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Snake Oil

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  The Penis Industry

  06.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  It turns out that my spam-blocker, though not the fraud of this piece, had been stopping roughly 75% of all legitimate emails from getting to me. Among these lost emails was one pertaining to my new apartment and one setting up a meeting to discuss my–possibly–new job. So, having gotten too scared to bother, I […]

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  How Sudan Could Re-Brand

  05.07.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Politicians and Police Officers are not the only victims of the media age. And why we can look with pity at good ‘ole boy Senators losing their rights to shout epitaphs at rallies and crime-fighting cops getting in trouble for tasing 13 year olds repeatedly, I must inform you: It gets worse. Today, in […]

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  Run. I’ll tell them you went to the bathroom.

  03.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  7 Tips For The Young PR Student
  As discussed earlier, the soul–once held onto at least until a marriageable age–is now usually discarded around the time of high school graduation and, for the over-achiever, even earlier. As such, I think it’s time we laid out a concise framework for how to do this efficiently, painlessly, and […]

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  It’s just weird, that’s all.

  02.13.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Everything I’m about to say regarding this advertisement may be quickly deemed irrelevant because after watching it, I thought about it. And then I looked it up and watched it again. And then I put it on my site, so you too can watch it:
  

  
  This is actually one of a series […]

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  Advertism: Our new economic system? Not exactly.

  08.11.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Following this week’s news on the Ad-based gPhone, the “new” free NYT, and the Veronis Suhler report, I was getting ready to write a post on “Advertism”: The economic system that’s quickly replacing our own and how in the future everything will be paid for by ads. Then I realized the–early morning–stupidity of this prediction. […]

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