes. A smart mother? NO!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/the_world_of_britney-john-WoB.5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/the_world_of_britney-john-WoB.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How about the photo of &lt;strong&gt;Britney Spears &lt;/strong&gt;and her son, driving down the road with the kid being in her lap? Is there something wrong with this picture? Hell yes! Even &lt;strong&gt;K Fed&lt;/strong&gt; would have more sense than to keep the kid in his lap, while driving one handed, wouldn't he?&lt;br /&gt;What the hell was &lt;strong&gt;Britney &lt;/strong&gt;thinking? I think &lt;strong&gt;Britney's&lt;/strong&gt; thong underwear must be cutting off critical blood flow to the brain or something. Maybe she should enroll her and &lt;strong&gt;Kevin&lt;/strong&gt; in some parenting classes. Or give the kid up to a charity that places kids in homes where the parents IQ, if added together, is above 56! These two retards should never have reproduced!&lt;br /&gt;I guess it could be worse though. At least this kid's parents are human! Think about all the crazy alien shit you will start seeing once &lt;strong&gt;Tom Cruise&lt;/strong&gt;(alien) and his, whatever she is, &lt;strong&gt;Katie Holmes&lt;/strong&gt;(alien in training), produce their child.&lt;br /&gt;It proves, once again, that you can be &lt;a href="http://louisdarke.richjerk.hop.clickbank.net"&gt;Rich and Famous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and still have shit for brains!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113984710086860145?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113984710086860145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113984710086860145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/britney-spearsa-singerdancer-yes-smart.html' title='Britney Spears:A singer/dancer, yes. A smart mother? NO!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113980205175730132</id><published>2006-02-12T22:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-14T15:05:26.476-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Vice President Dick Cheney is an ass!</title><content type='html'>Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:43 p.m. ET&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON (Reuters) - &lt;strong&gt;Vice President Dick Cheney&lt;/strong&gt; accidentally wounded a companion with shotgun pellets on a weekend quail hunt in &lt;em&gt;Texas&lt;/em&gt;, his office said on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheney's &lt;/strong&gt;companion, &lt;strong&gt;Harry Whittington&lt;/strong&gt;, 78, was listed in stable condition after being brought in on Saturday night, said &lt;strong&gt;Yvonne Wheeler&lt;/strong&gt;, a spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Hospital in &lt;strong&gt;Corpus Christi&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Texas&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;More Stories About...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheney's &lt;/strong&gt;office said Whittington, an Austin lawyer, had been sprayed by birdshot while hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheney&lt;/strong&gt; spokeswoman &lt;em&gt;Lea Anne McBride&lt;/em&gt; said the&lt;em&gt; vice president&lt;/em&gt; had been with Whittington at the hospital on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;"The &lt;em&gt;vice president&lt;/em&gt; visited with Harry Whittington at the hospital and was pleased to see he is doing fine and in good spirits," McBride said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheney's&lt;/strong&gt; office provided no details on the circumstances of the accident.&lt;br /&gt;CNN reported that &lt;strong&gt;Cheney&lt;/strong&gt; had his gun cocked and whirled around to fire at a bird not realizing that Whittington had walked up without announced himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheney&lt;/strong&gt; has been a frequent visitor to the Armstrong Ranch and in October spoke at the funeral of family patriarch &lt;strong&gt;Tobin Armstrong&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Armstrong's wife, Anne, served as U.S. ambassador to &lt;em&gt;Britain&lt;/em&gt; and as an adviser to presidents &lt;strong&gt;Nixon, Reagan and George Bush&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The 50,000-acre ranch was settled in 1882 by his grandfather, John Armstrong III, a Texas Ranger known for capturing outlaw &lt;em&gt;John Wesley Hardin&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Whittington serves on the &lt;em&gt;Texas &lt;/em&gt;state Funeral Services Commission and the state &lt;strong&gt;Office of Patient Protection&lt;/strong&gt; and is a former member of the board of the &lt;strong&gt;Texas Department of Corrections&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/news/reuters.html"&gt;Copyright&lt;/a&gt; © 2006 Reuters Limited. This story and its comments expire 30 days after original publication date.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113980205175730132?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113980205175730132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113980205175730132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/vice-president-dick-cheney-is-ass.html' title='Vice President Dick Cheney is an ass!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113964061617933098</id><published>2006-02-11T01:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-07-13T17:18:14.590-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Beating Adwords and eBay: Real Easy Money</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://louisdarke.beatadword.hop.clickbank.net"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.beatingadwords.com/affiliate/banners/start_making_money_300x80.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This little, &lt;strong&gt;"Beating Adwords"&lt;/strong&gt;, button, when added to an &lt;a onmouseover="window.status='http://affiliates.ebay.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/f1106tenkem13B48A731442485B" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;eBay! business&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, can &lt;em&gt;make you a millionaire&lt;/em&gt; in less than a year! OK, maybe not exactly, but it will add &lt;em&gt;a real good source of income&lt;/em&gt; to your already deep pockets, if you follow the "&lt;strong&gt;Beating Adwords"&lt;/strong&gt; step by step plan.&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;Beating Adwords&lt;/strong&gt;" is in my opinion and many others, the best and most up-to-date &lt;strong&gt;AdWords&lt;/strong&gt; guide available to date. Published by Kyle and Carson, &lt;a href="http://louisdarke.beatadword.hop.clickbank.net"&gt;successful entrepreneurs&lt;/a&gt;, in their own right and respected owners of &lt;strong&gt;WealthyAffiliate.com&lt;/strong&gt;, "&lt;strong&gt;Beating Adwords&lt;/strong&gt;" is the 'definitive &lt;strong&gt;AdWords&lt;/strong&gt; guide', providing an in depth look at &lt;em&gt;Google AdWords&lt;/em&gt; and simplifying the whole concept of earning high and regular online income from an &lt;strong&gt;AdWords&lt;/strong&gt; campaign. Written in an easy to understand style for beginners and veteran marketers alike, "&lt;strong&gt;Beating Adwords&lt;/strong&gt;" takes you step by step through &lt;a href="http://louisdarke.beatadword.hop.clickbank.net"&gt;affiliate marketing&lt;/a&gt;, setting up a &lt;em&gt;Google AdWords&lt;/em&gt; account correctly and using &lt;strong&gt;AdWords&lt;/strong&gt; effectively to generate increased income with lower CPC expenses. &lt;strong&gt;AdWords&lt;/strong&gt; 'experts' who are already earn good income per day, are claiming thousands more after buying this book. Buying "&lt;strong&gt;Beating Adwords&lt;/strong&gt;" and putting the ideas to work, you should not only recoup the price very quickly, but your &lt;strong&gt;AdWords&lt;/strong&gt; income will start increasing quickly and substantially. Get your copy of "&lt;strong&gt;Beating Adwords&lt;/strong&gt;". This is one product you need and I have no hesitation in recommending it 100% to any serious &lt;strong&gt;AdWords&lt;/strong&gt; campaigner. It even comes with a 100% &lt;a href="http://louisdarke.beatadword.hop.clickbank.net"&gt;MONEY BACK GUARANTEE&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;strong&gt;STOP&lt;/strong&gt; wasting time with &lt;strong&gt;money making scams! &lt;/strong&gt;Go and get the "&lt;strong&gt;Beating Adwords"&lt;/strong&gt; program.&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113964061617933098?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113964061617933098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113964061617933098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/beating-adwords-and-ebay-real-easy.html' title='Beating Adwords and eBay: Real Easy Money'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113958123911559000</id><published>2006-02-10T09:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-04-03T04:47:54.190-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Where to find Diamond Rings, a Sony PSP and Beanie Babies Cheap!</title><content type='html'>Looking to buy that &lt;strong&gt;diamond ring&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Beanie Baby&lt;/strong&gt; that you really want, but can't spend top dollar? Maybe you are looking for a &lt;strong&gt;Gucci &lt;/strong&gt;bag or a &lt;a href="http://hop.clickbank.net/louisdarke/gmradvance"&gt;Sony PSP&lt;/a&gt; for that special someone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, you aren't alone, there &lt;strong&gt;are a lot of people&lt;/strong&gt; who have found the stuff they are looking for, at great prices, at &lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=yNXwq8U1dvc&amp;offerid=90206.10000001&amp;amp;type=3&amp;subid=0"&gt;Bidz.com&lt;/a&gt; or you can try &lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=yNXwq8U1dvc&amp;offerid=95247.10000272&amp;amp;type=3&amp;subid=0"&gt;dealhaven&lt;/a&gt;. Both offer some really great stuff, at really &lt;strong&gt;cheap prices&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are good alternatives to the old favorite, &lt;a onmouseover="window.status='http://affiliates.ebay.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/f1106tenkem13B48A731442485B" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;eBay!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113958123911559000?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113958123911559000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113958123911559000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/where-to-find-diamond-rings-sony-psp.html' title='Where to find Diamond Rings, a Sony PSP and Beanie Babies Cheap!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113953363549048154</id><published>2006-02-09T20:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-09T20:22:19.246-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Want your own eBay business?</title><content type='html'>Well here it is, ready for you to start learning how to earn &lt;strong&gt;BIG&lt;/strong&gt; money from your own &lt;a href="http://ebayriches.blogspot.com/"&gt;eBay business&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All you need to start, is right &lt;a onmouseover="window.status='http://affiliates.ebay.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/f1106tenkem13B48A731442485B" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been proven, &lt;a href="http://hiltondiddyandtrump.blogspot.com/"&gt;with real stories of success&lt;/a&gt;, that you can make some &lt;strong&gt;real &lt;/strong&gt;cash with &lt;strong&gt;eBay,&lt;/strong&gt; and I have personally used &lt;strong&gt;eBay&lt;/strong&gt; to make easy money on the Internet, from my home computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good luck,! Now go make some &lt;a href="http://louisdarke.googlecash.hop.clickbank.net" target="_top"&gt;REAL CASH&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;without leaving the comfort of your home.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113953363549048154?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113953363549048154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113953363549048154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/want-your-own-ebay-business.html' title='Want your own eBay business?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113924930361852379</id><published>2006-02-06T12:35:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-07T10:21:12.023-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Sony PSP and I</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.18.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to admit, when I first saw the new &lt;strong&gt;Sony PSP's&lt;/strong&gt;, I didn't think much of them. Man! was I wrong! It didn't take long for me to be addicted to this little &lt;a href="http://hop.clickbank.net/louisdarke/gmradvance"&gt;electronic wonder&lt;/a&gt;, and all of it's joys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I kept dismissing the little guys when I would pass by the shops that were selling them. Why and where would I want to have this sucker? I already had &lt;strong&gt;PS2&lt;/strong&gt;'s in the house and was enjoying spending quality time, having my ass kicked by my girlfriend, at almost every game out there we played. So why would I need another smaller &lt;strong&gt;Playstation&lt;/strong&gt; in my life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That all changed on a recent trip to see some family, and in particular one lucky fellow, who had gotten a glorious new &lt;strong&gt;Sony PSP&lt;/strong&gt; for Christmas. He couldn't put the thing down, playing various titles like &lt;a href="http://www.gamespot.com/psp/action/princeofpersiawarriorwithin/index.html"&gt;Prince of Persia Revelations&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.gamespot.com/psp/action/kingkong/index.html"&gt;King Kong&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say, after a while his hands were numb, and I got a chance to try it out. Not long after, I was a convert!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah, and it plays movies too! That's almost too much for me to handle. So now that I've &lt;a href="http://www.nextag.com/buyer/outpdir.jsp;jsessionid=6695CB0E9074BC4A3C62864C41233B8E?nxtg=1ca10a1c051f-BA373F23912FB829&amp;amp;search=psp"&gt;bought one, and all the stuff that goes with it&lt;/a&gt;, I'm in heaven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't wait to &lt;a href="http://louisdarke.pspserv.hop.clickbank.net" target="_top"&gt;get more &lt;/a&gt;, for this little wonder, and probably go deep into debt, over all the new stuff I can use with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So stop reading this and go see for yourself, and try out a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sony PSP&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, if you haven't already!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113924930361852379?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113924930361852379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113924930361852379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/sony-psp-and-i.html' title='The Sony PSP and I'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113923196078271430</id><published>2006-02-06T08:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-06T09:06:22.013-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Best SUPERBOWL ad?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.17.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What was your favorite &lt;em&gt;Superbowl&lt;/em&gt; ad?   Mine had to be the &lt;strong&gt;caveman&lt;/strong&gt; being fired for not using &lt;strong&gt;FEDEX&lt;/strong&gt;.  Typical asshole executive, letting his employee go, even though the guy was trying to do his job to the best of his abilities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It goes to show that shitty &lt;em&gt;management&lt;/em&gt; at the higher levels existed way before your crappy boss came along. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the worst ads were the Diet Pepsi ads (all of them). The &lt;strong&gt;Jessica Simpson&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Pizza Hut&lt;/em&gt; ad. And the &lt;strong&gt;Burger King Burgerettes &lt;/strong&gt;ad.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And can we get that fucking big headed, freaky, kid scaring, plastic headed &lt;em&gt;Burger King&lt;/em&gt; off the air, PLEASE!  That shit gives me nightmares!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113923196078271430?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113923196078271430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113923196078271430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/best-superbowl-ad.html' title='Best SUPERBOWL ad?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113920051535815044</id><published>2006-02-05T23:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T23:35:15.393-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steelers....but not by 3</title><content type='html'>Thought I had it right.  Still a great victory for the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Steelers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope you all enjoyed the game. I know I did. But my girl was hoping the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seahawks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; would pull it off........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Better luck next year.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113920051535815044?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113920051535815044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113920051535815044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/steelersbut-not-by-3.html' title='Steelers....but not by 3'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113918029289663192</id><published>2006-02-05T17:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-05T17:58:12.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pittsburgh Steelers by 3! BET ON IT!</title><content type='html'>TRUST ME ON THIS! &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PITTSBURGH STEELERS &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;BY 3!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SEE YOU AFTER THE GAME!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113918029289663192?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113918029289663192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113918029289663192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/pittsburgh-steelers-by-3-bet-on-it.html' title='Pittsburgh Steelers by 3! BET ON IT!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113909060803257022</id><published>2006-02-04T17:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-04T17:03:28.060-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ebay store anyone?</title><content type='html'>Do You Have An Ebay Store? by: Vera Raposo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this article we look at the benefits of having an eBay Store. Selling on eBay does not require you to have an eBay Store, but it sure does make things a lot easier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 3 store subscriptions you can sign up for with eBay Basic (15.95/month), Featured (49.95/month), &amp;amp; Anchor (499.95/month).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now most people starting out will of course go for the Basic store and not the Anchor. You would need to make huge profits to go for the Anchor store. We’ll talk more about the Basic, and Featured Stores here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have a Basic Store you may want to consider upgrading to a Featured Store. Things have been changing with eBay stores and some of things I’m most thrilled with is the $30/month allotment of eBay Keywords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Free Keywords&lt;br /&gt;Yes, that’s $30/month each and every month worth of free eBay Keywords. With eBay Keywords you will drive more traffic to your listings by putting your ad at the top of the page for the keywords you choose. This also separates your store from other listings. This can significantly increase your store sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Pages&lt;br /&gt;With a Featured Store you get double the web pages! Which only increases your presence on eBay. You can also reduce the size of the eBay header on your pages giving you a page that’s more focused on your business. This helps build your own brand on eBay, and you can match it to your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advanced Reports&lt;br /&gt;With a Featured Store you get advanced monthly reports and traffic stats you can access anytime. I just love looking through my reports to see all the in-depth info that the reports give me. The Path Analysis allows you to see how visitors move around in your store. This is so important as you develop your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Owning an eBay store will not only bring you more sales, but it’ll cost you less by using it in the long run. These are just some of the many advantages of owning an eBay store. Once you own one, you’ll wonder why you didn’t go for it sooner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About The Author&lt;br /&gt;Vera Raposo has been making a living with online auctions since 1997. With thousands of completed auctions under her belt, Vera is now sharing some of her best auction strategies in a free 90-minute interview at &lt;a href="http://www.auctionstrategists.com/special" target="new"&gt;http://www.auctionstrategists.com/special&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113909060803257022?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113909060803257022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113909060803257022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/ebay-store-anyone.html' title='Ebay store anyone?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113899210882432212</id><published>2006-02-03T09:32:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-03T16:39:03.543-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Super Hero Quiz results. I am The Green Lantern.</title><content type='html'>I think at one time or another, we all wanted to be &lt;strong&gt;Super Heroes&lt;/strong&gt;. Hell, sometimes I still do. I wasn't sure which one though. So when I stumbled upon this &lt;strong&gt;Super Hero&lt;/strong&gt; Quiz, I figured, "why not?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After getting the results, I must say it was a pretty accurate answer. I am the &lt;strong&gt;Green Lantern&lt;/strong&gt;. I certainly am not &lt;em&gt;Robin&lt;/em&gt;. Silly fucking sidekick that he is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you've ever read any of the &lt;strong&gt;Green Lantern Comics&lt;/strong&gt;, and you knew me, you would agree. If you haven't read any of the&lt;strong&gt; Green Lantern Comics&lt;/strong&gt;, you should.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also puts me really close to &lt;em&gt;Catwoman&lt;/em&gt; too. I guess if I was a chick, I wouldn't mind being &lt;em&gt;Catwoman&lt;/em&gt;.   If you are curious which &lt;strong&gt;Super Hero&lt;/strong&gt; you would be, try the link below.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your results:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;You are &lt;span style="font-size:6;"&gt;Green Lantern&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Green Lantern &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="75" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;75%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Catwoman &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="75" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;75%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Superman &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="65" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;65%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;The Flash &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="65" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;65%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Iron Man &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="65" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;65%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Hulk &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="60" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;60%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Supergirl &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="55" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;55%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Spider-Man &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="50" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Batman &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="50" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Robin &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="50" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;50%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Wonder Woman &lt;td&gt;&lt;hr align="left" width="45" size="4"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;45%&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;td&gt;Hot-headed. You have strong&lt;br /&gt;will power and a good imagination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/superhero/pics/lantern2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/superhero"&gt;Click here to take the "Which Superhero am I?" quiz...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113899210882432212?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113899210882432212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113899210882432212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/super-hero-quiz-results-i-am-green.html' title='Super Hero Quiz results. I am The Green Lantern.'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113894254113942626</id><published>2006-02-02T23:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-03T00:03:57.130-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Black history month?</title><content type='html'>I'm gonna say it, and you are probably gonna be pissed. Why do we have a whole month dedicated to this again?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No &lt;em&gt;White&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Asian,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Latino&lt;/em&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;Native American&lt;/em&gt; history months in the near future, are there?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah. I thought not. No &lt;em&gt;Homosexual&lt;/em&gt; history months coming up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But throughout history, everyone of us, no matter what &lt;strong&gt;race&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;color&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;sexual preference&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;strong&gt;religion &lt;/strong&gt;we may be has had some bad shit happen to them. So why aren't any other months dedicated to some other group? I'm listening. Got any answers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't get me wrong. I have friends and family that encompass a wide myriad of people and beliefs, but I just don't get it. Most of them don't either. So are we all just, you know......evil &lt;strong&gt;racists&lt;/strong&gt;? Nope. Don't even try it. Hell, we have some &lt;strong&gt;Irish&lt;/strong&gt; in the family for &lt;em&gt;Christ&lt;/em&gt;'s sake! And we're&lt;strong&gt; Italian&lt;/strong&gt;! And you know how &lt;strong&gt;Italians&lt;/strong&gt; are......gangsters, every last one of them! And they beat their wives too! No wonder they only have a day,(Columbus) not a month to celebrate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And why February? Why not June or July? October is nice too. I think if you are going to give someone a month, give them at least 30 days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I guess the next thing we'll hear about is that February is being expanded to what, 32 days?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113894254113942626?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113894254113942626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113894254113942626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/black-history-month.html' title='Black history month?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113893948108087017</id><published>2006-02-02T22:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-03T08:20:51.673-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Why aren't you making more MONEY?</title><content type='html'>So I've written previously about &lt;a href="http://louisdarke.richjerk.hop.clickbank.net"&gt;a really great eBook I read&lt;/a&gt; , and you obviously didn't pay attention. Not one of you has written to me and told me that they were happy with the &lt;strong&gt;ebook &lt;/strong&gt;and are starting to earn some cash from the ebook's ideas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This ebook has just about everything you need to start out and get up and running,&lt;a href="http://myks.sitesell.com/louisdarke.html"&gt;making money from your own successful website or websites&lt;/a&gt; . It just takes a little time and some creativity. So what is YOUR problem?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Too stupid to understand a new concept? Too lazy to try a new thing? Are you that &lt;a href="http://louisdarke.richjerk.hop.clickbank.net"&gt;rich already&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It must be me. You don't believe me. O.K. Go ahead and ignore me again. I'm still pleased with this ebook's stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was just trying to help a few others out. I know how much it sucks to live &lt;em&gt;paycheck&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;paycheck&lt;/em&gt;, and not be able to do the little extra stuff for others that you would like to. Working jobs you hate, and dealing with idiot bosses all day. Pardon me for trying to lend a hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please have a great day, and keep puching that time clock. As long as they let you, and don't lay you off. It's happening everywhere and to everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess you don't read the Business section of your newspaper.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it's best that you don't.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113893948108087017?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113893948108087017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113893948108087017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-arent-you-making-more-money.html' title='Why aren&apos;t you making more MONEY?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113893835080970318</id><published>2006-02-02T22:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T22:46:18.460-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Save Money with DING! from Southwest Airlines</title><content type='html'>Just thought I'd mention the great product from &lt;strong&gt;Southwest Airlines&lt;/strong&gt;, called &lt;strong&gt;DING!.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You download the application to your computer, and it tells you every so often, via a special "ding" sound, that there are new &lt;strong&gt;special fares&lt;/strong&gt; to be had for a limited time. They come up a few times a day, and you can really save some money. I just got a one way fare from &lt;strong&gt;Tampa, Florida&lt;/strong&gt;, to &lt;strong&gt;Baltimore,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Maryland &lt;/strong&gt;for 34.00. Next best rate available on the web was 87.00. Not too bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It costs you nothing, but can save you some &lt;em&gt;fat &lt;/em&gt;cash!.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113893835080970318?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113893835080970318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113893835080970318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/save-money-with-ding-from-southwest.html' title='Save Money with DING! from Southwest Airlines'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113892239313391321</id><published>2006-02-02T18:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T22:33:07.590-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Do people really still do stupid shit like this?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.16.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the MSN NEWS SITE:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Updated: 6:47 a.m. ET Feb. 2, 2006&lt;br /&gt;NEW YORK - A &lt;strong&gt;New York City&lt;/strong&gt; man jumped to his death Wednesday afternoon from the &lt;strong&gt;Empire State Building&lt;/strong&gt; in an apparent suicide, police said Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;Lt. John Grimpel said Dovid Abramowitz, 21, jumped from a vacant office on the 66th floor.&lt;br /&gt;Officials discovered his body on a landing on the sixth floor of the building, one of New York's key &lt;strong&gt;tourist destinations&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Personally, I think you gotta be nuts to committ &lt;strong&gt;suicide,&lt;/strong&gt; and I do not advocate it in any way. Life has too much to offer, to end it on purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, if you gotta go, jumping off the Empire State Building has got to be in the top 10 craziest ways to do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe it should be nicknamed, pulling a "KONG".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113892239313391321?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113892239313391321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113892239313391321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/do-people-really-still-do-stupid-shit.html' title='Do people really still do stupid shit like this?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113891121442612326</id><published>2006-02-02T15:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T16:32:13.983-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Britney Spears 'Refocused'?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.13.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.13.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey look! It's &lt;strong&gt;Britney&lt;/strong&gt; "I look so much like trailer trash, when I don't have my professional team of beauty experts with me at all times", &lt;strong&gt;Spears&lt;/strong&gt;! And who's that little bundle of joy with her? It's certainly not the new &lt;strong&gt;life form&lt;/strong&gt;, that was spawned by &lt;strong&gt;K-Fed&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;Mrs. K-Fed&lt;/strong&gt;. Nope it's one of his other "children", spawned by another earth woman, just out for a stroll with his new step mom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently the Mighty Spears is going to "refocus" her career and get on the stick for all of us who are waiting for her to make her big comeback. I don't know about you, but I can wait. She wasn't contributing that much to the world before her "child" was born.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say "child" loosely, because my team of scientists are still awaiting some &lt;em&gt;DNA&lt;/em&gt; from the kid's mommy and daddy. So far. we have not been able to obtain enough of a sample to do any real testing. But we will prevail, and then all the world will know if &lt;strong&gt;Tom&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Katie's&lt;/strong&gt; "child" will be able to communicate telepathically with the &lt;strong&gt;K-Fed kid&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is out there folks! You just have to look really hard to find it these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone really think that&lt;strong&gt; K-Fed&lt;/strong&gt; is not a &lt;a href="http://johnsaylesretro.com/body-brother-synopsis.html"&gt;Brother From Another Planet&lt;/a&gt; in disguise?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113891121442612326?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113891121442612326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113891121442612326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/britney-spears-refocused.html' title='Britney Spears &apos;Refocused&apos;?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113890513037673681</id><published>2006-02-02T13:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-02T13:34:42.913-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Drug smuggling puppies</title><content type='html'>Just when you think the &lt;strong&gt;human race&lt;/strong&gt; has hit an all time low, we prove we can go even lower.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In case you are a &lt;strong&gt;drug smuggler&lt;/strong&gt; and need an new method of moving your &lt;strong&gt;product&lt;/strong&gt;, why not try &lt;strong&gt;PUPPIES&lt;/strong&gt;!? They are readily available in most parts of the world, they are given out freely or at very little cost at most animal shelters, and they are cute. No one would suspect that cute little &lt;strong&gt;Poodle puppy&lt;/strong&gt; is really a &lt;strong&gt;drug smuggling criminal&lt;/strong&gt;, would they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oops! Nothing new here! &lt;strong&gt;Law enforcement&lt;/strong&gt; officials, the honest ones I assume, have just broken up a ring of bad, bad men who were using puppies to transport their drugs. They were surgically implanting the drugs into the dogs and then sewing them back up and sending them on their way. How sweet! Unfortunately for the puppies, smuggling drugs in your body can be hazardous to your health. A few have died, and the rest are doing ok, according to the news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I have a great idea of my own. I don't use or distribute drugs. Are you listening out there &lt;strong&gt;DEA &lt;/strong&gt;dudes? However, I have a few cans of old paint and household cleaners, and assorted toxic chemicals, laying around the house. What if I gather up a few &lt;strong&gt;drug smugglers&lt;/strong&gt; of my own, implant some of these items in their bodies, and then sit back and wait to see what happens to them? It might make for some good TV if you think about it. They are always looking for a new &lt;strong&gt;reality TV&lt;/strong&gt; show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, anyway, I really feel bad for the poor animals on this planet. We constantly find new ways to cause them pain and suffering at little or no expense to us. Maybe we need to make these folks more accountable. Not just the folks with the drugs, but any of the miscreants out there, harming our furry, finned, or feathered friends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113890513037673681?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113890513037673681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113890513037673681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/drug-smuggling-puppies.html' title='Drug smuggling puppies'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113881830126387809</id><published>2006-02-01T13:22:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-01T23:06:55.806-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?</title><content type='html'>By Adam L. Penenberg&lt;a title="Send feedback and comments to &amp;#10;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#10;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;Adam L. Penenberg&amp;#10;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;&amp;#9;" href="http://www.wired.com/support/feedback.html?headline=Can" story_id="'68934&amp;section_path=" ftype="feedback&amp;amp;msg_type=" aid="1295"&gt; Adam L. Penenberg &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/storylist/1295-0-0.html"&gt;Also&lt;/a&gt; by this reporter02:00 AM Sep, 22, 2005 EDT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it comes to the profit potential of blogs, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, calls himself a skeptic.&lt;br /&gt;It's a surprisingly pessimistic perspective coming from the Brit who has launched a network of 13 theme blogs -- including &lt;a href="http://www.fleshbot.com/"&gt;Fleshbot&lt;/a&gt; (porn), &lt;a href="http://www.gawker.com/"&gt;Gawker&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.defamer.com/"&gt;Defamer&lt;/a&gt; (gossip), &lt;a href="http://www.gizmodo.com/"&gt;Gizmodo&lt;/a&gt; (gadgets) and &lt;a href="http://www.wonkette.com/"&gt;Wonkette&lt;/a&gt; (politics). His most popular properties (Defamer, Gizmodo and Gawker) report between 4 million and 6 million &lt;a href="http://www.nickdenton.org/002144.html"&gt;visits&lt;/a&gt; per month and millions more pageviews, he and his top talent have been featured in articles in the ink-and-pulp press (&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/blog.html"&gt;Wired&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/magazine/26BLOGS.html?ex=1253851200&amp;en=8b59680f1bd93479&amp;amp;ei=5090&amp;amp;partner=rssuserland"&gt;The New York Times Magazine&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href="http://www.nickdenton.org/"&gt;Denton&lt;/a&gt; rarely misses an opportunity to trumpet ads on his sites for blue-chip companies like Absolut, Audi, Sony, Nike, Viacom, Disney and Condé Nast.&lt;br /&gt;Media Hack&lt;br /&gt;So you can forgive his competitors for not buying into his deflationary spin: As David Hauslaib, founder of &lt;a href="http://www.jossip.com/"&gt;Jossip&lt;/a&gt; and the newly launched &lt;a href="http://www.queerty.com/"&gt;Queerty&lt;/a&gt;, put it: "Nick infamously downplays the profit potential of blogging the same way Tom Cruise's sister-slash-publicist Lee Ann DeVette pretends his relationship with Katie Holmes is authentic. Even people outside the industry know it's a sham."&lt;br /&gt;Hauslaib credits part of Denton's success to his ability to keep mainstream publishers away from his medium, guaranteeing he'll be the biggest player when media buyers come knocking. But Hauslaib believes there are plenty of seats left in the arena. There could an additional handful of gossip sites to compete with Gawker (and Jossip, for that matter), and ad dollars would continue to flow in.&lt;br /&gt;"I'd love to see another half-dozen professional gay blogs surface that, in theory, would compete with Queerty," Hauslaib said, "but more importantly, they'd be validating the space and attracting even more ad dollars for everyone."&lt;br /&gt;This is a theory that &lt;a href="http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/"&gt;Jason Calacanis&lt;/a&gt; -- the founder of &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/"&gt;Weblogs&lt;/a&gt;, who Denton refers to as his "&lt;a href="http://www.nickdenton.org/002128.html"&gt;endlessly entertaining rival&lt;/a&gt;" -- subscribes to. Calacanis is perhaps the blogosphere's biggest booster. I half expect him to claim that blogs will one day provide the cure for world hunger, cancer and bad hair. But he deserves credit for spotting a business opportunity at a time when many people viewed blogs as a digital wasteland (complete with typos, bad grammar and lowercase letters running amok).&lt;br /&gt;Calacanis employs 120 bloggers and publishes 90 blogs -- including &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; (which covers consumer electronics) and &lt;a href="http://www.blogmaverick.com/"&gt;Blog Maverick&lt;/a&gt;, typed by billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban -- with his writers making anywhere from $200 to $3,000 a month. (One presumes Cuban doesn't do it for the money.) On average, Weblog salaries are about a quarter to half what a mid-level editorial job would pay, without the daily office commute.&lt;br /&gt;"Not to mention (bloggers) get to write about the topic they are most passionate about," said Calacanis, who claims to be on track to collect more than $1 million in Google AdSense payments over the next year. "So, for our folks, it is like they are making money off their hobby. Think a scuba diver or video-game player making $500 to $1,500 a month writing about scuba diving or video games."&lt;br /&gt;Story continued on &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,68934-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1"&gt;Page 2 »&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113881830126387809?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113881830126387809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113881830126387809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/can-bloggers-strike-it-rich.html' title='Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113880484171333314</id><published>2006-02-01T09:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-01T10:44:27.546-05:00</updated><title type='text'>WICKED! Reviewed</title><content type='html'>Saw the play &lt;strong&gt;WICKED!&lt;/strong&gt; last night, and we were very impressed. It is the story of what happened in &lt;strong&gt;OZ,&lt;/strong&gt; before Dorothy dropped in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neither my girl nor I had read the book, and had no idea of the story going into the play. What I thought would be another &lt;strong&gt;singing&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;dancing&lt;/strong&gt;, and costumed potential bore, was the exact opposite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;play&lt;/strong&gt; was filled with comedy, drama, romance, great production values and fantastic acting and vocal skills, by all involved. The two main characters, were terrific both on their own, and even better, when on stage together. Playing off each other so well, that you believe they could have been friends, as they are in the play, for years. The rest of the cast shines also. Everyone from the head mistress of the school the two girls attend, right up to the &lt;strong&gt;Wizard&lt;/strong&gt; himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, there are even the famous &lt;strong&gt;flying monkeys&lt;/strong&gt; here. What you learn about them and all the other characters will surprise you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have a chance to see this wonderful play, do so. You shouldn't be dissapointed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113880484171333314?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113880484171333314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113880484171333314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/02/wicked-reviewed.html' title='WICKED! Reviewed'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113873387476578392</id><published>2006-01-31T13:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T04:47:27.866-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kevin Smith fans--Snootchie Bootchies!</title><content type='html'>In case you were looking for something &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Smith&lt;/strong&gt; related, check out the sidebar link: Kevin Smith: &lt;strong&gt;Snootchie Bootchies&lt;/strong&gt;!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It will take you over to Kev's &lt;em&gt;View Askew&lt;/em&gt; website. This is a great find for any fan of the famous &lt;strong&gt;Jersey boy&lt;/strong&gt;, now gone &lt;strong&gt;Hollywood&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're like me, you will probabaly visit this site on a regular basis. It's full of great stuff, all related to the man and his creations. Hey anyone who can create a giant &lt;strong&gt;poop monster&lt;/strong&gt;, for the same film that has &lt;strong&gt;Salma Hayek&lt;/strong&gt; in it.....well........&lt;em&gt;GENIUS&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113873387476578392?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113873387476578392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113873387476578392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/kevin-smith-fans-snootchie-bootchies.html' title='Kevin Smith fans--Snootchie Bootchies!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113871906941970734</id><published>2006-01-31T09:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-31T13:42:35.743-05:00</updated><title type='text'>WICKED! in Tampa Bay</title><content type='html'>We are going to see &lt;strong&gt;WICKED!&lt;/strong&gt; tonight at the &lt;strong&gt;Tampa Bay Performing Arts &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Center&lt;/strong&gt;. This will be our second attempt at doing the whole play/musical thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our first effort, &lt;strong&gt;Cats&lt;/strong&gt;!, was a huge failure. Man did that show suck! Both my girl and I thought we would rather drink liquid plumber, than sit through that show again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have higher hopes for Wicked!, as it has been highly reviewed by most of the people we know, who have seen it. If this is not an improvement on the last show we saw, we may just stick with the film medium. Perhaps we are not cultured enough for &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broadway&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are also trying a new restaurant, or should I say dining experience? Roy's in Tampa. Part of the Outback family, Roy's is more of a Euro-asian??, I think that is the term, type eatery. We should like it. Most of the Outback concepts are very well done.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113871906941970734?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113871906941970734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113871906941970734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/wicked-in-tampa-bay.html' title='WICKED! in Tampa Bay'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113859940754149203</id><published>2006-01-30T00:36:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-30T12:57:07.940-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Underworld Evolution Review</title><content type='html'>Just saw the Underworld sequel:Underworld Evolution. Good flick. It picks up after the original film, and even goes back in time to give you a fair amount of history on the war between the Vampires and the Werewolves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several of the fight scenes are graphic, and are probably too intense for anyone under 14. There is one fairly tame sex scene, with mild nudity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several new characters are introduced, and the familiar ones are given more background. We learn several things about the real origin of the hatred between the Vampire clan and the Werewolves. There is more focus on the relationship between Selene and Michael, than in the first film, which does add a more "human" factor to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was interesting to see the direction they took with this film, building upon both old and new characters and story lines, leading to another large scale showdown. I think this one was close to or a hair better than the original film's ending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would recommend this film if you liked the first one.  If you haven't seen the first film, you could probably follow the sequel just fine.  You wouldn't lose too much of the story, as it is shown through several flashbacks, throughout this film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two thumbs up.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113859940754149203?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113859940754149203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113859940754149203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/underworld-evolution-review.html' title='Underworld Evolution Review'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113857767335212845</id><published>2006-01-29T18:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-29T18:34:33.380-05:00</updated><title type='text'>FREE PORN HERE!</title><content type='html'>Just wanted to see if it would make you look at my site.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113857767335212845?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113857767335212845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113857767335212845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/free-porn-here.html' title='FREE PORN HERE!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113857343298486007</id><published>2006-01-29T17:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-29T18:00:28.926-05:00</updated><title type='text'>From Clerks to Jersey Girl: Part 2</title><content type='html'>So as you know, from a previous post about being an extra in &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Smith's&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Jersey Girl&lt;/strong&gt;, I was involved in the process that is real &lt;em&gt;Hollywood Magic&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These photos show the actual &lt;strong&gt;Jersey Girl&lt;/strong&gt; "EXTRA" badge, that we had to wear at all times, lest be ejected from the set, and a notebook that was used as a prop from the scene in the &lt;em&gt;Hard Rock Cafe&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/Picture%20009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/Picture%20009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/Picture%20008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;The notebook was supposed to be returned after the scene was shot and we all went home for the day, but somehow it made it past the set prop "Nazis". They're the folks who make sure you don't go home with any "valuable" memorabilia from the shoot. Well one of them must have been off his/her game that night, because I still have it! OOPS! Sorry guys. It actually has some good notes I and some friends made, while on set. Mostly some thoughts about what we could use in a movie we had considered writing and shooting ourselves. I won't say what it was, because I don't want the idea stolen, and showing up on the big screen in the near future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The day we shot inside &lt;strong&gt;The Hard Rock&lt;/strong&gt; was really great. I got to see one of my favorite actors up close and personal. &lt;strong&gt;Ben Affleck&lt;/strong&gt;. In fact, he had to walk behind me several times for one shot, and we bumped each other a few times. I never realized that he is acuually about an inch taller than me. But I think it was his shoes. Big heels.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On one pass he bumped me, and after he walked by I mumbled something like, "I think &lt;strong&gt;Ben&lt;/strong&gt; just grabbed my ass!". My whole group of friends bust out laughing, and &lt;strong&gt;Ben Affleck&lt;/strong&gt; turned around and smiled at us. I guess he has real good hearing.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it for now. More to come.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113857343298486007?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113857343298486007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113857343298486007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/from-clerks-to-jersey-girl-part-2_29.html' title='From Clerks to Jersey Girl: Part 2'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113856822274558420</id><published>2006-01-29T15:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-29T16:09:37.426-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Get out of DEBT...NOW!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cardsweep.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/cardsweep.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simple Ways To &lt;strong&gt;Debt Relief&lt;/strong&gt; by: Talbert Williams&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are simple, common sense steps you can take to get out of debt. Unfortunately, like losing weight, they are not necessarily easy or painless - but if you stick to them, you will become debt-free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stop &lt;strong&gt;Borrowing Money&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first step to escaping debt is to stop borrowing. Simply put, the more you borrow, the more you will owe. You can't borrow your way out of debt, but must instead pay off your existing debts while not borrowing additional funds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a typical consumer, you engage in a lot of borrowing by making purchases with &lt;strong&gt;credit &lt;/strong&gt;cards. You should try to break this credit habit. Most credit card companies and store cards will reduce your credit limit if you ask them to do so. (The credit card company may try to talk you out of lowering your credit limit - because they make the most money when they let you borrow more than you can afford.) You can also cut up some or all of your credit and store cards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Budget Your Income and Expenses&lt;br /&gt;Map out your income, expenses, and payments on your existing debts for a typical month, and create a balanced household budget. Remember to budget some money for emergencies - if you are fortunate enough that no emergency occurs, you can either save the money for future emergencies or (if you are afraid that you will spend it) use it to pay down some of your debts.&lt;br /&gt;If you are paying &lt;strong&gt;credit card&lt;/strong&gt; debts, budget to pay more than the minimum required monthly payment. Minimum payments are usually set in an amount such that, if you don't make an additional payment toward the credit card balance, you will never pay off the debt. Usually, your credit cards will carry the highest interest of any of your debt, and thus it will make sense to pay them off first.&lt;br /&gt;If you cannot figure out how you can possibly pay your bills and still have enough money to survive at the end of the month, you may wish to consider using a credit counselor or a debt management service. You may also wish to consider the possibility of a debt consolidation loan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stick To The Budget&lt;br /&gt;For many people, this is the hardest part - it is easy to create a theoretical budget which allows them to get their debts under control, but impossible to resist the impulse purchases which break the bank each month.&lt;br /&gt;You can help avoid temptation by cutting up your credit cards and instead making your purchases with cash. As previously mentioned, you can also have your credit limits lowered.&lt;br /&gt;If you need help creating a workable budget or sticking to the budget, as previously suggested, you may wish to work with a debt management service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About The Author&lt;br /&gt;Talbert Williams offers &lt;strong&gt;debt consolidation&lt;/strong&gt; referrals and advice. For more information, articles, news, tools and valuable resources on debt solutions, visit this site: &lt;a href="http://www.1debtfreedom.com/" target="new"&gt;http://www.1debtfreedom.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:partnership@1debtfreedom.com"&gt;partnership@1debtfreedom.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113856822274558420?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113856822274558420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113856822274558420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/get-out-of-debtnow.html' title='Get out of DEBT...NOW!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113850939838394007</id><published>2006-01-28T23:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-28T23:41:01.866-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Coffee and Cigarettes:  The Mystery Revealed!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.11.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everybody has been wondering, &lt;a href="http://www.coffeeandcigarettesmovie.com/"&gt;Coffee and Cigarettes?.&lt;/a&gt; Well now you know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the film buff in me, and I guess this film just left that much of an impresssion on me. I won't say if it was good or bad. You can decide for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you check it out, let me know if it made your life any &lt;strong&gt;richer&lt;/strong&gt;. Or if it made you feel like you wasted &lt;strong&gt;precious &lt;/strong&gt;time viewing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll say this. I think if this &lt;strong&gt;film&lt;/strong&gt; was actually financed and produced, you could make a&lt;strong&gt; film&lt;/strong&gt; about &lt;strong&gt;herpes&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;HIV symptoms&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;outbreaks&lt;/strong&gt;, and win an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Academy Award&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry&lt;strong&gt; Jim Jarmusch&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113850939838394007?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113850939838394007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113850939838394007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/coffee-and-cigarettes-mystery-revealed.html' title='Coffee and Cigarettes:  The Mystery Revealed!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113850463190471197</id><published>2006-01-28T22:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-28T22:17:11.923-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ethical SEO</title><content type='html'>Ethical &lt;strong&gt;Search Engine Optimisation&lt;/strong&gt; Services: Are You Unintentionally Search Engine &lt;strong&gt;Spamming&lt;/strong&gt;? by: David Touri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people who have &lt;strong&gt;websites&lt;/strong&gt; are not totally up to date with what is considered to be search engine spamming. Having worked on search engine optimisation for a few clients, I have come across websites that are using spam techniques to help elevate search engine rankings. When I confronted clients about this, they honestly did not know they were using a form of spam nor did they realise the consequences if detected by the search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what is &lt;strong&gt;search engine spamming&lt;/strong&gt;? A simple definition would be; deliberately designing website pages that offer poor and irrelevant content, and are used to trick search engines into ranking the content highly for inappropriate search results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People tend to use spam as a way of attracting as many visitors to their website. When caught by the search engines, this will result in a major setback to business. Websites will be blacklisted from the search engines and chances are they will not appear in the index for a very long time.&lt;br /&gt;Not sure if you are spamming? Below are a few common forms of spam techniques that you should avoid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Doorway Pages – Optimising a single webpage to perform exceptionally well in search engine ranks for a group of keyword phrases (keyword stuffing on the webpage). Once a user clicks on the link, they will be automatically redirected to a completely different website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Invisible Text – Using text that is not visible to the human eye (having the same colour text as the background colour). The invisible text will usually contain a large number of keywords (keyword stuffing).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link Farms – Joining &lt;strong&gt;community websites&lt;/strong&gt; that provide large volumes of irrelevant links to your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Along with other forms of spam, these techniques should be avoided at all costs. If you are not sure whether your site uses some form of spam, then it would be best to contact a search engine optimisation specialist before it could result in your website being blacklisted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Past clients who were using some form of&lt;strong&gt; spam&lt;/strong&gt; and were not aware of it, had taken a big loss by having their website blacklisted in some search engines. The road to recovery can take very long and it is one that no one would like to follow. Be cautious!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About The Author&lt;br /&gt;David Touri is a &lt;strong&gt;search engine optimisation&lt;/strong&gt; specialist working for &lt;strong&gt;SEO&lt;/strong&gt; Sydney. He has worked on many projects and offers pay per click optimisation &amp;amp; bid management services to companies in Australia. For further information, please visit &lt;a href="http://www.seosydney.com.au/" target="new"&gt;http://www.seosydney.com.au&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113850463190471197?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113850463190471197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113850463190471197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/ethical-seo.html' title='Ethical SEO'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113843160395845497</id><published>2006-01-28T01:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-28T02:01:16.243-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steelers Anyone?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/Winter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/Winter.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Predictions for the BIG GAME?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are you &lt;strong&gt;football&lt;/strong&gt; fans?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113843160395845497?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113843160395845497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113843160395845497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/steelers-anyone.html' title='Steelers Anyone?'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113842459915547329</id><published>2006-01-28T00:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-28T01:53:26.946-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Choosing keywords wisely</title><content type='html'>Choosing&lt;strong&gt; Keywords&lt;/strong&gt; That Bring the Best Results&lt;br /&gt;by Karon Thackston © 2003&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.copywritingcourse.com" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.copywritingcourse.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a &lt;strong&gt;search engine&lt;/strong&gt; optimization copywriter, I’ve seen my share of keywords. When working with me, clients choose their own keywords (or have someone else choose them) and then send me the list to include in their copy. I must admit, sometimes I’m just amazed at the selections I receive.It’s absolutely imperative that you make wise choices in the area of keywords. Many people simply look at statistics. Others go strictly on the most highly searched&lt;strong&gt; keywords&lt;/strong&gt; from one particular search engine. Still others do no research at all and just guess. While the first two can work in combination with one another, they still don’t offer a complete solution.From working with many &lt;strong&gt;search engine optimization&lt;/strong&gt; (SEO) experts, I have gathered a few tips on how to choose effective keywords that bring results. I’d like to share that information with you so you can improve both your copy and your search engine positioning.&lt;br /&gt;Narrow Focus&lt;br /&gt;Choose keywords that have a narrow focus. The most common “mistake” I’ve seen when selecting keywords is choosing those that are too broad. For example, one client sold cleaner for granite countertops. One keyphrase that was originally under consideration was “granite countertops.” However, as his SEO expert explained (and I agree), people could be hoping to find information on almost any aspect of granite countertops… installation, price, service, dealers, etc. This keyphrase was too broad and eventually was discarded. The same applies to geographic locations. A real estate agent wanted to use the keyphrase “Richmond County.” However, upon searching the ‘Net for this phrase, his SEO expert discovered that there are at least three states that have a Richmond County. Instead, the SEO expert chose phrases such as “Richmond County, Georgia real estate” to narrow the focus and ensure qualified traffic.&lt;br /&gt;Applicable to the Page&lt;br /&gt;Another common area where people wane is in being determined to use keyphrases that simply don’t apply to the page. In one case I was asked by a client to use the keyphrase “payment portal” on a page that had nothing to do with that topic. At the time, that was an excellent phrase to target, but it would have been quite a stretch as it had little to do with what the site was about.Just because a keyphrase gives you the opportunity to be highly ranked doesn’t mean you should use it if it has nothing to do with your site.&lt;br /&gt;More Traffic or Better Traffic?&lt;br /&gt;I see the battle between lots of traffic vs. more targeted traffic just about every day. Clients are generally programmed by Web hype to believe you need as much traffic as you can get regardless of where it comes from.Most &lt;strong&gt;SEO&lt;/strong&gt; experts I’m associated with (and this SEO copywriter) believe you need traffic that will actually stick around once they reach your site.Why have tons of people coming to your site if they will just leave after three seconds because they didn’t find what they were looking for? It’s better to have fewer people - more targeted prospects - who are more likely to buy.By targeting your keyphrases so they are as accurate and focused as possible, you will gain the attention of customers who are specifically searching for what you have to offer. While your unique visitor or page view count may go down, your bank account balance will likely go up!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About the Author&lt;br /&gt;Which words make *your* customers buy? Let Karon show you. Boost your sales and your search engine positioning by learning to write strategically created copy that hits a nerve and makes the sale. Get the details now at &lt;a href="http://www.copywritingcourse.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.copywritingcourse.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113842459915547329?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113842459915547329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113842459915547329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/choosing-keywords-wisely.html' title='Choosing keywords wisely'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113842421370795966</id><published>2006-01-27T23:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-28T01:54:12.170-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Blogging to promote your website</title><content type='html'>A Blog Is The Best Tool To Boost The &lt;strong&gt;Page Rank&lt;/strong&gt; Of The Site&lt;br /&gt;by: Prabhjot Kaur&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A blog is the best means to enhance the site’s page rank. It has many valid reasons. Those reasons seem to be the basic ones but generally we ignore those points. The very first cause of the enhancement of the sites Pagerank is that a blog can easily be added to an existing website. Many off-the-shelf &lt;strong&gt;blogging&lt;/strong&gt; tools can be imported directly to your site. These tools can be easily modified according to the requirement of the site. A blog of the site can be set up as a free site also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second and the very valid reason is that a blog needs the updates frequently and these updates give the blog a fresh and the new content for the site and this attracts the natural and the unreciprocated linkers towards the site. They bring valuable Page Rank transfer, along with fresh visitor traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the question is how should the content be? The &lt;strong&gt;content&lt;/strong&gt; of the site should be sufficiently attention grabbing and informative. Then there are the possibilities of two types of blog links. One are the home page permanent link. The other is the themed link from a blog post. That themed link will slide off the home page, but will bring Page Rank from an internal page. Bloggers routinely read other blogs and link to their selected posts, passing along valuable PageRank as a matter of course.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now it seems that google has a thought to be give liability to the reciprocal links on many static websites, especially link exchange pages. On blogs, that accountability does not appear to be evident. Because blog links are heavily reciprocated, any penalties would show up quickly in a reduction of blog backlinks. That does not appear to be the case. Whenever we see the back links of the site we can see many of the reciprocal links. That’s why blog is the best method to place on a site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A quick glance at any number of blog backlinks will display many reciprocated links. One reason for that may be the fact that &lt;strong&gt;blog&lt;/strong&gt; links are almost universally placed on the home page. Another is bloggers; in general, make link trades with other bloggers who write about the same theme. The on page text usually contains similar content, and often the same keywords, in both exchanging blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;blog&lt;/strong&gt; section of your website will add PageRank very quickly, often achieving a PR4 or PR5 within only a couple of months of existence. You can link that page, to any pages of your existing website, and provide that page with a PageRank boost. This is especially helpful if you are in a highly competitive &lt;strong&gt;keyword&lt;/strong&gt; area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About The Author&lt;br /&gt;Prabhjot Kaur working with A-1 as SEO analyst. A-1 internetdesign blog is a place to learn search engine optimization techniques for Free. Our SEO Blog &lt;a href="http://www.thewebmarketingblog.com/" target="new"&gt;http://www.thewebmarketingblog.com/&lt;/a&gt; is a collection of search engine optimization news, tips, articles and commentaries As a professional services firm, A-1 internetdesign, will increase your online market reach to help you achieve greater business results.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113842421370795966?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113842421370795966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113842421370795966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/blogging-to-promote-your-website.html' title='Blogging to promote your website'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113842379014048895</id><published>2006-01-27T23:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T23:52:08.606-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Website promotion tips</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Website Promotion&lt;/strong&gt;- Valuable Tips To Promote A Website by: Gagandeep Dhaliwal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Website promotion&lt;/strong&gt; is the basic requirement to attract more visitors to a particular website. &lt;strong&gt;Website promotion&lt;/strong&gt; helps you to promote your website on &lt;strong&gt;Internet&lt;/strong&gt;. Some fundamentals to promote a site are search engine optimization, search engine submission, or content development. With the help of these three techniques you can easily attract higher search engine traffic to a site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Search engines play an important role in the art of website promotion. So one of the basic things to promote a site is high ranking in&lt;strong&gt; search engines&lt;/strong&gt;. You should submit your website to the major search engines because these are the best way to bring more visitors to the site. Add more &lt;strong&gt;keywords&lt;/strong&gt; in the content of the site to get higher ranking in the search engines. You should regularly check the search listings for your&lt;strong&gt; keywords&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;High ranking in major search engines is not sufficient to attract heavy traffic. Your website should be search engine optimized that will surely help you to get good ranking. Best technique of search engine optimization is to get inbound links. Inbound or back links connects your site to another site that is also very useful to the visitors. Add your most important keywords in &lt;strong&gt;Meta&lt;/strong&gt; tags and give a different color to your link text. You can also make it bold or italics just to differentiate from others. Use some anchors that give the path to your site. It is also useful to promote your website efficiently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mostly the people search for the information according to &lt;strong&gt;keywords&lt;/strong&gt; so to get keyword-targeted traffic you should use&lt;strong&gt; pay per click&lt;/strong&gt; search engine. Proper use of keywords provide good ranking in the search results. Sometime press release feature is also good for some big companies or organizations because after writing a business press release they can add their URL in the end. They can also include a back link for their website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About The Author&lt;br /&gt;Gagandeep Dhaliwal owns a website on Website Promotion &lt;a href="http://www.gmwebsitepromotion.com/" target="new"&gt;http://www.gmwebsitepromotion.com/&lt;/a&gt;. Website provides useful information to promote a site on Internet. Also offers some tips on how to promote a website. Get useful information about website promotion from his site &lt;a href="http://www.fastwebsitepromotionplan.info/" target="new"&gt;http://www.fastwebsitepromotionplan.info/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113842379014048895?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113842379014048895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113842379014048895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/website-promotion-tips.html' title='Website promotion tips'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113841255201034079</id><published>2006-01-27T20:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T21:12:14.906-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How not to make a million dollars in one easy lesson!</title><content type='html'>These guys are serious about their &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;! I know from a good source that these guys are tough to crack when caught, and never roll over on their buddies. That is what makes it so hard to catch and prosecute these people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But if you are smart, and I know you are, because you are reading this, you won't get burned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You really need to &lt;a href="http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/n/nigeriascams.htm"&gt;look out for these Nigerian scams!&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pass this along to &lt;strong&gt;friends&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;loved ones&lt;/strong&gt;. You may save someone their &lt;strong&gt;life savings!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113841255201034079?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113841255201034079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113841255201034079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-not-to-make-million-dollars-in-one.html' title='How not to make a million dollars in one easy lesson!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113838312660905440</id><published>2006-01-27T12:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T21:08:34.596-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Making money with online surveys....  scam!</title><content type='html'>There are so many &lt;strong&gt;BAD MONEY MAKING PROGRAMS&lt;/strong&gt;, that it's hard to find the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GOOD ONES&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. I have been looking at a whole bunch, and you really get turned off by all the B.S. out there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will try to keep adding my personal slants on what is good and what is junk. Of course, this is only my opinion, and you shouldn't listen to me, as your only voice of reason. But feel free to come back and let me know what your find.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good or bad, I want to hear from you. Maybe I can learn about something new, that you have been happy with, and we all can share our &lt;strong&gt;GOOD FORTUNE&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have found &lt;a href="http://myks.sitesell.com/louisdarke.html"&gt;ONE &lt;/a&gt;or&lt;a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=yNXwq8U1dvc&amp;offerid=7097.10000014&amp;amp;type=3&amp;subid=0"&gt;TWO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img height="1" src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=yNXwq8U1dvc&amp;amp;bids=7097.10000014&amp;type=3&amp;amp;subid=0" width="1" border="0" /&gt; lately, that are pretty nice programs, and can offer you a very decent beginning, in your path to making &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;GOOD MONEY&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on the &lt;strong&gt;INTERNET&lt;/strong&gt;. You might give them a look and see for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember,don't get caught in the latest &lt;a href="http://www.topsitereviews.info/moneysurveys.html"&gt;Making Money With Online Surveys SCAM&lt;/a&gt; !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113838312660905440?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113838312660905440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113838312660905440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/making-money-with-online-surveys-scam.html' title='Making money with online surveys....  scam!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113833946317879612</id><published>2006-01-27T00:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T11:38:16.206-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Even Jerks Become Millionaires!</title><content type='html'>You may have seen him on the web, surrounded by women, mansions, and fast cars. You may have read his ads and thought, "Is he for REAL?" Well &lt;strong&gt;THE RICH JERK&lt;/strong&gt; is for real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading his &lt;em&gt;eBook&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;THE RICH JERK&lt;/strong&gt;, I have to say I did find it very interesting and informational. It is filled with very easy to understand language, and ideas. Even for the basic web savvy person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can't help but find this &lt;strong&gt;JERK &lt;/strong&gt;entertaining at the least. His methods are a bit odd. He tends to be insulting and degrading in his words, but look past this. What you will find is some very useful stuff. Things you can use very quickly and for little or &lt;strong&gt;NO COST&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His techniques are fresh and I found several very helpful. I have tried several of his ideas and am satisfied with the results so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you are looking for a way to start &lt;strong&gt;making big money&lt;/strong&gt; on the &lt;strong&gt;Internet&lt;/strong&gt;, or are looking to increase you already steady &lt;strong&gt;income&lt;/strong&gt;, with some new angles, try the &lt;strong&gt;RICH JERK&lt;/strong&gt; out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey, it comes with a&lt;em&gt; money back guarantee&lt;/em&gt;, so you can't lose. Just my two cents......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113833946317879612?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://louisdarke.richjerk.hop.clickbank.net' title='Even Jerks Become Millionaires!'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113833946317879612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113833946317879612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/even-jerks-become-millionaires.html' title='Even Jerks Become Millionaires!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113831331837069324</id><published>2006-01-26T17:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-26T17:10:53.976-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oprah please!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/oprah(005-pointing-med).jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/oprah%28005-pointing-med%29.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone believe &lt;strong&gt;Oprah &lt;/strong&gt;or what?! And am I the only one who thinks she looks like some sort of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;human&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;/&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;frog &lt;/em&gt;cloning&lt;/strong&gt; accident gone bad?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113831331837069324?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113831331837069324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113831331837069324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/oprah-please.html' title='Oprah please!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113820006147927457</id><published>2006-01-25T09:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T09:42:30.280-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kill me now!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/Blue%20hills.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/Blue%20hills.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure what it is today, but I am beyond boredom at the office. I think I'm getting the big seven year itch, after eight years, at this job, and need to make a change. It really sucks that the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;money&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is so good. I would have left years ago, if it wasn't for the &lt;strong&gt;$$$$&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm actually getting tired of this state too. Don't get me wrong, &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Florida&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is awesome. But after 17 years of &lt;em&gt;sand&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;sun &lt;/em&gt;and &lt;em&gt;surf&lt;/em&gt;, it gets to you. I think any place gets to you after enough time passes. I think I need a change of scenery or something. Maybe&lt;strong&gt; mountains&lt;/strong&gt;, instead of&lt;strong&gt; beaches&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did get a call from a friend that I haven't heard from in some time. We're going to catch up for lunch. We go back a few years and she's always fun to hang out with. I'm wondering if my girlfriend is reading this and will call to see who "she" is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, so much for killing time, I guess I need to go be productive.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113820006147927457?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113820006147927457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113820006147927457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/kill-me-now.html' title='Kill me now!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113805339359433708</id><published>2006-01-23T16:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-23T16:56:33.596-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steelers/Seahawks Superbowl 2006</title><content type='html'>I told you the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Steelers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; would be there!  Winning by 3, in the &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Superbowl&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seahawks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; should keep their asses home!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113805339359433708?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113805339359433708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113805339359433708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/steelersseahawks-superbowl-2006.html' title='Steelers/Seahawks Superbowl 2006'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113763836248313915</id><published>2006-01-18T21:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-18T21:43:57.763-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Rottweiler named Mina</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/000_0029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/000_0029.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray&lt;/strong&gt;, the lead female character in &lt;strong&gt;Bram Stoker's&lt;/strong&gt;, "&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dracula&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;", was the inspiration for me naming her &lt;strong&gt;Mina&lt;/strong&gt;. She's one great &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rottie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She's my second Rottweiler, the first was &lt;strong&gt;Akasha, &lt;/strong&gt;named after &lt;strong&gt;Anne Rice's&lt;/strong&gt;, "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Queen of the Damned&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rotties &lt;/strong&gt;are a great breed. Very good personality, and a great addition to most any family. They are good with kids, and adults, and keep the door to door salemen at bay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While most are fearful of these calm, quiet dogs, they are, in reality, quite social, and have a very stable temperament. Not skittish or "yappy", they only make themselves known when it is necessary. They are very intelligent and love to learn. Both of mine have been excellent pets, friends, and family members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are in the market for a beautiful, strong, proud, and intelligent &lt;strong&gt;dog&lt;/strong&gt;, I recommend you check out this breed. &lt;strong&gt;Rottweilers &lt;/strong&gt;are a great animal, and when searching for one, be sure to steer clear of &lt;strong&gt;puppy mills&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;pet stores&lt;/strong&gt;. You want to find a reputable &lt;strong&gt;breeder&lt;/strong&gt; or check your &lt;strong&gt;local shelters&lt;/strong&gt; for one. Because of their strength and size, you need to be sure of the &lt;strong&gt;dog's &lt;/strong&gt;background, and their history, when possible, to be sure you are not opening up yourself to a problem &lt;strong&gt;pet&lt;/strong&gt;. Use common sense and do your homework, and I think you will end up finding out how wonderful this &lt;strong&gt;breed&lt;/strong&gt; really is. &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.10.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113763836248313915?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113763836248313915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113763836248313915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/rottweiler-named-mina.html' title='A Rottweiler named Mina'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113761887410925509</id><published>2006-01-18T16:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-18T16:33:55.743-05:00</updated><title type='text'>From Clerks to Jersey Girl....My place in the View Askew history books</title><content type='html'>Well, since Jay has the title of this man's hetero Life Mate, I guess I'll have to settle for first runner up.&lt;br /&gt;I can trace my interest in &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Smith&lt;/strong&gt;, a.k.a. &lt;strong&gt;Silent Bob&lt;/strong&gt;, back many years ago. Probably about 10 years. A friend, and fellow movie buff, told me about a film called &lt;strong&gt;Chasing Amy&lt;/strong&gt;, by &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Smith&lt;/strong&gt;. I had never heard of it, or him, but I thought I'd give it a try. Holy Shit! I loved this flick! Great story, great characters, great dialogue! I was hooked. So I decided to see what else he had done. &lt;strong&gt;Clerks &lt;/strong&gt;was the next film I watched, and was equally impressed. &lt;strong&gt;Mallrats &lt;/strong&gt;followed, and then &lt;strong&gt;Dogma&lt;/strong&gt;. Again, I really couldn't help but love his film making style, and even the guy himself. If not for the only reason that he is comfortable with himself, and all the things he does. He doesn't seem to fall under the pressure of the outside world, and the assholes that inhabit it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A real product of &lt;strong&gt;New Jersey&lt;/strong&gt;, Kevin is. Small town kid who was going nowhere and decided to take a chance making a movie about a couple of guys in a convenience store, and a video store. Who could have guessed it would be the start of a long career in film. While he does work with &lt;strong&gt;comic books&lt;/strong&gt; and other projects, it is his films that most impress me. So when the opportunity came up to have a chance to be an extra in his last film, &lt;strong&gt;Jersey Girl&lt;/strong&gt;, I jumped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty basic application process. Send in a photo and wait for them to call you. Well I did, and they did! One of the best messages ever left on my answering machine. They needed me to be in &lt;strong&gt;Philadelphia &lt;/strong&gt;for a shoot at &lt;strong&gt;The Hard Rock Cafe&lt;/strong&gt;. It would be an entire day and night, and the pay was zero. Free lunch and dinner, and all the standing around waiting and waiting for the next scene you could handle. Sounded great to me, and I was on a plane from &lt;strong&gt;Florida&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;Jersey&lt;/strong&gt;, before you could say,"please fasten your seat belts". I drove about 3 hours from my folks, to &lt;strong&gt;Philadelphia,&lt;/strong&gt; to be there, on the set for 7:30 a.m. sharp!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon arrival, I saw that there was a bunch of movie fans and star "wanna be's" at the holding area for all the cast, and extras, and it was simply awesome. There were people from all over the world there, to be in this film, and get a glimpse of the man, &lt;strong&gt;Kevin&lt;/strong&gt;, and maybe even &lt;strong&gt;Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez,&lt;/strong&gt; or any of the other stars in the film. Oh yeah, &lt;strong&gt;George Carlin&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Liv Tyler&lt;/strong&gt;, were also part of this great film. So here we all were, hoping to make some celluloid history and rub elbows with someone famous, and in the process make a new friend or two.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More to come.....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113761887410925509?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113761887410925509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113761887410925509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/from-clerks-to-jersey-girlmy-place-in.html' title='From Clerks to Jersey Girl....My place in the View Askew history books'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113759549032080890</id><published>2006-01-18T09:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-18T20:55:50.093-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Barbie doesn't live here anymore!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just watched a show on the &lt;strong&gt;plastic surgery&lt;/strong&gt; industry in this country and was shocked. Over 12 billion dollars were spent on &lt;strong&gt;beauty&lt;/strong&gt; products, and &lt;strong&gt;plastic surgery&lt;/strong&gt;, in the US last year, and 90% of that was by women!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They profiled 4 women, of various ages, who were addicted to &lt;strong&gt;plastic surgery&lt;/strong&gt;. One older woman has had 50 &lt;strong&gt;plastic surgeries&lt;/strong&gt;! She looks like she isn't even real! Before the surgeries, she was a gorgeous woman, and now she looks worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 3 other women were younger. They were in their twenties and thirties, and all were attractive before the &lt;strong&gt;surgeries&lt;/strong&gt;.  They all felt they weren't pretty or thin enough. One woman spent over 100,000 dollars on &lt;strong&gt;surgeries&lt;/strong&gt;.  She wants to have more, and her husband is trying to figure out how they will pay for it, since they are already deep in debt from the other &lt;strong&gt;surgeries&lt;/strong&gt;! Personally, I'd kick this broad to the curb!  Or get her a really good shrink!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think instead of spending the money on the plastic surgery, they should have talked to someone about their &lt;strong&gt;self esteem&lt;/strong&gt;. It could have saved a whole lot of time and money. Not to mention the risk they are undergoing to get fuller lips, bigger breasts, and flatter bellies!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ladies, &lt;strong&gt;plastic surgery&lt;/strong&gt; may turn an extra head or two at first, but it's really what lies beneath that keeps us looking and coming back for more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just my &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;testosterone&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; driven two cents!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113759549032080890?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113759549032080890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113759549032080890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/barbie-doesnt-live-here-anymore.html' title='Barbie doesn&apos;t live here anymore!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113755673736349685</id><published>2006-01-17T22:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-17T23:00:45.633-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Vitamins and other good stuff</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've used several &lt;strong&gt;online health&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;vitamin&lt;/strong&gt; sites to purchase my &lt;strong&gt;vitamin&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;health&lt;/strong&gt; stuff over the years. So far, I have found &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Swansonvitamins.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to be the best. I have a link to their site here and you may want to check them out. They have a $4.95 shipping offer for any size order. Not a bad deal. One of their items I particularly like is their &lt;strong&gt;Acidophilus Bio Beads&lt;/strong&gt;. They are a darn good &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;probiotic &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;and are very reasonably priced. Give them a try. You might be glad you did.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113755673736349685?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113755673736349685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113755673736349685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/vitamins-and-other-good-stuff.html' title='Vitamins and other good stuff'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113753303130122673</id><published>2006-01-17T16:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-17T22:28:30.403-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Vegas Baby!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/vegas%20040.5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/vegas%20040.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; If you haven't been already, you have to go to &lt;strong&gt;Las Vegas&lt;/strong&gt;! Forget about all that &lt;strong&gt;Epcot Center&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Disney,&lt;/strong&gt; family crap! Vegas is beginning the shift away from that, and is heading back to the adult playground capital of the world. Thank &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On my last visit, the female pirates at the &lt;strong&gt;Treasure Island&lt;/strong&gt; outdoor show went topless, as they did in the past. Much to the surprise of the mommies and daddies pushing their unimpressed, whining, kids along the sidewalk, right in front of all that flesh! Now that's progress!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean, what idiot decided that &lt;strong&gt;Vegas&lt;/strong&gt; was a place to take the kids, anyway? I think if you went to the trouble of having children, take them to places that families go. &lt;strong&gt;Disney World&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Universal Studios&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;The Grand Canyon&lt;/strong&gt;. Not to &lt;strong&gt;Las Vegas&lt;/strong&gt;! Or the mini &lt;strong&gt;Vegas&lt;/strong&gt;, we like to call &lt;strong&gt;Atlantic City&lt;/strong&gt;. The &lt;strong&gt;Rat Pack&lt;/strong&gt; must be turning over in there graves, as we speak. Poor &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frank, Sammy, Joey and Dean&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So grab you wife, girlfriend, mistress or donkey, because what happens in &lt;strong&gt;Vegas&lt;/strong&gt;, really does stay in &lt;strong&gt;Vegas! &lt;/strong&gt;Head to the original &lt;strong&gt;Sin City,&lt;/strong&gt; and have a ball. There are so many places to eat, drink and party at, you may forget about the whole &lt;strong&gt;gambling&lt;/strong&gt; thing. Well, maybe not. But there truly are still deals to be had. Check out &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;lasvegas.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, or &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;lasvegasfunbook.com&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;for some good stuff. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tripadvisor.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a good place to look also. Lots of good info there. Try it all in Vegas. The old &lt;strong&gt;Fremont Street&lt;/strong&gt;, the &lt;strong&gt;Strip. &lt;/strong&gt;Everything there is worth hitting. Even the little "joints" that no one wants to be seen in. Like "&lt;strong&gt;Slots of Fun&lt;/strong&gt;", on the &lt;strong&gt;Strip&lt;/strong&gt;. This little "&lt;strong&gt;casino&lt;/strong&gt;" is a true icon of old &lt;strong&gt;Vegas&lt;/strong&gt;. Dirty, dimly lit and crawling with character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you do one thing this year, go to &lt;strong&gt;Las Vegas&lt;/strong&gt;. You will be happy you did!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I usually go to &lt;strong&gt;Vegas &lt;/strong&gt;in the off season, and it is a whole lot better than in season. Less crowds, better deals, and the &lt;strong&gt;hookers&lt;/strong&gt; are giving it away! Ok, I have no idea if they are giving it away. I did get a deal on one full night of free sex with the purchase of an official "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Las Vegas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;" &lt;strong&gt;tshirt&lt;/strong&gt;. Weird that the &lt;strong&gt;tshirt&lt;/strong&gt; cost $500.00 though........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well that's my two cents on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vegas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113753303130122673?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113753303130122673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113753303130122673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/vegas-baby.html' title='Vegas Baby!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113738995591996935</id><published>2006-01-16T00:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-16T00:39:15.920-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Superbowl Sunday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I see the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pittsburgh Steelers&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; taking the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Superbowl &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;title by 3.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113738995591996935?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113738995591996935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113738995591996935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/superbowl-sunday.html' title='Superbowl Sunday'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113737105898246065</id><published>2006-01-15T19:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-15T20:29:52.003-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Breast implants</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/Edinburgh4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/Edinburgh4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Breast implants&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's almost impossible to find a woman these days without them. They're all over the place. Young, old, and every age in between, are running off to the plastic surgeon to have a big old sack of saline, or silicone, shoved through a hole, or whatever method is the choice of the day, in their body, to increase the size of their&lt;strong&gt; breasts&lt;/strong&gt;. Why? Where did the memo come from that said that a woman isn't a hottie, unless her&lt;strong&gt; tits&lt;/strong&gt; are the size of a grown man's head? Or bigger? Most of the &lt;strong&gt;women&lt;/strong&gt; I know are going from an A or small B cup, to a full C or full D cup. I mean, come on, do they really believe that they are a more complete woman, because they have larger&lt;strong&gt; breasts&lt;/strong&gt;? If so, then women not only are the weaker&lt;strong&gt; sex&lt;/strong&gt;, but they must also be the less intelligent &lt;strong&gt;sex.&lt;/strong&gt; You certainly don't see men running out to get &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;penis&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; enlargement surgery, so that they feel more like a man, do you? I don't think so. And I have to think that there are some of us out there in the world, with pretty pathetic cocks. Hell, I hear &lt;strong&gt;Asian&lt;/strong&gt; men are hung like 3 year olds, but they aren't inventing any &lt;strong&gt;penis&lt;/strong&gt; growing miracle products.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps we are just more secure with ourselves. Maybe we don't fall under the pressure of society and all the &lt;strong&gt;media propeganda&lt;/strong&gt; out there, aimed at telling us what we need and want, to make us better people. Whatever it is, I have a request for all the &lt;strong&gt;women&lt;/strong&gt; out there. LEAVE YOUR &lt;strong&gt;BREASTS&lt;/strong&gt; ALONE! We like them the way they are. Small, big, flat or full. We're men for God's sake!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113737105898246065?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113737105898246065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113737105898246065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/breast-implants.html' title='Breast implants'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113728653589447373</id><published>2006-01-14T19:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T19:55:35.903-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Redskins are out of the playoffs.....</title><content type='html'>'Nuff said?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113728653589447373?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113728653589447373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113728653589447373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/redskins-are-out-of-playoffs.html' title='Redskins are out of the playoffs.....'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113728360824753589</id><published>2006-01-14T18:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T19:06:48.556-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Playoff update</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/nfl_washington_redskins.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/nfl_washington_redskins.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Skins are down by 11, and the score is 14-3. Not good. But there is time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girl is getting sweaty and a bit angry, so it could get ugly. I'll have to pour a few more drinks for her to keep her calm, if it keeps going this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They say it's been raining for 27 days in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Seattle&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. What the hell is that about? Sounds like something out of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bible &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;to me. That is way too much rain. Living in the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sunshine State&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, like we do, you don't get too many rainy days in a row here. It's all about beaches and bikinis here baby......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Skins just scored their first touchdown of the game. Fourth quarter, and 12 minutes left. Gotta go pour a drink......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113728360824753589?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113728360824753589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113728360824753589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/playoff-update.html' title='Playoff update'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113727960868488905</id><published>2006-01-14T17:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T18:42:30.900-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Footbal/Football/Football: The Playoffs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Playoff Game&lt;/strong&gt; on Fox today. &lt;em&gt;Washington &lt;/em&gt;at &lt;em&gt;Seattle&lt;/em&gt;. The girlfriend is rooting for the 'Skins. So I am too. Personally, if I have nothing riding on a game, it really doesn't matter to me, but if the 'Skins win, she'll be happy. That trickles down to me in more than one way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the game we prepared a few &lt;strong&gt;football game&lt;/strong&gt; snacks. A 9 layer&lt;strong&gt; mexican dip&lt;/strong&gt;(email me for the secret recipe), a &lt;strong&gt;buffalo chicken dip&lt;/strong&gt;(email me for this one too), and a nice vegetable variety platter. Gotta have something &lt;strong&gt;healthy&lt;/strong&gt; in there. Throw in a few cold &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coors Lites&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and some &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coca Cola&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Black Cherry Vanilla &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cokes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, and you are set.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113727960868488905?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113727960868488905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113727960868488905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/footbalfootballfootball-playoffs.html' title='Footbal/Football/Football: The Playoffs'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113721037314754398</id><published>2006-01-13T22:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T00:15:09.683-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tips on Meeting and Dating the Women You Want: II. **Bonus tip/trick!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/bagoftrix.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/bagoftrix.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something that I have found to work well in a mall or any social setting, to attract a &lt;strong&gt;woman's&lt;/strong&gt; attention, is this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you see a &lt;strong&gt;woman &lt;/strong&gt;you would like to meet, head in her direction, but don't make any eye contact, or let her know you are looking at her. When you get close to her, trip, pretend to fall down, bump into something/someone! Make a small scene. Pretend to be embarrassed. If you get her to pay attention, and ask if you are alright, don't look at her face! Start to explain you were looking at the most attractive, cutest, whatever applies, woman you had ever seen and weren't paying attention to where you were walking. As you finish your words, start to look at her face. Once you make eye contact, do your best at being embarrassed. She should get that you mean her. If not, explain awkwardly, that it was her and that you feel like an idiot. If you come off sincere, she'll be flattered, and you can use your recent confidence to strike up a conversation right there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extra bonus points, if it works the first time you try it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*SEE PREVIOUS ENTRIES FOR TIPS ON MEETING AND DATING THE WOMEN YOU WANT**&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113721037314754398?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113721037314754398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113721037314754398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/tips-on-meeting-and-dating-women-you.html' title='Tips on Meeting and Dating the Women You Want: II. **Bonus tip/trick!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113712678429655320</id><published>2006-01-12T23:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T00:15:26.396-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tips on Meeting and Dating the Women You Want: II.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/0107.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/0107.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you do what I said in the first installment?&lt;br /&gt;No. Go back to square one Jack.&lt;br /&gt;Yes? Good. Moving right along....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, you've combed your hair, washed your face, shaved(hopefully), because the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miami Vice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; look was dead 20 years ago, and found some decent clothes to wear. You've also brushed up on your latest &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cosmo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, or other gal rag that is out there, and studied the little black letters written on the pages. Now your ready to venture out into the big bad world of women. Your first destination isn't going to be where you get to exercise you new found literary muscles, but soon, very soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First you need to go someplace where there are women. Makes sense, right? Well you are better off going to a place where the women out&lt;strong&gt;weigh&lt;/strong&gt; the men by a large margin. Women of all ages. Sure you could jump into a crowded bar or dance floor, but the odds are not stacked in your favor there. You need high volumes of &lt;strong&gt;estrogen&lt;/strong&gt;. Lots of &lt;strong&gt;women&lt;/strong&gt; as compared to men. So where to go? I have found one of the best places, is your local mall. &lt;strong&gt;Women&lt;/strong&gt; flock to them like flies on a sugar cube. There might be a genetic flaw in their DNA that draws them to all that commerce. Who knows? It makes no difference to you. So grab the keys and jump in your car and start driving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once you arrive, there are many options available to you. &lt;em&gt;Food courts&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;movie theaters&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;lingerie shops&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;shoe&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;stores&lt;/em&gt;, and of course, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Sharper Image&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Steer clear of this one at first. &lt;strong&gt;Women&lt;/strong&gt; shopping here tend to be a bit too smart for our own good. They also aren't always the most interesting of the bunch. Any woman looking for the latest book light, and page holder, to illuminate their copy of "The Female Investors' Guide to IRA's", that they can't put down in bed, probably isn't going to be a heck of a lot of fun on a date. So move on pal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try to hit the mid level shops like &lt;strong&gt;Macy's&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Burdines&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Sears,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;JC Penney, Lady Foot Locker &lt;/strong&gt;or something along these lines. These can be gold mines. You need to locate a &lt;strong&gt;woman &lt;/strong&gt;you are interested in and wander over to her area. Start looking at items on the racks or shelves that she's looking at. Touch the fabric, look at colors, side by side, and act as if you are interested in what she is looking at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, politely ask her what color a particular item you are looking at is. Explain you are color blind and really can't tell shades of color that well. Ask if she could help you for a moment. Unless she's a complete bitch, which happens, she'll probably be glad to help. Tell her you are shopping for a gift for a sister, cousin, friend or coworker. Tell her that she looks about the size of the person you are shopping for, and ask her opinion on what she thinks would make a nice gift. You might even get her to try something on, and model it, if you ask really nicely, and smile. Just don't say it's for a girlfriend or wife. Big mistake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eight out of ten times, you'll impress her right here. Not many men shopping in malls outside of the hardware departments in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sears&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, so you make points, big time. Work on the length of conversation. Your goal is to get comfortable talking to the opposite sex. Not score just yet. Although she might be so impressed and you may have a natural charm, and BAM!, you got one hooked on the line. What you do from here is your own doing. I'm just setting up a foundation here. It's all about baby steps. No one ran before they walked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you aren't on your way to taking her out on a date, or to bed, no problem. We just want to be confident when we are around them and comfortable with them in a social environment. A woman can smell a confident man before he walks in the room. It is an aphrodisiac to them. And if it isn't, they're probably crack addicts or professional escorts, and aren't looking for a guy like you anyway. So thank her politely,finish up and move to the next retail shop that you feel OK going into. Hit 2 or 3, and then call it a day. You have gained much and lost nothing. Hell, maybe &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sears &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;will be having a sale, and you can score a new &lt;strong&gt;Craftsman tool&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good luck! Stay confident! You can do it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*SEE PREVIOUS ENTRIES FOR TIPS ON MEETING AND DATING THE WOMEN YOU WANT**&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113712678429655320?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113712678429655320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113712678429655320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/tips-on-meeting-and-dating-women-you_12.html' title='Tips on Meeting and Dating the Women You Want: II.'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113710245855158115</id><published>2006-01-12T16:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T00:16:16.916-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Tips on Meeting and Dating the Women You Want.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/bored-girl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/bored-girl.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;News flash!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Girls are just like you and I. They enjoy a good time too. Maybe even more than us, on occasion!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know most of you guys are going to find this hard to swallow, (no homosexual reference pun intended), but you have to believe me on this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The women out there, that you see everyday, in &lt;strong&gt;bars&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;bookstores&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;coffee&lt;/strong&gt; shops and even the grocery store buying &lt;strong&gt;baby diapers, &lt;/strong&gt;want to have a good time.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;They really do. And if you are smart about it, which means probably changing your way of thinking about women, you could be the one they are going to spend some quality time with!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it sounds like one of those "&lt;strong&gt;Get Rich&lt;/strong&gt; Quick Schemes", you should probably stop reading now. You may be shaking you head, but I'll bet you pick up a cutie or two. Hell if you are really good, you might end up with two at the same time. Yes, it can be harder than Chinese arithmetic, to pull off, but it happens. You just need to play your cards right. It's really up to you. I can only lead you to the well. You need to put the cup in and pull some water out of it on your own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how do you go about learning the magic that will set you on your way to catching that mythical perfect babe? You don't. There is no magic spell or potion, no fairy dust, or eye of bat, that will work on the lovely lady at the end of your favorite bar. So forget all those stupid pick up lines, and expensive high end colognes. But please do wash with soap and water. Being clean is a good thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, comb your hair, and break out your good clothes. Not the ones that you hang out with your friends in. Those don't impress anyone. Trust me. If they do, they ain't worth impressing. Particularly a girl who is looking for Mr. Right, or Mr. Good For a Night. She's looking for a man who looks like he's successful, or will be, and certainly someone with brains enough to dress properly. She also wants someone to talk to. I know you hate the thought of having to read a &lt;strong&gt;magazine &lt;/strong&gt;or &lt;strong&gt;book&lt;/strong&gt; or even both, but it helps. You are going to need something to talk about. At least to start off. If you are new to this, you can start with a few hot topics off of &lt;strong&gt;MSN&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/strong&gt; Anything to strike up a conversation will work. If you really want to impress, pick up a copy of &lt;strong&gt;Cosmopolitan&lt;/strong&gt;. Or one of the &lt;strong&gt;magazines&lt;/strong&gt; about the celebrities, and the gossip they are always creating. Embarrassing? No way. This is what they read and sometimes base their lives on.....trust me. So do it! And read them cover to cover. Pay attention to any thing related to a new &lt;strong&gt;fashion &lt;/strong&gt;buzz, &lt;strong&gt;makeup&lt;/strong&gt; tips, or &lt;strong&gt;hair style&lt;/strong&gt;. Also articles on better &lt;strong&gt;sexual health&lt;/strong&gt;, that new turn on &lt;strong&gt;technique&lt;/strong&gt;,etc. It will pay dividends down the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that we have a base to work with. Come back later for more. You don't want to overload yourself all at once. Do you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/sensual18_th.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/sensual18_th.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113710245855158115?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113710245855158115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113710245855158115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/tips-on-meeting-and-dating_113710245855158115.html' title='Tips on Meeting and Dating the Women You Want.'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113700283771307476</id><published>2006-01-11T12:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-11T23:12:33.340-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Casino/Slot Machine Tip</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While in Vegas recently, my girl and I were stayed at Harrah's &lt;strong&gt;Casino&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;&lt;strong&gt;Hotel&lt;/strong&gt;. A very nice place to stay, if you need a reasonably priced, clean, on the strip, location.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It offers a great &lt;strong&gt;casino&lt;/strong&gt;, and several indoor bars/restaurants and one great outdoor &lt;strong&gt;bar&lt;/strong&gt;. The Asian restaurant had the best Pad Thai I ever had! No lie!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While sitting at one of the bars, we met a gentleman, and struck up a conversation with him. He was a well traveled gambler/businessman, and he let us in on a couple of tips to try while in the &lt;strong&gt;casino&lt;/strong&gt;. We never really got around to trying any of them, so I can't say if they would have been successful in the Vegas &lt;strong&gt;Casinos&lt;/strong&gt;, or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"So where's the tip?", you ask. OK. OK.  Here it is........&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said to play the progressive &lt;strong&gt;slot machines&lt;/strong&gt; when they are in the $1000.00 to $1600.00 range. Better yet, the $1100-$1400 range, if possible. Apparently they are designed to pay out at those ranges, more than the higher dollar amounts. I can't say if this is true or not, but I tried it and it worked almost every time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I chose only the one dollar &lt;strong&gt;slot machines&lt;/strong&gt;, and he mentioned playing the maximum bet allowed on the &lt;strong&gt;slot machine&lt;/strong&gt;. Well better than 70% of the time, he was right! I hit for some fairly good amounts. In fact a guy right next to me tried it after seeing me play, and he also hit one of the progressive &lt;strong&gt;slot machine&lt;/strong&gt; jackpots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who knows. Dumb luck, maybe. But it was worth the try for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"This tip is not meant to ensure you will win or might win more or any money using it. Use at your own discretion. It is just a tip."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113700283771307476?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113700283771307476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113700283771307476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/casinoslot-machine-tip.html' title='Casino/Slot Machine Tip'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113699950288010431</id><published>2006-01-11T12:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-11T21:20:14.226-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Louis Darke's Daily Horoscopes!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/qw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/qw.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This just in! Louis Darke's personal daily &lt;strong&gt;horoscopes &lt;/strong&gt;are here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know what you are thinking, "What does Louis Darke know about the zodiac?" Well, I know plenty. And you will too, with your free daily &lt;strong&gt;horoscope&lt;/strong&gt;, right here on my website!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use it for fun. Use it for love. Use it for luck. Heck, just use it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's totally free and you'll just never know what the fates have in store, until you check.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a great day, and enjoy the 'scopes!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113699950288010431?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113699950288010431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113699950288010431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/louis-darkes-daily-horoscopes.html' title='Louis Darke&apos;s Daily Horoscopes!'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113696113694314264</id><published>2006-01-11T01:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-11T01:33:29.656-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Burning the midnight oil</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/23.3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/23.3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I am actually working on this site, at the early morning hour of 1:30 a.m., just to keep things updated. Hope you are all well, and are enjoying the site, whether it is your first visit, or you are a returning friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a great day!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113696113694314264?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113696113694314264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113696113694314264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/burning-midnight-oil.html' title='Burning the midnight oil'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113694114582332682</id><published>2006-01-10T19:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-12T09:47:52.860-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Shop in your underwear</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/images.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/images.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sure doesn't look like she's having much fun, does it? Carting all those bags from place to place. I think she's probably wishing she could &lt;strong&gt;shop &lt;/strong&gt;in the comfort of her own home, saving time and money, and most of all GAS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So to make your visit more fun and interesting, and to allow you to go shopping in your &lt;strong&gt;underwear&lt;/strong&gt;, I've decided to add a few places for you to browse, and shop at.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And with our new affiliate partner, &lt;strong&gt;Playboy&lt;/strong&gt;.com, on board, we can offer you some pretty comfortable and good looking pairs at a great price!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you like some of my choices, let me know. If you don't, please let me know also. I will try to keep the merchant choices fresh, while ensuring they offer you, my guest, a good value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hopefully you will also make some recommendations for other places you like to go to make your &lt;strong&gt;online&lt;/strong&gt; purchases. I'm always listening, and my goal is to offer you a complete site. If I can keep you from having to wander aimlessly around the Internet, looking for items you want, or need, to buy, then I've done my job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have fun, enjoy the site, and go get yourself a great deal on a pair of&lt;strong&gt; briefs&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113694114582332682?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113694114582332682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113694114582332682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/shop-in-your-underwear.html' title='Shop in your underwear'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113686779573683695</id><published>2006-01-09T23:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-12T09:46:53.223-05:00</updated><title type='text'>KING KONG/PETER JACKSON</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/Kong_051214115933557_wideweb__300x375.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/Kong_051214115933557_wideweb__300x375.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kong&lt;/strong&gt; rocks! and Peter Jackson could probably make a great film out of raw sewage! This guy is talented, and I can only imagine that his future films will continue to entertain and be huge successes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So don't miss this film. It is one of those rare experiences, where you really need to see it on the big screen. Not every film is made to be appreciated this way, but &lt;strong&gt;Kong&lt;/strong&gt; is! While the 3+ hours went by quickly for me, my&lt;strong&gt; girl&lt;/strong&gt; thought it was a bit long. I think she needed a bathroom break and was getting antsy. But if you have a strong bladder, or just watch your liquid intake prior to entering the theater, you should be able to make it through this fine film with no problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I am still a sucker for the original &lt;strong&gt;King Kong&lt;/strong&gt; from 1933,&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/kingk4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/kingk4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I have to say this is a worthy remake/retelling of the story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who are still sceptical about seeing this film, tainted by the 1975 version of &lt;strong&gt;King Kong&lt;/strong&gt;, don't hesitate! It makes Dino De Laurentis' version of Kong, look like the red headed step child that no one wants to admit is theirs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113686779573683695?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113686779573683695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113686779573683695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/king-kongpeter-jackson.html' title='KING KONG/PETER JACKSON'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113686388117661786</id><published>2006-01-09T21:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T18:21:37.750-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bowflex Weight Loss/Muscle Building</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/Yates04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/Yates04.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've all seen the ads, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's this guy, with the Hulk-like frame. The one with a &lt;strong&gt;body &lt;/strong&gt;that looks like it could stop bullets and repel lightning bolts, without flinching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lucky guy is standing next to, or working out with the &lt;strong&gt;beautiful young girl&lt;/strong&gt;/&lt;strong&gt;woman&lt;/strong&gt;, who looks like she could give you some serious wood, &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/Valerie_Waugaman-133.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/Valerie_Waugaman-133.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;at the exact same time she's kicking your teeth in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well after seeing a few too many of these ads, and a long time of procrastinating, I decided it was time to get serious about an &lt;strong&gt;exercise program&lt;/strong&gt;, and wanted to &lt;strong&gt;better&lt;/strong&gt; myself and my &lt;strong&gt;health&lt;/strong&gt;. Oh the Gods of TV marketing are a talented bunch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey don't get me wrong. I've always kept in pretty good shape, an &lt;strong&gt;athletic&lt;/strong&gt; frame, I think that's what they call what I have. I did the usual walking, laps in the backyard pool, frequent&lt;strong&gt; sex&lt;/strong&gt; with the girlfriend &lt;strong&gt;exercise&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;plan &lt;/strong&gt;for a long time, and it seemed to be working. Of course, I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, and never really gave it a thought. (Bad idea!) But apparently the aging process tends to tip the scales away from your favor, as you get older, and decides to fuck with you when you least expect it. So after watching one of those 3a.m. ads on TV for a &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex weight loss&lt;/strong&gt;/&lt;strong&gt;exercise mach&lt;/strong&gt;ine, I decided to bite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first I did some pretty heavy price and model comparisons, to be sure I got what I needed in a machine, and no more. I really didn't want to drop a shit load of cash, if this thing was not going to work. And why buy too much machine and end up having to return the thing, or end up keeping it, and turning it into a clothes dryer, to hang my laundry from. Nope. I just needed something that was easy to use and would keep me interested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I finally narrowed it down to the &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex Motivator 2&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/NAUT_MOTIVATOR_dt.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/NAUT_MOTIVATOR_dt.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It is their base model, and was priced right. About 550.00, shipping and all. So I went ahead and ordered it from one of these online exercise equipment places, because even &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex &lt;/strong&gt;doesn't sell this low end of a model any longer, and waited. A few days later the Fedex truck pulled up and out came several boxes of equipment. Now all I had to do was assemble it and be on my way to better health and a better body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Putting this machine together was really quite simple. You just had to follow the directions, which were very straight forward, and detailed. It really was a one person job, although a second set of hands would have moved it along a bit faster. All in all, maybe 2.5 hours of time and the &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex Motivator 2&lt;/strong&gt; was completed. For a base unit it was a very professional looking piece of equipment. Sturdy looking and actually kind of cool. If, actually, any piece of equipment that is gonna make you sweat and work hard to improve yourself, could really be called cool. But I think it still is cool looking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex&lt;/strong&gt; comes with a very nice workout poster and workout guide. It has way more exercises in it than I would ever use. In fact, it gives you exercises for just about all of your body areas. Head to toe, butt to balls. Well maybe not balls, but you get what I mean. It also breaks it into various methods of exercise. A &lt;strong&gt;weight loss&lt;/strong&gt; plan. A &lt;strong&gt;muscle building&lt;/strong&gt; plan. A &lt;strong&gt;strength training&lt;/strong&gt; plan. It even has a diet plan to follow. Personally, I didn't value the diet plan too much, but I think it has some merit to it. The &lt;strong&gt;diet plan&lt;/strong&gt; they have looks like it would help you &lt;strong&gt;lose the weight&lt;/strong&gt; you wanted, if you followed it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went for the &lt;strong&gt;strength training&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;the muscle building&lt;/strong&gt; plans. You basically start off with about 3 days a week and work your way from there. You choose what areas you want to work on first and add as you go. The &lt;strong&gt;exercises&lt;/strong&gt; in the book are shown in pretty good detail, with photos and text. None of them that I have found put any unusual stress on your joints or muscles, and are pretty smooth from start to finish. In fact, I can honestly say, it is a pretty nice &lt;strong&gt;workout &lt;/strong&gt;that you get from this &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex &lt;/strong&gt;machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After about 4 weeks of following their plan, I was already noticing a difference in myself. I felt better, and could see some changes. I also received more than one compliment from people I knew. Most had no idea I was working out with the &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex&lt;/strong&gt;. Of course once I mentioned it, they all had a joke or something funny to say about the &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex&lt;/strong&gt;. But they all agreed that they could see a change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the best things about the &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex workout&lt;/strong&gt;, was that it helped me lose at least an inch off my waist. That may not be much to some of you, but it got me back into the Levi's 501 button fly jeans I couldn't get into for quite some time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can really achieve results using the &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex &lt;/strong&gt;in my opinion. No matter what &lt;strong&gt;weight loss&lt;/strong&gt; plan or &lt;strong&gt;dieting&lt;/strong&gt; you are doing, the &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex &lt;/strong&gt;can certainly help you get to where you want to be. It is a non stressful workout machine, and it doesn't take up very much floor space either. The model &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex&lt;/strong&gt; I have, in fact all of the machines, except maybe the high end models, fold up, and can be rolled away for storage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would recommend the &lt;strong&gt;Bowflex Motivator 2&lt;/strong&gt; to all those looking to get in better shape and health for the New Year.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113686388117661786?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113686388117661786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113686388117661786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/bowflex-weight-lossmuscle-building.html' title='Bowflex Weight Loss/Muscle Building'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113669541612283840</id><published>2006-01-07T23:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-12T23:07:03.923-05:00</updated><title type='text'>INFINITI G35 driver site</title><content type='html'>Added a link for anyone who enjoys the &lt;strong&gt;Infiniti G35&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been a fan of &lt;strong&gt;Nissan &lt;/strong&gt;products for years, and have owned a few Nissans,and I'm now on my second &lt;strong&gt;Infiniti G35&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/g35.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/g35.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and I can honestly say that these guys definitely build some great cars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To all the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Acura TL&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;BMW 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; series folks out there...........you know that this car kicks it. Just deal with it. :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113669541612283840?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113669541612283840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113669541612283840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/infiniti-g35-driver-site.html' title='INFINITI G35 driver site'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113668187974978472</id><published>2006-01-07T19:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-12T23:08:35.053-05:00</updated><title type='text'>eBay added</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/eBayLogoTM.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/eBayLogoTM.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just added a link to my &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;eBay &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;spot, so that you guys can see if there's anything I've got offered, you might like. I just started doing the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;eBay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; thing a short while ago, and do enjoy the whole &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;eBay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best is when someone leaves a feedback for you, saying that they, or someone they bought the item for, really enjoyed the item(s).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One person bought a wireless spy cam from me, and used it to catch someone who was breaking into their home on a regular basis. So that was pretty cool. Knowing that it helped keep a family a bit more secure, and got some idiot caught, using some pretty awesome technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or getting some of the rabid&lt;strong&gt; Star Wars&lt;/strong&gt; fans out there, some of their favorite &lt;strong&gt;Star Wars&lt;/strong&gt; swag. These folks are die hard. No kidding. They may actually be from a galaxy far, far, away......&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/StarWars-03-june.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/StarWars-03-june.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then there are the t-shirt folks. These people are crazy for their shirts. I had one guy from &lt;strong&gt;Australia&lt;/strong&gt;, in a bidding war with a good old red blooded &lt;strong&gt;American&lt;/strong&gt;, for a Michelin Man t-shirt. Who knew? In the end, &lt;strong&gt;Australia&lt;/strong&gt; won out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And don't even start me on the guys and gals who want those &lt;strong&gt;shirts&lt;/strong&gt; with the bands, and artists on them.....serious &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;collectors&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; these people are. The older the &lt;strong&gt;shirt&lt;/strong&gt;, sometimes the better. &lt;strong&gt;Vintage shirts&lt;/strong&gt;, with folks like &lt;em&gt;KISS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/base_image.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/base_image.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Ted Nugent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/ted.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/ted.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, can command some pretty hefty dollars. It's nice to see people appreciate the "good old days".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So keep checking in. New items will be arriving for the new year. Hell, add me to your favorites now, so you don't miss out on that hard to find, or the "just what aunt Martha is looking for" widget that might be out there available right now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113668187974978472?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113668187974978472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113668187974978472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/ebay-added.html' title='eBay added'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113667245449082206</id><published>2006-01-07T16:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-12T13:13:21.780-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sweet Tomatoes and Football</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/sweettomatoes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/sweettomatoes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Headed for one of the local food joints here, Sweet Tomatoes, for some late lunch with my girl. Had to get ready for the "big game", by stuffing ourselves silly with a buffet of salads, soups, pizzas, pastas, and assorted baked goods. Figure this way we won't eat too much junk while watching the game.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 'Skins vs the 'Bucs. Hoo Haa! I hate watching&lt;strong&gt; football&lt;/strong&gt;. Actually, I hate most organized &lt;strong&gt;sports&lt;/strong&gt;. Although I do enjoy boxing. I just don't get the whole "me man, me watch other men play together" thing. I just find so many other things more interesting.....like women, for instance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I have always been a consummate Romeo, when it comes to the ladies. And I learned early on, that most young women were bored to shit with their jock boyfriends, when you got right down to it. Which left the perfect opportunity for me to make the best of that situation. Never had a problem hooking up with these poor lonely and bored gals, who were left alone, while their men would sit around drinking too much&lt;strong&gt; beer&lt;/strong&gt;, and eating too much &lt;strong&gt;pizza&lt;/strong&gt;, while watching all the games on the TV. The guys were basically saying, "hey, take my girlfriend and have a good time, &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/bedtalk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/bedtalk.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;while I sit here and get drunk and getting even fatter than I was before kickoff". So, I did. And oddly enough, I became quite good at it. I mean it is like a sport to some degree. The more you practice, the better you get at it. Of course, the occasional fat, sloppy fuck, would find out and want to break my head open, but it never materialized that way. Usually they were too stupid, or too slow, and could be fooled into letting it go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here we are, ready to watch the game together, my &lt;strong&gt;girl &lt;/strong&gt;and I, and I can't help think about those poor unfortunate &lt;strong&gt;women&lt;/strong&gt; out there in the world. Sorry ladies. You will just have to find someone out there who hates&lt;strong&gt; sports&lt;/strong&gt; as much as you do. We are out there, but our numbers are limited. So few real guys have the appreciation of a good woman these days. They would rather throw on their oversized jerseys, to hide their fat bellies, &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/111148.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/111148.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; drink a few cold&lt;strong&gt; beers&lt;/strong&gt; and vegetate. Never realizing the incredibly bored look on their woman's face. Of course, right now, I am the one with the really bored look on his face, because my girl is the beer drinking, &lt;strong&gt;pizza &lt;/strong&gt;eating sports fan today. Well more like the &lt;strong&gt;wine &lt;/strong&gt;drinking, cheese eating fan, and that's just fine with me. She's cute enough to make me want to sit in front of the tube for hours with her, and watch this "great" game. :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113667245449082206?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113667245449082206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113667245449082206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/sweet-tomatoes-and-football.html' title='Sweet Tomatoes and Football'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113661301555925651</id><published>2006-01-07T00:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-12T13:14:44.656-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Movie, Cigars and White Shiraz</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/99m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/99m.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Movie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watched American Pie Presents:Band Camp. If you liked the American Pie series of&lt;strong&gt; films&lt;/strong&gt;, this one lives up to the legacy. The younger brother of Stiffler is a screw up at school, and he's sent to band camp as a punishment, for the summer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can pretty much imagine what follows. Lots of drinking, vomiting, and T&amp;A. Of course, the T&amp;amp;A comes courtesy of the hot camp girls. Oh yeah, for the ladies, there are a few gratuitous shots of younger Stiffler's buns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is also a subplot about how young Stiffler gets to learn a lesson about real friendship and true love along the way. It certainly isn't the worst way to spend an hour and a half of your time. So if you are a fan of these types of &lt;strong&gt;films&lt;/strong&gt;, try it out. It's no Schindler's List, but then again, is that why we watch these types of films?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cigars&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recently got a box of CAO Gold label &lt;strong&gt;cigars&lt;/strong&gt; and a set of sampler packs of various CAO &lt;strong&gt;cigars&lt;/strong&gt;. The Golds are a nice smoke. Fairly mild, a good draw, and my girl hasn't complained yet about their smell. I usually smoke the Robusto size and these are a good value at about 90.00 a box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one sampler was an assortment of several of their more popular &lt;strong&gt;cigars&lt;/strong&gt;, the Brazilia and the newer Italia, were two of my favorites. The Italia was one of the smoothest, nicest &lt;strong&gt;cigars &lt;/strong&gt;I have ever smoked. The Brazilia is a bit more full bodied and a very nice smoke, for those who like something a bit stronger. At times, it almost has a menthol like flavor to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cao10pack_lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/cao10pack_lg.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second sampler had a collection of smaller, flavored smokes. Flavors like vanilla, honey, blueberry, white chocolate, and kama sutra. All of these had good flavor, and were a fairly quick smoke, since they were much smaller cigars. I'm not sure I would purchase these myself, but they were a nice alternative.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;White Shiraz &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I almost never smoke a stogie, without a good glass of &lt;strong&gt;wine&lt;/strong&gt;, I opened a bottle of &lt;strong&gt;Little Penguin's&lt;/strong&gt; White Shiraz. &lt;strong&gt;Little Penguin&lt;/strong&gt; is an Australian wine, and they have a good selection of just about every type of &lt;strong&gt;wine &lt;/strong&gt;there is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know what you are thinking. Shiraz is usually red, right? That's what I thought. I found this bottle while looking for something different, and I'm glad I did. If you like shiraz, and are willing to try something different, it might be worth giving this one a try.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/wwa_wshiraz_btl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/wwa_wshiraz_btl.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113661301555925651?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113661301555925651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113661301555925651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/movie-cigars-and-white-shiraz.html' title='A Movie, Cigars and White Shiraz'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20102165.post-113648329953166416</id><published>2006-01-05T12:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-14T20:00:06.516-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Martini Bar</title><content type='html'>Went out to one of our favorite &lt;strong&gt;martini&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;bars&lt;/strong&gt; Wed night and met up with my girlfriend and some people she knows from her job.&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/CIGAR2.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/CIGAR2.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; She works at a fairly high end restaurant, which unfortunately means she works mostly nights, and late nights. Sucks for me, since I have on of those "corporate" 9-5 careers. But we make it work, even though I'm usually the one dragging my ass into the office after a late night out and an even later night of hot love. Ah, the things we do for the our girls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our good friend Ritchie was there too, enjoying a glass or two, or three, of red wine. See, being &lt;strong&gt;Italian&lt;/strong&gt;, it's really in our nature, well Ritchie's and mine, to drink red &lt;strong&gt;wine&lt;/strong&gt;. My girl, who's let's just say, not &lt;strong&gt;Italian&lt;/strong&gt;, likes the whites. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sonoma Chardonnay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, from the &lt;strong&gt;Russian&lt;/strong&gt; River Valley, is her favorite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ritchie and I, as usual, end up talking about &lt;strong&gt;Jersey&lt;/strong&gt;, and the virtues of being &lt;strong&gt;Italian&lt;/strong&gt;. Which is what we did most of the evening. We are both from the same small set of towns in north &lt;strong&gt;Jersey&lt;/strong&gt;, and he only exceeds my age by a little more than a decade, so we are pretty much on the same page, most of the time. Oh yeah, I'm 42, in case you haven't checked the profile on me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My girl, on the other hand, is almost a decade less than me in age. Sorry about making you do all the math, but it's good for the mind. Getting my girlfriend to understand the whole , &lt;strong&gt;Jersey&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Italian&lt;/strong&gt; "thing", has been a bit of a job. She's about as far removed from it as anyone can be, and I think she has a hard time understanding alot of what I talk about when amongst other "goombas". But she has grasped the whole "goomah" concept, which of course she hates. Can't understand why. Yeah right!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we sat around shooting the shit about the Holidays, the New Year and all the other stuff we all talk about this time of year. Ritchie mentioned that he's starting another business venture. The son of a bitch is loaded, and I can't imagine him needing any more money. But I guess once you make barrels full of cash, you can't stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My girl and I are also looking into a couple of business ideas ourselves. Just trying to get out of the same old boxes that we both have been working in way too long for our own good. Of course, it will be tought to duplicate my income at first, but I'm willing to try, just to get out of the insane asylum that is Corporate America. I mean working for some of these companies as long as I have really opens your eyes to alot of stuff. Believe me, it's like living that &lt;strong&gt;movie &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Office Space.&lt;/em&gt; The higher up you move on the ladder, the more child-like the executives become. Real brown nosers and ball lickers here, folks. And don't turn your back on any of these quality folks for a second. You'll end up spending the rest of the day trying to reach around, and pull the knife out of your back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we all talk about different ideas, and Ritchie hates all of ours. I guess the business ideas, you know, like prepaid mature &lt;strong&gt;website&lt;/strong&gt; card memberships, or &lt;strong&gt;video game&lt;/strong&gt; units for &lt;strong&gt;bars/restaurants&lt;/strong&gt;, and perhaps even selling school children some oxycontin.......just kidding about the last one. Although if you sold it to the really young ones, I don't think they would be able to pick you out of a police lineup. Oops! That's the &lt;strong&gt;Jersey&lt;/strong&gt; thing kicking in. My bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well after a bunch more talk about nothing, (insert bad Seinfeld reference here), and drinking a fair amount of the fine establishments &lt;strong&gt;wine&lt;/strong&gt;, not to mention smoking a few of those smelly &lt;strong&gt;cigars&lt;/strong&gt; I smoke, we decided to take off. We left Ritchie to continue to consume more red &lt;strong&gt;wine&lt;/strong&gt;, and my girl and I head home to have some of that late night luvin'. Life certainly is good so far in '06.&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/condom1_lg.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/320/condom1_lg.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20102165-113648329953166416?l=louisdarke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113648329953166416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20102165/posts/default/113648329953166416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://louisdarke.blogspot.com/2006/01/martini-bar.html' title='The Martini Bar'/><author><name>Louis Darke</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2669/1617/1600/cigar%20baby.jpg'/></author></entry></feed>
