Friday, February 09, 2007

Disney Tickets

Orlando, Florida, has long been one of the leading tourist destinations in the world. Its variety of theme parks, dinner shows, and numerous other attractions make it popular for all members of the family.

One of the major attractions is Walt Disney World, which offers four theme parks, two water parks, and a great deal more. Because of the large number of tourist stops in Orlando, the visitor can find the numerous options for admission tickets far too confusing.

One solution to this confusing situation is to go online and obtain your Disney Tickets from Orlandofuntickets.com. This firm offers the lowest prices for all discount Disney tickets. Orlandofuntickets also offers the lowest discount prices for all other theme parks and dinner shows. These popular attractions include Sea World, Universal Studios, Arabian Nights, and much more.

Your visit to Orlando should be fun, not confusing. For the best ticket prices, logon to Orlandofuntickets.com.

Whistle Stop

Whistle Stop is one of my favorite movies in the Ultimate Film Noir Collection. Leonide Moguy directed this 1946 film, which lasts a convenient 84 minutes. Ava Gardner plays the woman who returns to her hometown, where the local citizens find her a little too sexy for small-town standards. She rejoins her old flame (George Raft), a local gambler who tests the limits of shady activity when he gets himself involved in a murder plot. The sexy woman who just got off the train goes along for the wild ride.

Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street is one of the film-noir classics in the Ultimate Film Noir Collection available from Patrick's Film Noir Store. Fritz Lang directed this steamy 93-minute movie, which was released in 1945. Edward G. Robinson plays the unsuspecting victim who falls for a scheming woman (Joan Bennett). Our hero then falls victim to Bennett’s boyfriend (Dan Duryea). At this point, things become very nasty.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

ScalesEtc

Every year I go to my annual physical, and every year my doctor tells me the same thing. I need to lose weight. Just a little more exercise and a lot less food will do the job. Then I go home, trot around the block a few times, and eat a light dinner. When sleep starts pulling me toward the bed, I resist the temptation to have a snack, and soon my snoring is waking up everyone on the block.

The next morning, I hop out of bed and rush to the bathroom to check the results of my heroic efforts. I jump on the scales, watch the dial, and suddenly remember what I always remember. My scales don’t work. To the best of my knowledge, my scales have never worked. I think I bought them at a fire sale and subsequently learned that all the movable parts had fused together during the fire that prompted the sale. The time has come for me to get some Digital Scales.

ScalesEtc has scales for any weight you want—grams, pounds, tons. You name it. And ScalesEtc also has scales for every common use. Scales for cooking, scales for shipping, scales for THE BATHROOM. And because I can order my bathroom scales online, I have no reason to forget about buying an accurate set of scales with nice large numbers that will tell me if I’m making progress with my weight-loss efforts.

And I don’t have to worry about getting a pair of scales that melted in a fire. ScalesEtc sells My Weigh-brand scales with a lifetime warranty from the manufacturer. Jennings scales come with a 20-year warranty. And all these scales are sold at discount prices. Why don’t I place my order before my annual physical? I’m listening to you Dr. V. I really am. I’ll see you in May.

Ultimate Film Noir Collection

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any better, PATRICK'S FILM NOIR STORE now offers you eleven film-noir classics on five DVDs. The collection includes The L.A. Investigator, Scarlet Street, Impact, Trapped, Whistle Stop, The Best of Film Noir (documentary), and five more. The whole bundle costs only $14.99. Give it a look.

Hammett’s Published Work

Between 1929 and 1934, Dashiell Hammett published five novels: Red Harvest (1929), The Dain Curse (1929), The Maltese Falcon (1930), The Glass Key (1931), and The Thin Man (1934).

He also wrote a great number of short stories, collected in The Big Knockover, The Continental Op, and Nightmare Town. His most enduring characters were Sam Spade, Nick Charles, and the Continental Op.

During the 1950’s, Hammett became the object of the latest Red Scare and was jailed for refusing to reveal the political affiliations of friends and acquaintances.

Hammett served in both World Wars. He died in 1961 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Increase Link Popularity

If you want to increase the link popularity of your website, you could try any number of strategies. You could photocopy your site’s URL and tack it on every bulletin board in every laundromat in North America. You could spend months creating links to every site remotely related to yours. In either of these brave attempts, you would be ignoring the importance of search engines, especially Google.

Google considers websites by looking at both on-site and off-site factors. For the sake of clarity, let’s consider only the off-site factors. One factor is page rank. Although page rank remains important for Google’s calculations, it’s no longer as important as it used to be. Google now looks at links from a wide variety of places on the internet, not just those places with high page ranks. Links from a thousand websites of various types now carry more weight than a hundred sites with heroic page ranks. I can’t state it any more simply or honestly than that.

So what is the best way to increase link popularity for your website? I recommend the time-tested press release, but let’s not send it off to every English-language newspaper in the world. Let’s remember that we’re dealing with your website and call it a web release (a short version of the traditional press release).

If you have a great deal of time on your hands, you can send your web release to thousands of blogs in hopes that all of them will print your release. If you don’t have all that much time to waste, you can send your web release to Blogitive, which already has over 2000 Blogs and their eager Bloggers who are ready to refine your web release into the best prose they can create.

Please believe me if I say that their prose will be very good indeed.

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett began his literary career by announcing that he was going to take crime away from the English upper class and give it back to the common people, who were really good at it. Hammett didn’t say that English detective writers lacked merit. He merely decided to invent the hard-boiled school and forget about the lord of the manor and his idiotic relatives.

Raymond Chandler, an Englishman by lineage and education, agreed that the English had made a contribution to detective fiction. “The English may not always be the best writers in the world,” he wrote, “but they are incomparably the best dull writers.”

The Hard-Boiled School

Without the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, film noir would not exist, or it would exist in only a flaccid manner. Dashiell Hammett was the only writer of detective fiction who ever worked as a real private detective. In his case, he worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. After losing his health as a soldier in World War One, he found the work of a detective too arduous. Fortunately, he did not find writing too arduous.

Hammett went on to write five great novels and a pile of short stories, all of which I’ve read. His best effort was probably The Maltese Falcon, which featured Sam Spade, the greatest private eye of them all. He never wrote another Sam Spade story, but that character became the hero of a long-running radio series that Hammett didn’t write.

In his essay “The Simple Art of Murder,” Raymond Chandler wrote the most definitive statement ever made about the art of Dashiell Hammett: “But down those mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.”

Friday, February 02, 2007

Charles Brown, DDS

Let’s face it. Most of us don’t look forward with joy to an appointment with the dentist. At the office where I receive my dental care, a sign by the door says, “We cater to cowards.” That sign reassures me, and experience has taught me that I’ll receive the best dental care possible at that office. If you live near Alexandria, Virginia, you can expect to receive the same kind of gentle treatment at Hayfield Dental Care, which has served the residents of that area since 1987.

All the dentists at Hayfield Dental Care have received advanced training, which eliminates the need for referrals to other offices. Consider the career of charles brown dds pc. Dr. Brown has worked at Hayfield Dental Care for ten years. During that time, he has performed thousands of crown, root canal, and surgical procedures. The Virginia Board of Dentistry reports that Charles Brown, DDS, has received zero complaints.

Dr. Brown graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, where he received the Academic Achievement Award for having ranked first in his class for the 1996 academic year. The Washington Area Consumer Council listed Charles Brown, DDS, as one of the region’s top dentists. With staff members like Dr. Brown on board, why look elsewhere? You can reach Hayfield Dental Care at 703-971-2220.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Classic Film Noir, Volume 2

St. Clair Vision has released Volume 2 of Classic Film Noir. The entire set contains nine movies on three DVDs. The collection sells for $9.98. Volume 2 contains many of my favorite film-noir movies, including Jigsaw, Quicksand, Port of New York, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and many others. If you’re looking for a large collection for a small price, Classic Film Noir, Volume 2, may meet your needs. As always, you can make your purchase at PATRICK'S FILM NOIR STORE .

Film-Noir Video Downloads

“New Moon” now makes it possible for you to purchase or rent your favorite movies and TV shows for as little as $1.99. Simply click the Amazon Unbox link on the right sidebar to download and watch your favorite film-noir movie, all in DVD quality. (Actually, you can also watch movies from other film genres, but we’re pushing film noir here.) High-quality video downloads are the one of the latest ways to obtain movies quickly. Watch your Amazon Unbox videos on your PC, portable device, or TV.

Ebates

When I was a child, my mother and I used to take the family car downtown, where Mother found a spot in the big parking lot beside the Des Moines River. Then we walked across the Burlington Railroad tracks and went shopping at JCPenney and various other stores. Mother bought all sorts of things at JCPenney, including sheets, pillowcases, towels, T-shirts, socks and other useful products.

I’m presently far away from that town beside the Des Moines River, but I can still order all the T-shirts and anything else I want from jcpenney. All I need is a computer and an e-mail address, and I happen to have both. So it’s easy for me to take advantage of Ebates, which allows me to save money and receive cash back when I shop online. It costs me nothing to become a member of Ebates, and this membership makes over 800 stores available to me for online shopping.

By using Ebates, I can take advantage of its low prices and receive up to 25 percent in cash back from my purchases. Coupons and other specials make Ebates even more inviting. I’ll see that town beside the Des Moines River again before long, but I think I’ll wait until the snow melts.