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Micro-Fiction
“The Spam Writer”
Kyle thought as he went for a better arrangement of the list. His structure still seemed off and taking it out of alphabetical order hadn’t fixed the problem. He scribbled down on his notepad again: Homosexuals, blacks, Aisans, lesbians… -
Micro-Fiction
“Chaos”
This man, the artist, the revolutionary, the soldier (of sorts), who only ever gave his name as “Chaos”, quickly picked the lock for the train yards, doing in a matter of seconds what young graffiti artists and punks had spent their whole lives dreaming about. But this was just the beginning, perhaps even the easiest […]
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Snake Oil
How Sudan Could Re-Brand
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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Snake Oil
Run. I’ll tell them you went to the bathroom.
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 […] -
Late Night Musings
Killing Marketers: Is it fun?
03.11.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsMurder is wrong, of course, is the common complaint I always hear. Agreed. Well, not entirely. As any lawyer will tell you, there are exceptions. If a man wishes to strangle you, wishes to kill you, it can be agreed by most reasonable people that–should you have on you the instruments for his demise–he’s already […]
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Late Night Musings
The Myth of Content
In the six months since I started this site, several stories, not all, but several have come from a deeply personal, sometimes embarrassing, sometimes painful place. This is because I’ve found the ‘write what you know’ mantra to be true, however cliché. I say this simply to explain why I no longer can use the […]
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Snake Oil
It’s just weird, that’s all.
02.13.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsEverything 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:
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Late Night Musings
Whenever I hear the word ‘brand’, I reach for my….
Although I am a blogger (and fiction writer) I still have a small regard for empiricism, thus, to begin:
Webster’s Definiton of ‘Brand’:
a class of goods identified by name as the product of a single firm or manufacturer.
Of course, no sentence (or post) can really describe what the word ‘brand’ means today. Or–to get […]
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