<?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-306341441547043298</id><updated>2011-12-26T14:42:02.506-05:00</updated><category term='childhood'/><category term='TERMINATOR'/><category term='ratchet andclank'/><category term='Cybercrime'/><category term='finance'/><category term='basketball'/><category term='movies'/><category term='judas'/><category term='umjammer lammy'/><category term='green lantern'/><category term='domain names'/><category term='cartoons'/><category term='art'/><category term='action figures'/><category term='Miszqueenb'/><category term='suge knight'/><category term='google doodle'/><category term='Democrats'/><category 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shows'/><category term='HBO'/><category term='healthcare'/><category term='bachelorette'/><category term='religion'/><category term='jail'/><category term='model'/><category term='Typosquatting'/><category term='snow'/><category term='medicine'/><category term='family guy'/><title type='text'>Darkness U.S.A</title><subtitle type='html'>my personal musings on things</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>111</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-2997974419327447291</id><published>2011-12-05T08:58:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-05T09:02:24.458-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Buffy the vampire slayer'/><title type='text'>Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Animated Series</title><content type='html'>I had forgotten i had seen this until i came across someones FB page that had this featured on it. Well I was a fan of Buffy the vampire slayer&amp;nbsp;and Angel and i'm proud to admit it uhh just don't tell anyone. Anywho here is a sample of a unrealised tv cartoon based on the show&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mnUvZP7-5LM" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-2997974419327447291?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/2997974419327447291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=2997974419327447291' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2997974419327447291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2997974419327447291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2011/12/buffy-vampire-slayer-animated-series.html' title='Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Animated Series'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/mnUvZP7-5LM/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8580567455578901019</id><published>2011-11-28T13:14:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-28T13:30:52.302-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dancer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Miszqueenb'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='model'/><title type='text'>Misz Queen B</title><content type='html'>This is a girl i happened to meet on a social network site, &lt;a href="http://fubar.com/"&gt;fubar.com&lt;/a&gt; to be exact. she is a knockout and also happens to be a very talented model and dancer.she also has a couple of youtube pages under &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Playboy1610z and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;miszqueenb&lt;/span&gt; I hope she makes it to the big time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ggurls.com/images/stories/misz-queen-b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="700" src="http://ggurls.com/images/stories/misz-queen-b.jpg" width="467" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;here is one of her videos she dances in, very entertaining&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bpf2P_2eBTg" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8580567455578901019?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8580567455578901019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8580567455578901019' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8580567455578901019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8580567455578901019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2011/11/misz-queen-b.html' title='Misz Queen B'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/Bpf2P_2eBTg/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8989364038138352008</id><published>2011-11-25T05:49:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-25T05:51:24.209-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cris Cab Cover of Black And Yellow</title><content type='html'>I don't know who this kid is but i like this cover of Wiz Khalifas "&lt;span style="color: #444444;"&gt;Black&lt;/span&gt; And &lt;span style="color: yellow;"&gt;Yellow&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dMfAvaZj9yw" width="560"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8989364038138352008?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8989364038138352008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8989364038138352008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8989364038138352008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8989364038138352008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2011/11/cris-cab-cover-of-black-and-yellow.html' title='Cris Cab Cover of Black And Yellow'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/dMfAvaZj9yw/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8314972220458728640</id><published>2011-11-24T01:27:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-24T01:42:24.714-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Thanksgiving</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMjIwNjA2NDc3NDUmcHQ9MTMyMjA2MDY5ODkzNSZwPTg3NTkxJmQ9Y29tbWVudHMtY29kZWJveCZnPTEmbz*wODgz/ZDUyMjVhMDY*ZDZhYjg1Y2E4YzNiYjIxNmZiNA==.gif" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.satisfaction.com/codes/thanksgiving-comments-1.php"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s4/karsmi123/tg/tg1902.gif" border="0" alt="Thanksgiving Pictures, Comments, Images, Graphics" title="Thanksgiving Pictures, Comments, Images, Graphics"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.satisfaction.com/codes/thanksgiving-comments-1.php" title="Thanksgiving Pictures, Comments, Images, Graphics"&gt;Happy Thanksgiving &lt;/a&gt; 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I thought this was true until I stumbled upon this vid. It looks like the genuine article but I am easily fooled. since this is mostly a PG TO G rated blog I will only share the link i visited. it is called&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;whitegirllovesblkdick&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUZ70VnxF-Q&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUZ70VnxF-Q&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-2377090756264689165?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/2377090756264689165/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=2377090756264689165' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2377090756264689165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2377090756264689165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2011/09/youtube-porn.html' title='youtube porn'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-4249822317062070983</id><published>2011-05-31T21:39:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-31T22:08:42.933-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PS3 online'/><title type='text'>Reading Yahoo mail on the PS3</title><content type='html'>I have been using my PS3 for internet access recently and I had a hard time getting into my &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;yahoo mail&lt;/span&gt; until I discovered this really simple trick. First you need a &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Flik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt; account so if you have one good if not sign up for one it's free. I have read post that you have to merge this and that you don't need to&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now while on the PS3 go to &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Flik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt; and sign in. when the page with the different language greetings appears push the button on your controller that brings up the address of the page I think it is the select button but whichever one it is bring it up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now erase the current web page address with L1+square. now simply type in &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;yahoomail.com&lt;/span&gt;, this should take you to your mail in-box and voila!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;when you are finished reading mail signout of &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;yahoo&lt;/span&gt; and go back to &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Flik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt; and sign out of that too. if you have a different &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;yahoo&lt;/span&gt; email address than your one tied to &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Flik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;  it doesn't matter simple type in your email address and password in the &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Flik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt; log in and after go to &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;yahoomail&lt;/span&gt;. if a box tells you to create a new whatever ignore it and just type&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt; yahoo mail&lt;/span&gt; in the address bar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now for the way &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;yahoo&lt;/span&gt; mail looks on the PS3 I have found no way to fix it. also when you try to send email on the PS3 it can get a little buggy so you may have to turn off javascript in tools to send mail .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hope this helps someone&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-4249822317062070983?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/4249822317062070983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=4249822317062070983' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4249822317062070983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4249822317062070983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2011/05/reading-yahoo-mail-on-ps3.html' title='Reading Yahoo mail on the PS3'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3673883588150496137</id><published>2011-04-27T10:19:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-27T10:32:31.213-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conspiracy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Obama'/><title type='text'>Obama birth certificate the long form or how I learned to stop fighting and love to compromise</title><content type='html'>At long last it is here the long form birth certificate that everyone wanted. O glorious day the great Donald Trump has hounded the president enough with all his birther talk on his presidential publicity tour that the president caved(big surprise!). will this end the speculation and conspiracy theories.....probably not, definitely not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/27/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate"&gt;long form birth certificate link&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3673883588150496137?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3673883588150496137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3673883588150496137' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3673883588150496137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3673883588150496137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2011/04/obama-birth-certificate-long-form-or.html' title='Obama birth certificate the long form or how I learned to stop fighting and love to compromise'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-307061959326678170</id><published>2011-04-01T18:29:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-01T18:50:09.253-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Harvey Comics'/><title type='text'>New comic from Harvey Comics</title><content type='html'>With the success are the movie &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Precious&lt;/span&gt; Harvey Comics has decided to launch a new comic based on the early years of academy award nominee &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Gabourey Sidibe &lt;/span&gt;.......&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WaTnPkwvp0U/TZZTQEznMtI/AAAAAAAAAbg/OC1ml4ELmTU/s1600/LILGABBYblack.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 357px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WaTnPkwvp0U/TZZTQEznMtI/AAAAAAAAAbg/OC1ml4ELmTU/s400/LILGABBYblack.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590747523060282066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"&gt;APRIL FOOLS!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="list-style: none outside none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;li style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabourey_Sidibe"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-307061959326678170?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/307061959326678170/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=307061959326678170' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/307061959326678170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/307061959326678170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-comic-from-harvey-comics.html' title='New comic from Harvey Comics'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WaTnPkwvp0U/TZZTQEznMtI/AAAAAAAAAbg/OC1ml4ELmTU/s72-c/LILGABBYblack.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-358767463482484275</id><published>2011-03-31T18:04:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T18:18:47.565-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='superheroes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='public domain'/><title type='text'>Golden Age Public Domain Super Heroes</title><content type='html'>In the past year I have really been into public domain golden age super heroes. I frequent this site &lt;a href="http://www.pdsh.wikia.com/"&gt;Public Domain Super Heroes Wiki&lt;/a&gt; a lot.  Here is some Bruce Timm tweaked artwork that I have used to make the characters into public domain characters. If you don't know them you can research them on the aforementioned site. I hope to use some of them myself one day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WtdO3zlLCY0/TZT88ruyubI/AAAAAAAAAbY/AW8Jiz3AGqI/s1600/goldenagereproduction.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WtdO3zlLCY0/TZT88ruyubI/AAAAAAAAAbY/AW8Jiz3AGqI/s320/goldenagereproduction.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590371156934965682" 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/306341441547043298-358767463482484275?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/358767463482484275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=358767463482484275' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/358767463482484275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/358767463482484275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2011/03/golden-age-public-domain-super-heroes.html' title='Golden Age Public Domain Super Heroes'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WtdO3zlLCY0/TZT88ruyubI/AAAAAAAAAbY/AW8Jiz3AGqI/s72-c/goldenagereproduction.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1246307488673934307</id><published>2010-05-25T03:37:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T04:25:31.075-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='series finales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lost tv show'/><title type='text'>LOST "THE END"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cdn.media.abc.go.com/m/images/image-util/624x351/a90727cf13e24ad6e79b61ec45cabc61.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 239px;" src="http://cdn.media.abc.go.com/m/images/image-util/624x351/a90727cf13e24ad6e79b61ec45cabc61.jpg" alt="final scenes jack's father leads the survivors to their next destination" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the TV show &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;LOST&lt;/span&gt; has shown its last episode and I am unsure how I feel about the episode. It was full of emotion and character interactions that has been a big part of the show for its run but the ending has left more questions unanswered. First let me say someone online said that the stuff that happened on the island really happened which I thought was not true. I figure if they don't survive the original crash all the fantastical elements of the show could be explained but if they do how are all the weird happenings possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never really thought   &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 204, 204);"&gt;LOST&lt;/span&gt; was a sci-fi show but if all the stuff on the island was supposedly  real then it will have to be considered that way. what has not been explained is all the coincidences of the character interactions before the plane crash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so someone online explained that the whole "sideways flash" was not because of the bomb but a place the dead survivors created until they were ready to move on to the next phase of death. since there is no time frame the people in the universe could have been in purgatory  or limbo for years until Desmond helps them move on. so when jack dies on the island at the end of the show he goes to the purgatory place?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who knows what the writers intended but it was a good show&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1246307488673934307?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1246307488673934307/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1246307488673934307' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1246307488673934307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1246307488673934307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2010/05/lost-end.html' title='LOST &quot;THE END&quot;'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3047268851374404820</id><published>2010-03-07T17:23:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-03-07T17:34:41.862-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Additional Information on Acrylamide, Diet, and Food Storage and Preparation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm151072.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 121px;" src="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm151072.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm151030.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 121px;" src="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm151030.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm151029.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 154px;" src="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm151029.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm151026.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 154px;" src="http://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm151026.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;who knew that overcooking toast and potatoes could be dangerous but apparently so. overcooking somethings could produce a chemical called &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;ACRYLAMIDE&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodContaminantsAdulteration/ChemicalContaminants/Acrylamide/ucm151000.htm"&gt;Additional Information on Acrylamide, Diet, and Food Storage and Preparation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3047268851374404820?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3047268851374404820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3047268851374404820' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3047268851374404820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3047268851374404820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2010/03/additional-information-on-acrylamide.html' title='Additional Information on Acrylamide, Diet, and Food Storage and Preparation'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5297646968083427180</id><published>2010-02-12T18:20:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T12:55:41.773-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shadow rabbit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='webcomic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='action figures'/><title type='text'>Shadow Rabbit Figure</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkpP3Gb0I/AAAAAAAAAZo/NNemx-O0t3I/s1600-h/shadow12cover.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkpP3Gb0I/AAAAAAAAAZo/NNemx-O0t3I/s320/shadow12cover.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437503522403151682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;For my nephew's birthday I decided to make a figure of his  character &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Shadow Rabbit&lt;/span&gt; from the aptly named&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);" href="http://webcomicsnation.com/takoyama/shadowrabbit/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"&gt;"Adventures Of Shadow Rabbit"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; webcomic he does . I found a site called&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" href="http://www.ntoonz.com/"target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"&gt;ntoonz.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Lanin D. Thomasma&lt;/span&gt; that specialized in this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkpePObBI/AAAAAAAAAZw/MnxZ0TtBosY/s1600-h/Shadow+rabbit+turnaround.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkpePObBI/AAAAAAAAAZw/MnxZ0TtBosY/s320/Shadow+rabbit+turnaround.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437503526262434834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I had my nephew draw pictures of Shadow Rabbit from 3 angles: front, side and back. I scanned it....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkpyxWAYI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/Kn7ClactTvk/s320/Shadow+rabbit+model.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437503531774247298" border="0" /&gt;  ...And colored it in Photoshop and sent it to Lanin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkqDDbYfI/AAAAAAAAAaA/vBgvj3kMYBI/s1600-h/ShadowRabbit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkqDDbYfI/AAAAAAAAAaA/vBgvj3kMYBI/s320/ShadowRabbit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437503536145064434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After sending payment and a not so long wait, these are some digital pictures Lanin sent me of his completed work before the figure arrived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkqNje4SI/AAAAAAAAAaI/cmv_hZlImFM/s1600-h/ShadowRabbit+%281%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 185px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkqNje4SI/AAAAAAAAAaI/cmv_hZlImFM/s320/ShadowRabbit+%281%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437503538963865890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XllV-pedI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/sPh8EMogzz8/s1600-h/ShadowRabbit+%282%29.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XllV-pedI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/sPh8EMogzz8/s320/ShadowRabbit+%282%29.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437504554837572050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; It looked pretty good, considering another guy wanted to charge me like 200 bucks to do it, this was a lot more in my price range.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5297646968083427180?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5297646968083427180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5297646968083427180' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5297646968083427180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5297646968083427180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2010/02/shadow-rabbit-figure.html' title='Shadow Rabbit Figure'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/S3XkpP3Gb0I/AAAAAAAAAZo/NNemx-O0t3I/s72-c/shadow12cover.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-9073839886663944811</id><published>2009-11-20T18:44:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T19:14:44.050-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jeopardy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kelly miyahara'/><title type='text'>Jeopardy!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs261.snc1/8830_164582860277_102395935277_3569863_8036675_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 286px;" src="http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs261.snc1/8830_164582860277_102395935277_3569863_8036675_n.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Image courtesy of Facebook. From left to right (Jimmy,Sarah,Alex,Kelly)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love gameshows especially the kind that have questions you can answer. One of my favorites is &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Jeopardy!&lt;/span&gt; along with &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;CashCab&lt;/span&gt;. A part of Jeopardy! is the Clue Crew Established in 2001. The Clue Crew travels the globe recording video clues for Jeopardy! the Clue Crew has traveled to 45 states and 31 countries. I asked one member of the clue crew how she became part of it and she was awesome enough to answer my question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Darknessusa: &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;"How did you get to be in the clue crew if i may ask?"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"&gt;Kelly Miyahara:&lt;/span&gt; "I saw the ad 5 years ago. My mom and dad were the first to tell me about it. I    thought it looked like a dream job, but never imagined it would become a reality. Boy, am I glad I applied! After sending in my audition tape and application, I received an invitation to 1 of 6 casting auditions across the country. Mine was in Los Angeles. I received a call back that day, then later was invited to the "Finals." 9 Finalists were involved that weekend in L.A. for an audition/interview process. It was an amazingly fun process and I could hardly believe that it would get better. It did! I have been with the show for 5 seasons now. I love my job!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-9073839886663944811?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/9073839886663944811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=9073839886663944811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/9073839886663944811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/9073839886663944811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/11/jeopardy.html' title='Jeopardy!'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-4050282300502415045</id><published>2009-11-06T10:22:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T14:15:47.306-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='childhood'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='google doodle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sesame street'/><title type='text'>40th anniversary of Sesame Street by Google</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Svm7w3EZajI/AAAAAAAAAZg/Y6DlttxH7pY/s1600-h/sesame_street_ensemble-hp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 98px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Svm7w3EZajI/AAAAAAAAAZg/Y6DlttxH7pY/s200/sesame_street_ensemble-hp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402555676098128434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/SvGGMjeb6JI/AAAAAAAAE4Y/ALW_ecZXgfk/s400/big_bird_google_logo-highres.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 232px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/SvGGMjeb6JI/AAAAAAAAE4Y/ALW_ecZXgfk/s400/big_bird_google_logo-highres.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SvREsss9j-I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/TI6f7Iw0J1k/s1600-h/cookiemonster.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 60px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SvREsss9j-I/AAAAAAAAAZQ/TI6f7Iw0J1k/s200/cookiemonster.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401017387828744162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SvRBTadi5xI/AAAAAAAAAZI/Hhh5VzdOM78/s1600-h/bert_ernie-hp.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 116px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SvRBTadi5xI/AAAAAAAAAZI/Hhh5VzdOM78/s320/bert_ernie-hp.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401013654900631314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SvX6JWbIa6I/AAAAAAAAAZY/XVX74jT-X_s/s1600-h/oscar-hp.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 75px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SvX6JWbIa6I/AAAAAAAAAZY/XVX74jT-X_s/s200/oscar-hp.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401498366645922722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The beloved educational entertainment children's show,&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;Sesame Street&lt;/span&gt; is having its 40Th anniversary on November 10Th,2009. So to celebrate &lt;a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.google.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;G&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has been featuring some of the famous characters from the show on their search engine homepage positioned in the logo.Big Bird was first then Cookie Monster next Ernie and Bert. A different character will appear each day. Here is the official word from the Google Blog -&lt;a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/la-peanut-butter-sandwiches.html"&gt;SESAME STREET DOODLE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-4050282300502415045?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/4050282300502415045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=4050282300502415045' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4050282300502415045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4050282300502415045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/11/40th-anniversary-of-sesame-street-by.html' title='40th anniversary of Sesame Street by Google'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Svm7w3EZajI/AAAAAAAAAZg/Y6DlttxH7pY/s72-c/sesame_street_ensemble-hp.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7152556451121711057</id><published>2009-09-28T02:07:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T02:36:07.228-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sci-fi'/><title type='text'>flash forward(tv series)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.scifiscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/flash_forward-10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 211px;" src="http://www.scifiscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/flash_forward-10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched the new TV show &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;FLASHFORWARD&lt;/span&gt; on ABC and it was pretty interesting. Since LOST came out and made it big the trend has been to have these large cast mysterious dramas on but few have had the same success. This new show is based on a book and seems promising. A quick description of the show is in order I guess.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;"A mysterious global event causes everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for 137 seconds, during which people worldwide see what appear to be visions of their lives six months in the future(April 29,2010). The event also results in the deaths of some who were involved in transportation accidents, while the people who survived are left wondering if what they saw will actually happen"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recognized a few faces from the show too, &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Courtney B.Vance&lt;/span&gt;-I guess he won't be back on &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Law and Order:Criminal Intent&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;John Cho&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Harold and Kumar Go To Whitecastle&lt;/span&gt; fame and&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; Jack Davenport &lt;/span&gt;of the English sitcom &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Coupling&lt;/span&gt; and the movie &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Pirates Of The Caribbean&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Seth  "FamilyGuy" MacFarlane&lt;/span&gt; makes a surprise cameo also.&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_MacFarlane" title="Seth MacFarlane"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7152556451121711057?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7152556451121711057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7152556451121711057' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7152556451121711057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7152556451121711057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/09/flash-forwardtv-series.html' title='flash forward(tv series)'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6970530449678990282</id><published>2009-08-17T15:14:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-17T15:22:00.089-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Archie marries Veronica</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/05/28/comic.book.archie.marrying/art.archie.archiecomics.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 219px;" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/05/28/comic.book.archie.marrying/art.archie.archiecomics.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It finally had to happen, Superman got married and Spiderman got married so it is only logical that the next elligible bachelor would tie the knot.After 60 sumthin years Archie is finally going to marry Veronica in his 600th issue. The story takes place in the future after he has graduated college.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6970530449678990282?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6970530449678990282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6970530449678990282' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6970530449678990282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6970530449678990282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/08/it-finally-had-to-happen-superman-got.html' title='Archie marries Veronica'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5224502803663338946</id><published>2009-08-11T20:09:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-11T20:20:56.717-04:00</updated><title type='text'>founding fathers and constitution rollback</title><content type='html'>All these disruptions at town meetings and all this tea party business has got me worried as a citizen and a black citizen. at a meeting by a senator a woman stood up and said she wanted us to go back to what the founding fathers meant and follow the constitution. if you think about it a lot of the amendments that are important to women and black people are in the constitution after the founding fathers were dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Thirteenth Amendment (1865): Abolishes slavery and authorizes Congress to enforce abolition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Fifteenth Amendment (1870): Forbids the federal government and the states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Nineteenth Amendment (1920): Prohibits the federal government and the states from forbidding any citizen to vote due to their sex. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5224502803663338946?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5224502803663338946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5224502803663338946' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5224502803663338946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5224502803663338946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/08/founding-fathers-and-constitution.html' title='founding fathers and constitution rollback'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1419117376433966341</id><published>2009-07-15T11:39:00.016-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-13T01:17:06.423-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='green lantern'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='superhero movies'/><title type='text'>live action green lantern movie</title><content type='html'>there is a Green Lantern live action movie in the works I think &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Ryan Reynolds&lt;/span&gt; is tapped to play Hal Jordan but this trailer by&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jaronpitts" onmousedown="urchinTracker('/Events/VideoWatch/ChannelNameLink');" class="hLink fn n contributor"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="hLink fn n contributor"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Jaron Pitts&lt;/span&gt; is great. Pitts made a fan made trailer of what the real trailer will probably look like with &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Nathon Fillion&lt;/span&gt; as the star. His trailer actually looks like a good Green Lantern movie if it was on the up and up. The bad part about it is that trailers have become so cliche that they can be easily parodied by anyone.&lt;/span&gt; You can go here to see it&lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTiRnqnvDs"&gt; Green Lantern&lt;/a&gt; fan trailer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:rcbFuUIALWgGFM:http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/gltrailer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 109px;" src="http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:rcbFuUIALWgGFM:http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/gltrailer.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:cOr2rIqxBckIPM:http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/05/26/green-lantern-fake-trailer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 127px; height: 52px;" src="http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:cOr2rIqxBckIPM:http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/05/26/green-lantern-fake-trailer.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:X1PdE3y4gZF-aM:http://s3.amazonaws.com/vodpod.com.videos.thumbnail/1666452.large.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 89px;" src="http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:X1PdE3y4gZF-aM:http://s3.amazonaws.com/vodpod.com.videos.thumbnail/1666452.large.jpg" 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/306341441547043298-1419117376433966341?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1419117376433966341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1419117376433966341' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1419117376433966341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1419117376433966341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/07/live-action-green-lantern-movie.html' title='live action green lantern movie'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1801382942767523375</id><published>2009-06-26T16:20:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T12:44:41.894-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='michael jackson'/><title type='text'>Michael Jackson August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Michael_Jackson_1984.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 224px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Michael_Jackson_1984.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;Michael Joseph Jackson&lt;/b&gt; (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1801382942767523375?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1801382942767523375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1801382942767523375' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1801382942767523375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1801382942767523375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-august-29-1958-june-25.html' title='Michael Jackson August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-328019326016654360</id><published>2009-06-25T15:10:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T15:24:07.233-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='basketball'/><title type='text'>The big cavalier</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/12/1248/9H1T000Z/shaquille-oneal-lebron-james--05-nba-all-star-game.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 450px;" src="http://imagecache5.art.com/p/LRG/12/1248/9H1T000Z/shaquille-oneal-lebron-james--05-nba-all-star-game.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;image courtesy of art.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Shaquille Oneal can add another nickname to his list the big cavalier. It became official today the future hall of famer will team with Lebron James on the Cleveland Cavaliers after the big diesel was sent to the Cavs for underachieving forward Ben Wallace and missing in action Sasha Pavlovic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The move almost guarantees the Cavs a trip to the NBA finals. Shaquille has been to the NBA finals with every team he has played on except the Phoenix suns that did not know how to incorporate one of the best centers of all time into their line up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cleveland should be saving for that victory parade now so they will have enough money.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-328019326016654360?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/328019326016654360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=328019326016654360' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/328019326016654360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/328019326016654360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/06/big-cavalier.html' title='The big cavalier'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-2488111173877882519</id><published>2009-06-25T01:06:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T15:04:57.418-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Governor Sanford'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Sanford and Sin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01430/sanford1_1430385c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 349px; height: 218px;" src="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01430/sanford1_1430385c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;" class="credit"&gt;Photo courtesy of the AP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;With apologies to the Rachel Maddow show for jacking their title, the Governor of South Carolina finally showed up today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After being harder to find than  Carmen Sandiego and Waldo governor Mark Sanford finally was found not on the Appalachian trail but in Argentina on a erotic getaway. In a press conference Sanford revealed that he had been having an affair with a woman in Argentina so it stands to reason that is why he was there on his erotic adventure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the press conference made all the more strange by several giggling bystanders behind him, he apologized profusely to everyone: his kids, his wife, his political allies and to the people of South Carolina.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The press conference made for interesting news but it was not really necessary to do. the governor simply could have let out a statement explaining his whereabouts and then gradually revealed his affair to the public. nowadays it seems anyone that cheats has to throw themselves on the altar of public opinion with a press conference complete with regretful tears and the understanding wife by their side.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well at least now we know why the Governor originally turned down the stimulus packet, he was getting his own stimulus packet on the side.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-2488111173877882519?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/2488111173877882519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=2488111173877882519' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2488111173877882519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2488111173877882519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/06/sanford-and-sin.html' title='Sanford and Sin'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1242694737026835342</id><published>2009-05-27T20:04:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-06-25T15:09:14.710-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='law'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gay marriage'/><title type='text'>defining marriage</title><content type='html'>I was accidentally watching the Bill O'Reilly show and the topic was gay marriage. He said something that made me think. he said something to the effect that gay marriage  could not be legalized because then people would be able to marry animals and ducks and claim equal protection if they were not allowed. that is a paraphrase not an exact quote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I realized that O'Reilly is wrong because marriage has been defined, not just here but in mostly all countries in the world. A law saying marriage is between two consenting adults would quell all people scared of the odd marriage: man and duck, man and computer, woman and Dennis Rodman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;throughout the history of the USA marriage has been regulated with laws, there are still miscegenation laws on the books someplace forbidding interracial marriages . You can't marry a person unless they are of legal age. You can't be married to more than one wife at a time and you can't have more than one wife at a time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so define  marriage as a union between two consenting adults and all will be well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1242694737026835342?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1242694737026835342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1242694737026835342' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1242694737026835342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1242694737026835342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/05/defining-marriage.html' title='defining marriage'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7511803959415693510</id><published>2009-05-13T12:48:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-13T13:20:23.857-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carrie prejean'/><title type='text'>Carrie Prejean Miss California won.... right?</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;It seems in all the commotion over Carrie Prejean's statements about gay marriage we seemed to have forgotten who won Miss USA 2009. Not that I care about beauty pageants they started to lose their luster a long time ago, that is why they started letting black women win to drum up interest. But Carrie has received more attention for the controversy than the real winner &lt;b style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"&gt;Kristen Jeannine Dalton&lt;/b&gt; from North Carolina has. here is the question and answer so you can judge for yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;pageant judge Perez Hilton asked whether she believed every U.S. state should legalize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_legislation_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage legislation in the United States"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;same-sex marriage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_legislation_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage legislation in the United States"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_legislation_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage legislation in the United States"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;She responded, "Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. You know what, in my country, in my family, I do believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_legislation_in_the_United_States" title="Same-sex marriage legislation in the United States"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7511803959415693510?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7511803959415693510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7511803959415693510' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7511803959415693510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7511803959415693510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/05/carrie-prejean-miss-california-won.html' title='Carrie Prejean Miss California won.... right?'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-390063039712474391</id><published>2009-05-06T13:10:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-05-06T13:25:07.589-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ratchet andclank'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toys'/><title type='text'>Ratchet and Clank Toys</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.entertainmentearth.com/%5CAUTOIMAGES%5CDC86877AAlg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 347px;" src="http://images.entertainmentearth.com/%5CAUTOIMAGES%5CDC86877AAlg.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been a long time coming, a really long time coming but the wait is almost over. Years after debuting on the PlayStation 2 the &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ratchet&amp;amp;Clank&lt;/span&gt; franchise are finally getting toys. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;DC Direct&lt;/span&gt; will be making them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some time in 2010 you will be able to own your own Lombax or Clank or even Captain Qwark. They  would make a good gift for fans of the series.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-390063039712474391?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/390063039712474391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=390063039712474391' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/390063039712474391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/390063039712474391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/05/ratchet-and-clank-toys.html' title='Ratchet and Clank Toys'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-9064691316907219064</id><published>2009-04-29T20:38:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-29T20:50:25.375-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rainbows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weather'/><title type='text'>The Rainbow Connection</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Sfj0A_CicuI/AAAAAAAAAYo/w9Y4fOHhNSE/s1600-h/CIMG0302.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Sfj0A_CicuI/AAAAAAAAAYo/w9Y4fOHhNSE/s320/CIMG0302.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330278456752239330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Rainbow I saw after it had rained one day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Sfj0A1f0NjI/AAAAAAAAAYg/ehvO5asACVY/s1600-h/CIMG0301.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Sfj0A1f0NjI/AAAAAAAAAYg/ehvO5asACVY/s320/CIMG0301.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330278454190683698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Sfj0AvwG4SI/AAAAAAAAAYY/Q1KhY2N1XPE/s1600-h/CIMG0300.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Sfj0AvwG4SI/AAAAAAAAAYY/Q1KhY2N1XPE/s320/CIMG0300.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330278452648403234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are rainbows you ask? well I did a little research....very little, and the best that I can get is that rainbows are formed by light refracting through water drops in the atmosphere. I just think they are purty&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-9064691316907219064?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/9064691316907219064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=9064691316907219064' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/9064691316907219064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/9064691316907219064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/04/rainbow-connection.html' title='The Rainbow Connection'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Sfj0A_CicuI/AAAAAAAAAYo/w9Y4fOHhNSE/s72-c/CIMG0302.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5884788888991942794</id><published>2009-04-01T02:00:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-04-01T17:02:00.430-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='powerpack'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marvel universe'/><title type='text'>powerpack</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__wZthD9t00w/SYt1pKyTUoI/AAAAAAAAAhA/kWP8dIxGWPo/s1600/w_160.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 158px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__wZthD9t00w/SYt1pKyTUoI/AAAAAAAAAhA/kWP8dIxGWPo/s1600/w_160.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img style="width: 173px; height: 259px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__wZthD9t00w/R-20KyUqzJI/AAAAAAAAAMM/DgUalbbi_Cg/s1600/w_98.jpg%20alt=" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;img style="width: 191px; height: 287px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__wZthD9t00w/SOscK6nai9I/AAAAAAAAAUM/SFSHUA33FoI/s1600/w_136.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Here is Marvel comic's PowerPack by the &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);" href="http://gurihiru.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gurihiru&lt;/a&gt; team-freelance Comic artists/illustrators. Sasaki is penciler and inker. Kawano is the colorist&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5884788888991942794?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5884788888991942794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5884788888991942794' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5884788888991942794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5884788888991942794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/04/powerpack.html' title='powerpack'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__wZthD9t00w/SYt1pKyTUoI/AAAAAAAAAhA/kWP8dIxGWPo/s72-c/w_160.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-4872934978148434791</id><published>2009-03-31T04:42:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-31T05:23:15.452-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lara croft tombraider'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video games'/><title type='text'>TearsOfTheDragon :fan made tomb raider movie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tearsofthedragon.org/img/Lara-Poster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 520px;" src="http://www.tearsofthedragon.org/img/Lara-Poster.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a fan of  the Tomb Raider franchise  so I was surprised today when I discovered someone had made a fan film based on the game's heroine entitled  &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Lara Croft TombRaider: Tears Of The Dragon&lt;/span&gt; . There are probably hundreds of fan made films floating on You Tube but I have never seen one so I am anxious to see this one . This is how the website for the movie describes the film's story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"&gt;SYNOPSIS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Adventurer and heiress &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="no"&gt;Lara Croft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; fights to hold on to the last feeling of family she has by tracking down an ancient cure to save the life of her long-time and most devoted friend Winston. The Tomb Raider finds herself competing against the ruthless &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="no"&gt;Wu-Chen Li&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;, a son of a Triad crime boss, with whom she has unfinished business. The quest spans the globe from dangerous forgotten catacombs to the urban mercenary underworld. This action drama is a true testament to low-budget, guerrilla film making and features magnificent &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="no"&gt;original music&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;.  A &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="no"&gt;comic book prequel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt; illustrating the history between Lady Croft and Chen Li's mobster family&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tearsofthedragon.org/img/Lara-Color.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 510px;" src="http://www.tearsofthedragon.org/img/Lara-Color.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It stars Valerie Perez as Lara Croft and is directed by Nick Murphy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;here is a link to the &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);" href="http://www.tearsofthedragon.org/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;. I can't wait to see it&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-4872934978148434791?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/4872934978148434791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=4872934978148434791' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4872934978148434791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4872934978148434791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/tearsofthedragon-fan-made-tomb-raider.html' title='TearsOfTheDragon :fan made tomb raider movie'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1798445305643367643</id><published>2009-03-23T18:17:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-23T18:25:44.016-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photoshop'/><title type='text'>more photoshop coloring fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/ScgLQX1BMeI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/kKyIB1ly8oY/s1600-h/Mazzuchelli_Daredevil_213_compared.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/ScgLQX1BMeI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/kKyIB1ly8oY/s320/Mazzuchelli_Daredevil_213_compared.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316511736013074914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here I colored a page of inked drawing by David mazzuchelli from his run on Daredevil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/ScgLQKJ0YFI/AAAAAAAAAYI/eFmpXLcuRDo/s1600-h/iloveumandingocompare.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 146px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/ScgLQKJ0YFI/AAAAAAAAAYI/eFmpXLcuRDo/s320/iloveumandingocompare.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316511732342218834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here I colored a page from a old comic I also touched up the man to make him look African American or African i think that makes the script more shocking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1798445305643367643?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1798445305643367643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1798445305643367643' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1798445305643367643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1798445305643367643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-photoshop-coloring-fun.html' title='more photoshop coloring fun'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/ScgLQX1BMeI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/kKyIB1ly8oY/s72-c/Mazzuchelli_Daredevil_213_compared.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-2499791675783651162</id><published>2009-03-13T03:17:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-13T03:35:27.036-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='court cases'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pamelyn Ferdin'/><title type='text'>...And you thought she just caused problems for charlie brown</title><content type='html'>&lt;table&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img style="width: 179px; height: 217px;" src="http://www.scifistar.com/sciimages/ferdin-pamelyn3.jpg" alt="actress and voice of lucy Pamelyn Ferdin" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.fantasykat.com/ch/Images/lio/lucy1.jpg" alt="lucy van pelt" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Santa Monica, California a judge threw out a contempt-of-court conviction and ordered a new trial for a woman who was the voice of Lucy in several ``Peanuts'' TV specials and is accused of harassing UCLA faculty members who conduct research on animals, her lawyer said Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pamelyn Ferdin had faced up to five days in jail and a $1,000 fine until Wednesday11, 2009 when Superior Court Judge John Segal voided her 2008 conviction based on what a UCLA attorney called a technicality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Segal scheduled a new trial for April 28, said Ferdin's attorney George Seide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ferdin, 50, was convicted of violating a court injunction that barred harassment of faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last June, Ferdin demonstrated outside the home of a UCLA primate researcher and handed out fliers that included home addresses, phone numbers and photographs of some researchers, Seide said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A previous injunction against other animal rights activists barred such activity. A judge found that Ferdin was acting ``in concert'' with them, even though she wasn't named in the injunction, Seide said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At trial, Ferdin testified she had downloaded the flier from a Web site and wasn't aware that the information fell under the injunction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fighting the conviction, Seide argued that Ferdin's constitutional rights were violated because she wasn't informed that she had the right to counsel and of her right against self-incrimination before she took the stand.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-2499791675783651162?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/2499791675783651162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=2499791675783651162' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2499791675783651162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2499791675783651162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/and-you-thought-she-just-caused.html' title='...And you thought she just caused problems for charlie brown'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1202851970698398994</id><published>2009-03-10T17:54:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T18:16:50.325-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='steve epting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photoshop'/><title type='text'>more photoshop coloring</title><content type='html'>&lt;table&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img style="width: 179px; height: 167px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbbiCP4n7PI/AAAAAAAAAXE/x0bMY8knnCA/s320/325.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311681338781723890" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;img style="width: 185px; height: 167px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbbiB1lHELI/AAAAAAAAAW8/SSpdMfMusXk/s320/325latina.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311681331720556722" border="0" /&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="vertical-align: top;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here I colored some pencils and inks that were done by artist &lt;a href="http://www.steveepting.blogspot.com/"&gt;Steve Epting&lt;/a&gt;, I think it is Sharon that works for shield in the Captain America books but you can Google Epting he has a blog too.  I made the woman latina or black&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1202851970698398994?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1202851970698398994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1202851970698398994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1202851970698398994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1202851970698398994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-photoshop-coloring.html' title='more photoshop coloring'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbbiCP4n7PI/AAAAAAAAAXE/x0bMY8knnCA/s72-c/325.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8639714109999092562</id><published>2009-03-10T02:42:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T02:54:21.484-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='public domain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photoshop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the black terror'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbYNwJzNDWI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/_Y6wx4hcsCQ/s1600-h/blackterror2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbYNwJzNDWI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/_Y6wx4hcsCQ/s320/blackterror2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311447931445644642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbYNwTWyzmI/AAAAAAAAAWY/fl_fcYCsG7Y/s1600-h/newestblackterror2+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbYNwTWyzmI/AAAAAAAAAWY/fl_fcYCsG7Y/s320/newestblackterror2+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311447934010838626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more of my version of public domain hero the black terror with some help from photoshop&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8639714109999092562?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8639714109999092562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8639714109999092562' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8639714109999092562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8639714109999092562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-of-my-version-of-public-domain.html' title=''/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbYNwJzNDWI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/_Y6wx4hcsCQ/s72-c/blackterror2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5152476606207259970</id><published>2009-03-09T17:29:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-09T17:44:43.885-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='superheroes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='public domain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the black terror'/><title type='text'>the black terror</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbWMpXmS11I/AAAAAAAAAWI/IKnl8XgxLO8/s1600-h/NEWBlack_Terror+copy.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbWMpXmS11I/AAAAAAAAAWI/IKnl8XgxLO8/s320/NEWBlack_Terror+copy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311305977890527058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;click to see larger image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the Nedor-Pines superheroes are in the public domain anyone can use the original golden age characters however they wish. I thought since the black terror had the word black in his name then naturally someone would have made him african american.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just like black panther or black lightning or black vulcan(hee hee hee) to my knowledge no one has, anyway he has one of the coolest costumes ever and you can research his origins yourself and his use by other artist and companies&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5152476606207259970?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5152476606207259970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5152476606207259970' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5152476606207259970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5152476606207259970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/black-terror.html' title='the black terror'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SbWMpXmS11I/AAAAAAAAAWI/IKnl8XgxLO8/s72-c/NEWBlack_Terror+copy.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3712457593078977507</id><published>2009-03-08T15:42:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-08T15:57:06.739-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blue rose'/><title type='text'>roses are blue , violets are blue</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/01/article-1082290-0251FE6E000005DC-200_468x326.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 244px;" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/11/01/article-1082290-0251FE6E000005DC-200_468x326.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although this is old news  I just found out about it. They-(&lt;b&gt;Florigene Ltd.&lt;/b&gt;, a wholly owned  subsidiary of Japanese drinks manufacturer &lt;a id="KonaLink1" target="undefined" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://inventorspot.com/articles/true_blue_roses_be_sold_first_ja_10477#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14;"  &gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;Suntory Ltd.&lt;/b&gt;) have manipulated the rose so that now for the first time, thanks to genetic engineering, blue roses finally exist.By inserting genes from the common &lt;b&gt;Pansy&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Iris&lt;/b&gt; into &lt;b&gt;Rose&lt;/b&gt; DNA while at the same time switching off a Rose gene &lt;a id="KonaLink4" target="undefined" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static;" href="http://inventorspot.com/articles/true_blue_roses_be_sold_first_ja_10477#"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14;"  &gt;&lt;span class="kLink" style="font-weight: 400; position: static; color: rgb(176, 0, 0);font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size:14;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; that prevented the production of the blue pigment known as &lt;b&gt;"delphinidin"&lt;/b&gt;, the  flower  will be able to synthesize and express a full range of hues from palest baby blue to deep navy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3712457593078977507?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3712457593078977507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3712457593078977507' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3712457593078977507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3712457593078977507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/roses-are-blue-violets-are-blue.html' title='roses are blue , violets are blue'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-906945888119204052</id><published>2009-03-02T00:26:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-03-02T00:52:39.220-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><title type='text'>snow and thunder?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SatxePdAAqI/AAAAAAAAAV4/AEhpJUu1dRU/s1600-h/PICT0002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SatxePdAAqI/AAAAAAAAAV4/AEhpJUu1dRU/s200/PICT0002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308461350144443042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Satxdx6j8pI/AAAAAAAAAVw/DEV-O8RLnBw/s1600-h/PICT0001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/Satxdx6j8pI/AAAAAAAAAVw/DEV-O8RLnBw/s200/PICT0001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308461342215369362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has snowed here in Richmond before this time but this is the first one that has had any major accumulation this year. The strange thing about this storm is that I saw lightning too. I had never heard of a thunderstorm happening at the same time as a snow fall so i looked it up here is what I found out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;thunder snow as some call it does happen.  It is certainly uncommon, but not rare,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;if there is enough energy in the atmosphere, and a lot of moisture, thunderstorm clouds can form and drop snow instead of rain when the temperatures are just below freezing."_&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" href="http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/1999/07/14.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Dave Thurlow host of The Weather Notebook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-906945888119204052?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/906945888119204052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=906945888119204052' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/906945888119204052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/906945888119204052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2009/03/snow-and-thunder.html' title='snow and thunder?'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SatxePdAAqI/AAAAAAAAAV4/AEhpJUu1dRU/s72-c/PICT0002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8047981365211604755</id><published>2008-12-12T17:33:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-12T18:11:23.881-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pin-ups'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bettie page'/><title type='text'>Bettie Page</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.art.com/images/-/Bettie-Page--C11754786.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 425px;" src="http://images.art.com/images/-/Bettie-Page--C11754786.jpeg" alt="bettie page" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the bleached blond babes  and before the super sized silicon filled breast of today, woman were more natural looking.  sex icons of a bygone age like Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Jayne Mansfield and Betty Page will be remembered forever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;unlike other sex icons Betty was famous for her risque bondage photos and her dark banged raven hair. her look is still being duplicated today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Page suffered a heart attack nine days earlier and never regained consciousness. she died on Dec 11, 2008  at the age of 85. she spent the last years of her life in seclusion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In her old age, she refused to be photographed, wishing to preserve her mythic status.&lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;"I want to be remembered, as I was when I was young and in my golden times ... I want to be remembered as the woman who changed people's perspectives concerning nudity in its natural form."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8047981365211604755?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8047981365211604755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8047981365211604755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8047981365211604755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8047981365211604755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/12/bettie-page.html' title='Bettie Page'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-4577578006813831393</id><published>2008-12-02T16:06:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-02T16:17:10.209-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photoshop'/><title type='text'>jenny everywhere</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/STWljiYAPwI/AAAAAAAAAUk/GjNoF-N6xnY/s1600-h/JennyEverywhere_by_DianaNock+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/STWljiYAPwI/AAAAAAAAAUk/GjNoF-N6xnY/s200/JennyEverywhere_by_DianaNock+copy.jpg" alt="JennyEverywhere_by_DianaNock " id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275304568475893506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I colored this drawing of jenny everywhere by Diana Nock in Photoshop. it came out pretty good I think, I used a tutorial I found online.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-4577578006813831393?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/4577578006813831393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=4577578006813831393' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4577578006813831393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4577578006813831393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/12/jenny-everywhere.html' title='jenny everywhere'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/STWljiYAPwI/AAAAAAAAAUk/GjNoF-N6xnY/s72-c/JennyEverywhere_by_DianaNock+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1296176623119966803</id><published>2008-11-20T12:49:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T04:25:28.863-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john byrne'/><title type='text'>John Byrne cover homage</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_IjgS_I/AAAAAAAAAVI/doFgumVSInQ/s1600-h/ff1parody.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 151px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_IjgS_I/AAAAAAAAAVI/doFgumVSInQ/s200/ff1parody.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307031450600623090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;align:&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/large/30929984076.264.gif"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/align:&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;align:&gt;&lt;/align:&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;align:&gt;&lt;/align:&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;align:&gt;&lt;/align:&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;align:&gt;&lt;/align:&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;One of John Byrne's favorite covers to parody is fantastic four #1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;which he has parodied several times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_hf238I/AAAAAAAAAVg/_nStHNNrI8Y/s1600-h/ff259parody.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 152px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_hf238I/AAAAAAAAAVg/_nStHNNrI8Y/s200/ff259parody.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307031457296211906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;Here he parodies his cover from fantastic four 259 in the DC min&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;series Legends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_92MDqI/AAAAAAAAAVo/hKrjR3-Nj4A/s1600-h/x-men109parody.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 152px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_92MDqI/AAAAAAAAAVo/hKrjR3-Nj4A/s200/x-men109parody.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307031464906067618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;This cover parodies a cover from his x-men run when he was&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;drawing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt; alpha flight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_a3vblI/AAAAAAAAAVY/w41eFhKv_Uo/s1600-h/ff249parody.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 154px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_a3vblI/AAAAAAAAAVY/w41eFhKv_Uo/s200/ff249parody.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307031455517339218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;a parody of a fantastic four cover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_LGWffI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/1-c79ulidJg/s1600-h/avengers57parody.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_LGWffI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/1-c79ulidJg/s200/avengers57parody.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307031451283652082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;here he parodies the vision's first appearance with the new vision&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;from his run on the west coast avengers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1296176623119966803?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1296176623119966803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1296176623119966803' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1296176623119966803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1296176623119966803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/john-byrne-cover-homage.html' title='John Byrne cover homage'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SaZc_IjgS_I/AAAAAAAAAVI/doFgumVSInQ/s72-c/ff1parody.GIF' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5970952497353089259</id><published>2008-11-17T22:34:00.011-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T11:08:12.451-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas card exchange'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><title type='text'>Christmas card exchange-get a  card from me!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://s450.photobucket.com/albums/qq227/jasgrove820/?action=view&amp;amp;current=cardenvy2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq227/jasgrove820/cardenvy2.jpg" alt="charlie brown Christmas" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I have gotten older Christmas has had less and less meaning for me. When I was a kid I was all about the presents but somewhere down the line  not being able  to give gifts like I wanted soured me on the holiday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now mostly I enjoy Christmas vicariously through my nephew, making sure he gets the hottest games for whatever video game system he has. Recently in the last few years I have gained some enjoyment by sending or giving out Christmas cards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mailing them to people,leaving them on windshields, giving them to cashiers at the bank and drive through restaurants,some I don't even know. Anyway I would love to give out some this year so if you read this post between Nov, 18th 2008-DEC 1,2008 sign up to receive a Christmas card and if I can, I will send you one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;Leave your:  full name and address and if you are not from the United States leave your country and zip code.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5970952497353089259?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5970952497353089259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5970952497353089259' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5970952497353089259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5970952497353089259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/christmas-card-exchange-get-card-from.html' title='Christmas card exchange-get a  card from me!!'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3059037603909669988</id><published>2008-11-15T12:27:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T13:28:46.599-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pushing daisies'/><title type='text'>pushing daisies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blogs.plus.es/serialkiller/images/2007/11/01/pushing_daisies.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://blogs.plus.es/serialkiller/images/2007/11/01/pushing_daisies.jpg" alt="pushing daisies" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So another show I like is going to be canceled. The Nielsen’s ratings system really needs to be overhauled, are we really suppose to believe the opinions of a few people are the viewing habits of millions of Americans. Anyway about Pushing Daises it is one of the most creative and interesting shows to come to prime time TV in a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;loooooong&lt;/span&gt; time, I'll be sorry to see it go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; I guess I should describe the show a bit for the uninformed. The series is about a guy named Ned that is a pie maker with a unique ability, the ability to bring the dead back to life with a touch, he also can "redead" them by another touch. The only drawback is if he does not redead something after 60 seconds something or someone else has to die to balance the scales out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; he is joined on the show by his partner Emerson Cod, a private investigator that uses Ned's gift to help solve crimes and his childhood friend and girlfriend Charlotte(A woman he brought back to life and can never touch again or she will die again). The rest of the cast is rounded out by his waitress , Olive Snook and Charlotte's two aunts Vivian and Lily Charles. also his revived dog Digby.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3059037603909669988?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3059037603909669988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3059037603909669988' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3059037603909669988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3059037603909669988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/pushing-daisies.html' title='pushing daisies'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8077809694659095908</id><published>2008-11-10T03:47:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T20:53:07.982-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='John McCain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barack Obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='election'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarah palin'/><title type='text'>some of the funny things about election 2008</title><content type='html'>Election 2008 was historic and also funny, from the things the candidates said to what was said about them on late night TV and SNL. here are some of the funny moments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/06/1212_aboutlastnight1_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 371px; height: 243px;" src="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/06/1212_aboutlastnight1_2.jpg" alt="SOUTHPARK ELECTION 2008 PARODY" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"&gt;South park made a episode that showed that the whole election was not about change but spare change, as both candidates for the presidency are revealed to be thieves and try to pull off an Ocean's 11 type caper to steal the hope diamond.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/10/16/image4527272g.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 183px;" src="http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/10/16/image4527272g.jpg" alt="candidates joke at Alfred e Smith charity dinner" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"&gt;The two candidates took time out from campaigning to attend the 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a charity event organized by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, a dinner where they showed their lighter side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45122000/jpg/_45122289_-66.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 170px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45122000/jpg/_45122289_-66.jpg" alt="Tina Fey does Sarah Palin" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"&gt;Saturday Night Live had been doing political parodies for most of the election season but the ratings went through the roof when Tina Fey started doing her impression of Governor Sarah Palin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8077809694659095908?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8077809694659095908/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8077809694659095908' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8077809694659095908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8077809694659095908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/some-of-funny-things-about-election.html' title='some of the funny things about election 2008'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8810505485917010970</id><published>2008-11-08T03:35:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-08T04:18:54.058-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='male enhancement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='medicine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infomercials'/><title type='text'>male enhancement pills</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Do male enhancement pills work?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of claims made about male enhancement pills and I tend to think they don't work. There is an infomercial running on late night TV with a bevy of beauties sitting around discussing there past relationships. Each woman complains about how small their partner was and how it  affected the relationship.After seeing this infomercial you will quickly call an order up a case of their products.When Viagra came out guys went wild about it, comedians made jokes, studies were done on it, Bob Dole advertised it. If male enhancement pills worked, the company would be the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;richest company in the world&lt;/span&gt;. Now when I say male enhancement I mean the claim that pills can increase the length of your" little partner". If a pill made you bigger, guys would be taking these things like Tic-Tacs. So my answer, researched on WebMD is no.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8810505485917010970?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8810505485917010970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8810505485917010970' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8810505485917010970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8810505485917010970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/male-enhancement-pills.html' title='male enhancement pills'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5445681367238259107</id><published>2008-11-05T01:02:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T22:05:57.059-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='black history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='presidents'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blacks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Barack Obama wins presidency</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/04/obama_660x.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 233px;" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/04/obama_660x.jpg" alt="barack obama wins presidency" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a long and contentious campaign at times Barack Obama wins the presidency. The first man of African descent, the first ethnic person other than white to hold this position. I don't know what the future holds but for now we have a snapshot in history.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5445681367238259107?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5445681367238259107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5445681367238259107' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5445681367238259107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5445681367238259107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/barack-obama-wins-presidency.html' title='Barack Obama wins presidency'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6070014999765198080</id><published>2008-11-04T10:15:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T10:35:41.055-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='black history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blacks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Election Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.presidentialcomics.com/images/mccain_cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 418px;" src="http://www.presidentialcomics.com/images/mccain_cover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.presidentialcomics.com/images/obama_cover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 418px;" src="http://www.presidentialcomics.com/images/obama_cover.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Today is November 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; 2008, Election Day and it is raining here in Virginia Hopefully a little bit if rain won’t deter voters from going to the polls. Today the country votes for either John McCain or Barrack Obama so by Wednesday we will no what kind of history will be made, the first black president or the first female vice president&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6070014999765198080?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6070014999765198080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6070014999765198080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6070014999765198080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6070014999765198080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/11/election-day.html' title='Election Day'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7621403840957874570</id><published>2008-10-20T12:28:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T12:43:24.446-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blacks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prisoners'/><title type='text'>blacks in jail</title><content type='html'>I know black people are in jail but I never knew the exact numbers , 2.3 million people in jail.  According to the June 2007 report of the Bureau of Justice Statistics that counts federal, state and local jails, It is 40 percent. men and women&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7621403840957874570?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7621403840957874570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7621403840957874570' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7621403840957874570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7621403840957874570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/blacks-in-jail.html' title='blacks in jail'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6756750955190531069</id><published>2008-10-20T11:36:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T11:50:50.730-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='truth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>truth in politics</title><content type='html'>You do yourself a disservice if you blindly follow the word of politicians, any politicians whether they are "your guy" or from another party. I have found instances where both of the current presidential candidates made lies and half truths about the other and if you just follow the cult of your party you will not know the truth. I implore you to research claims yourself and not be spoon fed information by people with an agenda. Here are some sites I have found helpful, check them out I am begging you, I am begging you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.factcheck.org/"&gt;factcheck.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politifact.com/"&gt;politifact.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/"&gt;wikipedia.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6756750955190531069?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6756750955190531069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6756750955190531069' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6756750955190531069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6756750955190531069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/truth-in-politics.html' title='truth in politics'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3089018391889843527</id><published>2008-10-18T17:05:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T10:38:52.788-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='black history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Democrats'/><title type='text'>why blacks vote democrat</title><content type='html'>A lot of people wonder why black people always vote for Democrats and outside of the historical view I can offer my own opinion. To some blacks the Republican party seems a party mostly concerned with the welfare of the white and rich and a friend of business over the little man. What always puzzled me was when did black people switch to the Democratic party.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have been reading some things and I have discovered that black people started to vote Democrat when President Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office in 1933&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;"Blacks did not come into the Democratic Party until Roosevelt's New Deal began&lt;br /&gt;in 1933, and even then it was very slow. The Democratic Party in the South was&lt;br /&gt;organized like a private club that banned all but whites. Any black who had the&lt;br /&gt;temerity to challenge the system might end up being jailed, or in some extreme&lt;br /&gt;cases, pay with his life"-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freepress.org/fleming/flemng64.html"&gt;Thomas Fleming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3089018391889843527?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3089018391889843527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3089018391889843527' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3089018391889843527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3089018391889843527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-blacks-vote-democrat.html' title='why blacks vote democrat'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8341265864784295346</id><published>2008-10-04T20:42:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T16:50:46.566-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='basketball'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Candace parker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wnba'/><title type='text'>Candace Parker</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.watoday.com.au/ffximage/2008/10/04/majcandace_narrowweb__300x547,0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.watoday.com.au/ffximage/2008/10/04/majcandace_narrowweb__300x547,0.jpg" alt="parker wins mvp and rookie of the year honors" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Photo: &lt;em&gt;Eric Gay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Candace Parker received the WNBA's most valuable player award , becoming the first player to win the award along with the rookie of the year. The Los Angeles star was unanimously selected rookie of the year.&lt;p&gt;The awards capped a big run for Parker, who was college player of the year last season for national champion Tennessee. Parker also was a member of the gold-medal winning U.S. team in the Beijing Olympics.&lt;/p&gt;Parker, the top overall draft pick this year, averaged 18.5 points and 9.5 rebounds. She had a high of 40 points and grabbed 10 or more rebounds in 17 games. She led the league in double-doubles with 17, led the league in rebounding and led rookies in scoring, blocks (2.3 bpg) and minutes (33.6 mpg).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She is the new face of the Wnba as stated by hall of famer Cheryl Miller. An athletic 6 footer that is mobile, agile and can handle the basketball. She is also the only woman to dunk twice in woman's professional sports&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;only a few have won both awards in the same year&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table class="left" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;caption&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/caption&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr class="io-columnHeaders"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Year&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;League&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Athlete&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;2008&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;WNBA&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Candace Parker&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="io-evenRow"&gt; &lt;td&gt;1959-60&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;NBA&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Wilt Chamberlain&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;1968-69&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;NBA&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Wes Unseld&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="io-evenRow"&gt; &lt;td&gt;1975&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;MLB (AL)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Fred Lynn&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;2001&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;MLB (AL)&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Ichiro Suzuki&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="io-evenRow"&gt; &lt;td&gt;1957&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;NFL&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Jim Brown&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8341265864784295346?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8341265864784295346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8341265864784295346' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8341265864784295346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8341265864784295346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/candace-parker.html' title='Candace Parker'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-2915532067831349745</id><published>2008-10-04T20:11:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T20:26:55.563-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='O.J simpson'/><title type='text'>O.J. Freshly Squeezed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://access.nscpcdn.com/cppops/features/w/went_ojsimpsonfoundguilty/i/oj_court_close_250.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://access.nscpcdn.com/cppops/features/w/went_ojsimpsonfoundguilty/i/oj_court_close_250.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You would think that someone that literally got away with murder would stay on the straight and narrow, especially with the eyes of the world on you. Not O.J he has been in the news a couple of more times since he was found not guilty of killing his ex-wife and Ron Goldman. He has assaulted people in traffic, written books about the murder case and here's  the capper he tried to forcefully regain some memorabilia that was said to have been stolen from him. Well you can only tempt fate so many times and his latest caper has landed him in jail after a speedy trial.Simpson  was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, kidnapping,  robbery and assault. He is looking at a possible long sentence. I only have one thing to say to that "good enough for ya dummy"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-2915532067831349745?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/2915532067831349745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=2915532067831349745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2915532067831349745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2915532067831349745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/oj-freshly-squeezed.html' title='O.J. Freshly Squeezed'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-101198561331551281</id><published>2008-10-03T20:30:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-10-03T20:40:17.347-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='700 billiondollar bailout'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>attack of the ever increasing 800 billion dollar bailout</title><content type='html'>Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water, the bailout bill increases in amount and pork. Many of the politicians would not sign the bill until it was filled with other things that some are calling pork. These new parts to the bailout could increase the amount to 800 billion. Even more troubling California is begging for a 7 billion dollar handout saying they could run out of cash.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-101198561331551281?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/101198561331551281/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=101198561331551281' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/101198561331551281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/101198561331551281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/10/attack-of-ever-increasing-800-billion.html' title='attack of the ever increasing 800 billion dollar bailout'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-4432395897911367755</id><published>2008-09-25T18:22:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T22:31:59.474-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='healthcare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='700 billiondollar bailout'/><title type='text'>700 Billion Dollar Bailout</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://s450.photobucket.com/albums/qq227/jasgrove820/?action=view&amp;amp;current=brookins.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq227/jasgrove820/brookins.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be irresponsible of me to not comment on the current financial crisis going on even if it is just for future generations. here is a link to the new york times that could explain it better than I ever could &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/business/21qanda.html?em"&gt;The Wall Street Bailout Plan Explained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all I want to know is when it is talk of universal health care there is no money but when we want to go to war or bail out giant financial institutions the government can pull money out of its ass. the tax payers are going to be paying for it anyway so why not give us socialized medicine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255); font-style: italic;"&gt;p.s  it was not the dems holding up the bailout but the reps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-4432395897911367755?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/4432395897911367755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=4432395897911367755' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4432395897911367755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4432395897911367755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/09/700-billion-dollar-bailout.html' title='700 Billion Dollar Bailout'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1526369188072593954</id><published>2008-09-18T15:25:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T15:35:42.765-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='healthcare'/><title type='text'>High cost of getting sick</title><content type='html'>Heath care is a big problem in this country, the United States, affordable health care I should say. Although we have some of the best doctors in the world you really can’t afford to get sick. I recently went to the hospital after having a slight tightness in my stomach/chest region since I am overweight my family assumed it was heart problems. Well my visit to the hospital consisted of breathing in some medicine that was supposed to help clear my airways, taking some aspirin, having them draw blood for test and taking two pictures. I took one on a standing x-ray like machine and another on a machine similar to an MRI. I’m not sure but I had to lie down on it and be scanned from above. Well I got my doctor bill, which was $400.00, and today I got my bill for the rest, which was a whopping $8000.They wanted me to come back and take some more tests there is no telling how much that would have cost.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1526369188072593954?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1526369188072593954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1526369188072593954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1526369188072593954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1526369188072593954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/09/high-cost-of-getting-sick.html' title='High cost of getting sick'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3373414289084452904</id><published>2008-09-14T16:22:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-09-14T16:45:46.781-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sarah palin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>Sarah Smiles</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SM13s7shpPI/AAAAAAAAAPk/LMqv13t60_U/s1600-h/twoladies.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SM13s7shpPI/AAAAAAAAAPk/LMqv13t60_U/s320/twoladies.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245980754778891506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The closer the election gets the more it seems Barack Hussein Obama may not be the next president of the united states. The introduction of Sarah Palin has really energized Hillary Clinton supporters it seems to jump party lines and go for McCain.  A odd thing since the two female candidates seem to be far apart on a lot of issues and their only commonality seems to be that they both are female. It makes you wonder would we even know about Sarah Palin had Hillary been put on as Obamas vp or if she had won the democratic nomination. Since she was not really vetted like vp candidates are usually, it makes you think she was chosen to lure in Hillary supporters looking to elect a woman. Nawwwwww, people wouldn't ignore issue and vote for someone because they identified with their race, sex or age would they?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3373414289084452904?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3373414289084452904/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3373414289084452904' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3373414289084452904'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3373414289084452904'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-smiles.html' title='Sarah Smiles'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SM13s7shpPI/AAAAAAAAAPk/LMqv13t60_U/s72-c/twoladies.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5599100257529377183</id><published>2008-09-05T15:17:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T13:42:27.644-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seven'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='morgan freeman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brad pitt'/><title type='text'>SE7EN or SEVEN</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/Seven_%28movie%29_poster.jpg/200px-Seven_%28movie%29_poster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/Seven_%28movie%29_poster.jpg/200px-Seven_%28movie%29_poster.jpg" alt="seven the movie" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I watched the thriller seven last night and it was as good as I remembered, real atmospheric and moody. I also realized something about the movie, the two detectives played by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman never save anyone. They show up after the crimes have been committed and in the movie's climactic ending Pitt kills the serial killer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5599100257529377183?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5599100257529377183/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5599100257529377183' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5599100257529377183'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5599100257529377183'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/09/se7en-or-seven.html' title='SE7EN or SEVEN'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8463596874570071428</id><published>2008-08-20T20:00:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-20T20:17:26.107-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='globe trotters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fast food tie ins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='burgerking'/><title type='text'>The Whopper beat the Bigmac</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SKyx_5K3jZI/AAAAAAAAAPc/b1CnWa8y9fE/s1600-h/meadowlark.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SKyx_5K3jZI/AAAAAAAAAPc/b1CnWa8y9fE/s320/meadowlark.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236756177961323922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Back when I was a kid my brother, sister , me and my friends used to walk up to Burgerking and get food. back in the 70's Burgerking had all type of fun promotions. One promotion had customers saying"The Whopper beat the Big mac" and you would get a Whopper free with the purchase of another Whopper. Well another promo was free Meadowlark Lemon posters with the purchase of food. I don't know how many of these posters I got but I got quite a few, I had forgotten about it until recently. Good times.......&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8463596874570071428?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8463596874570071428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8463596874570071428' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8463596874570071428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8463596874570071428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/08/whopper-beat-bigmac.html' title='The Whopper beat the Bigmac'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SKyx_5K3jZI/AAAAAAAAAPc/b1CnWa8y9fE/s72-c/meadowlark.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1623915452905142670</id><published>2008-07-23T13:10:00.010-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:33.954-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='basketball'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Candace parker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wnba'/><title type='text'>wnba brawl in detroit is a first</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SIdrFq5iavI/AAAAAAAAAPU/49YX9leIvBU/s1600-h/basketbrawl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SIdrFq5iavI/AAAAAAAAAPU/49YX9leIvBU/s320/basketbrawl.jpg" alt="fight in wnba basketball game" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5226263637745887986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Striking a blow for equality among the sexes women in the WNBA had a bit of a skirmish Tuesday July 22, 2008 that made fans recall memories of the brawl between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons in the NBA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was sparked by Plenette Pierson knocking Candace Parker down after a made free throw by Ferdinand Harris then it went downhill from there. Parker pulled Pierson down, Parker then was tackled by the Shock's Deanna Nolan. Players and coaches from both teams joined in, and Mahorn -- who said he simply was trying to separate players -- pushed the Sparks' Lisa Leslie at one point and knocked her to the court. Los Angeles Spark DeLisha Milton-Jones then pushed and punched Mahorn in the back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it just goes to show a planet with only women would not be war free and peaceful&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1623915452905142670?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1623915452905142670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1623915452905142670' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1623915452905142670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1623915452905142670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/07/wnba-brawl-in-detroit-is-first.html' title='wnba brawl in detroit is a first'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SIdrFq5iavI/AAAAAAAAAPU/49YX9leIvBU/s72-c/basketbrawl.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3666513000963757737</id><published>2008-07-01T11:26:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:34.057-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friday foster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blaxplotation'/><title type='text'>early comic to movie strip</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SGpXFzITEhI/AAAAAAAAAPM/rET2nW0DKiE/s1600-h/fridayfoster.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SGpXFzITEhI/AAAAAAAAAPM/rET2nW0DKiE/s320/fridayfoster.JPG" alt="pam grier as friday foster" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218078875398115858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.toonopedia.com/uimages/toons/f/friday.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.toonopedia.com/uimages/toons/f/friday.jpg" alt="friday foster comic strip" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people, me included did not know that Friday foster, a blaxplotation 1975-feature film starring the great "Pam Grier" was actually based on a newspaper comic strip.  &lt;em&gt;Friday Foster, which debuted on January 18, 1970, was the first mainstream syndicated comic strip to star a black woman.A breakthrough newspaper strip-she was a globe- hopping photographer's assistant-ex-fashion model always getting into trouble....the strip spawned a "comic book" by DELL .  The strip was created by writer Jim Lawrence and artist Jorge Longeron, and syndicated by The Chicago Tribune Syndicate.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3666513000963757737?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3666513000963757737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3666513000963757737' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3666513000963757737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3666513000963757737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/07/early-comic-to-movie-strip.html' title='early comic to movie strip'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SGpXFzITEhI/AAAAAAAAAPM/rET2nW0DKiE/s72-c/fridayfoster.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6687185611077287189</id><published>2008-06-26T23:26:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-26T23:43:30.399-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john byrne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fantastic four'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marvel universe'/><title type='text'>life imitating art</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Ff247.png/250px-Ff247.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Ff247.png/250px-Ff247.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in the 80's John Byrne( a comic book artist) wrote a story about Dr Doom that rings true in the real world. Dr Doom was a despot ruler of his fictional country of Latveria and he ruled with an iron fist. Well he was defeated by the fantastic four and another guy named Zorba and thrown out of the country, well later we find that without doom the country goes to heck. similar to the way Iraq fell apart when Saddam was defeated. It was rumored that Saddam and Osama Bin Laden did not like each other&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6687185611077287189?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6687185611077287189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6687185611077287189' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6687185611077287189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6687185611077287189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/06/life-imitating-art.html' title='life imitating art'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-450713271554355950</id><published>2008-06-21T20:02:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T15:47:18.282-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='black cartoonist'/><title type='text'>first black superhero</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mysteryisland.net/allnegro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; height: 668px;" src="http://www.mysteryisland.net/allnegro.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marvel comics’ Black Panther is always trumpeted as the first black superhero but I think that distinction goes to someone else. Back in 1947 a comic called all Negro comics had a character very similar to Black Panther, Lion Man –&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Tarzanesque adventure story begins with this foreword: “American-born, college educated, Lion Man is a young scientist, sent by the United Nations to watch over the fearsome ‘MAGIC MOUNTAIN’ of the African Gold Coast. Within its crater lies the world’s largest deposit of URANIUM – ENOUGH TO MAKE AN ATOM BOMB THAT COULD DESTROY THE WORLD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lion Man’s job is to report on the doings of any treacherous nation that might seek to carry away any of the lethal stuff for the purpose of war. Lion Man has been warned against agents of a certain warlike nation who might try to smuggle some of the mountain’s treasure out of Africa. He was invented by Geo. J. Evans Jr and The publisher, writer and “President of All-Negro Comics, Inc.”, Orrin. C. Evans&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-450713271554355950?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/450713271554355950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=450713271554355950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/450713271554355950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/450713271554355950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/06/first-black-superhero.html' title='first black superhero'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8285245898136382805</id><published>2008-06-19T15:23:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:34.630-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fantastic four'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photoshop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marvel universe'/><title type='text'>fun with adobe photoshop</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SFqzmA3x5iI/AAAAAAAAAO8/YR_Z3vGUu6w/s1600-h/FFCOVER1COLOR.GIF"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SFqzmA3x5iI/AAAAAAAAAO8/YR_Z3vGUu6w/s320/FFCOVER1COLOR.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213676984285128226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fantastic Four #1 is one of the most parodied covers in comics. I thought I would try to combine the cover with a real street to see what it would look like in real life. In the first picture it is in color the second is in black and white, both done with my limited knowledge of Adobe photoshop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SFqznM2InqI/AAAAAAAAAPE/TFpqX8V99Bo/s1600-h/wallpaperFF.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SFqznM2InqI/AAAAAAAAAPE/TFpqX8V99Bo/s320/wallpaperFF.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213677004679323298" 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/306341441547043298-8285245898136382805?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8285245898136382805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8285245898136382805' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8285245898136382805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8285245898136382805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/06/fun-with-adobe-photoshop.html' title='fun with adobe photoshop'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SFqzmA3x5iI/AAAAAAAAAO8/YR_Z3vGUu6w/s72-c/FFCOVER1COLOR.GIF' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8414852974210271136</id><published>2008-06-13T17:40:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-14T00:13:07.574-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='court cases'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celebrity'/><title type='text'>R KELLY ACQUITTED</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ca.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&amp;amp;d=20080613&amp;amp;t=2&amp;amp;i=4760122&amp;amp;w=192&amp;amp;r=2008-06-13T191723Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_0_ENTERTAINMENT-RKELLY-TRIAL-COL"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://ca.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&amp;amp;d=20080613&amp;amp;t=2&amp;amp;i=4760122&amp;amp;w=192&amp;amp;r=2008-06-13T191723Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_0_ENTERTAINMENT-RKELLY-TRIAL-COL" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After six years and a whole lot of songs R Kelly has been acquitted of having sex with a minor. Now I have never seen the tape but enough people have to be reasonably sure it is  R Kelly. Yet again a video tape does nothing to solidify a guilty verdict, as long as people are involved things on a video can be explained away, I don't know if this is a good or bad thing. The Rodney king case was not helped by a video tape the officers were found not guilty until a riot and a civil case so... tape at your peril&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8414852974210271136?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8414852974210271136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8414852974210271136' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8414852974210271136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8414852974210271136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/06/r-kelly-acquitted.html' title='R KELLY ACQUITTED'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-4426350516809925178</id><published>2008-06-13T17:05:00.009-04:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T23:58:01.907-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fantastic four'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='superhero movies'/><title type='text'>fantastic four: lost in translation</title><content type='html'>I read something online recently from one of the actors that plays the part of johnny storm in the Fantastic Four movies. He said he does not think there will be a third and by the words he said in the piece it seemed like he was not up for another anyway. I along with a lot of other fans of the comic were... are, disappointed by the way the movies have been presented. My first problem was with the casting, not that Jessica Alba is not pretty but she somehow never captured the essence of Susan Richards not just her being half white and Mexican but that she is more pin up material than actress. I always thought they should have gone with like Scarlett Johansson or to go older some one like the actress from the movie Boogie Nights, Heather Graham. Reed Richards as portrayed in the movie is a little weak not the confident scientist as in the books. The Thing or Ben Grimm was cast okay. The best performances and most interesting characters in both movies have been the Human Torch and Doctor Doom. I am in the process of writing a script for FF3 entitled &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Quest For The Cosmic Rod&lt;/span&gt;. I don't know if it will ever see the light of day but I am making it for my own pleasure.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-4426350516809925178?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/4426350516809925178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=4426350516809925178' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4426350516809925178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4426350516809925178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/06/fantastic-four-lost-in-translation.html' title='fantastic four: lost in translation'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3552931784197716176</id><published>2008-06-06T21:04:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:35.191-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><title type='text'>Drawing Day 08</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.drawingday.org/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEngkwcxX7I/AAAAAAAAAOQ/oxxayY_g28c/s200/drawingday_today.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208941366116179890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEngleqhXFI/AAAAAAAAAOY/-n3Jl6kAwCE/s1600-h/CHARACTERS.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEngleqhXFI/AAAAAAAAAOY/-n3Jl6kAwCE/s200/CHARACTERS.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208941378521881682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEnglu74zvI/AAAAAAAAAOg/FCwgQ_XIhic/s1600-h/cowboyninja.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEnglu74zvI/AAAAAAAAAOg/FCwgQ_XIhic/s200/cowboyninja.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208941382889688818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEngl7VPMUI/AAAAAAAAAOo/Y1Q5AqJDTi0/s1600-h/fantasy+characters.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEngl7VPMUI/AAAAAAAAAOo/Y1Q5AqJDTi0/s200/fantasy+characters.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208941386217238850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEngoQJZ7PI/AAAAAAAAAOw/Dq61iP76x_Q/s1600-h/6.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEngoQJZ7PI/AAAAAAAAAOw/Dq61iP76x_Q/s200/6.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208941426164493554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well in honor of &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Drawing Day June 7,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt; i decided to show some of my crappy artwork i have done.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3552931784197716176?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3552931784197716176/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3552931784197716176' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3552931784197716176'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3552931784197716176'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/06/drawing-day-08.html' title='Drawing Day 08'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SEngkwcxX7I/AAAAAAAAAOQ/oxxayY_g28c/s72-c/drawingday_today.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8003457371103510654</id><published>2008-05-23T10:28:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:35.334-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dating shows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bachelorette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><title type='text'>Bachelorette</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDbZU-5pLBI/AAAAAAAAAOI/_jHlAdB_byA/s1600-h/thebachelorette.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDbZU-5pLBI/AAAAAAAAAOI/_jHlAdB_byA/s320/thebachelorette.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203585373978569746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bachelorette premiered Monday, if you don't know what the Bachelorette is it is the female companion to the Bachelor, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a show in which a man chooses from a group of woman that is whittled down  each episode until he is left with one woman that he presumably will marry. &lt;/span&gt;Well the show came on and I was looking to see if any black men were stupid enough to try out and sure enough there was one and predictably he was among the first eliminated. Black people please save your self the embarrassment and stick to shows which feature your own kind. No white man or woman is gonna marry you unless you are a supermodel or actress in the case of a white man or a million dollar athlete in the case of a white woman.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8003457371103510654?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8003457371103510654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8003457371103510654' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8003457371103510654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8003457371103510654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/bachelorette.html' title='Bachelorette'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDbZU-5pLBI/AAAAAAAAAOI/_jHlAdB_byA/s72-c/thebachelorette.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5705168773124316246</id><published>2008-05-20T08:09:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:35.452-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='karma'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suge knight'/><title type='text'>somewhere B.I.G  and Tupac are laughing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDLA4FEpHrI/AAAAAAAAAOA/O55i7uBr-CM/s1600-h/downgoes+suge.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDLA4FEpHrI/AAAAAAAAAOA/O55i7uBr-CM/s200/downgoes+suge.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202432589233200818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hip Hop mogul and bully "Suge" Marion Knight was knocked unconscious in a club and was photographed while  out. I know it is only one knockout but I know it made a lot of people happy to see it the same way Paris's jailing perked up every body's day&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5705168773124316246?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5705168773124316246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5705168773124316246' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5705168773124316246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5705168773124316246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/somewhere-big-and-tupac-are-laughing.html' title='somewhere B.I.G  and Tupac are laughing'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDLA4FEpHrI/AAAAAAAAAOA/O55i7uBr-CM/s72-c/downgoes+suge.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-4530635897780058095</id><published>2008-05-18T16:15:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:35.562-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family guy'/><title type='text'>Family Guy Spins Off Cleveland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDCV6FEpHqI/AAAAAAAAAN4/Q6lBDDOi5Z0/s1600-h/mikehenry_cle.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDCV6FEpHqI/AAAAAAAAAN4/Q6lBDDOi5Z0/s320/mikehenry_cle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201822394639523490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A new spin-off of family guy is coming on starring Cleveland, Peter’s black neighbor and I am a little weary. I know the kind of humor MacFarlane employs and I can take a few black stereotype jokes but a whole show dedicated to them every week I could not stand. And is it me or are black jokes all the rage now, in several of my favorite shows black jokes are deployed frequently and I can laugh at myself but it is starting to feel like my childhood when I was subjected to those awful Tex Avery Tom and Jerry cartoons in which after every explosion you would cringe because there would be a person left standing in black face making a offensive joke, lets just hope those days are gone now.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-4530635897780058095?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/4530635897780058095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=4530635897780058095' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4530635897780058095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4530635897780058095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/family-guy-spins-off-cleveland.html' title='Family Guy Spins Off Cleveland'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SDCV6FEpHqI/AAAAAAAAAN4/Q6lBDDOi5Z0/s72-c/mikehenry_cle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7406937404273091730</id><published>2008-05-17T16:50:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T18:52:59.816-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='schoolhouse rock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iran contra scandal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='American dad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ollie north'/><title type='text'>american dad schoolhouse rock</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SC9Hm1EpHoI/AAAAAAAAANo/6MoS9sF0XIk/s1600-h/american+fdad.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SC9Hm1EpHoI/AAAAAAAAANo/6MoS9sF0XIk/s320/american+fdad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201454827043364482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SC9y9VEpHpI/AAAAAAAAANw/YeBtpeXVT6c/s1600-h/ollie+north+treason.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SC9y9VEpHpI/AAAAAAAAANw/YeBtpeXVT6c/s320/ollie+north+treason.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201502492590415506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember those old Schoolhouse Rock cartoons from the 80's. They were really fun and educational i can remember humming those tunes in school when i needed to know what an adverb or conjunction was. Well American Dad has done yet another parody of the cartoon with the Iran Contra scandal as the subject and it is as informative as the real Schoolhouse Rock cartoons. It is also sad to believe that no one was really punished for the illegal things that went on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7406937404273091730?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7406937404273091730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7406937404273091730' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7406937404273091730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7406937404273091730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/american-dad-schoolhouse-rock.html' title='american dad schoolhouse rock'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SC9Hm1EpHoI/AAAAAAAAANo/6MoS9sF0XIk/s72-c/american+fdad.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-4672730334617359129</id><published>2008-05-10T13:21:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:35.953-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gas prices'/><title type='text'>jacked at the pump</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SCXa2x-28HI/AAAAAAAAANg/nPv08J8i_vE/s1600-h/jacked.PNG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198801979533881458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SCXa2x-28HI/AAAAAAAAANg/nPv08J8i_vE/s320/jacked.PNG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I watched the movie &lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;Mad Max, Road Warrior&lt;/span&gt; I thought the concept of not having gas was a fantasy or at least not to be realized in my lifetime. With the gas prices spiking the way they are it seems to be a reality now. I never thought I would have to pay 5 dollars a gallon for gas. For all those people that compared gas to milk would you pay that much for a gallon of milk?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-4672730334617359129?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/4672730334617359129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=4672730334617359129' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4672730334617359129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/4672730334617359129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/jacked-at-pump.html' title='jacked at the pump'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SCXa2x-28HI/AAAAAAAAANg/nPv08J8i_vE/s72-c/jacked.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7952060894978917477</id><published>2008-05-06T19:03:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:36.211-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='superhero movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the joker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='batman'/><title type='text'>The joker</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SCD9HlZE_UI/AAAAAAAAANQ/tEIRIobdjX8/s1600-h/batmanjoker.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SCD9HlZE_UI/AAAAAAAAANQ/tEIRIobdjX8/s400/batmanjoker.jpg" alt="heath ledger" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197432276723760450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SCD9IFZE_VI/AAAAAAAAANY/DDcRUYKAmjQ/s1600-h/other+jokers.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SCD9IFZE_VI/AAAAAAAAANY/DDcRUYKAmjQ/s400/other+jokers.PNG" alt="nicholson,romero and hamill" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197432285313695058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Joker is one of the oldest and well known Batman villain's and maybe most popular. Several actors have portrayed him on the small screen and big screen and now the deceased Ledger takes a stab at it. I think his performance may be remembered as one of the best.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7952060894978917477?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7952060894978917477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7952060894978917477' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7952060894978917477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7952060894978917477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/joker.html' title='The joker'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SCD9HlZE_UI/AAAAAAAAANQ/tEIRIobdjX8/s72-c/batmanjoker.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-918595675732691248</id><published>2008-05-03T23:21:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:36.427-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metal gear solid'/><title type='text'>metal gear solid</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SB0wWlZE_OI/AAAAAAAAAMg/ipHWL_Zh9Rc/s1600-h/METALGEARSOLID.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SB0wWlZE_OI/AAAAAAAAAMg/ipHWL_Zh9Rc/s320/METALGEARSOLID.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196362709607972066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did not know anything about MetalGearSolid before I played the demo but when I played the game I was blown away. The game was very cinematic in its approach and the stealth element was new to me after playing &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"&gt;Tombraider&lt;/span&gt; where you can go in guns blazing and survive if you had enough medipacks. Another interesting thing was the interaction with the colonel and other advisers through codec.  The demo had me hooked and i went out and got the game and discovered a complex story filled with drama and twist and turns. Like &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;Ratchet and Clank&lt;/span&gt;, Snake can hold an array of weapons, some real and some fake. Metal gear is on its last game now and I think the franchise is one of the most important in video game history, console history at the least.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-918595675732691248?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/918595675732691248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=918595675732691248' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/918595675732691248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/918595675732691248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/metal-gear-solid.html' title='metal gear solid'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SB0wWlZE_OI/AAAAAAAAAMg/ipHWL_Zh9Rc/s72-c/METALGEARSOLID.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-2800748120215031400</id><published>2008-05-02T17:50:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:36.542-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grand theft auto'/><title type='text'>Grand theft auto IV</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBuPAFZE_MI/AAAAAAAAALs/IcEhCTtOTXY/s1600-h/grandtheftauto4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195903826712132802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBuPAFZE_MI/AAAAAAAAALs/IcEhCTtOTXY/s320/grandtheftauto4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Rockstar games has released &lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;Grand Theft Auto IV&lt;/span&gt; the next gen version of the series and it looks fantastic. Of course it already has attracted attention for being too realistic and violent. People just don't get that all video games are not for kids and that a large majority of gamers are over 20 years old. So parents if you have kids that are under 16 or are just too immature to handle the game then make sure they don't play it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-2800748120215031400?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/2800748120215031400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=2800748120215031400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2800748120215031400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2800748120215031400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/grand-theft-auto-iv.html' title='Grand theft auto IV'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBuPAFZE_MI/AAAAAAAAALs/IcEhCTtOTXY/s72-c/grandtheftauto4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-2861204825289691996</id><published>2008-05-02T17:30:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:37.073-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marvel universe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='superhero movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ironman'/><title type='text'>calling all heroes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SB00TlZE_PI/AAAAAAAAAMo/cH8UoJB7-Qs/s1600-h/ironman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SB00TlZE_PI/AAAAAAAAAMo/cH8UoJB7-Qs/s320/ironman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196367056114875634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBuKT1ZE_KI/AAAAAAAAALc/ug3Hce1XiLc/s1600-h/ironman-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195898668456410274" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBuKT1ZE_KI/AAAAAAAAALc/ug3Hce1XiLc/s320/ironman-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ironman debuts in theaters today and by all accounts, from critics anyway it may be a good movie. I am just amazed how they were able to get the movie made after years of marvel not being able to make a decent comic adapted film now they cant seem to miss&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBuKslZE_LI/AAAAAAAAALk/fCI30C8Q4kw/s1600-h/hulkposter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195899093658172594" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBuKslZE_LI/AAAAAAAAALk/fCI30C8Q4kw/s320/hulkposter.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Incredible Hulk returns to the big screen with an all-new movie after the much-maligned version by director Ang Lee. Personally I liked the performances in Lee’s version although it did not have the action that a lot of comic fans wanted. I hope this version is superior and it should be with the cast lined up to star - Edward Norton, Tim Roth, William Hurt and Liv Tyler. Although Liv does not have the acting chops, she is competent&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-2861204825289691996?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/2861204825289691996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=2861204825289691996' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2861204825289691996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/2861204825289691996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/05/calling-all-heroes.html' title='calling all heroes'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SB00TlZE_PI/AAAAAAAAAMo/cH8UoJB7-Qs/s72-c/ironman.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7039091420797175386</id><published>2008-04-24T23:48:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:37.191-05:00</updated><title type='text'>History in the making</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBFVyFZE_HI/AAAAAAAAALE/ux2ncXZ7a9w/s1600-h/hilaryobama.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBFVyFZE_HI/AAAAAAAAALE/ux2ncXZ7a9w/s320/hilaryobama.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193026164264074354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States is in a unique position this election season. For the first time there is a chance a white woman will be president or a black man could be president. There have been women in power around the world before like Margaret Thatcher in Britain and Indira Gandhi in India but never in the states. Black men have been rulers before too but in countries where they are in the majority. Either way history in the making.........&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7039091420797175386?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7039091420797175386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7039091420797175386' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7039091420797175386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7039091420797175386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/history-in-making.html' title='History in the making'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBFVyFZE_HI/AAAAAAAAALE/ux2ncXZ7a9w/s72-c/hilaryobama.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7490230785990157801</id><published>2008-04-21T23:45:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-21T23:52:34.210-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geek'/><title type='text'>happy to be me</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that is a quote from the bible and for the most part I find it true but for most it is not. I am not cool, never have been. I don't walk to be cool, I don't say a lot of slang, I don't dress to be cool. I just try to be me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still watch cartoons, I still play video games and I still like to get the toy from the kids meal, although i just collect them and don't play with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess I am what you would call a geek or nerd and you know what...that is okay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7490230785990157801?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7490230785990157801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7490230785990157801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7490230785990157801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7490230785990157801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/happy-to-be-me.html' title='happy to be me'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8405109079660476286</id><published>2008-04-21T13:20:00.012-04:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T21:04:20.964-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Deathnote'/><title type='text'>Deathnote</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAzPIaBD7gI/AAAAAAAAAKI/LdfvC4dKKbY/s1600-h/deathnotesynopsis.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191752213781016066" style="" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAzPIaBD7gI/AAAAAAAAAKI/LdfvC4dKKbY/s320/deathnotesynopsis.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAzPI6BD7iI/AAAAAAAAAKY/8kknBtXBg30/s1600-h/deathnote+rules.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191752222370950690" style="" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAzPI6BD7iI/AAAAAAAAAKY/8kknBtXBg30/s320/deathnote+rules.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAzPIqBD7hI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/LQQvHJKEdxw/s1600-h/deathnote.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191752218075983378" style="" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAzPIqBD7hI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/LQQvHJKEdxw/s320/deathnote.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBys21ZE_NI/AAAAAAAAAMY/fptet0SWzZM/s1600-h/deathnotepg1.PNG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196218128123886802" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBys21ZE_NI/AAAAAAAAAMY/fptet0SWzZM/s320/deathnotepg1.PNG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a popular Anime called the Deathnote that I have really gotten into recently and I wondered what I would do if I had the book. My first three entries are shown above. click on the page to see it clearer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8405109079660476286?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8405109079660476286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8405109079660476286' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8405109079660476286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8405109079660476286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/deathnote.html' title='Deathnote'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAzPIaBD7gI/AAAAAAAAAKI/LdfvC4dKKbY/s72-c/deathnotesynopsis.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1083952500394352667</id><published>2008-04-18T21:17:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:38.564-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cartoons'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiderman cartoon'/><title type='text'>spectacular spiderman cartoon</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAlKDCQS1wI/AAAAAAAAAJw/OYFGQaz7E14/s1600-h/spiderman+vs+tombstone_0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAlKDCQS1wI/AAAAAAAAAJw/OYFGQaz7E14/s320/spiderman+vs+tombstone_0001.jpg" alt="spiderman vs tombstone,spectacular spiderman cartoon" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190761461526484738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAlKDiQS1xI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/h5bBG74zFjk/s1600-h/spiderman+vs+tombstone_002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAlKDiQS1xI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/h5bBG74zFjk/s320/spiderman+vs+tombstone_002.jpg" alt="spiderman vs tombstone" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190761470116419346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After weeks of hiding in the shadows the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;big man&lt;/span&gt; is finally revealed and although I knew it was not the kingpin(Wilson Fisk) I thought it might be Silvermane. Imagine my surprise when it turns out to be every one's favorite albino Tombstone. The episode was good enough to merit it being a season ending episode but it is not because we still have not seen spidey fight Doctor Octopus or Venom&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1083952500394352667?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1083952500394352667/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1083952500394352667' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1083952500394352667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1083952500394352667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/spectacular-spiderman-cartoon.html' title='spectacular spiderman cartoon'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SAlKDCQS1wI/AAAAAAAAAJw/OYFGQaz7E14/s72-c/spiderman+vs+tombstone_0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7772618130387520540</id><published>2008-04-18T20:37:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-16T14:20:11.636-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='female tennis players'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tennis'/><title type='text'>the great white hope</title><content type='html'>Today Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova in a tennis match and it got me thinking about the reception the golden girl has gotten. When Venus and Serena arrived on the seen, two little black girls with beads in their hair they were thought of as somewhat of a novelty until they started to win. Then the criticism kicked in, they did too many commercials, they didn't practice enough and constant challenges from past great female players. Even loud mouth John McEnroe challenged them to a match, which was strange because I never remembered him challenging Martina Navratilova or Steffi Graf to a match.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; But getting back to Sharapova,when she came around she was lauded as the great beautiful goddess,on every magazine cover praised by commentators even though she had only won one major tennis event. To be honest in the looks department she is average Anna Kournikova still runs circles around her but since she has some skill and the average female tennis player looks average, she is called hot by comparison like a rose between thorns or the lesser of two uglies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; A lot of the female tennis players are butter faces "everything looks good but her face" I call this phenomenon the great white hope syndrome. When blacks dominate something like music or sports when someone white comes along and is as good as them they are considered the greatest of all time. Eminem is another example, he is a good rapper one of the best of all time  CERTAINLY but he does not deserve to be championed as the best ever just because he is white.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; People who have never listened to rap listen to him just because he is white. The foreign actress Zhang Zhiyi  listened to him and she could not even understand what he was saying because she does not know English.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7772618130387520540?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7772618130387520540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7772618130387520540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7772618130387520540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7772618130387520540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/great-white-hope.html' title='the great white hope'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1223925931604970969</id><published>2008-03-30T22:25:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:38.875-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creative casting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><title type='text'>my A-TEAM movie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R_BL-Ny56VI/AAAAAAAAAJI/4nM0w-4-HWE/s1600-h/cc.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183726703330584914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R_BL-Ny56VI/AAAAAAAAAJI/4nM0w-4-HWE/s320/cc.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R_BL-dy56WI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/ixTBavoODjc/s1600-h/creative+casting.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183726707625552226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R_BL-dy56WI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/ixTBavoODjc/s320/creative+casting.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; These are my actors I would try to cast if I were making a big screen version of the A-TEAM tv show. Some picks I think could be better,like Hopkins. I probably would use Clooney if he would do it. and B.A. BARACUS,my brother thinks Michael Clark Duncan would be good.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1223925931604970969?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1223925931604970969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1223925931604970969' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1223925931604970969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1223925931604970969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-team-movie.html' title='my A-TEAM movie'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R_BL-Ny56VI/AAAAAAAAAJI/4nM0w-4-HWE/s72-c/cc.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7132117585297958864</id><published>2008-03-29T16:50:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T18:40:02.639-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wonderbread'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='starwars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sci-fi'/><title type='text'>starwars universe</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;image courtesy of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://theswca.com/"&gt;The Star Wars Collectors Archive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://theswca.com/images-food/wbs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 165px;" src="http://theswca.com/images-food/wbs.jpg" alt="wonderbread trading cards" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Does anyone else remember the starwars trading cards that were in the Wonderbread back in the 70's. I vividly remember one card I got, It was a Grand Moff Tarkin card.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7132117585297958864?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7132117585297958864/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7132117585297958864' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7132117585297958864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7132117585297958864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/03/starwars-universe.html' title='starwars universe'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5038401503010341251</id><published>2008-03-23T16:26:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:39.009-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pagan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Easter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='holidays'/><title type='text'>easter hare</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;where my eggs at biatch?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181045552816187714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R-bFety56UI/AAAAAAAAAGw/pAhQQOKO42g/s320/jackrabbit.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well Easter is here and for many Christians its time to celebrate the resurrection myth but for kids who don't care about that stuff it is bunny time. Easter baskets filled with chocolate rabbits and candy and jelly beans. You probably are wondering what Easter has to do with rabbits...nothing. Just another way the Cristian church tried to convert pagans to celebrate their religion, by combining the "pagan" holidays with their one. Other American holidays have pagan roots also like Halloween and Christmas. But the kids don't care so give me my eggs biatch.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5038401503010341251?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5038401503010341251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5038401503010341251' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5038401503010341251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5038401503010341251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/03/easter-hare.html' title='easter hare'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R-bFety56UI/AAAAAAAAAGw/pAhQQOKO42g/s72-c/jackrabbit.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6932207459360359501</id><published>2008-03-23T16:15:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T16:23:34.274-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jesus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='judas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religion'/><title type='text'>The gospel of Judas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://access.nscpcdn.com/cp/fte/judas/i/judas135.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://access.nscpcdn.com/cp/fte/judas/i/judas135.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; It is being reported that a manuscript found about 3 decades ago is a gospel of Judas. In it Judas says he was asked by Jesus to betray him. if this is true that makes Jesus an even greater person, not just to say you are dying for people's sins but to actually give yourself up to further your beliefs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6932207459360359501?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6932207459360359501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6932207459360359501' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6932207459360359501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6932207459360359501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/03/gospel-of-judas.html' title='The gospel of Judas'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8697548618059961421</id><published>2008-03-20T16:25:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:40.436-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='black cartoonist'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comic strips'/><title type='text'>watch your head by cory thomas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBFeN1ZE_JI/AAAAAAAAALU/RUlJTVCmiYg/s1600-h/watchyoiurhead.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBFeN1ZE_JI/AAAAAAAAALU/RUlJTVCmiYg/s400/watchyoiurhead.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193035437098466450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;i discovered this amazing cartoon by artist cory thomas while reading the local free press. it is a very funny strip here is a link to his site. &lt;a href="http://www.planetcory.com/"&gt;planetcory.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8697548618059961421?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8697548618059961421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8697548618059961421' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8697548618059961421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8697548618059961421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/03/watch-your-head-by-cory-thomas.html' title='watch your head by cory thomas'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/SBFeN1ZE_JI/AAAAAAAAALU/RUlJTVCmiYg/s72-c/watchyoiurhead.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-5851358442563724335</id><published>2008-03-16T16:49:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-16T17:05:27.069-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='online relationships'/><title type='text'>frenemies</title><content type='html'>I have been coming online for about 8 or 9 years now and in all that time I have had only two people that I considered close friends from online. They both lived far away from me. One in CA the other in AZ. both female. Anyway the first was this girl and I got so involved in her life that I used to call her a lot, sent her valentines chocolate, birthday cards what have you. Later on I found out it was all a game and she was playing me for a joke lying to me about everything...that hurt. The other girl we were not as close but I still considered her a friend. I sent her a gift on her birthday and always remembered her birthday even if I could only send her an e-card. Recently I realized something when I was chatting with her online that I don't matter to her at all. All the conversations we had were about her and her family she never asked anything about me or took any interest in anything I was doing. She never initiated a conversation online and if she answered my question it would be terse one-line answers sometimes. She never sent me a birthday card e-card or real. So I had to tell myself that SHE WAS NOT REALLY MY FRIEND.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-5851358442563724335?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/5851358442563724335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=5851358442563724335' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5851358442563724335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/5851358442563724335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/03/frenemies.html' title='frenemies'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-444646333969333316</id><published>2008-03-11T19:03:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-13T01:14:56.871-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='john byrne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='racism'/><title type='text'>Byrne victim</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R9cSNHd6JiI/AAAAAAAAAGU/l5ytdHVzFYM/s1600-h/220px-John_Byrne.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176626313237767714" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R9cSNHd6JiI/AAAAAAAAAGU/l5ytdHVzFYM/s320/220px-John_Byrne.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am a marvel zombie from way back, I used to collect comics but I stopped some time ago. One of my favorite artists was John Byrne, the dude could draw although his depiction of black people was a little limited it was okay because not many black people showed up in the comics. My only prob with Byrne was his way of putting little sneaky racial stuff in his works.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; A while ago in his website he used the word "nigger" in a rather offensive way. I know how can you use it in a non-offensive way. The problem I had was that &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; he compared the use of the N-word as being interchangeable with black, like the two words for the word bubbles in comics that hold the dialogue of the characters. I don’t know about you but "word balloon" and "word bubble" has never been as repugnant as "nigger" to me. Not only was his analogy wrong but also it was gross and a little racist. I just think it was a way for the dude to say his own feelings. As for some of his works I have a problem with, they are numerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;Fantastic four&lt;/span&gt;- (241) Byrne finally uses the Black Panther in a story but it is destroyed by his antagonist being a racist, a Greek or Roman racist too at a time when the kind of racism that exist today the villain would not even be aware of &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Captain America&lt;/span&gt;- (I am not sure of the issue number) Captain America is having a flashback about being in school and the pictures are an obvious play on the little rascals and there is buckwheat pictured as an inkspot. I don’t know if it was the colorist’s doing or the way it was drawn but I am sure Byrne was happy with the results. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Marvel Fanfare&lt;/span&gt;- (29) Hammer and Anvil star  in this issue. They are marvel comic’s play on The Defiant Ones (one is black the other is white)and they battle the hulk. In the end of the story a mysterious stranger blast one of the two in the face with a gun (guess which one?) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;Omac limited series&lt;/span&gt;- here we have Byrne doing a reworking of the classic Kirby character (Kirby being the one artist he is compared to most and he has chased his whole career) there is one scene that has been changed from the original comics. A scene depicting how to relieve stress. There are these dolls that you can kick and beat up. Well Byrne decided that one of the dolls should be black complete with wide mouth and white lips. A change from the original drawing by Kirby. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I could go on but I think I made my point&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-444646333969333316?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/444646333969333316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=444646333969333316' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/444646333969333316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/444646333969333316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/03/byrne-victim.html' title='Byrne victim'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R9cSNHd6JiI/AAAAAAAAAGU/l5ytdHVzFYM/s72-c/220px-John_Byrne.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-9102182241611066545</id><published>2008-02-27T19:05:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-27T19:19:40.361-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='radio talk show host'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politics'/><title type='text'>who are you again?</title><content type='html'>Radio talk show host Bill Cunningham  made some comments at John McCain's rally that some thought were a little out of line so McCain apologized for the comments and distanced himself from the guy. This made Cunningham spitting mad so he decided he was through with McCain and would lend his support to Hillary Clinton. All i have to say is "who are you again?" That has always bothered me. why anyone cares what these people say or think. they are part of the self same media they rail against. Bill O'reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Ariana Huffington, Keith Oberman all TV or radio personalities or authors. Not politicians or the people that vote for the candidates, why should I care what Rush(drug addict) Limbaugh thinks. these people are as arrogant as movie critics that criticize every movie and try to tell you what you should be watching.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-9102182241611066545?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/9102182241611066545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=9102182241611066545' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/9102182241611066545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/9102182241611066545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/02/who-are-you-again.html' title='who are you again?'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3662638361746926830</id><published>2008-02-27T13:14:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:41.369-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='award shows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oscars'/><title type='text'>Why We Watch The Oscars</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8WxREPtkeI/AAAAAAAAAGI/P1jHmdHqbNA/s1600-h/oscar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171734653860418018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="190" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8WxREPtkeI/AAAAAAAAAGI/P1jHmdHqbNA/s320/oscar.jpg" width="210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ratings for the Oscars were low and people wondered why? I imagine that the ratings fluctuate each year depending on what and who is nominated. &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Wu00PtkZI/AAAAAAAAAFg/QtFwXpDjF-g/s1600-h/lordofrings.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171731969505857938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Wu00PtkZI/AAAAAAAAAFg/QtFwXpDjF-g/s320/lordofrings.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I can give a little insight into why I watch certain broadcast which may shine some light on the ratings. I only watch the Oscars win I am interested in who will win, I am not that big a fan of acting that I will watch regardless. I think the show is really a show for actors sort of a high school award ceremony for Hollywood. I watched one year when lord of the rings was nominated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One year I watched because Chris rock was hosting and I wanted to see what &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8WvXEPtkaI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Oz4p9PjapJE/s1600-h/crockhost.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171732557916377506" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8WvXEPtkaI/AAAAAAAAAFo/Oz4p9PjapJE/s320/crockhost.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;he would say.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other years actors were nominated that gave performances that the public were really &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Wv-EPtkbI/AAAAAAAAAFw/SGU4cA8NXnI/s1600-h/hallewinsoscar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171733227931275698" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Wv-EPtkbI/AAAAAAAAAFw/SGU4cA8NXnI/s320/hallewinsoscar.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;buzzed about and the actors were famous or well known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Wv-kPtkcI/AAAAAAAAAF4/LelrPdAW7_Q/s1600-h/jamiefoxray2005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171733236521210306" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="141" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Wv-kPtkcI/AAAAAAAAAF4/LelrPdAW7_Q/s320/jamiefoxray2005.jpg" width="136" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;And when three 6 mafia was nominated for "it's hard out here for a pimp" i tuned in to see how they would be received by the usually stodgy Oscars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Www0PtkdI/AAAAAAAAAGA/kUpvp7rMfsg/s1600-h/3-6mafiawinsoscar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5171734099809636818" style="CURSOR: hand" height="217" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Www0PtkdI/AAAAAAAAAGA/kUpvp7rMfsg/s320/3-6mafiawinsoscar.jpg" width="154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3662638361746926830?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3662638361746926830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3662638361746926830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3662638361746926830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3662638361746926830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-we-watch-oscars.html' title='Why We Watch The Oscars'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8WxREPtkeI/AAAAAAAAAGI/P1jHmdHqbNA/s72-c/oscar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-392158063670373675</id><published>2008-02-25T10:53:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:41.488-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='medicine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='regeneration'/><title type='text'>A "Holy Grail" Of Healing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Lm40PtkXI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/NFtk4_IRAVM/s1600-h/regenerated+finger+tip.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170949185946358130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="regenerated finger tip" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Lm40PtkXI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/NFtk4_IRAVM/s320/regenerated+finger+tip.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I saw this story on TV a little while back. I was amazed by the story and wanted to find out more about it but it slipped from my mind until today. here is a link about new regeneration techniques and the story i saw.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/07/eveningnews/main3805318.shtml"&gt;regeneration story&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-392158063670373675?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/392158063670373675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=392158063670373675' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/392158063670373675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/392158063670373675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/02/holy-grail-of-healing.html' title='A &quot;Holy Grail&quot; Of Healing'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8Lm40PtkXI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/NFtk4_IRAVM/s72-c/regenerated+finger+tip.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6891070014425558555</id><published>2008-02-23T16:16:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:41.591-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='religion'/><title type='text'>Religiosity</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8CS40PtkSI/AAAAAAAAAEg/RzybZ30J0T0/s1600-h/religious+icons.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170293877016203554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="religious icons" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8CS40PtkSI/AAAAAAAAAEg/RzybZ30J0T0/s320/religious+icons.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am not a heathen I believe in a God. Or at least a higher spiritual universe what I don't believe in is man's limited understanding of the universe. Not too long ago mankind was worshiping all types of gods, gods in trees, gods of the wind, gods of mischief. Every culture has their set of gods. Christianity is just another religion in a long line of religions. Every so often there is a report that "biblical artifact proven true" or "biblical city unearthed" the bible was written a long time ago of course they are going to write about what they knew. If the bible was written today in America it would be filled with exploits of the going ons in the states of America. Just because some archaeologists dig up some brick wall that is supposed to be Sodom or Gomorrah it is not going to make me believe that a woman turned to salt. I am supposed to take the word of ancient man on religion? Do we take the word of ancient man on anything else? Does medicine still believe demons make us sick, do we still think the earth is flat but yet and still we still follow the ancient thinking on our religions. Come on people plain common sense disputes a lot of the bible. A man living to be 800, 900 years old? A person coming back to life after being crucified, really? A virgin birth?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6891070014425558555?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6891070014425558555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6891070014425558555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6891070014425558555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6891070014425558555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/02/religiosity.html' title='Religiosity'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R8CS40PtkSI/AAAAAAAAAEg/RzybZ30J0T0/s72-c/religious+icons.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7739543097217551106</id><published>2008-02-13T15:38:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T04:31:34.430-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HBO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cathouse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BunnyRanch'/><title type='text'>best little whore house in nevada</title><content type='html'>I opened my email box up to receive a surprising email from Dennis Hof, you know the guy that runs that bunny ranch on HBO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Valentines Day from all the girls at the World Famous BunnyRanch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They all want you to know how special you are so...&lt;br /&gt;You have been selected to come to the BunnyRanch and participate in the filming of&lt;br /&gt;the hit HBO show CatHouse-The Series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's right! The World Famous BunnyRanch, home of the HBO show CatHouse-The Series, is&lt;br /&gt;looking for a few good men ( women and couples are welcome, too).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you over 18?&lt;br /&gt;Would you like to make out with one of our hot Bunnies...at no charge?&lt;br /&gt;If we put a few bucks in your pocket, would that be okay, too?&lt;br /&gt;Can you allow us to film you (soft core)?&lt;br /&gt;Are you available to come to the BunnyRanch between February 19th and 23rd?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you answered "YES" to the above 5 questions, then please reply with the following:&lt;br /&gt;Name:&lt;br /&gt;Age:&lt;br /&gt;Date of Birth:&lt;br /&gt;Occupation:&lt;br /&gt;Reason(s) for wanting to be on the show:&lt;br /&gt;Daytime phone number:&lt;br /&gt;Current photo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E-mail the above information and your photo to: hbo.bunnyranch@yahoo.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IMPT: YOU MUST BE OVER 18 AND HAVE PHOTO ID TO PARTICIPATE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you there!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dennis Hof&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was not surprised it was from the bunny ranch i had signed up for the newsletter but i was surprised at the prospect of being on the show. well i thought about it for a minute and finally decided , what the heck, i did everything asked and emailed them back and seconds later got this email response&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPLY AND INTEREST IN COMING TO THE BUNNYRANCH FOR THE FILMING OF HBO CATHOUSE-THE SERIES. WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS AT THIS TIME.YOUR INTERESTS IS APPRECIATED. THIS WAS NOT A HOAX. THOSE THAT FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE E-MAIL WILL BE CONSIDERED.FROM ALL THE BUNNIES WE WE WISH YOU A HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;talk about a c tease.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7739543097217551106?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7739543097217551106/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7739543097217551106' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7739543097217551106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7739543097217551106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/02/best-little-whore-house-in-nevada.html' title='best little whore house in nevada'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6893134993460033920</id><published>2008-01-27T12:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-27T12:38:12.116-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='modern age'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='musings'/><title type='text'>Victims of the modern age</title><content type='html'>We are victims of the modern age. We all are. Our ancestors, ancestors of man and womankind didn’t have to worry about the same things we do. Oh they had a lower life expectancy, no vaccines and Armageddon was going to happen every few years but not the same problems. No transfats, no hydrogenated oils, no radiation from cell phones, computer screens or microwaves, none of it. They were not 400 pounds blobbers needing to be cut out of their home, they did not live a sedentary life, and of course it is hard to live a sedentary lifestyle when your food might migrate to a different area while you slept. The air was cleaner only polluted by natural smokes from fires of forest and the occasional volcano eruption. But …..&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;BUT&lt;/span&gt;, with all that said I don’t know if I would trade places with them if I had a choice. I mean they couldn’t order a large pepperoni pizza at 3am if they were hungry brought to your home and if they got a cold maybe they lived or maybe they died.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6893134993460033920?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6893134993460033920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6893134993460033920' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6893134993460033920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6893134993460033920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/01/victims-of-modern-age.html' title='Victims of the modern age'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7462119865180183944</id><published>2008-01-26T15:20:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:41.750-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lindsay hollister'/><title type='text'>Lindsay Hollister</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5uYVNO4QdI/AAAAAAAAAEY/2oAqoYIpG9Y/s1600-h/lindsay.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159885288179778002" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt=" actresslindsay hollister" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5uYVNO4QdI/AAAAAAAAAEY/2oAqoYIpG9Y/s320/lindsay.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 255);"&gt;here is an interview i did with an actress for my old website&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;where are you from?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;lindsay:&lt;/span&gt; I was born in Columbus, Ohio. But grew up in Pickerington, a suburb of Columbus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;how did you get into acting?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;lindsay:&lt;/span&gt; I was always interested in acting, but wasn't able to take a class&lt;br /&gt;until my sophomore year of High School.&lt;br /&gt;The fall play that year had a part that was perfect for me&lt;br /&gt;I auditioned and got it! Never looked back from that point on.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;what was your first acting gig?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;lindsay:&lt;/span&gt; About a year after I moved to LA, a role came up on the new hit show, Boston Public.&lt;br /&gt;It was for an overweight female student who was beating up the kids who made fun of her.&lt;br /&gt;The wrestling coach recruits her for the team and she finds success on the wrestling mat.&lt;br /&gt;Even though I was non-union and inexperienced in front of the camera, I got the role. One of the best days of my life!&lt;br /&gt;I went on to do three more episodes before my character died on the show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;tell me some of the things you have appeared in?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;lindsay :&lt;/span&gt; Most memorable TV roles have probably been on Nip/Tuck, Joan of Arcadia, Law &amp;amp; Order: SVU,&lt;br /&gt;Scrubs, Big Love, My Name is Earl and Cold Case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;what is next for you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;lindsay:&lt;/span&gt; I'm off to Montreal for a week in June to film an awesome scene opposite Steve Carrell in the big screen adaptation of "Get Smart"!&lt;br /&gt;It's amazing, people will finally get to see me on the big screen!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7462119865180183944?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7462119865180183944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7462119865180183944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7462119865180183944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7462119865180183944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/01/lindsay-hollister.html' title='Lindsay Hollister'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5uYVNO4QdI/AAAAAAAAAEY/2oAqoYIpG9Y/s72-c/lindsay.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-7893974741275939557</id><published>2008-01-26T13:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-26T14:02:12.321-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='virginia repairman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contractor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='handyman'/><title type='text'>The handy man can</title><content type='html'>I know this guy, a friend of my sister and he is a handy man of sorts or jack-of-all-trades if you will. He has fixed numerous things for my mother from fences to drywall to painting. He is surprisingly competent at most repairs although he loves to toot his own horn about the quality of his work. He is based in Richmond mostly but I think he would leave the state if someone wanted him. I made a web page for him online although I doubt anyone will ever see it. &lt;a href="http://www.raymondlawnandhouserepair.bravehost.com/"&gt;http://www.raymondlawnandhouserepair.bravehost.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-7893974741275939557?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/7893974741275939557/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=7893974741275939557' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7893974741275939557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/7893974741275939557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/01/handy-man-can.html' title='The handy man can'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6059531982020225722</id><published>2008-01-25T13:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:42.013-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='infomercials'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='channel stopper'/><title type='text'>T and A  Television</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5oxotO4QcI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/eCjFo73Mzpg/s1600-h/channel+stoppa.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159490898512855490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5oxotO4QcI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/eCjFo73Mzpg/s320/channel+stoppa.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Late night viewers were treated to this infomercial starring two lovely ladies with instantly recognizable assets....(ahem) They were selling vitamins i think but after the two ladies left the screen i always turned&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6059531982020225722?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6059531982020225722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6059531982020225722' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6059531982020225722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6059531982020225722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/01/t-and-tv.html' title='T and A  Television'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5oxotO4QcI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/eCjFo73Mzpg/s72-c/channel+stoppa.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6264477573035870087</id><published>2008-01-23T15:35:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:42.180-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corporations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conagra foods'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peanut butter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food recalls'/><title type='text'>peanut butter madness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5enYNO4QbI/AAAAAAAAAEI/n-QPSQiX9_4/s1600-h/peanutbutter+refund.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5158775932486959538" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="refund check to buy peanutbutter from conagra" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5enYNO4QbI/AAAAAAAAAEI/n-QPSQiX9_4/s320/peanutbutter+refund.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Remember that peanut butter scare awhile back, well if you sent in some info they sent you a check to buy a new jar of peanut butter here is a check my sister got&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6264477573035870087?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6264477573035870087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6264477573035870087' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6264477573035870087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6264477573035870087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/01/peanut-butter-madness.html' title='peanut butter madness'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5enYNO4QbI/AAAAAAAAAEI/n-QPSQiX9_4/s72-c/peanutbutter+refund.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-6778445883839250130</id><published>2008-01-20T16:03:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:42.321-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pen pals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prisoners'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rosie alfaro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deathrow'/><title type='text'>Pen Pal</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5O_hab5lDI/AAAAAAAAAEA/8LGlFONw5oM/s1600-h/ROSIE+ALFARO+younger+and+now.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157676579022279730" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;" alt="rosie alfaro deathrow prisoner" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5O_hab5lDI/AAAAAAAAAEA/8LGlFONw5oM/s320/ROSIE+ALFARO+younger+and+now.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have this friend that is in prison, i found her name on a pen pal prison sight and i started writing her. I don't know if people deserve a second chance after they commit a heinous crime, i don't know if i could be that forgiving if it had been my relative. I guess i should say why she is in jail. some time ago she murdered a little girl,&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"&gt;Autumn Wallace&lt;/span&gt;. Stabbed her like 50 times or something like that, she has never told me directly about her crime but i did some research on the internet, here is a link to a site about the case(&lt;a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:4daVRclPFYIJ:caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/californiastatecases/s027730.doc+autumn+wallace&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ct=clnk&amp;amp;cd=4&amp;amp;gl=us"&gt;court case&lt;/a&gt;) she got a little girl that was home alone to let her in and killed her. Rosie has told me she was on drugs during that period and that what happened was the influence of them. I was a bit shocked when i found out but i continued to write her. She seems remorseful for her crimes but either way she is on deathrow in California. If you would like to write her here is her address for letters&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Rosie Alfaro #w-45403&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;A04-S1-141L&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;P.O Box 1508&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Chowcilla, CA 93610&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I encourage people to write prisoners to give them hope but be cautious you never know what could happen&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-6778445883839250130?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/6778445883839250130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=6778445883839250130' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6778445883839250130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/6778445883839250130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/01/pen-pal.html' title='Pen Pal'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5O_hab5lDI/AAAAAAAAAEA/8LGlFONw5oM/s72-c/ROSIE+ALFARO+younger+and+now.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-1380441088848580920</id><published>2008-01-19T16:48:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T04:26:42.541-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TERMINATOR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sci-fi'/><title type='text'>Terminator: The Sarah Conners Chronicles</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5Jwtqb5lCI/AAAAAAAAAD4/1bbg2tH9XVI/s1600-h/terminator.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5157308453080372258" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5Jwtqb5lCI/AAAAAAAAAD4/1bbg2tH9XVI/s200/terminator.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am a fan of the terminator series and all the movies except T3. Recently I recorded the terminator TV show, an original TV show based on the movies that takes place after the second one. So I watched and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by the show, I found it very enjoyable. Summer Glau makes a good terminator from an original model series that is closer to human than the Arnold Schwartzeneggar type also she is female so that makes a different dynamic between her and John Conner. Sarah is played tough but a little more compassionate than in T2. Hopefully it will stay on the air long enough to catch a following &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-1380441088848580920?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/1380441088848580920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=1380441088848580920' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1380441088848580920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/1380441088848580920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2008/01/terminator-sarah-conners-chronicles.html' title='Terminator: The Sarah Conners Chronicles'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R5Jwtqb5lCI/AAAAAAAAAD4/1bbg2tH9XVI/s72-c/terminator.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-9158129763981932331</id><published>2007-12-28T16:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-28T16:43:44.311-05:00</updated><title type='text'>last post of 2007</title><content type='html'>the old year is almost dead, the traditional symbol of the new year coming is an old man turning over the new year to a baby but in keeping with true american sensibilities it should be represented by a pregnant woman giving birth to a new year understandably a girl so the cycle can continue on. i'll start the tradition and call her mother new year&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-9158129763981932331?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/9158129763981932331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=9158129763981932331' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/9158129763981932331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/9158129763981932331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2007/12/last-post-of-2007.html' title='last post of 2007'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-8917871167613540826</id><published>2007-12-21T20:11:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-07T21:09:26.251-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teen sex'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pregnancy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celebrity'/><title type='text'>OOPS her sister did "IT"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R2xk1Kb5lBI/AAAAAAAAADw/1fGSKydWyU0/s1600-h/jamie+preg.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146599338674852882" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R2xk1Kb5lBI/AAAAAAAAADw/1fGSKydWyU0/s320/jamie+preg.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; so baby sister spears is knocked up, just when we thought she was the normal one. pregnant at 16 by her boyfriend that is 18 maybe when the kid grows up it can have its own show on &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Disney&lt;/span&gt; with its &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;mom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-8917871167613540826?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/8917871167613540826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=8917871167613540826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8917871167613540826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/8917871167613540826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2007/12/oops-her-sister-did-it.html' title='OOPS her sister did &quot;IT&quot;'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R2xk1Kb5lBI/AAAAAAAAADw/1fGSKydWyU0/s72-c/jamie+preg.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306341441547043298.post-3458998531051985634</id><published>2007-12-18T16:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-18T16:34:52.364-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Typosquatting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='domain names'/><title type='text'>cybersquatting?</title><content type='html'>Have you ever mispelled a domain name you wanted to go to ,or type in what you thought was the name but ended up in some other site with ads? who takes the time registering these names it is also called Typosquatting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/306341441547043298-3458998531051985634?l=darknessusa.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/feeds/3458998531051985634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=306341441547043298&amp;postID=3458998531051985634' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3458998531051985634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/306341441547043298/posts/default/3458998531051985634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://darknessusa.blogspot.com/2007/12/cybersquatting.html' title='cybersquatting?'/><author><name>Darkness U.S.A</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11259672282120181837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_RmmOBHoiqMU/R1DQhxb641I/AAAAAAAAAC4/eFu4VdsCfXk/S220/simpsonized.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
