by The Wordyeti | Mar 15, 2006 | journalism
OK, you’re gonna hafta forgive me for this post; some errant code got into the first post, I tried to fit it, and my efforts only served to make the post more and more f’d up. Sheesh. You’d think HTML and computers were hard or...
by The Wordyeti | Mar 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
Every once in a while, you come across an interview with a genuine artist, one who doesn’t bend over when the big studio man comes calling with fat checks in his hand. In an interview that was originally published in truncated form in Giant (a magazine that...
by The Wordyeti | Mar 13, 2006 | journalism
Cue the elegies and weeping. Knight-Ridder has been sold to McClatchy, Tony Ridder’s dangling from the rafters like the ill-fated mook on the Sopranos last night, and we’re feeling so sad. The phrase that keeps cropping up in all the stories has got to be...
by The Wordyeti | Mar 9, 2006 | journalism
…and no, this is not just another rambling screed about how the NSA domestic spying program is TEOTWAWKI. Although that’s always fun. No, this is about the fumbling attempts to try to figure out how to deliver the news/information/entertainment (and they...
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...
