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  • 10 Do's And Don't In Collecting Art Clocks
    You have heard the value of collectible clocks and want to start a hobby. Or maybe you are a veteran clock collector. Antiques may be your thing or the latest trend of clocks with imprinted artwork. The more you know, the more you'll save when buying. Here is a list that may help 1. Visit museums and websites that have exhibitions and inventories of clocks. Most museums hand out detailed brochures. Most new clock sellers will be able to explain the history of the artist whose work appears on the clock and where he/she stands in the marketplace. 2. Shop the Internet for clock dealers and collectors. More likely than not, they share your enthusiasm and will be glad to share information. 3.If you are unsure of of the clock's value, look up comparable clocks and what price they have sold for in the past. This will be of great help.
  • 40 Years Of The Internet: And How It Changed Our World
    Needless to say, we have just gotten past, successfully, without destroying our country, with north and south against each other, as we did in the Civil War, another "Industrial Revolution". No, not exactly like the experience of our forefathers and mothers, but we have gotten through and are right "in the thick" of the Technology (Especially IT...Internet Technology) Revolution. Remember, that paper thing thrown at your door? Oh, sure. It was called a newspaper. Some people still read that bulky item known as a newspaper. I suppose it is out of habit and loyalty.
  • 5 Money Saving Ideas For Holiday Shopping
    1. Pricing: Economics, these days can be a big factor. It is common sense that one can get a much better price on virtually any retail product in the "off-season" which runs generally from mid-May through the end of August. Prices can be as low as 80% of their regular prices (even regular discounted prices) than holidays at the mall.
  • A Tale From A Mad Fisherman
    I am a writer and because I write, I am poor; living down on squid roe. Now that I'm reaching minnowpause, and a good many folks think I'm mentally eel. My theory though is that I've haddock with life, not unlike Salmon Rushdie or Marlin Brando.
  • An Eastern Philosophy Look At Niche
    I remember business 101 the first time I went to college a millenium ago. Simplicity and thinking it through was the key. Those were business principles. Do they still hold true? There was no Ebay, Google, MSN, or Yahoo! at the time.
  • And You Thought Becoming Famous Was Hard? Think Again!
    I turned on the tv early last night and then went into the kitchen and couldn't see the screen but I heard a voice that I remembered always sent chills down my spine. I walked into the living room and sure enough, staring me in the face, swastika on forehead, cigarette in hand, Charles Manson, probably one of the most notorious figures of our lifetime.
  • Any Size Business Can Help The Environment And Profit More!
    Starting an "earth-friendly" business is not always as easy as it seems. I felt it would be an easy challenge for me, seeing that I had launched one of Mississippi's first health food stores. The Internet was still Arapnet and only used by the government, blogs didn't exist, and social networking meant handing out business cards. I paid high rent in a mall across from the local university. The local townsfolk felt I might be possessed to believe that natural products might be better than what could be bought at the local general market.
  • Art Licensing: The Real Money In Cartooning
    There was a time when a cartoonist had to be newspaper syndicated to "be somebody" (with apologies to Steve Martin in "The Jerk"). But even then, as now, the real money was not in newspapers. Besides, the chances of becoming a part of a major newspaper syndication are close to a million to one. One should just buy lottery tickets.
  • Bono of U2 Helped Me Launch My Eco-Friendly Business
    The debt I owe Bono (of the band U2) and his wife Ali a tremendous thank you for helping me launch my business will probably never even be known by both of them. But I know the good they did for me, and that is what counts. I am keenly aware of they are doing for the planet, with Edun Organics is not only a business they launched, of organic cotton textiles to make eco-friendly clothing, but (at the risk of sounding overly-dramatic) a gift to humanity.
  • Can The Government Really Label You Disabled?
    It seemed like only yesterday that I was living in Washington, D.C., working in corporate America, waking up at 6 am, rushing with my coffee while I brushed my teeth and put on my pinstripe suit and yellow power tie, and drove to work, arriving before rush hour. Only to be stressed out the rest of the day and night.
  • Cartoon T-shirts And Positive Attitudes
    Even though nearly every adult in the U.S. is reported to have a favorite t shirt, and at least fifteen in their drawer, how do you know what tshirt to buy as a gift. Sometimes it's even harder to choose the right one for you.
  • Downsized? 7 Steps Of Internet Success Paying Nobody Else
    Suddenly you are unemployed. Maybe you worked hard for your money forever it seemed. Possibly your company downsized, or you were fired, or your health declined. In any case, you found yourself at home watching cable news, yet still receiving the same bills reflecting your previous lifestyle. Aside from the obvious ego-blow, you feel confused, sad, and overwhelmed.
  • Going Green After 50
    A lot of my friends and relatives know I am trying to go green. This is really not my first stab at it. I started recycling many years ago, and other than taking organic vitamins and trying my best to eat natural foods, that was about as far as I went.
  • Guru-free Seo
    I wear many hats. For a long time I have been a cartoonist. In my mid-40's I went back to college and studied business and Internet technology. Suddenly I was an IT Professional and a cartoonist. The conflict was deciding if I should just be an IT pro, or continue my cartoons. After all, I had spent a decade on the cartoons and built numerous gift stores, some megastores with inventories of 100,000 products. What to do? Now I had some new tools, a major one known as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). I decided to utilize that skill to work on my cartoon and cartoon gift sites. It was a good decision. I am learning new things about SEO every day. I am hardly a guru.
  • Herbs: If I'd Only Known Then What I Know Now
    I "had it all" in 1978. I was handsome, I worked out. I ran marathons, I was mastering the martial arts. I owned my own health food store in a part of the country that didn't have many of them (rural Mississippi); and I could pass for a movie star. Women were all over me. My life was a disaster.
  • How T-shirts Became So Popular In America
    In my life, for many years, nothing could be so benign and innocent as a -shirt. All that has changed.
  • How To Find A Corporate Gift That Is Used Daily And Remembered
    In my humble opinion, a lot of giant retailers of various products do some things very, very right, and others, leave something to be desired.
  • I Was Mistreated For Having Depression For 35 Years Then Came Vns
    Thirty five years ago, when I felt sick or down, it could have been anything. Medicine was not so advanced, nor was I at my own self-diagnosis, of which I had many. I was sure I had depression as it ran in my family. I labeled it depression, took it to the m.d. and he bought in.
  • I'm Happy, You're Happy....but What Is Happiness?
    Recently a friend sent me an email asking me my secret to happiness. It took me by surprise as I didn't have an answer. I can remember a time in my life when my moods would swing, I had depression, but I was treated and do not live with that now. But happy? I wouldn't exactly call it that.
  • If Bill Gates Sold Maternity And Infant Wear
    As an online merchant who sells unique funny maternity and infant wear I understand the importance of bundling products. It not only helps create sales, but more importantly makes the customer happier. Because I can bundle, I'm able to sell something that wouldn't otherwise exist in the marketplace, and something much more memorable than what already exists.
  • Is Disability Simply A Label? Or Does It Exist
    I am officially disabled and have been for several years now. I don't like the word disabled very much. Mine was labeled an "emotional disability" aka depression. Whatever they wanted to call it, I was not going to lay down and die. That was for sure.
  • It's All Gary Larson's (the Far Side) Fault
    I loved my years of living on Capital Hill in Washington, D.C. I was your typical hippie-turned-yuppie. Still thought like a sixties, guy, dressed like an eighties one. I liked my paycheck more than a bag of pot or the Beatles White Album.
  • Laugh More, Live Longer
    We all know that laughter is the best medicine. If not the best, certainly good for you. Scientific studies have shown that mental stress can restrict blood flow to the heart. But now a study has linked laughter to increased blood circulation. Laughter appears to cause the tissue inside blood vessels to expand. Medical science feels that laughter may be important to increase cardiovascular health.
  • Laugh Your Way To A Healthy Immune System
    How important is laughter? Do people really need to be exposed to humor for their health? For many years, we knew humor was fun, and laughter made us feel better, but we didn't know the full story. Recent studies at University Of Md. Medical Center point towards laughter being not just important, but pertinent to our health, job, relationships. Like exercise, laughter produces very similar endorphins that help preserve our immune system. More studies have shown that it even increases brain function which could influence our intellect.
  • Limu Juice May Save Lives As Seen On Cbs, Nbc, Abc & Fox News
    I am not one to try new health products unless they have been more than adequately researched. Limu Moui Juice made from brown seaweed from the ocean's bottom off the Tongan Islands is one of them. Fucoidan perked my interest after network news reports and medical studies. I am not a distributor or stockholder. Only an interested party.
  • Major Tv Network News Gives Thumbs Up To Limu Moui Health Drink
    When I first heard about Limu Juice and fudiocan from Sheila Parrish of the Original Limu Company, I thought, "Oh no, here goes, another health fad and I am going to have to pretend to listen. I was pleasantly surprised.
  • Make Laughter A Stable In Your Life
    We use humor in our lives for a myriad of purposes. This motivation to laugh has its roots in ancient history (I have read). Since that was a few years before my time (but unfortunately not too many years before my time), I will have to take archaeologists word for this phenomena. I remember loving to laugh as a child. My mom was the "sense of humor proprietor" of our home, and making her laugh, was especially fun, as she was a tough audience. Especially when I was being grounded for something I'd done wrong, which was most of the time.
  • Maternity Wear: How Did This Get Started
    Since all women dressed baggy in the dark ages, maternity wear probably existed before it actually had the label "maternity wear". It was simply known as baggy clothes.
  • Newspaper Cartoons: Why They Exist
    Ever wonder why newspapers devote an entire non-revenue producing page, every day to a "silly group of pictures" called "cartoons"?
  • Not-so-easy Steps Toward Private Branding
    Long before the Internet Calvin Klein knew it, Ralph Lauren, even Famous Amos knew it, as did so many others. Think of all the brand names you buy. Have you ever wondered how they did it?
  • On Becoming A Cartoonist
    Someone once told me there are two things to consider when thinking of becoming a cartoonist: 1. You must be funny and 2 You must know how to draw.
  • Opera Making A Big Comeback With The Vahan Mirakian Foundation
    I featured opera star Vahan Mirakian recently in an article. I met him last year in Mexico during his deportation battle to re-enter the U.S. I am very pleased to say that he has returned and is doing his good works through his nonprofit foundation, the Vahan Mirakian Foundation. I encourage everyone to visit the site and see some of the videos, hear some outtakes of this man's magic voice at www.vahanmirakian.com.
  • Opera Tenor Vahan Mirakian Deportation Case Overturned
    I met Vahan Mirakian through a mutual friend, his attorney, almost two years ago for the first time in a small tourist town, a paradise of sorts on the Pacific near Tijuana called "San Antonio". The town was gorgeous as was the ocean view from Vahan's Villa patio. Vahan's face looked old and tired, as if he had given up. I would find out later, he virtually had.
  • Roy Orbison And Me
    In 1998, I was one year into my Londons Times Cartoon project. I was still living, working, and trying to survive in an abandoned rural Mississippi warehouse. Nobody would rent to me as they, I am certain, felt this former 9-5 business executive had lost his mind for launching a cartoon at age forty three. I was a year into the project. Not a lot was going right, I could clearly see it was a hobby, and I would eventually need to take some kind of job in sales, but for now, I was obsessed with seeing it through. Then a marketing idea hit me, which, at the time, I thought was brilliant (I humbly add). I would create another series of cartoons called "Panel Hollywood" and feature real life celebrity caricatures and then mail signed copies directly to them or to their agent to forward. Out of the 150 or so that we created and mailed, about twelve responded, and even offered reviews, which was my strategy. Their reviews of the work remain on my main cartoon website.
  • Safe Online Shopping Is Like Safe Sex: Common Sense
    How many more articles are going to be written on "safe internet shopping"? Well, here's one more. And its the basics. It's the basics because the basics is what you need to know, just like a store in your local mall (but a little different). Things like shipping price, security, guarantees, quality, service. Common sense things. But how do you find out when the vendor may be across the country (if not the world?)
  • Some American Veterinarians Now Leaning Towards B.a.r.f Diet
    Long before the dog food scare, health-conscious dog and cat owners in Europe and Australia knew of the B.A.R.F. diet and had been feeding it to their pets for years. Now America is catching on, but it is a slow process. Raw foods remind us of "something unhealthy". Even the official veterinarian manual does not have a lot of information regarding animal nutrition. Most of it comes from the very powerful dog food lobby, which, may be killing our pets. Forget about the rat poison recently found. That might be the healthiest ingredient in that mush.
  • Some Very Interesting Health Facts Regarding Fucoidan & Limu
    Of over 660 unsponsored peer reviewed medical studies on fucoidan, it has been found to be the primary ingredient in limu juice. Though there are a number of fucoidan products on the market, only one offers 2400% more than its leading competitor due to its 20 year old patented process, The Original Limu Company and Sheila Parrish is apparently the one to contact. Parrish makes no claims but shows the info received from the studies here.
  • Start Your Own Internet Business With Sweat Equity
    Are you one of the millions of Americans now out of work? Maybe it is due to your firm having downsized. Maybe your firm went belly-up. Perhaps you were self-employed and the business just wasn't there Maybe you started without much capital or were not a trust-fund baby. Or did you get sick? Or a combination of all this?
  • The Art Of Cyber-branding
    For many years, one was more likely to win the lottery than create his or her own product brand. That was reserved for the Calvin Kleins and Ralph Laurens of the world. But with the Internet, the times, they are a 'changin'.
  • The Documented Birthplace Of Rock And Roll
    A small town ninety miles south of Jackson, Ms. called Hattiesburg, population about 100k, is the real birthplace of rock and roll. It is where I was born. It is well-documented in many prestigious hard copy and online periodicals
  • The One Health Product On Which The Medical Community Agrees
    I am a cartoonist, etailer and writer. I mainly write about my own new products and/or cartoons. I have always been interested in alternative medicine, but have researched enough to know that a large percentage of it is hype. I was recently surprised to be proven otherwise about one called Limu Moui Juice.
  • The Renegade Entrepreneur
    How many times have you heard it said "capitalize on what you have".....or "the diamonds are right in front of your nose?", etc.
  • The Secret. What Would Jung, Aristotle, Jesus Or Moses Say?
    I fell in love with a former girlfriend for a whole new reason, that is, a different reason than when I'd had the one before her. It had nothing to do with looks, money, social standing, or anything like it. She had gone through a similar struggle as me, actually one much larger in scope, and not only survived but prospered as a major Beverly Hills Attorney. I, struggled as a writer and cartoonist for several decades, not such a dramatic story as hers, and finally "made it". People ask us often, "How did you do what you did"? (they ask her much more so than me). The one thing we agreed upon was developing organizational skills, having a plan, and acting.
  • The World's Worst Fish Pun Story
    I am old now and reaching minnowpause, a good many folks think I'm mentally eel. My theory though is that I've haddock with life, not unlike Salmon Rushdie or Marlin Brando. Mahi oh mahi. Since I've always marched to a different drummer, you know, or sang like Tuna Turner. I live down on squid roe. and been a shad bit egocentric, people have tried desperately to save my sole. Holy mackerel, if I could count the times. Those bassturds. They just perch up on their high seahorse and talk down to me as if I'm pond scum. So what's it all about, Algae? You may think I'm shellfish and cruel but read between the lines.
  • The Zen Of Pregnancy
    I am a cartoonist but also am in the licensing image business; that is, manufacturers buy the rights to my cartoons and put them on products and sell them. It's a good clean business and educational for me. Last week, I opened an online maternity and infant wear shop. Since I have about 8500 cartoons on my main website, I am able to create niche stores, test them, and see how they work. Oddly enough, most of them work better in sales, percentage-wise, than my two superstores.
  • Thong And Dance Routine
    I was one of those nerdy guys who forgot to change his underwear. No, it's not what you think. I changed them daily, I simply forgot to change styles and brands long after the trends had run out. It was out of habit. Once a plain white stretch brief wearer, always one. Or so I thought. I didn't know I was about to lose my "underwear innocence" at age 50.
  • Top Ways To Enter The Humor Profession
    There are as many ways to enter the field of stand-up comedy, cartooning, comedy acting, and writing as there are IPODS and accessories. Okay, maybe not quite that many, but a lot of paths.
  • Trends Show Retailers Going Green Rising To The Top
    In case you haven't noticed, retailers, even giants, are "going green". It was bound to happen and it is a welcome change. Of course the Wal-marts, Targets and Sams Clubs of the world, most likely, will never go fully earth-friendly, and merely offer sections in their stores rather than become another Whole Foods, it is still a very good sign.
  • Utilizing Educational Cartoons In The School System
    The children of our current generation, admittedly are more sophisticated than we were, we, being the baby boomer generation. We felt we were the most insightful generation ever. Of course every generation has its share of egotism. That was obviously prevalent in ours (the baby boomers)
  • Valentine's Day Can Be A Cure For A Stale Relationship
    Even the once-most-bonded of soul-mates can feel trapped in a stale marriage as the years pass. Though we still love our mate, we might feel bored with the routine. Don't just rekindle the romance, or fan the flames, add kerosene to the fire of it, and use Valentine's day as a celebration of love, a reason to try something different, and then make it a habit, a new way of life to change the parameters and depth of the relationship. And these methods work.
  • Valentine's Day: How To Re-establish A Stale Relationship
    Even Ozzie and Harriett if not the Cleavers, got bored with each other as the years passed. Of course we still love our signicant other but we are fed up with the day to day routine. Don't just rekindle the flame, or fan the flames, douse it with deisel fuel and make it burn bright! Valentine's Day as a way to show our love, a reason to try something different, and then make it a habit, a new way of life to change the parameters and depth of the relationship. I know from many interviews with couples that these ideas work and are a blast to do.
  • Why Does America Love The Pink Flamingo?
    You love 'em or hate 'em. The pink flamingo that is. To you its art or junk. It's a matter of taste. But pink flamingo fanatics have kept this collectible phenomena alive even after laws were passed to try to prevent them in yard. Today the pink flamingo is more popular than ever. It all started at a little factory called Union Products back in the 1940's in Lemnister, Ma.
  • Why People Should Salute The Far Side's Gary Larson....still
    When in the mood, I can talk about my favorite Far Sides all night, Only several humorists influenced me greatly before Londons Times Cartoons became my pet prroject. Others who influenced me a great deal were the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, a former roommie in New York, Patrick Weathers (who also was a featured performer on SNL in the early 1980's) Steven Wright, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Lucy, Rowan & Martin, Peter Sellers, and and I'm sure I could name a hundred more if I had time. One other cartoonist was the late great Charles Schulz, and they all influenced me in a different way.
  • Why St. Valentine, The Patron St. Of Love, Was Executed
    Would you believe that in ancient Rome, love was a lottery? A cruel one at that. Here's how it worked. A male teen's right to passage to the Roman God Lupercus was through a teenage girl. Each year, all the available teenage girls in the city wwere placed in a box and a male picked a name aat random. She was assigned to him for a year. It would take 8 more centuries before the church fathers put an end to it. They discovered it was a sort of celebration of a relatively unknown bishop named Valentine who had been martyred two centuries prior to the beginning of the Roman tradition.
  • World-famous Cartoonist Shares Tips On Being Funny
    It still surprises me when people ask me how to become funny? At times I don't know how to take it. I know from my line of work that I am considered funny, but, to be honest, it doesn't feel that much different from when I worked in sales. After all, I majored in business, not humor.
  • Yes, Folks, Poodle History Lesson
    When I first started my cartoons, I was thinking of dogs. It was going to be a totally dog cartoon (that is, Londons Times Cartoons). But the more dog cartoons I created, the more I wanted to do cats, and relationships, and people, and science, ad nauseum. Oddly enough, after I opened my RickLondonCollection.com store, I started getting more and more emails from poodle owners and lovers wanting to know if I could kindly put up more poodle-oriented merchandise I finally did, but first, I felt compelled to learn the history of the poodle. Though I'd owned dogs all my life, and my first cousin owns and loves her standard poodle, I knew very little about the breed. I was surprised at what I learned.
  • Your Partnership With Our Environment
    In the early 1970's, while living in rural Mississippi, I remember hearing my mother speak of a woman who had had incurable cancer, given chemotherapy, and sent home to die by her oncologist. She allegedly took an herb for several years and the cancer went into remission. Of course, I was skeptical, until I met the woman, then in her seventies, and appeared a picture of health. This started my quest at the nearby library, which did not offer much, to read about a more natural way of living.
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