I Like To Point Out

Recently It's Become Much To My Surprise, Something That Does Happen. For Example, I Used To Get Almost All Of My Stories, And It's Probably Still True, From Newspapers. Primarily From The New York Times. No One Ever Really Thinks Of The New York Times As A Tabloid Newspaper And It Isn't A Tabloid Newspaper. But There Is A Tabloid Newspaper Within The New York Times Very, Very Often.

I Gave Someone A Perverse Argument Not So Long Ago About Why Advertising Is Better Than Movies. You Want To Hear It? Movies Operate From A Really Disingenuous Premise, That People Are Heroes. I Know A Lot Of People And Have Had An Opportunity Over The Years To Observe Them. Are They Heroes...? Let's Put It This Way. Advertising Tries Something Simpler And More Believable: Products As Heroes. I Guess The Idea Is: When All Else Fails, Put Your Faith In Conditioner.

There Is Something About The Photographs That Is Endlessly Disturbing. The Fact That We Like To Think Of Them As Torture Actually Hides What Is Really Deeply Offensive About Them.

Tell Me What's Wrong With This Idea: If You're Selling To Somebody, Find Someone Like That Person To Sell To Them. If You're Trying To Reach Swing Voters, If You're Trying To Reach People On The Fence, If You're Trying To Reach Republicans Who Are Unsure About This Candidate... Get People Who Switched! Get People Who Are Registered Republicans. Get People Who Were George Bush Voters Who Can't Bring Themselves To Do It Again. Talk To Them, Get Them To Explain What Their Reasons Are, And Show Them To People. What's Wrong With This Idea?!

The Fact That The World Is Utterly Insane Makes It Tolerable.