by The Wordyeti | Feb 24, 2006 | advertising, journalism
I forgot to include this quote about when and especially WHY it was that companies had to start manipulating us all through advertising, rather than just trusting that we would go out and figure out which products were better, and buy them. It seems so strange in our...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 24, 2006 | journalism, television
OK, most of the time I’m pretty strongly skeptical of conspiracy-theory nuttiness. Working in close proximity to actual Men in Black, I have observed that most of them are lucky if they can all agree on where to get the morning donuts. This is not to say...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 9, 2006 | journalism
And here’s the exciting conclusion to the tale of my encounter with genial old glad-hander Ronald Reagan. I’ve taken heat since then from people who bring up all the crap that got pulled under Ronnie, who felt that I shouldn’t have in any way...
by The Wordyeti | Feb 7, 2006 | journalism
This was originally publised on the LAVoice.org blog, but it’s such a damn good piece of writing (if I can be excused for patting myself on the back) that I just had to recycle it and put it up here… Back in 1989, about four months after Reagan had finally...
by The Wordyeti | Jan 22, 2006 | journalism
This post was deleted by the damned blogging software here – it said something about “Error: Line Count blah blah†and BWEEEP~! The whole thing that I had sweated over for three hours (and four days of sitting around and thinking about it) all disappeared in a...