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Funny Gifts

Post Office Approves Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven Cartoon Stamp

Cartoonist Rick London, founder of Londons Times Cartoons, announced today that the U.S. Post Office has approved one of his cartoon parody stamps that features an cartoon regarding the classic rock song by Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven”. London says for now, the stamp can be purchased from his Zazzle store and the direct link to the stamp is http://www.zazzle.com/beardiethor123/product/172037316029511489 . They come in packet of 12. The image is also showcased on matching greeting cards, postcards, T-shirts, coffee mugs, key chains and other funny gifts and collectibles at his Special Edition store at www.ricklondonfunnygifts.info. London has had 21 cartoon stamps approved since he started designing them in April, and says his goal is a thousand by…..the end of his life. London is a former philatist (stamp collector)

U.S. Post Office Even Funnier Than Before

As if the one cent jump in postage prices was not enough, the U.S. Post Office has gotten even funnier, with postage that is. For a long time printing one's own photo on a postage stamp has been part of one of their more recent programs. But until now, creator of London's Times Cartoons Rick London says, "I don't think I've seen anything out there like what we do on postage stamps. London adds that he's had more rejected than accepted but twenty have been approved thus far. London says his goal is to have a hundred by the end of the year from his massive inventory of over 8500 cartoons on his main cartoon website. The stamps are sold in a package of 12. London owns a variety of licensed product stores including Rick London Special Editions at www.ricklondonfunnygifts.info. One can view the stamps by visiting the site and clicking on "Postage" on the right hand side of the page. His stores also sell a myriad of other cartoon gifts and collectibles such as funny tees, mouse pads, aprons, caps, tote bags, posters, and more.

I Love To Laugh. Here's Why.

There are numerous reasons why we laugh and use humor in our lives. This impulse goes way
back to the prehistoric days (I have read). Since that was a few years before my time (but unfortunately not too many years before my time), I will have to take archaeologists word for this phenomena.

I remember loving to laugh as a child. My mom was the “sense of humor proprietor” of our home,
and making her laugh, was especially fun, as she was a tough audience. Especially when I was in trouble, which was a majority of the time.

Though the basic principals of laughter are the same as they once were, in a nutshell, one person's tragedy is another person's comedy, aka slipping on a banana peel, still holds true to a certain degree.
But audiences have gotten tougher, savvier, and more demanding, and rightfully they should.

We live in a different world than our ancestors. We suddenly woke up in a world that was not
quite as predictable as we were taught it would be in grade school. To say “the world has gotten
more dangerous” or “the world's gone crazy” has become the commonplace “talk of the town.

We have more anxiety, more worries, stranger happenings, our generation has experienced
everything from Woodstock to Dolly The Sheep, when I say “our”, I mean the fringe side of the
baby boomer generation. We are survivors to a certain degree. We have seen more wars than
any generation before us.

So we can laugh or cry. Or stay ambivalent. Laughing does not mean we are endorsing it.
Humor is a way humans can cope under circumstances that seem to have spun out of control, which,
frankly, today, happens in most of our lives now and again.

It is easier to cry. And it is ok and healthy to cry. But to leave humor and laughter out of one's
life can make it bleak and miserable. People go to therapy. Just because one has a sense of humor
about life, does not make them immune from psychological services. But you can be rest assured it can be a deterrent for many. After all laughter, like running or walking is therapeutic. We release endorphins when we laugh, walk or run. Imagine doing all three at the same time.

I remember years ago working in my father's real estate business. It was a thriving business, but one without much laughter. I was the youngest Realtor there, and I felt my job was to (continue) to be the class clown, as I had been in school. It was a nice, but staid bunch of folks. Basically, as in most
sales situations, though there may be some altruism involved, money, or the bottom line is the focus.
Don't get me wrong, I like money as much as the next guy. But I have keenly observed that, though there are plenty of very happy wealthy people, when people get into a business simply to make money, they end up highly disappointed. Hence I found myself surrounded by a lot of disappointed people who really needed some laughter and humor.

Finally, after many years of soul searching, I left the world of sales, and struck out on my own. I had read a biography on Walt Disney, and how he launched his Magic Kingdom. I loved cartoon humor, still do, am not a great artist, so recruited a team of excellent illustrators and launched my own cartoon. That was a decade ago. I still love doing it. Not only do I get to (occasionally) give myself a chuckle, but sometimes others as well. Doing what you love, whether its making people laugh or not, will make you happier inside, and those around you seem happier. And I am better when I am happier (and vice versa).

Rick London founded Londons Times Cartoons a decade ago. It has become the most
visited offbeat cartoon site on the Internet. He also owns several online stores including Rick London Funny Gifts at www.ricklondonfunnygifts.info

Rick London Launches Rick London Funny Gifts

Cartoonist/entrepreneur Rick London launched yet another Internet store today featuring a myriad of cartoon gifts and collectibles featuring Londons Times Cartoons which he founded in 1997. Rick London Funny Gifts www.ricklondonfunnygifts.info offers funny tees, buttons, magnets, aprons, tote bags, mouse pads, greeting cards, post cards, coffee mugs, posters and even real U.S. postage stamps (and more) A percentage of all sales benefit various animal and environmental causes.