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  • Emotions Play A Part In Gift-Giving
    How do you know if you are motivated to make a purchase? Whether it is a vacation to Fiji, or even Peoria, a brand new BMW Convertible, or perhaps a good used Honda, or a Gucci bag or a nice slightly used but gently worn pair of knickers from the local thrift shop, emotions probably played a big part.
  • Rick London On Cartooning
    Since I launched my cartoon business a decade ago, many have asked me how to get into cartooning, or some similar artistic endeavor, especially if, like me, art is not their strongest skill. Before I entered "the trade", I too, was curious about how a number seemed to "sneak in" these so called "glamour-fields" and many were no better artists than me, and I am no Picasso.
  • Sam Walton: World's First & Finest Social Networker
    Wal-mart founder Sam Walton and i have walked similar paths, both geographically and in spirit. I am by no means league, but I, geographically walk down the same streets, paths, fish in the same fishing spots, and other activities. You see, Sam Walton and his family grew up down the road from where I now live, in the Ouchata Mountains of Arkansas. There may not be a more beautiful place on the planet. I have been here for almost a decade.
  • Stray Dogs Or Cats For Better Mental Health
    We are facing a big issue here in America. Unwanted and stray cats and dogs. I believe a great deal of this is due to lack of education, not a lack of caring. Some cities and municipalities put a lot of funding behind spaying and neutering education. Many communities have no-kill shelters, and a lot of other good is being done. But more can be done. The amount of strays is epidemic in the U.S and does not seem to be getting better. We can do better.
  • The Cow Mafia
    I'm a bovine author. Name is Truman Cowpoke and I write mooder mysteries. I write about the life of cows, violence, and yes, even bovine death. Words cannot express the horror I feel, as a mystery writer of true cow crime while researching the death and destruction that can occur in "greener pastures". Of course there are no cowincidences and anyone who says there are may just be udderly silly and full of b.s.
  • We Are Our Dog And Cat's Attorneys
    Since our pets cannot afford lawyers so we have to be their advocates. Much has been discussed regarding the B.A.R.F. diet for pets, but still very little research behind it. I happen to know it works as I almost had my 12 year old stray mutt put to sleep in 1996, at age 12, at the veterinarian's suggestion, but decided to research a bit more myself before making such an important decision. He lived another 10 years (to age 22), vet-free, except to the very part of his happy life. He was an amazing creature, and the b.a.r.f. diet, and a lot of love and attention provided for that.
  • Those Murderous Cows
    Truman Cowpoke is the name and cow moooder mysteries is my game. I write about the life of cows, violence, and yes, even bovine death. Words cannot express the horror I feel, as a mystery writer of true cow crime while researching the death and destruction that can occur in "greener pastures". Of course there are no cowincidences and anyone who says there are may might be bull and udder nonesense.
  • Can Laughter Prevent Aging?
    Do we really need humor? How important is laughter in our lives? 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 School point towards laughter being not just important, but pertinent to our health, job and relationships.
  • Increase The Quality Of Life Of Your Dog Or Cat 100-Fold
    Since our pets cannot afford lawyers so we have to be their advocates. Much has been discussed regarding the B.A.R.F. diet for pets, but still very little research behind it. I happen to know it works as I almost had my 12 year old stray mutt put to sleep in 1996, at age 12, at the veterinarian's suggestion, but decided to research a bit more myself before making such an important decision. He lived another 10 years (to age 22), vet-free, except to the very part of his happy life. He was an amazing creature, and the b.a.r.f. diet, and a lot of love and attention provided for that.
  • Increase The Quality Of Life Of Your Dog Or Cat 100-Fold
    Our dogs and cat's can't afford lawyers so we have to be their advocates. Much has been discussed regarding the B.A.R.F. diet for pets, but still very little research behind it. I happen to know it works as I almost had my 12 year old stray mutt put to sleep in 1996, at age 12, at the veterinarian's suggestion, but decided to research a bit more myself before making such an important decision. He lived another 10 years (to age 22), vet-free, except to the very last six months of his life.
  • Healthy Living Through Laughing
    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.
  • Internet Business: Don't Waste Money On A Guru
    Midlife or midstream and suddenly unemployed? Maybe it is due to your firm having downsized. Maybe it went out of business. Perhaps you were self-employed and the marketplace did not respond. Maybe you started without much capital or were not a trust-fund baby. Did you experience health problems and put on the sidelines?
  • The Internet Revolution: 1969-Present
    You may not even be aware, we have survived, and are surviving successfully, without pitting our country, north and south against each other, as we did in the War Between The States, another "Industrial Revolution". Not identical (but close enough) of our forefathers and mothers, but we have gotten through and are right "in the middle" of the Internet Revolution. Can you remember that item we used to read called a newspaper? Some of us still subscribe (out of habit) but mostly to read the local gossip, society, and sports, and sometimes world events, but only so we can see if it compares to our "accurate" news source, The Internet. The days are gone of relaxing, sitting down with a cup of instant coffee and reading the paper cover to cover. It's now Starbuck's hot spots, and a nice frappe on a summer day (if we have a few extra minutes).
  • Probably The World's Only Roy Orbison Cartoon
    Not yet 365 days had gone by yet when I started my Londons Times Cartoons project in rural Ms. I was still living 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 would live there for almost 18 months. I was a year into the project. It was a very bumpy start. I had no capital and no investors on the horizon. It soon became clear this was just 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 quite smart (at least for me). 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 two hundred or so that we created and mailed, about twelve responded, and even offered reviews, which was my strategy. Those celebrity reviews, of their own image on a cartoon, are still posted a decade later on my main cartoon website. That is how we "became discovered".
  • Laughter And Cardiovascular Health
    Laughter is the best medicine. We've all heard that. 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 your hearth health
  • Make Laughter A Stable In Your Life
    There's a myriad of reasons why we laugh and use humor in our lives. Humor goes back to the prehistoric days, or so they say. 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 joke cracker of our family until I came along and tried in all earnestness to out-perform her. She was a natural and it was impossible. But and making her laugh, was especially fun, as she was a perfectionist in the field of humor.
  • 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.
  • Your Partnership With Our Environment
    I was still a young man, living in the rural south. I recall 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 regarding organic lifestyles.
  • Becoming A Celebrity Is Easier Than You Think
    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.
  • 5 Savvy Online Shopping Tips To Save Big & Buy Smart
    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.
  • How Bono (Of the band U2) And His Wife Ali Launched My Green Biz
    I owe Bono (of the band U2) and his wife Ali a tremendous thank you for helping me launch my business. The great irony is, they probably will never read this, and will never know what they did for me. But what 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.
  • 7 Steps Of Internet Success Using No Gurus, Ebooks Or Expenses
    You worked hard for your money for a decade or two. Maybe three. Suddenly your company downsized, or you were fired, or your health declined. In any case, you found yourself no longer employed, yet still have the same bills. Aside from your ego reduced to the size of a molecule, you feel confused, bitter, and sometimes hopeless.
  • 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.
  • Eco-Friendly Business: Psychic & Financial Rewards
    The transition to start a "green business" or "eco-friendly" one, as it is often called, 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. There was no Internet, no Google, no blogging, nothing. 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 A & P Grocery. (I am showing my age here).
  • Can The Government Really Label You Disabled?
    In most of the 1980's, 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 to experience panic and anxiety until daybreak.
  • Offbeat Cartoonist's Life Saved Two Times By Smart Dogs
    I was still relatively new to southern California in 1994. I had sold my successful bus tour business in Washington D.C and moved to Los Angeles to try my hand at screen-writing. Not much was shaking for me in Los Angeles, except the ground. I settled in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley area. I can clearly remember being awakened about five a.m by my golden retriever puppy Otis who was barking wildly. Otis slept on the bed with me but he had hopped down onto the floor to begin his ranting. This was no ordinary bark but I took him outside anyway into the back yard which met an alley. Otis kept barking and was clearly agitated but did not relieve himself. I rubbed my eyes and looked around and there was dozens (if not more) cats walking around in circles in the alley. I had never seen this before. They were clearly not acting the way I normally see cats behave, but it was as if they were trying to escape something. My golden puppy continued barking.
  • Laugh At A Cartoon...Save Your Life
    You might think about calling a good doctor to put me away if I told you that a good cartoon might save your life, or at least increase the quality of your life. Ironically it is good doctors who agree with this theory.
  • The Zen Of Mouse Pads
    I know I can sound a bit eccentric, but anyone who has studied eastern thought, understands there is a "zen" to everything. What affects us we affect and vice versa. Everything as an energy, including mouse pads, cars, houses, and nearly everything that we use often. If it affects our lives, it is a good idea to align it with our own zen.
  • the zen of cartoon humor
    Humans are visual animals. We react to what we see. And to a lesser degree, we are auditory. Sounds can cause a reaction.
  • the zen of humor and cartooning
    The most sensual and visual animal is known as the human. We react to what we see. And to a lesser degree, we are auditory. Sounds can cause a reaction too, and the combination of them can change our lives. But even one of the other can do the same, if, it changes our perception of things. Especially in the realm of humor.
  • How To Find An Honest Mechanic In Los Angeles
    I can remember the first "fast car" I ever had. It was a Ford Torino with a 390 cubic inch engine. It had headers, was an 8 cylinder, and gas was around seventy eight cents per gallon.
  • Why Laughing At Lawyers Is Fun...until We Need One
    As a cartoonist, I find myself in the precarious position of writing about law. Though I do take the law seriously, I find humor in it as well. And I believe I have carte blanche to do so.
  • Cow Soup For The Soul
    As one who is into cow collectibles, clothes, and such, I humbly believe the cow to be the funniest (and possibly the most spiritual animal on the planet...and no, I have no Hindu roots). I just love the cow. Though this may be hard for some city-dwellers to fathom, I can assure you Mississippians and other inhabitants of the southeastern states were laughing at cows long before The Far Side was a twinkle in Gary Larson's eye.
  • Aardvarks Gaining On Cows Says Cartoonist
    Cartoonist Rick London's website Londons Times Cartoons contains thousands of cartoon animal images, but none is more popular and funny than the aardvark. Aardvark Dentistry is the name of one of their most classic favorites and the cartoonist has decided to do a little research on the aardvark. This is the fascinating information he found. If you are looking for aardvarks, you need to go south of the Sahara Desert in Africa. "Earth Pig" is what the Africans call them, and, in fact, the name ardvark means "earth pig". So, makes sense to me. Their body somewhat resembles a pig which probably has a lot to do with that. But why they call them earth pigs, since regular pigs do not fly (to my knowledge) is beyond me. Their tails resemble a kangaroo's and ears like a rabbit. Aardvarks hibernate during daytime.
  • Depressed? A New Dog May Be Your Best Therapist
    Major depressive disorder has been with me since my teens. It may be even further back than that, that is my first memory of "feeling different". I have struggled with it for many years as I will be fifty four in a few months. I know the cure, and I am grateful. Therapists says there is no cure. I strongly debate that notion.
  • Funny Dog & Cat Cartoon Products Are Helping Strays
    Though humans tend to have very many differences, nothing can bring us closer together than a cute puppy or kitty. They seem to have a special spirit with which humans can connect.
  • The Real Origins Of Rock And Roll
    Though I've been telling people since I can remember that Rock And Roll was born in my own little humble hometown of Hattiesburg, Ms., not many believe me. I know it to be true. Even the honorable Rolling Stone Magazine agrees as mentioned in Wikipedia....
  • Valentine's Day; A Good Reason To Start The Relationship Over
    There are ways to get untrapped 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. I have seen these tips work many times.
  • Public Schools Benefit From Cartoons
    Today's school-aged kids are a "different breed" than we were. When I say "we", I am speaking of your average Woodstock generation baby boomer kid. We, of course, were certain we were the most worldly and knowledgeable generation in history. Today's kids have taught us differently.
  • Don't Rekindle A Dying Romance Fuel The Fire This Valentine's Day
    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 Are Funny Thongs & Boxers Sexier?
    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.
  • Building Self-esteem, Even If You've Never Had It
    Self-esteem can do wonders for your self-esteem. I know you probably are going to go back and read that first sentence to make sure I worded it properly.
  • Why People Should Salute The Far Side's Gary Larson....still
    I like to pontificate about The Far Side because I can only name a few humorists who had a great impact on my life before I launched Londons Times Cartoons. Two were cartoonists and one of them had a very major impact, Gary Larson The others were comedians and actors such as Steve Martin, Mike Myers, Steven Wright, Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Jackie Gleason, Lucy, Rowan & Martin, Peter Sellers, and several dozen others. One other cartoonist was the late great Charles Schulz, and they all influenced me in a different way.
  • How To Become Happy...and How Not To
    I received an email from a woman I know last week. She considered me a happy person. It surprised me. I don't consider myself particularly sad or pessimistic, just not what one deems happy. I'm simple. Maybe that is what she meant. She gave me ten seconds to reply.
  • It's All Gary Larson's (the Far Side) Fault
    I was a power-type-of-guy in Washington, D.C. in the mid-1980's. I had a cushy job, and wore nice clothes. I resided near the Smithsonian on Capital Hill, a place I rarely frequented unless company was in from out of town.
  • 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.
  • The Zen Of A New Infant
    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.
  • Pink Flamingos: The Comeback Kid Of Collectibles
    Little did the tiny factory, Union Products of Lemnister, Ma. know they were "creating a monster" when they decided the pink flamingo might be a nice yard ornament. This was in the mid-1940's. The pink flamingo as a collectible is stronger today than ever.
  • T-shirts: America's Most Popular Gift
    Art and cartoon-designed t-shirts have been a part of my life since I was a child. At fifty three, I still enjoy wearing a tee over a suit. But it has to be the right tshirt, one that matches my personality. There are so many from which to choose. So how do I find that "perfect one"?
  • Everything You Ever Needed To Know About Safe Online Shopping
    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?)
  • Cartooning: Where Is The Money?
    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.
  • Five Things You Must Do To Be A Professional Humorist
    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.
  • An Online Merchant Bundles His Products...and Is Proud
    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.
  • Internet's Top Cartoonist Shares Simple Secrets Of Humor
    More than once, people have asked me "How do you become funny?" Sometimes I don't know if that is a compliment or a complaint. It has always been a question I've pondered because "funny" is not a major in college, we don't study and get our degree in funny.
  • Poodle History Lesson
    When I first started Londons Times Cartoons in 1997, I founded it with the idea of dogs in mind. Poodles were my favorite, though I'd never owned one. I just have an affection for poodles though I knew very little about their history. I decided after launching my cartoon gift store RickLondoncollection.com, I would add as many of my poodle cartoon products as the page would allow. And then I studied the history of the poodle and got some surprises. You might too.
  • 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.
  • So You Want Your Own Private Brand
    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?
  • The One Health Product On Which The Medical Community Agrees
    As most of my readers and followers are aware, when I am not writing travel articles, I am shamelessly promoting my online stores, cartoons, or writing about dogs, health products, depression, spirituality, et al. I am not a distributor of anything but my own cartoon merchandise and an article here and there. Certainly not network marketing health products, and I've never even seen or read about one that impressed me....until now.
  • Niche Marketing As Viewed From Eastern Thought
    I went back to college at age 47 as I was beginning to discover the world was leaving me behind. Not only was I a terrible student in my early 20's even if I had been a good one, nothing counted. Not much in the world of marketing and pr is very relavent. In fact, my recent college accepted not one credit of my 63 hours from a major state university. So be it.
  • Is New Age Really So New Age At All Or A Big Moneymaker?
    I used to debate with my former girlfriend, a woman much more socially and finally successful than me, about the business principals to success. Though she did it, like me, the old fashioned way, made a plan and worked the plan and increased organizational skills along the way, she still believes there is some mystique and "laws of attraction" to it. Of course she is a Beverly Hills attorney, I, a cartoonist and e-tailer. Since the times of EST and other "thought mills", California has been a haven for slick re-packaged ancient scrolls disguised as "NEW"-AGE. She partly buys into it. I don't buy into it at all. Let me rephrase that. I do buy into it. I just happen to know it is nothing new except more slickly packaged and worded more for the proletariat.
  • Your Dog Should Live A Healthy Life For 25-30 Years. Here's How
    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.
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