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fight for your right to scream
Maybe sometimes its good to scream. there is a slice of silence that listens. that treats and attracts, that begs curiosity. It might not answer immediately, but there is listening… you wanna pick a fight? drop the gloves and go … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Augmented reality, content marketing, content marketing strategy, Damon Runyan, Edgar Bernays, growth hacking culture, purple cows, self help books, social media, social media books, social media marketing, social media strategy, Walter Benjamin
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citizen’s arrest
Monday is apparently make a citizen’s arrest day. That is, when a crime is committed and no police officer is in the area, there is both right and responsibility to make an arrest. If we avoided all the major crimes … Continue reading
fat chance: rooting for the longshot
Its the opposite of investment. Its the quick fix. The bottomless pit of desire that cannot be sated. The Janus face of capitalism, money and banking. Is the true aim of the gambler narcissistic and aggressive desires for attaining the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Damon Runyan, edmund bergler, Edmund Burke, fred herzog photography, gambling economics, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, marx brothers at the races, Paul Newman, Paul Samuelson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rosel zech, Slavoj Zizek, thorsten brinkmann, Walter Benjamin
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coney island guys and dolls
Lost innocence. A necessary illusion that marks the end of one episode and the beginning in a new journey known as American exceptionalism …once described as “Sodom by the sea.” Coney Island was a sanctioned escape from—and alternative to—everyday reality. … Continue reading
eden postponed
Maybe Shiva knows? Its a struggle with modernity and some of its paradoxes hint at some great truths. Beginning in the 1960’s the hippies began traveling to India, on the quest of a sort of Thomas More utopia: a search … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anna hazare, bill laswell, chandra bhan prasad, Damon Runyan, dr. m.n. srinivas, gurmukh singh, india caste system, jawaharlal nehru, Jimmy Breslin, lokpal bill, mahatma gandhi, ms. mayawati, ramayana hindu epic, Sir Thomas More, smita narula, thomas more utopia, tihar jail, uttar pradesh
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“fulsome” press room blues
The problem is that there are always multiple ways to render a true account. And is lying always wrong. No doubt, lying is a complex issue, but the truth is equally foggy and ambiguous. So as News Corp brought their … Continue reading
THE DAMP HAND OF MELANCHOLY
Restaurant Utopia. Five miles high , then, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. The sign on the door stated ” Different Cultural Levels Eat Here”. On entering the host delivers a fortune cookie, in which … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A Thurber Carnival, Damon Runyan, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Freud, Henry James, Homer, J.D. Salinger, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Linda Hutcheon, Mark Twain, Nabokov, Nathaniel West, P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Auster, Peter Sellers, Ring Lardner, Salinger, Sherwood Anderson, Sigmund Freud, The Catbird seat, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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Scratch and Sniff Museum
The allure of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rests mainly in the rivalries, the machinations, the sexual intrigues of many of the men of fortune, and power and bloodline. It’s in the intestinal workings of an autocratic circle of trustees … Continue reading