I will probably have 1 article a week which is off the topic of blogging for money. Let’s face it, you can get burned out staying on one topic all the time. For a little time off from reading blogs about making money online I like to look for blogs with interesting or “of the wall” topics. If you haven’t heard of Peter Stack, he is a “journalist” trying to uncover the truth of “The 7″ (an organized crime ring). I first became aware of this blog from a Playboy interview in their latest issue. Playboy interviews are very entertaining and they seem to do a great job of covering the latest celebrity or sports star. This interview was very different. Peter Stack was personally affected by a member of the little known “7″ and this is his interview with that man. If you don’t subscribe to Playboy you can see the article here.

Here is a transcript of the article as well:

Playboy: Do you deserve to die?
Kane: That’s what the judge said.

Playboy: Do you feel guilty for your crimes?
Kane: I’m about to put on an orange jumpsuit and get on a bus with barred windows. I sure as hell am not innocent. I acknowledge the pain I’ve caused. But I’ll be honest and say that I’m not really feeling much anymore. You get numb as the years go by.

Playboy: How do you want your family to remember you?
Kane: [Pauses] I don’t want them to. It will be easier that way.

Playboy: Are you saying your family isn’t important to you?
Kane: I’m saying my family is important to me. That’s why all they need to remember about me is that I was sorry tat I left them when they needed me the most. I’d do anything to make that up to them.

Playboy: You sound as if you’re looking forward to your execution.
Kane: That’s what prison food will do to you. [Smiles] Not everything you’ve heard about me is true. Most of it is. By now, dying is the easy part.

Playboy: You’ve been linked with high-profile heists, bank robberies, and murders around the world. Was it hard to go to work every day?
Kane: In the beginning, yes. But I’ve never had the choice not to go–I’ve never had the opportunity to return to a normal life. I lost that privilege a long time ago. But yes, I did enjoy the money.

Playboy: Tell me about The 7.
Kane: [Smiles] Is that your lucky number?

Playboy: Or an international criminal organization that is believed to have stolen more than $14 billion in the past 20 years, leaving hundreds dead in the process. It’s also rumored that The 7 is the only group to have ever successfully broken into the United States Treasury.
Kane: You think you know a lot of things, don’t you? [Pauses] There is no 7, not [cut off of advertisement]

Three additional caption/quotes that appear below three photos just under the interview above…

“I have been waiting my entire career to meet a member of The 7. I am surprised to see the clear intelligence in Kane’s eyes. He is not crazy. He is relaxed and almost humble. That makes him even more frightening.”

On the smoking: “Kane smokes an entire pack in 10 minutes. I ask him why he smokes so much and he says he wants the cigarettes to get him before the electric chair does”

On the movie: “Most people, killers or not, would love a movie and game created about their life. Not Kane. Look he says, I’ll be dead and my family won’t get a dime.”

To someone who doesn’t keep up with current video games and is kind of gullible they may believe this article and blog. You can read all about the video game here . Basically, this is a form of viral marketing and I think it is very cleaver marketing. I can not recall a new video game ever being marketed in this way. I just love creative advertising ideas like this. I wish I could come up with some sort of advertising scheme for my new blog as creative and entertaining as the Kane and Lynch game.

I am in the middle of a 3 part series of blog promotion. But, I had an interview to prepare for and have fallen a little bit behind on the promoting of The Rookie Blogger. So far I have just been commenting on as many blogs as I have time for. I will not write about a topic before I have attempted it myself. I think this is bad business. So, stay tuned for ideas on blog promotion if that is what you were looking for.

A quick thanks to Ryan Shamus for purchasing the first ad spot on The Rookie Blogger. His ad will go up starting November 1st. Please, if you haven’t already, stop by his website and read a few articles. Its the right thing to do!