Monday, July 2, 2018

Bitcoin Bonanza

I just love bonanza splits!

Sorry, bad joke.

For those of you "in the know," Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have become big business. But it's tough for a beginner to make any money from it. But I stumbled upon a way that allows you to buy at a low price and sell at a high price easily, because it lists all the best cryptocurrencies and their current values at the same time. How cool is that?

And I found out how to do it here: Click Here!

If it can work for a novice like me, it can work for anyone.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Custom T-Shirts

For a long time, any time I thought to myself, "wow, that would be a great T-shirt for me," it seemed like there was no way to get exactly what I wanted. I'd search and search, but even "custom" were limited by what designs they had to offer. And the prices that some of them wanted were definitely not worth it. But I found a way to it, and now I'm doing it for everyone.

Here's one I created for myself just today:  https://teespring.com/promote-hapkido-korean-combat#pid=2&cid=2122&sid=back

Here's how I can do it for you: you send me an image; one you found, one you created, it doesn't matter, and I'll make a T-shirt for you. You can contact me here: ecwfan@comcast.net

When people start asking where you got it, just send them to me. There is no limit to what you can do.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Do What You Enjoy: Sell Video Games

Hi, all. I'm not ashamed to say that I love video games. I've been playing them since I was a kid, which covers a lot of ground. It's not just that video games are fun and challenging, but they allow you to have fun within the comfort of home. And the video game companies make a killing, to the tune of $68 billion a year.

So why not do like I do and make money with them. I don't mean some nonsense about buying a whole mess of games you'll never play and trying to sell them at a profit. Who has time for that? And who wants the aggravation? 

That's where the concept of dropshipping comes into play. So as not to give anybody any wrong ideas, I'll give you a quick rundown of what it means:

As a dropshipper, you take customer orders, then pass them along to an outlet. They handle all the real work from there.

--You don't keep any stock yourself, so there's no mess or clutter. You only sell what is asked of you.

--You get paid immediately.

--You set the time and amount of work to devote to it.

And this is how you do it:

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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

JonBenet Books and Information

This coming December marks 21 years since Colorado child beauty pageant princess JonBenet Ramsey was found dead in her home. Last year, there was a great renewing of interest in the case. It looks as though that interest has petered out and everyone's back to business-as-usual. That's sad, because most people don't understand just how messed up our legal system has become and how it affects all of us, even if we are not currently "before the judge."

There have been a lot of books written on this case, and I do mean a lot. And one of them was written by me, your humble author:



I wrote it to give an account of the case from a quarter no one has heard from before: the common man. And to that end, I wrote it so anyone could pick up and read it, no matter what they know about this case, novice or master.

I wrote it to make people angry, because when it comes to this case and our system of "just-us," I say that if you're not angry, you're not paying attention.

In that spirit, as I proceed to list my picks for best books and other resources on the subject, I'm inviting you, the readers, to contact and question me any time and on any point you wish.

Happy Trails to you until we meet again!

Thursday, September 7, 2017

War Games Wrestle War 1992

I'm going to take a different path for a while. More accurately, I'm going back to the beginning.

War Games was probably the greatest "gimmick" match in wrestling history. At least, it was the best one in WCW history. Hatched from the fertile imagination of the late "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, two wrestling rings were set up side-by-side, then enclosed by a cage with a top on it. Two teams of four or five men (not including managers, valets, advocates, seconds, or what-have-you), one babyface and one heel, send a man into the cage, where they fight for five minutes. After that, a man from one team enters, making it two on one. Every two minutes there after, the teams alternate, sending a man in. This end up as 2-on-1, 2-on-2, 3-on-2, and so forth. When all members have entered, the match officially begins. The only way to win is to make a member of the opposing team give up. Submission or surrender!

The War Games match at Wrestle War 1992 is probably the all-time best, and maybe the best match WCW ever offered up. The babyfaces are Sting, Dustin Rhodes, Barry Windham, Ricky "the Dragon" Steamboat and Nikita Koloff. The heels are the Dangerous Alliance: "Ravishing" Rick Rude, "Stunning" Steve Austin, "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton (I'm noticing a trend), "Enforcer" Arn Anderson and "Cruncher" Larry Zbyszko. Seconding the Dangerous Alliance is Happy Heyman himself, Paul E. Dangerously and Madusa Miceli.

Backstory was important back then, especially since there was a lot more time between big events to build it up. The Dangerous Alliance had made its purpose plain: put Sting down. For GOOD. And take any title they could get by any means available. They were a heel's heels. Guys that were so good at being bad you couldn't help but admire them even as you wanted to see them get their butts kicked. And that's exactly what you're gonna see!

These guys use all of the special circumstances available in creative but psychologically-sound ways. They use the care roof as a weapon. Guys get lost between the rings. And don't miss the finale when a ring hook comes into play. (I can't describe the context. It has to be seen to be believed."

And you can see it and all the other War Games Matches filmed, hosted by Dusty Rhodes himself, right here:


Monday, August 21, 2017

The Prince Rises to Rule Once More.

By the mid-60s, there was no turning back for Hammer. In 1965, they talked Christopher Lee into reprising his role as Count Dracula and the result was Dracula: Prince of Darkness.

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Picking up where Horror of Dracula left off, Dracula's mortal servant Klove keeps the castle open, hoping to snare an unsuspecting victim to revive his master. The ruse works, and the master vampire is resurrected. And the fun begins!

The Good: Lee is back! You don't really need more than that, but you get more. Andrew Keir plays the vampire hunter, a badass priest named Father Szandor who wields a rifle to feed his flock, literally. Keir plays the holy man as a much different kind of man than Van Helsing, in that his knowledge of vampires and their weaknesses is based on experience. He's not a Victorian superman like Van Helsing. He just has his brains and his guts. Also, Barbara Shelley plays a victim-turned-vamp who takes to undeath with aplomb. Her destruction is quite graphic for the time, as she's held down and staked.

Moreover, this film established an important part of modern vampire mythology. Up to this, it had been established that withdrawing the stake from a vampire's pierced heart would revive them, but burning to ashes in the sun was pretty much it. In Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Klove pours the blood from a victim onto the gathered ashes and quite literally reconstitutes Dracula from his base elements. Hammer would use this several times, and ever since it's become standard to regard vampires as not truly mortal and unable to be permanently destroyed.

The Bad: Lee speaks no words in the film. He growls, roars and screams, but no discernable dialogue is to be had from him. This has been the subject of much debate. Lee always claimed that he took one look at the lines written for him and said, "If you think I'm going to say this, you're very much mistaken." But the screenwriter always said he never wrote any lines for Lee, which is believable, since Hammer was trying to keep Lee's cost down.

The Ugly: This film gives us a character in Father Szandor's care who is Renfield in everything but name. But he has no real screen time and seems to exist only to let Dracula into the hostel where Dracula's next would-be victims are. Still, you have to start some place. Plus, they already have a servant who lives at the castle.

The only way to watch this is on special Blu-ray. I say that because it's the only one with all the features, including a cast commentary with Lee himself.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

The Kiss...of Death

In 1962, Hammer decided to step out of continuity with the Dracula series and do a stand-alone film that allowed them to broaden the vampire mythos of the modern era. It was called, Kiss of the Vampire.

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The basic plot is old hat by now, but it still serves: a young couple on their honeymoon in Bavaria fall afoul of a vampire cult, led by Dr. Ravna and his two children. Their family dynamic reminds me of the Borgias in Renaissance Italy. Enter Professor Zimmer, who knows about the cult and is determined to stop them, even if it costs his own soul.

The Good: Aside from the actors clearly enjoying themselves, especially Noel Willman as Dr. Ravna, this film is among the first to show just how close to the dark side the vampire hunter can get, a theme that Hammer would revisit in Twins of Evil and has taken on a life of its own. Professor Zimmer is not the heroic Van Helsing; he's a depressed, vengeful drinker who, as I mentioned previously, is willing to take a step Van Helsing would never consider: communing with the forces of evil to summon a larger predator than the vampires. It also expands on an idea introduced in Brides: that vampirism is not only cult-like, but a form of unholy STD afflicting those who live decadent, corrupt lives. Truly a curse that the recipients have embraced. We see this in a lot of vampire films, including the Yorga movies.

The Bad: Not so much "bad" as what could have been. Hammer planned this as a follow-up to Brides of Dracula, but neither Christopher Lee nor Peter Cushing were available (for whatever reasons), so they went with what they had.

The Ugly: This film was so heavily censored for TV broadcasts they had to shoot new scenes, which don't relate to the picture in any way. To put it bluntly, the new prologue for Fistful of Dollars was high art compared to this.

Surprisingly, it's a better deal to get Kiss of the Vampire as part of the Hammer Horror set, which also includes Curse of the Werewolf, Phantom of the Opera, and Brides of Dracula.