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Couldn't Stand The Weather (Stevie Ray Vaughan) 2007-09-12 13:08:00 This song is called "Couldn't stand the weather" and is by Stevie
Ray Vaughan
. You can find it in "Stevie Ray
Vaughan and double trouble". If you love the guitar, if you love the blues, you have to hear this catchy song.Stevie Ray Vaughan
was a bluesman who played the guitar as few people have played this instrument. If you sometimes had thought in playing the guitar it's not difficult that you had found a score of this great artist.It’s very usual to talk about the weather. When you don’t know of what to talk it's a recurring conversation. In the work, in the elevator, with your neighbours...And everybody likes to see the weather in TV, or in the newspaper. We love to make predictions about if it's going to rain or it's going to be a sunny day. We watch the clouds as they were mysterious enigmas to solve.As many of my readers are bloggers, I have found something interesting for them. Blogskinny.com offers a weather widget.Now we can have a look to weather in the blogs too. Yo Read more:Stand
Luciano Pavarotti, beyond the tenor 2007-09-11 12:41:00 Luciano Pavarotti
was born in Modena on Octover 12th /1935. The doctor told her mother: "With this powerful voice, he will be tenor", and was true, one of the best tenors of all times.He had humble origins, his father was a baker and his mother a factory worker. Always heard bel canto in his home, because his father was a real fan of opera. Pavarotti sometimes commented that his father could have been a good singer. But his father said that to be a good singer it was necessary not only to have a good voice, but to control one's nerves.Pavarotti always said that his childhood was happy, but with economical shortages. During the second world war, he and his family went to live to the country. All his family were living in a rented room. By this time Pavarotti was interested in agriculture.He was fan of Beniaminogigly and Enrico Caruso. His father always encouraged him to take music lessons. When 9 years old, he was singing in the church chorus with his father.Another interest of Pavarot Read more:Luciano
, beyond
, Luciano Pavarotti
The Top Ten Fantasy Movies 2007-09-07 16:00:00 Fantasy Movies show us marvelous creatures, incredible beings, sorcerers, heroes, princess and magic worlds where in little time oneself is immersed in a fantasy background.They are films that you never get tired of seeing, little jewels of cinema. Here you are a list of the best fantasy films:1- The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship Of The Ring/The Two Towers/The Return Of The King2- The Chronicles Of Narnia3- Willow4- Ladyhawke5- The Princess Bride6- Harry Potter7- Dragonheart8- Legend9- The Dark Crystal10- The Neverending StoryThe Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, shows the fantastic world of Tolkien. The director made some changes. It's logical, but I miss the dialog of Eowyn where she explains why she must go to war. I'd never had removed the full original dialog of the novel. But the films are very long and despite some changes, Peter Jackson followed the book quite well.The Chronicles of Narnia, four children are sent by their mother far away from war. They arrive to the h
Women in film 2007-09-05 12:55:00 The author of "Women
in art", Philip Scott Johnson, gets to amaze us again with another surprising work: "Women in film", where he makes a travel through time and shows us some important actress since the white and black films until our days.Enjoy this great video:With this video I want to celebrate a award that was given to me. The award is:I am very happy because the person that has given me this award is the excellent photographer, Susanne Van Hulst. When an award comes from such a woman like she, one can be proud of it.http://sues-daily-photos.blogspot.com/As it is tradition I give the award Rockin' Blogger to:- Expressions In Color: A dreaming site full of magic and poetry. This blog is like a good wine, to be tasted slowly.http://miragechopper.blogspot.com/- The Crazy News: Sometimes it makes you laugh, sometimes amazes you, or even worry, but it never leaves you indifferent.http://thecrazynewsblog.com/- Hippocampus Hi-Jinx: Julian Bennett has a sane craziness that makes him to
Betty Boop is top fashion 2007-09-04 12:24:00 It's not strange to see in any shop of the world an object with the image of Betty
Boop. She is synonym of glamour. Her sexy and retro image captivates many people.Betty Boop was born in 1929. In the beginning, she wasn't like is known today. Grim Natwich, the creator of Betty, draw 2 dogs. One of them was Bimbo (that stayed as a dog forever), the other was Bimbo's girlfriend, a french poodle (in the future will be Betty) .Natwitch, not pleased with the result of the Bimbo girlfriend (he thought that was quite ugly) , made some changes. The dog ears were replaced for a hoop earrings and her poodle fur became a bob haircut and her body was changed to a sexy woman. The Betty surname came from "Boop oop a Doop" a film who converted Betty in a star.Max Fleyser saw in Betty a real gold mine. Her innocence and sensuality turned Betty in one of the first characters of a sexy woman in cartoons. Betty was an independent and sexy woman, and that was a novelty. Before Betty, when a sexy woman
I don't want to miss a thing (Aerosmith) 2007-09-02 13:40:00 "I could stay awake just to hear you breathingWatch you smile while you are sleepingWhile you're far away dreamingI could spend my life in this sweet surrenderI could stay lost in this moment foreverEvery moment spent with you is a moment I treasureDon't want to close my eyesI don't want to fall asleepCause Id miss you babyAnd I don't want to miss a thingCause even when I dream of youThe sweetest dream will never doId still miss you babyAnd I don't want to miss a thingLying close to you feeling your heart beatingAnd I'm wondering what you're dreamingWondering if its me you're seeingThen I kiss your eyesAnd thank God were togetherI just want to stay with you in this moment foreverForever and everDon't want to close my eyesI don't want to fall asleepCause Id miss you babyAnd I don't want to miss a thingCause even when I dream of youThe sweetest dream will never doId still miss you babyAnd I don't want to miss a thingI don't want to miss one smileI don't want to miss one kis Read more:Aerosmith
Vampirism and the real Dracula. (First Part) 2007-09-27 15:47:00 Bram Stoker is the author of "Dracula
", the famous novel that inspired so many movies, comics and theatrical interpretations.It is thought that the character that inspired Bram Stoker was Vlad Tepes.There's another version that says that Stoker felt a big fascination for Erzsebet Bathory, that used to drink blood and take baths in it, seeing blood as a potion of Eternal Youth.But let us center in the figure of Vlad Tepes.Vlad Tepes was born in 1431 in Transylvania (Romania). He was son of Vlad Dracu, from whom comes the word Dracula (son of Dracu).The source of his power was his cruelty. It was so enormous that gave origin to many legends. His enemies were really terrified of him. When they saw him, many ran away horrified. In numerous times, he won battles that were impossible to win. In his last battle he commanded 200 men against 20,000.Vlad Tepes was also known as Vlad the Impaler. He used to lunch watching his victims, and used to take walks through the landscapes populated with Read more:First
Top best 50 free tools for your website 2007-09-25 16:24:00 As a professional of design, I know how hard is to find good free tools. I think it's very important that the applications you use are easy to use. Most of the people don't have the time and patience to read many tutorials to understand how a program works.Here you are 50 of the best. I hope you like them.Color Selectors:ColorJack, let's you select color palettes by dragging on a color wheel.Color Palette Generator, creates a palette of colors that predominate in a pic that you choose.Color Scheme Generator, lets you make color patterns in a visual and easy way.Kuler, a free Adobe tool that lets you create your colors or choose the most popular and rated by the public.Colour Lovers, choose between the most rated palettes.Names of colors in html, Do you want to know the name of your favorite color? Here you will know the name and you'll be able to pick it for your web.Color Blender, you choose two colors and the program gives you the intermediate ones.Logo Makers:Cool Text, generate Read more:website
Kalahari Desert, A Full Of Life Place 2007-10-10 15:30:00 The Kalahari Desert
covers Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The Kalahari comprises 900 square kilometers. Its name comes from the word in Twsana language "Kglagadi", that means "big thirst".Although it's called Kalahari Desert, it's not really a desert. Why? Because it receives 250 mm of rainfall. Only places where the rainfall is lesser than this are considered deserts. So, actually, it's a semi-arid and sandy area.In a distant past, what nowadays is the Kalahari, was a big lake. So it's not estrange the big amount of fossils that can be found in this zone.Despite the bad climate conditions and the lack of water, the Kalahari shelters a big amount of animals and plants. Amongst the Kalahari's fauna it can be found the Kalahari antelope, which adapts very well to its medium, as it doesn't need water. It finds the liquid it needs to survive in the vegetables that it feeds of. Other animals include the black rhinoceros, hyenas, lions, birds, reptiles...The most popular animal fr Read more:Place
How To Surprise In Halloween 2007-10-09 15:53:00 Halloween is near and I'm going to make you a proposal so you can surprise everybody.Following you can find some Halloween make up tutorials. They go from the easiest (that anybody can do, witch cheap materials that you can find elsewhere) to some harder.Sometimes I have done make up for theater and cinema. So I will try to give you some tricks I learned in addition to the tutorials.I bet you won't go unnoticed. It will be fun.Skeleton MakeupThis tutorial explains step by step how to do a skeleton face. Remember it doesn't have to be perfect. Instead of buying a latex cap you can use a swimming cap and paint it well, or if you prefer use a hood to cover the head. With a scythe you may look like the Death.VampYou can make up yourself for Halloween, but stay nice. Remember to enfathise the eyebrow's curve, and paint the lips in red or black.MummyA classic one. You won't be recognised for sure. You can also paint some portions of the gauzes in red. And the part of the face that can b Read more:Surprise
, Halloween
The Top Ten Comic Heroes Movies 2007-10-07 13:03:00 Movies based in comic heroes begin to be a genre. Fans of Marvel or DC Comic
s can feel pleased. Many of these movies are authentic tributes. With others, one goes out the cinema saying "It isn't like in the comic".Sometimes people that doesn't know about these comics begin to be interested in them after they have seen the films.After this, a list of the best comic heroes movies.1- Batman Begins2- Superman3- Spiderman4- Conan5- Dick Tracy6- Flash Gordon7- Blade8- Hellboy9- Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer10- X-MenAll of them are entertaining movies, full of action, adventures and especial effects.Batman Begins, there are some films based in the character of Batman, but maybe this is the best adaptation of the personality of the Batman from the comics. Bruce Wayne gets transformed slowly into Batman. Outstanding performance by Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Liam Neeson. Very good actors and a very good quality in general in this film.Superman, was an authentic revolution in its time
Before And After An Award!!! 2007-10-05 12:03:00 The other day I found this video of Gollum winning the MTV Award
s:I had a big laugh. Maybe some people missed this video. I found it fun to include it here.The reason is also to celebrate the new awards won.I found the fun version of the Scream by Edward Munch and I couldn't resist to make this photomontage, and it's for celebrating that in a very short time I have gotten three awards.Julian Bennet have given me two recently.http://julianbennett.blogspot.com/He has created the Bodacious award that he said that means:"bow·da·cious (bo-da'sh?s), Southern & South Midland U.S. adj.: Remarkable; prodigious., Audacious; gutsy. adv.: Completely; extremely. Audaciously; boldly."Wow! Julian thank you!!!As it is tradition I give the award :- CrazyKinux's Musing: Do you like games, specially Eve Online, and sci-fic? This is your site.http://www.crazykinux.com/-Listening,Learning,Living: This blog goes about many things, curiosities, interesting news, and all with a good sense of humor.h
Garfield, A Happy Cat 2007-10-02 13:40:00 Jim Davis is the creator of Garfield
. Davis grew up in a farm. His mother loved cats, she had 25. So it's not strange that Davis knows so well the behavior of these little felines.As Jim Davis was asthmatic, he spent long periods of time in bed. And during his convalescence he used to draw. In the beginning he didn't do it too well, but with time he improved. He noticed that his drawing were more fun, and added text to them. This way, he started his passion as a comic drawer.In College, he met his wife Carolyn. He worked for 2 years in an advertisement agency. He also was assistant of Tom Ryan (Tumbleweeds). But he wanted to make his own comic strip, and created "Gnorm Gnat". It was a comic strip about insects.After 5 years of failure, one day Jim Davis, in desperation, took some newspapers. Looking at the comic strips, he realized that most of the main characters were dogs: Snoopy, Marmaduke, Fred Basset... No cats at all.So he started to draw cats, since he got the plump orange ca Read more:Happy
Let love rain on me 2007-10-01 13:03:00 "Please forgive me for callingin the deepest dead of nightBut I found a million ways thatI could try to make things rightI want to bring you magic andsprinkle you with rainAnd give you more than reasonsto take me back againLet love rain on melike it did beforeLet love rain on meI can't take it anymoreDrown me in a seaLet love rain on meI had walked through miles of desertand drenshed them with my tearsIn these days I've been awayfrom you I've aged 100 yearsSo please don't keep me waitingwishing on the stars aboveJust give me your forgivenessI return it with my loveLet love rain on melike it did beforeLet love rain on meI can't take it anymoreDrown me in a seaLet love rain on meLet love rain on melike it did beforeI have been through fireI can't take it anymoreDrown me in a seaLet love rain on meLet love rain on melike it did beforeLet love rain on meI can't take it anymoreDrown me in a seaLet love rain on meLet love rain on meLet love rain on me"-lyrics of the original song-You
Top Best 50 Freeware For Design and Developing 2007-10-16 13:41:00 Finding freeware for design and programming can be a hard task. Here there are 50 of the best.By using these programs, your projects will have a superior quality. Some of them will save you a big amount of time.Maybe you never thought in using some of them. But they will surprise you so much, that you won't be able to avoid testing them.2D GraphicsThe Gimp, is a complete tool for photo retouching, designing and creating images. It has fantastic effects, filters, layers. It's a very well known freeware.DeepPaint, is an artistic painting program, similar to Corel Painter. You have tools for: oil, acrylic, chalk, watercolors... And also different canvas and fully editable brushes.Inkscape, a vector graphics editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator. It uses the SVG file format. It has shapes, text, cloning, gradients, ...ArtRage, is a beginner's program for artistic painting. Very easy.MegaPOV, Do you know POV? POV is a program that makes realistic images using a simple programming languag Read more:Freeware
Three Chinese Fables 2007-10-14 12:57:00 The man that couldn't see anybodyIn the Kingdom of Qi, there was a very greedy man who loved the gold. One day walking by the square, dressed with his best clothes, he saw a man who was selling gold. He quickly closed to him and stole him a big piece of gold in front of everyone's eyes, and went out running.When he was captured, they asked him:-"Why did you steal a piece of gold in front of everybody?"And he answered - "Because I didn't see anybody, I only could see a big piece of gold!!!"The suspectOne day a man lost his axe, and suspected his neighbour's son. He stayed staring at that boy. And the boy walked like a thief, talked like a thief, and he behaved like a thief. Yes, he was sure: he was a thief.The following day, he found his axe in the valley. Without a doubt, he had forgotten it there.And in that very moment, he saw his neighbour's son. The boy walked like a good boy, talked like a good boy, and he behaved like a good boy. Yes, he was sure: he was a good boy.The parab Read more:Three
, Chinese
, Fables
Hatshepsut, The Greatest Woman Pharaoh Of Egypt 2007-10-21 12:18:00 Hatshepsut was daughter of Thutmose I. He ruled for 13 years during which he expanded the frontiers of Egypt
as far as the most western part of the Euphrates river.This way, he increased the wealth of his Empire, as those lands where very productive.He was also a great builder. He started the Valley of the Kings, where he and other pharaohs were buried.Thutmose wished than when he died, Hatshepsut succeeded him. But after his death, there was a big fight for the power.The architect and vizier Ineni (architect of the Valley of the Kings) was very influential, and hated the idea of a woman ruling the Empire. So he promoted Thutmose II to the throne.Thutmose II was son of Thutmose I and a secondary wife. So he was half-brother of Hatshesput.They married Hatshepsut with his half-brother Thutmose II. This was a hard blow to her. She wished to rule, and not to be in the shadows. She was brought up to be a pharaoh, and her biggest wish was to exceed his father's successes.Thutmose II was a v Read more:Greatest
The Most Magical Nights Of Van Gogh 2007-10-18 14:10:00 Starry NightVincent van Gogh made this painting in 1889, 13 months before his death. He didn't paint it in front of the landscape, as it was his habit. He did it through his memories. And he did it from the Saint-Remy asylum (Provence).Van Gogh
painted this artwork with passion, with vigorous, even desperate brushstrokes. The moon and stars are surrounded by light glows. In the distance, the village, as submerged in a dream. This picture has some Japanese influence, as he felt a great admiration for that art.He emphasized the mauve, yellow and purple colors. His euphoria can be sensed. He is the highest point of his happiness. Soon, he will fall in his deepest abyss. Since his desperation takes him, months later, to shoot himself in the chest.His agony will last for 2 days. It's said that in his deathbed he didn't stop smoking.Without a doubt, he wanted to leave. His time was gone. He was 37 years old.Cafe Terrace at NightVan Gogh depicts an elegant cafe-terrace in the on the "Place Read more:Magical
Hatshepsut, The Greatest Woman Pharaoh Of Egypt 2007-10-21 12:18:00 Hatshepsut was daughter of Thutmose I. He ruled for 13 years during which he expanded the frontiers of Egypt
as far as the most western part of the Euphrates river.This way, he increased the wealth of his Empire, as those lands where very productive.He was also a great builder. He started the Valley of the Kings, where he and other pharaohs were buried.Thutmose wished than when he died, Hatshepsut succeeded him. But after his death, there was a big fight for the power.The architect and vizier Ineni (architect of the Valley of the Kings) was very influential, and hated the idea of a woman ruling the Empire. So he promoted Thutmose II to the throne.Thutmose II was son of Thutmose I and a secondary wife. So he was half-brother of Hatshesput.They married Hatshepsut with his half-brother Thutmose II. This was a hard blow to her. She wished to rule, and not to be in the shadows. She was brought up to be a pharaoh, and her biggest wish was to exceed his father's successes.Thutmose II was a v Read more:Greatest
The Most Magical Nights Of Van Gogh 2007-10-18 14:10:00 Starry NightVincent van Gogh made this painting in 1889, 13 months before his death. He didn't paint it in front of the landscape, as it was his habit. He did it through his memories. And he did it from the Saint-Remy asylum (Provence).Van Gogh
painted this artwork with passion, with vigorous, even desperate brushstrokes. The moon and stars are surrounded by light glows. In the distance, the village, as submerged in a dream. This picture has some Japanese influence, as he felt a great admiration for that art.He emphasized the mauve, yellow and purple colors. His euphoria can be sensed. He is the highest point of his happiness. Soon, he will fall in his deepest abyss. Since his desperation takes him, months later, to shoot himself in the chest.His agony will last for 2 days. It's said that in his deathbed he didn't stop smoking.Without a doubt, he wanted to leave. His time was gone. He was 37 years old.Cafe Terrace at NightVan Gogh depicts an elegant cafe-terrace in the on the "Place Read more:Magical
Top Best 50 Freeware For Design and Developing 2007-10-16 13:41:00 Finding freeware for design and programming can be a hard task. Here there are 50 of the best.By using these programs, your projects will have a superior quality. Some of them will save you a big amount of time.Maybe you never thought in using some of them. But they will surprise you so much, that you won't be able to avoid testing them.2D GraphicsThe Gimp, is a complete tool for photo retouching, designing and creating images. It has fantastic effects, filters, layers. It's a very well known freeware.DeepPaint, is an artistic painting program, similar to Corel Painter. You have tools for: oil, acrylic, chalk, watercolors... And also different canvas and fully editable brushes.Inkscape, a vector graphics editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator. It uses the SVG file format. It has shapes, text, cloning, gradients, ...ArtRage, is a beginner's program for artistic painting. Very easy.MegaPOV, Do you know POV? POV is a program that makes realistic images using a simple programming languag Read more:Freeware
Three Chinese Fables 2007-10-14 12:57:00 The man that couldn't see anybodyIn the Kingdom of Qi, there was a very greedy man who loved the gold. One day walking by the square, dressed with his best clothes, he saw a man who was selling gold. He quickly closed to him and stole him a big piece of gold in front of everyone's eyes, and went out running.When he was captured, they asked him:-"Why did you steal a piece of gold in front of everybody?"And he answered - "Because I didn't see anybody, I only could see a big piece of gold!!!"The suspectOne day a man lost his axe, and suspected his neighbour's son. He stayed staring at that boy. And the boy walked like a thief, talked like a thief, and he behaved like a thief. Yes, he was sure: he was a thief.The following day, he found his axe in the valley. Without a doubt, he had forgotten it there.And in that very moment, he saw his neighbour's son. The boy walked like a good boy, talked like a good boy, and he behaved like a good boy. Yes, he was sure: he was a good boy.The parab Read more:Three
, Chinese
, Fables
Kalahari Desert, A Full Of Life Place 2007-10-10 15:30:00 The Kalahari Desert
covers Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. The Kalahari comprises 900 square kilometers. Its name comes from the word in Twsana language "Kglagadi", that means "big thirst".Although it's called Kalahari Desert, it's not really a desert. Why? Because it receives 250 mm of rainfall. Only places where the rainfall is lesser than this are considered deserts. So, actually, it's a semi-arid and sandy area.In a distant past, what nowadays is the Kalahari, was a big lake. So it's not estrange the big amount of fossils that can be found in this zone.Despite the bad climate conditions and the lack of water, the Kalahari shelters a big amount of animals and plants. Amongst the Kalahari's fauna it can be found the Kalahari antelope, which adapts very well to its medium, as it doesn't need water. It finds the liquid it needs to survive in the vegetables that it feeds of. Other animals include the black rhinoceros, hyenas, lions, birds, reptiles...The most popular animal fr Read more:Place
How To Surprise In Halloween 2007-10-09 15:53:00 Halloween is near and I'm going to make you a proposal so you can surprise everybody.Following you can find some Halloween make up tutorials. They go from the easiest (that anybody can do, witch cheap materials that you can find elsewhere) to some harder.Sometimes I have done make up for theater and cinema. So I will try to give you some tricks I learned in addition to the tutorials.I bet you won't go unnoticed. It will be fun.Skeleton MakeupThis tutorial explains step by step how to do a skeleton face. Remember it doesn't have to be perfect. Instead of buying a latex cap you can use a swimming cap and paint it well, or if you prefer use a hood to cover the head. With a scythe you may look like the Death.VampYou can make up yourself for Halloween, but stay nice. Remember to enfathise the eyebrow's curve, and paint the lips in red or black.MummyA classic one. You won't be recognised for sure. You can also paint some portions of the gauzes in red. And the part of the face that can b Read more:Surprise
, Halloween
The Top Ten Comic Heroes Movies 2007-10-07 13:03:00 Movies based in comic heroes begin to be a genre. Fans of Marvel or DC Comic
s can feel pleased. Many of these movies are authentic tributes. With others, one goes out the cinema saying "It isn't like in the comic".Sometimes people that doesn't know about these comics begin to be interested in them after they have seen the films.After this, a list of the best comic heroes movies.1- Batman Begins2- Superman3- Spiderman4- Conan5- Dick Tracy6- Flash Gordon7- Blade8- Hellboy9- Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer10- X-MenAll of them are entertaining movies, full of action, adventures and especial effects.Batman Begins, there are some films based in the character of Batman, but maybe this is the best adaptation of the personality of the Batman from the comics. Bruce Wayne gets transformed slowly into Batman. Outstanding performance by Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Liam Neeson. Very good actors and a very good quality in general in this film.Superman, was an authentic revolution in its time
Before And After An Award!!! 2007-10-05 12:03:00 The other day I found this video of Gollum winning the MTV Award
s:I had a big laugh. Maybe some people missed this video. I found it fun to include it here.The reason is also to celebrate the new awards won.I found the fun version of the Scream by Edward Munch and I couldn't resist to make this photomontage, and it's for celebrating that in a very short time I have gotten three awards.Julian Bennet have given me two recently.http://julianbennett.blogspot.com/He has created the Bodacious award that he said that means:"bow·da·cious (bo-da'sh?s), Southern & South Midland U.S. adj.: Remarkable; prodigious., Audacious; gutsy. adv.: Completely; extremely. Audaciously; boldly."Wow! Julian thank you!!!As it is tradition I give the award :- CrazyKinux's Musing: Do you like games, specially Eve Online, and sci-fic? This is your site.http://www.crazykinux.com/-Listening,Learning,Living: This blog goes about many things, curiosities, interesting news, and all with a good sense of humor.h
Garfield, A Happy Cat 2007-10-02 13:40:00 Jim Davis is the creator of Garfield
. Davis grew up in a farm. His mother loved cats, she had 25. So it's not strange that Davis knows so well the behavior of these little felines.As Jim Davis was asthmatic, he spent long periods of time in bed. And during his convalescence he used to draw. In the beginning he didn't do it too well, but with time he improved. He noticed that his drawing were more fun, and added text to them. This way, he started his passion as a comic drawer.In College, he met his wife Carolyn. He worked for 2 years in an advertisement agency. He also was assistant of Tom Ryan (Tumbleweeds). But he wanted to make his own comic strip, and created "Gnorm Gnat". It was a comic strip about insects.After 5 years of failure, one day Jim Davis, in desperation, took some newspapers. Looking at the comic strips, he realized that most of the main characters were dogs: Snoopy, Marmaduke, Fred Basset... No cats at all.So he started to draw cats, since he got the plump orange ca Read more:Happy
Let love rain on me 2007-10-01 13:03:00 "Please forgive me for callingin the deepest dead of nightBut I found a million ways thatI could try to make things rightI want to bring you magic andsprinkle you with rainAnd give you more than reasonsto take me back againLet love rain on melike it did beforeLet love rain on meI can't take it anymoreDrown me in a seaLet love rain on meI had walked through miles of desertand drenshed them with my tearsIn these days I've been awayfrom you I've aged 100 yearsSo please don't keep me waitingwishing on the stars aboveJust give me your forgivenessI return it with my loveLet love rain on melike it did beforeLet love rain on meI can't take it anymoreDrown me in a seaLet love rain on meLet love rain on melike it did beforeI have been through fireI can't take it anymoreDrown me in a seaLet love rain on meLet love rain on melike it did beforeLet love rain on meI can't take it anymoreDrown me in a seaLet love rain on meLet love rain on meLet love rain on me"-lyrics of the original song-You
Vampirism and the real Dracula. (First Part) 2007-09-27 15:47:00 Bram Stoker is the author of "Dracula
", the famous novel that inspired so many movies, comics and theatrical interpretations.It is thought that the character that inspired Bram Stoker was Vlad Tepes.There's another version that says that Stoker felt a big fascination for Erzsebet Bathory, that used to drink blood and take baths in it, seeing blood as a potion of Eternal Youth.But let us center in the figure of Vlad Tepes.Vlad Tepes was born in 1431 in Transylvania (Romania). He was son of Vlad Dracu, from whom comes the word Dracula (son of Dracu).The source of his power was his cruelty. It was so enormous that gave origin to many legends. His enemies were really terrified of him. When they saw him, many ran away horrified. In numerous times, he won battles that were impossible to win. In his last battle he commanded 200 men against 20,000.Vlad Tepes was also known as Vlad the Impaler. He used to lunch watching his victims, and used to take walks through the landscapes populated with Read more:First
Top best 50 free tools for your website 2007-09-25 16:24:00 As a professional of design, I know how hard is to find good free tools. I think it's very important that the applications you use are easy to use. Most of the people don't have the time and patience to read many tutorials to understand how a program works.Here you are 50 of the best. I hope you like them.Color Selectors:ColorJack, let's you select color palettes by dragging on a color wheel.Color Palette Generator, creates a palette of colors that predominate in a pic that you choose.Color Scheme Generator, lets you make color patterns in a visual and easy way.Kuler, a free Adobe tool that lets you create your colors or choose the most popular and rated by the public.Colour Lovers, choose between the most rated palettes.Names of colors in html, Do you want to know the name of your favorite color? Here you will know the name and you'll be able to pick it for your web.Color Blender, you choose two colors and the program gives you the intermediate ones.Logo Makers:Cool Text, generate Read more:website
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