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Find Out More About The 8 Best And Worst Comics Of 2008

Sunday, January 4th, 2009 by www

Whether it was heroes dying or aliens invading, 2008’s SF comics definitely aimed for bombast - but how many of them were actually great? As the year stumbles to an end, we take a look back.

In terms of SF comics, 2008 feels a bit… lacking, to be honest; there was nothing with the energy of King City or Wonton Soup, and a lot of the best books were final issues, instead of the start of something new (Collections and reprints-wise, it was a great year, however - I’d point you in the direction of Skyscrapers of the Midwest, The Babysitter and Jack Kirby’s OMAC, to begin with - but they weren’t really created this year…). It might just be a necessary lull; next year has new work from Paul Pope, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Brandon Graham, James Stokoe, et al, after all. But it did make this year seem curiously anemic in retrospect. So here is the pick, perhaps, of a poor bunch:

BEST
All-Star Superman
Quite simply, the best superhero comic of the last few years. Tapping into the awe-filled tone of the 1950s and ’60s Superman stories while still seeming contemporary, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s twelve-part reinvigoration of the Man of Steel finished this year with the perfect send-off: Something positive, optimistic and just a little melancholy.

(Fraction almost ended up on this list twice; his Invincible Iron Man series for Marvel was, to my mind, the ideal follow-up to the movie, finally figuring out a way to make the character interesting without making him an asshole.)

Casanova
Matt Fraction’s sci-fi superspy series filled its second run with time-travel, sex and gigantic reality-altering weapons before, in its final issue, folding in on itself with a reveal that, at first, felt like a cheat but ultimately recast everything that had gone before and made you need to re-read it like you need to breath. If only everything was this fearless.

Fight Or Run: Shadow Of The Chopper
You can argue amongst yourself whether this silent series of strips is really science fiction or not, but Kevin Huizenga’s videogame-inspired shorts that bring two surreal characters face-to-face to see their response works both as an exercise in comic formalism and experimentation, and as a funny, surprising reading experience. Me, I’d probably run.

Love & Rockets: New Stories
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis analogs slaughter aliens. Surely I don’t need to say anything else.

Final Crisis
Yes, there have been a lot of problems with DC’s big 2008 “event” - the seeming inability to hit deadlines and switching of artists midway through the story, to start with - but despite it all, Grant Morrison and company’s slow-motion apocalypse has been creepy and hypnotic, all the moreso for the way in which it refuses to play by the rules.

Patsy Walker: Hellcat
I don’t know if it’s the lightness of Kathryn Immonen’s writing, the pop of David LaFuente’s artwork, or just the sass of the book’s star, but there’s something wonderful and unexpected in this lowkey miniseries from Marvel about a fashion model-turned-superhero fighting magical demons in Alaska. In the middle of the publisher’s highly successful year, this hidden gem is easily the best thing they put out.

Project Superpowers
Again with the “unexpected” thing, I didn’t expect much from Alex Ross and Jim Kruger’s 1940s superhero revival… and certainly not the most strange and unusual superhero series of the year. The US government creating zombie soldiers in the Middle East? Lying ghosts with hidden agendas? An evil corporation of robots manipulating everyone that just so happens to have the same name as the parent company of the publisher? It’s all here, my friends. Just don’t ask me what it all means.

Teen Titans: Year One
It took animation writer Amy Wolfram and artist Karl Kerschl to finally fulfill the potential of DC’s team of sidekicks, by offering a story that stayed on the right side of cartoony, but kept an undercurrent of angst and insecurity to provide characters who actually acted like teenagers, for a change. Add some of the best art to appear in any comic book this year and you have a very underrated winner.

WORST
Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes
A strange one, this. It’s not really the quality of the comic strip itself that lands it in “Worst” position - although the comic strip itself was nothing to write home about, pretty much generic “alternate world”isms from Warren Ellis and friends - but the format. Charging $4.99 for 16 pages of comic book would be a bit much for a small indie company with a lot of overhead and little say in the matter… but for Marvel to do it, especially without letting fans or retailers know that that’s what they were doing…? Kind of an unnecessarily low blow.

Batman RIP
It started so well, but… well, finished so badly. There’s very little way to look back at RIP without getting frustrated at the lack of resolution and all the unfulfilled potential left untouched. It’s called Batman RIP people - Couldn’t you have done something with that that didn’t have a villain who may or may not have been the Devil and the most unconvincing, inconclusive death scene ever? Or, for that matter, had a story that actually ended in its final chapter?

Countdown To Final Crisis
DC’s Final Crisis may be flawed but great, but the 52-part prelude series kind of missed out the “but great” part of that idea. As well as missing out the “coherent plots, interesting dialogue and story you feel involved in” bits. And, to make matters worse, it outright contradicted multiple points of the series it was created to lead into. Worst of all, perhaps, was the fact that it took the goodwill that DC had gained from their first weekly series 52 and pissed it away in record fashion. An own goal of almost cosmic proportions.

DC Universe: Last Will & Testament
What do superheroes do when they expect to die the next day? Exactly what you’d expect them to, sadly, according to this uninspired, ponderous comic. While not as much of a disaster as Countdown, Last Will & Testament may have actually been a worse comic by dint of just being… well, not unlike well-illustrated fan-fiction.

Jenna Jameson: Shadow Hunter
From its very conception, you knew that a comic that recreated pornstar Jameson as a comic book demon hunter was a bad idea, but only the comic itself could convince you just how much of a bad idea it actually was. Confusingly written, with overwrought narration and a plot that didn’t really go anywhere, this was a celebrity tie-in that made Ed Burns’ Dock Walloper look like a good idea.

One More Day
This is, of course, a bit of a cheat; One More Day started in 2007, and the final issue came out in the dying days of that year (December 27th, I believe)… But nonetheless, the full effect of it was what started off this year in SF comics, and pretty much sabotaged the start of Marvel’s (remarkably not-as-bad-as-you-think) Spider-Man relaunch - all because Peter Parker made a deal with the devil just to get a divorce (Note: This may be a somewhat biased take on what actually happened in the story itself). Who would have thought that a boneheaded, out of character move that turned your everyman character into a Satan-handshakin’ single man would have been one of the big comic news stories of the year? Oh, that’s right - everyone.

Secret Invasion
Yes, it was hugely successful, and yes, it was on-time (unlike Final Crisis). But if there was a point to Secret Invasion beyond “Let’s try and sell lots of SF comics,” I must have missed it. With a story that lacked plot - or, for about half the series, anything actually happening - based around a premise that was abandoned almost immediately (What if aliens had invaded without us knowi- Oh, wait, they’ve started blowing things up and coming to Earth as giant green monsters), this was slick, showy… and entirely hollow.

Ultimates 3
I was no fan of Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s Ultimates, but Jeph Loeb’s follow-up was a mind-blowing miscalculation that offered fans of the series almost no continuity with its previous incarnation, garish art outshone only by insanely overblown dialogue and, in a reveal that still boggles the mind, a Black Panther who turns out to be the most white of all superheroes. Pretty much an entire series of WTF that led into Loeb’s Ultimatum.

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Anousha Vahdaty The Cartoon

Monday, December 22nd, 2008 by www

Anousha Vahdaty is a fantastic character. The children’s cartoon character that always does weird but very wonderful little things. She sings and dances and even pulls funny faces. We all love watching her on her travels and finding out all the mischief she causes.

Anousha Vahdaty is a 17 year old robotic spacewomen who loves to investigate what a real human being experiences. She travels the universe in search of life and whenever she discovers something she has never seen before, she must investigate. However, as well all know, this is not always the safest or brightest thing Anousha Vahdaty should be doing!

Her latest adventures bring her to planet Zonka where she discovers quick sand for the very first time! Anousha Vahdaty wound up one day on the space ship Zoom Zoom feeling rather bored. Then low and behold, her ship caught slight of something new a few space miles away that looked kinda like a planet. The ship picked it up as planet Zonka. Anousha Vahdaty thought to herself that this could be another exiting adventure so prepared for launch!

After a few minutes the space ship landed on planet Zonka. However, before Anousha Vahdaty had a chance to do anything the ship began to sink into the planets surface! Anousha Vahdaty was so worried that she took it upon herself to shed the ship of some weight by jumping onto the planet in hopes of saving the ship!

However no sooner had she jumped ship in order to save it but she began to find herself sinking too into the planets quick sand. Help she screamed, but luckily for her, the ship was just gathering up speed while flying away from the planet. The robotic ship teleported Anousha Vahdaty back to safety and saved her. Phew, she thought as she started wiping all the sand of her robotic body. That was one seriously lucky escape! It was at that point Anousha Vahdaty began to be thankful of everything she had done to prepare for that event. Had she not programmed the ship to be able to understand calls of help or the latest teleport feature, she would have surely been stuck on a lonely planet in the middle of nowhere.

Moral of this short story…always be thankful for what you do have and don’t worry about what you don’t have. The world we all live in is a wonderful place than we should all stop, explore and smell the roses but we should never do anything at the sake of our safety. Live and love with all our hearts and always lookout for yourself too!

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Costume - Eminent Truth You’ve Got to Recognize

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 by www

Costume is not only a set of clothes worn by an actor or performer for a role. Nowadays, there are various kinds of costume parties held in accordance to a unusual theme. In this kind of party every guest will have an possibility to be a ‘different’ person by wearing a unusual outfit for the party. The following are some themes for costume parties you may throw in the future.

Theme Parties

This is merely your imagination which limits the possibilities for a dress-up theme party. build up a theme wide enough so that guests who worship to go over the top can have enough freedom to go all out with the idea, but guests who are conventional and shy about dressing up can searh fora staid costume selection.

Hollywood: A Hollywood theme is ideal for an Oscar nighttime party or a festivity where the amusement is watching a novel release on DVD. Punk: Several guests will decide to throw Mohawk and several will go faux-hawk; others can merely use black with a studded bracelet or dog collar as their costume outfits.

In troops theme, you can build up your own costume or go to a costume shop to find a unusual suitable troop costume for you. You could decide from naval, army, pilot, nurse to war detainees for your outfits.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirate parties are all the rage. Gentleman guests will delight in the possibility to put a patch over one eye. The female guests will appreciate the chance to pull the neckline of a peasant blouse down around their shoulders.

Wild Wild West: Indians, prospectors and ranchers will come together with cowboys and saloon girls. Those can be great costume outfits for everyone. Sports - Anything relates to a sports theme. It’s excitement to find out uniforms for football, baseball, and basketball players, and the cheerleading costume outfits offer something attractive for men or women to wear. Anything they want can be worn by the shy guests and say they are masquerading as a supporter.

Masked ball: A formal dress masquerade is a throwback to another period, and each guest will treasure the invitee. Elaborate masks of sequins and feathers bring together with twilight wear and formal wear. This is an extremely special costume party, and it takes a certain host or hostess to pull it off.

Fab Fifties: Sometimes referred to as an “Elvis” theme party, costumes at this party will summon from the 1950s, using the feature film Grease as a model for costume ideas.

In the bottom line, there are various kinds of themes to decide for a unusual costume party. Be surethat you decide the most suitable one without neglecting the other significant elements in your party. Seeking for further information from an internet would be a good alternative to expand your future costume party.

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School Reunion

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 by www

Your school reunion can be a blast from the past or make you feel like a male dog that was dropped off at the vet and came back with less than he went in with. Feelings from the past tend to come back as memories rush forward making them feel like they just happened yesterday.

Regardless of what your high school experience was like, you can still have a blast at your school reunion. Make a decision to have an awesome time and you will. It’s just that simple.

School Reunion Funnies

Tell different people different things about yourself that are totally made up and see how long it takes for the rumors to get around and everyone be confused. Tell one person you’re a doctor. Tell another person you’re a lawyer. Tell someone you’re married and tell someone else you’re not. Say you have four kids. Say you have no kids. Tell someone about your expensive home and tell someone else you still live with your mother.

School Reunion Connections

You can reconnect and stay connected with your old school buddies long before and long after the reunion. Even if you’re not in charge of planning the reunion, you can still connect everyone online by creating a web page about your school reunion and inviting them to the page.

Simple create your own online networking forum for your entire class, through use of Web 2.0 technologies. They’re user friendly, extremely simple to use, and best of all, free.

Start by creating a school reunion web page. This will act as your invitations because you’re going to send links to the web page electronically through emails that will take your past classmates directly to your web page.

Personalize the page through use of over 60 multi media tools that are so easy to use, you could have used them when you were in high school. You can include old senior pictures of your past classmates and throw in some video of a pep rally or a debate. Add some music that is from back in the day and post old sayings.

When they come to your page, they’ll see the guest list and maybe even pictures of themselves beside their names. They’ll be able to respond and see how others have responded. They’ll also see that they can network and offer suggestions for the school reunion. They’ll be reintroduced, start networking and getting excited about the school reunion way ahead of time.

You can also cross reference other school reunion online groups and network with them too. There is no limit to how many groups you can network with. Nor is there any time frame on the web page. Keep the page and keep networking for as long as you’d like.

Whether you are coordinating the reunion or not, you can help the coordinator out through use of the task manager. Lay out previously agreed upon tasks and assign coordinators to them. Send out automated email reminders about the tasks and the school reunion itself as the days to it count down. You can even post a budget online and manage it from there. With over 60 multi media tools to use, there’s nothing you can’t cover. Remember these tools are so simple anyone can use them. And again…they’re free. Events Listed thought of everything.

About the Author:

Simon Ford is an Internet Entrepreneur who specializes in Event Launch Marketing applying social media and internet marketing strategies. “he initially started writing to attract traffic to his websites and has since become hooked”. If the content of this article interests you, you may be interested to visit his website learn more about the latest strategies for
party planning and publishing multi media rich web pages for events, strategies you can adopt to make any event like school reunion or students party’s more memorable.

School Prom

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 by www

School prom should be fun. So if you are on the school prom planning committee and feel like you’re getting weighed down with the tasks of the planning, reserving, keeping up with king and queen nominations, trying to include everyone’s music likes, and all of the other multitude of things, we can help.

We at Events Listed have made promoting and managing your school prom as simple for you as possible. And we do it for FREE. That’s one way to help out your budget before you even start. Good job!

School Prom: Create an Interactive Website for the Big Night!

Once you and the rest of the committee have the prom planned and a date set, you need to place that information in one centralized spot for all to be able to go to. Not just for you, but for the rest of the committee, the students, teachers, parents, and anyone else involved. You need an interactive, personalized web page.

And you can create one yourself very easily with over 60 multi media tools; all set in a user-friendly Web 2.0 environment. No technical experience is necessary although everyone will think you are a technical genius when they see your page.

Add pictures, videos, comment walls, blurbs, RSS feeds, music, and more. Place a count down mechanism to the big night. The personalization details are endless. Why not add a poll for voting on the king and queen right there on your school prom page? Put on your prom dresses and your tuxes, ‘cause the time’s near!

Prom

Once your school prom web page is up and ready, it’s time to send out invitations. Do this electronically through emails containing a direct web link to your page. Your prom guests click the links and land right on the web page all about their school prom.

They’ll get there and see the guest list that may even have their pictures by their names. They can respond to your invitation and check out others’ responses. They’ll see who is ready to dance the night away, who says their feet hurt, and who just hasn’t responded yet.

Your school prom buddies will also be able network with each other right there on your web page. You can swap music suggestions and much more. Cross reference in other school prom networking groups and see what other ideas you get. Network before, during, and after your school prom. Even if you don’t have the prom fully planned, you can use your web page to network for theme ideas and more.

For those who can’t make it? They can watch. Hey, they may get jealous, but it’s better than nothing. Alert them to log on to your web page during the school prom while you or someone else uploads live video and pictures from the prom!

Manage the duties of the prom committee by using the task manager to assign everyone’s responsibilities. Post and manage your budget right on your web page. You’ll always have real time updates of the guest list, but you can also send out automated email reminders.

All of this personalization, networking, and management abilities, from Events Listed. And all for free. What a great school prom this is going to be. Let’s dance!

About the Author:

Simon Ford is an Internet Entrepreneur who specializes in Event Launch Marketing applying social media and internet marketing strategies. “he initially started writing to attract traffic to his websites and has since become hooked”. If the content of this article interests you, visit the events listed website to learn more about the latest strategies for publishing electronic invitations linked to a webpage displaying your party themes online. Check out the latest in FREE web2.0 prom planning applications.

Entertainment Ideas

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 by www

Entertainment ideas can make or break a party. Let your guests get bored and that is what they’ll remember. Show them a great time and that is what they’ll remember.

Entertainment Ideas for Kids

Whether a birthday party or a family reunion, as long as you have some sort of high-energy activity, you’re probably good. Renting a bounce house or setting up a volleyball area usually works well. You can also hire clowns or magicians that will interact with the kids and give them little prizes too.

Ideas for Adults

Entertaining adults can be a little tricky. Some drink, some don’t. Some are active, some aren’t. Some like trivia, some don’t.

If you’re not sure then just play it safe. Everyone loves music. Just go with something instrumental like jazz and play it softly in the background. Engage them in mingling by making a fourth of the room move to their right to the next group of people every fifteen minutes. Even if everyone is rigid at first, you’ll be amazed how this breaks this ice and ends up being a blast.

Entertainment Galore

If you really want maximum exposure for entertainment ideas, use the web and Web 2.0 technologies to your advantage. It’s super easy to do and it’s free. Get your date set, get your guest list ready, and get started.

You can not only create your own invitations, you can create your own online networking forum. Get all the entertainment ideas and suggestions you want. Start by creating an entertainment ideas web page. This will act as your invitations because you’re going to send links to the web page electronically through emails that will take your guests directly to your web page.

Personalize the page through use of over 60 multi media tools that allow you to include pictures, videos, audios, comment walls, polls, music, and more. When your guests come to your page, they’ll see the guest list and maybe even pictures of themselves beside their names.

They’ll be able to respond to your invitation and see how others have responded to know whose coming, who’s not, and who hasn’t responded. They’ll also see that they can network and offer entertainment ideas. They’ll start networking and getting excited about the party even before the party.

Everyone can put in entertainment ideas and you can plan the party together. If your guest list is large, you may want to post a poll with the most suggested entertainment ideas and then let them choose from there. Too many options may be hard to manage.

Cross network with other “entertainment ideas” online groups and get ideas and suggestions from them too. There is no limit to how many groups you can network with. Nor is there any time frame on the web page. Keep the page and keep networking for as long as you’d like.

If you’re opting for help with the party, use the task manager to lay out previously agreed upon tasks and assign helpers to them. Send out automated email reminders about the tasks and the party itself as the days to it count down.

You can even post a budget online and manage it from there. Events Listed has thought of everything. Simple to use multi media tools at no cost? There’s a great entertainment idea right there.

About the Author:

Simon Ford is an Internet Entrepreneur who specializes in Event Launch Marketing applying social media and internet marketing strategies. “he initially started writing to attract traffic to his websites and has since become hooked”. If the content of this article interests you, visit the events listed website to learn more about the latest party ideas and publishing multi media rich web pages for events, strategies you can adopt to make any event like
a kid’s party or kids birthday’s more memorable.

School Reunion

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 by www

A school reunion is either awesome or it bombs. There is no in-between as you know and remember too much about each other. But they are usually awesome as the old relationships tend to blossom back up and carry the party themselves.

As long as you have a fun theme, good friends, and good music, everything else will fall into place. As long as you keep rivals apart that is. Old friendships blossom back up but rivalry may rear its ugly head as well. If so, smack them, and tell them to act their age. All will be fine.

School Reunion Invitations

Regardless of what theme your school reunion is going to be, you do have to send out invitations. What you do not have to do is send them through snail mail in hopes for the best. You can send them out through the web after posting details on your school reunion on the web for all to see. Sounds simple enough? It is.

School Reunion – Incredible Invitations Made by Your Own Little Fingers

You can use Web 2.0 technologies to easily create a web page about your school reunion that makes everyone think you are a programming guru, even though you’re not. The multi media tools are so easy to use anyone can use them, even the class dunce.

Create a web page with the theme of your reunion, pictures of the entire class, music that was in style when you were in high school and video of the homecoming dance or senior prom. Place comment boxes of sayings that were popular then and remind everyone who had the best car, the earliest curfew, did the most stunts, died their hair green and got expelled, and who never got a car from their parents.
School Reunion – Invitations that Connect the Past, Present, and Future

When you send the invitations out to your former classmates, they will receive electronic email invitations with a web link to click. That will take them to your page where you are going to evoke all kinds of emotions with your displays of the past and plans for the near future party.

They’ll see their names on the guest list with pictures of them in high school. They’ll get a good laugh and will poke fun of each other in person over those pictures. Here they can respond if they’ll attend or not or if they’re unsure. Then they’ll start communicating with you and everyone else.
When they realize they can communicate and network with old classmates, you’ll never be able to get them off the computer. You’ve actually opened up a world that interactively connects the past to the present and the future. That goes beyond powerful.

You and your group will also be able to Network with other school reunion groups. Keep the page going as long as you want. Visit Events Listed and get connected today. Bridge the spans of time and evoke and endless future of networking.

About the Author:

Simon Ford is an Internet Entrepreneur who specializes in Event Launch Marketing applying social media and internet marketing strategies. “he initially started writing to attract traffic to his websites and has since become hooked”. If the content of this article interests you, you may be interested to visit his website to learn more about the latest strategies for designing electronic invitations and how to publish your own multi media rich web page designed to commemorate special events like school reunion for you to network it amongst those closest to you.

Casual Party Invitations

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 by www

Casual party invitations? We can help you with those. We can even give you a great resource for getting casual party ideas. Games, activities, menus, whatever you need, you can get some awesome suggestions from an unlimited audience. More on that in a bit.

Why not make your invitations yourself? You don’t need any technical expertise at all and you can casually make them right at your own computer, using your own fingertips, right on the web. And they’re free to make! Then you send them to your friends and casually wait for their responses. Simple.

Plus they’ll be completely personalized to match your casual party theme because you’re the one who made them. Don’t worry about the waste of time and money sorting through tons of invitations in the stores or online that just aren’t exactly what you’re looking for. Make these yourself and make exactly what you are looking for.

You’ll actually create a web page that will act as the invitation through the use of over 60 multi media tools available from Events Listed. Then you’ll electronically invite your guests to your page.

Personalize your page to your theme by adding pictures, videos, audios, surveys, music, and more. If, for example, your party is a cooking party, you could add videos from the Iron Chef. Or if your party is a movie party, you could add trailers of new releases.

Party Invitations

You will guide your guests directly to your page electronically by sending emails with direct links to the page. They will come onto the page and see the guest list and maybe even pictures of themselves beside their names. When they see that they can communicate and interact with each other, they’ll jump all over that.

They’ll also be able to respond to your invitation and see who else has responded with either a yes or a no and who hasn’t responded yet. You can engage more communication and networking by cross referencing other casual party themes online groups. This is the resource for the unlimited audience we mentioned. When you open up to other groups in your niche, there is no limits to the suggestions you can obtain for your casual party.

If you were smart enough to enlist some helpers for the party, post their assignments through use of the task manager. You can also send out preset, automated email reminders about the casual party as the clock to it counts down.

You can even post and manage a budget right on your web page. Take advantage of what Web 2.0 technologies and Events Listed can do for you. You not only get incredible invitations, you get a limitless networking group for as long as you want it. All for free.

Casual Party-Right Online

You can also have your guests that can’t make it at the party too. Well, in cyberspace anyway. Have them log on to your page while you send in videos and pictures from the party. Even if your grandmother lives in another country, she can attend your casual party – right online.

About the Author:

Simon Ford is an Internet Entrepreneur who specializes in Event Launch Marketing applying social media and internet marketing strategies. “he initially started writing to attract traffic to his websites and has since become hooked”. If the content of this article interests you, you may be interested to visit his website learn more about the latest strategies for designing casual party invitations and publishing multi media rich web pages for events, perfect for
student parties.

Barbeque Party Invitations

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 by www

Barbeque party invitations mean somebody’s grilling up some great barbeque. Tell us when and where and we’ll be there. Just kidding. But we can help you give your barbeque lovin’ guests the skinny on the when, the where, and much more.

You’ve got the party planned, got the food, the sauce, the tongs, and the pit. Now what? How about the barbeque party invitations? You wouldn’t want all of that food to go to waste, would you? Then invite some people over, man!

Make your invitations yourself for free through Events Listed. With over 60 multi media tools that are so easy to use anyone can do it, you can make the perfect barbeque party invitations. Add your flair and your personal touch and spice them up exactly to your liking.

You actually create one web page that acts as your invitation and communication portal. You create this page in a Web 2.0 environment that includes the web tools. Completely personalize your page to your barbeque party theme. Include pictures, videos, audios, surveys, and more all personalized to your theme. Add some music and some videos of some world-class grill masters.

Be sure to post the date and time of the party and any special instructions for your guests, such as “BYOB.” You can also post a poll for your guest to vote on which foods will get barbequed. Why not use the task manager to assign side dishes, deserts, and drinks to your guests? And the ice. Someone needs to bring ice.

Party Invitations that are Finger-Lickin’ Good

You will electronically invite your guests to your page by sending emails with direct links to your page. Once they open the page, they’ll see the guest list as well as the RSVP status in real time. They’ll also be able to respond to your invitation and see how others have responded. They’ll be able to see who will be wearing aprons, who can’t stand the heat of the kitchen, and who hasn’t responded yet.

Your guests can also start networking together online as soon as they wish and you can even promote more networking by cross referencing other barbeque party online groups. Hey, you may end up with some great recipes that are finger-lickin’ good.

For those who can’t attend, they can enjoy photos, micro blogs, video feeds, and more being implemented during the party. Anyone can be at the virtual party, even if they are on the other side of the world. They just can’t taste the food is all. Too bad you can’t send the smell through the web either or you could make them froth at the mouth for some of your barbeque. Dang!

Automated Party Invitation Reminders

You can also send out preset, automated email reminders about the party date and time as Father Time slims down the days and hours to your party. You can also post a budget right on your web page and manage it from there. Awesome.

Go ahead and use these Web 2.0 technologies to your advantage and create the most unique barbeque party web page you can. It’s free and it’s easy and you’ll get the perfect, interactive invitation. Now will the food come out perfect? That’s entirely up to you, friend. Entirely up to you.

About the Author:

Simon Ford is an Internet Entrepreneur who specializes in Event Launch Marketing applying social media and internet marketing strategies. “he initially started writing to attract traffic to his websites and has since become hooked”. If the content of this article interests you, you may be interested to visit his website learn more about the latest strategies for party planning and publishing multi media rich web pages for events, strategies you can adopt to make any event like student parties or kids birthday’s more memorable.

Online Dating - Does it Work?

Friday, December 5th, 2008 by www

Oh holy heck, don’t get me started on online dating or this column will be SOOOOOO long. Really the people you meet - did I tell you about the one guy I met online recently who spent 20 years in a cult. Helll-oooo? He wonders why he is having trouble meeting new ladies. Uhmmm - yeah! Then there is the one that said he was a few pound overweight. I should say so ducky. Try 430 pounds and unable to sit in a regular restaurant booth. This was disgusting.

Then there was the guy that said he only smoked occasionally. Well normally occasionally means once in a while, not two packs a day. He used to smoke four packs so two meant occasionally to him. And lets not forget the one who said he’d had some mental abuse problems from his ex-wife and HE turns out to not only be a stalker, but threatens you after one meeting with dire consequences if you don’t see him again. I hear from some people that online dating is great. Well if it is I can’t honestly say I have had much luck. What are your experiences?
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