social-creature

Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
- Andy Warhol

It is totally disconcerting to discover a book that pretty much compiles your insights and articulates them back to you. Buying In: The Secret Dialogue [...]

If you ain’t never been to the ghetto
Don’t ever come to the ghetto
‘Cause you wouldn’t understand the ghetto
~ Naughty By Nature, “Ghetto Bastard”

used to be that if you were a musician the only way you could get ANY kind of significant distribution for your music was through a record label. cassettes and cds made [...]

as a marketer you realize that it’s not so much that you’re really setting anything up for sale, it’s that everything already IS for sale, and you’re just helping it along. so it’s not so much that i’m bothered by the selling of “enlightenment,” (there’s been buddha statues on-sale for millennia, and what are THOSE [...]

this post is my contribution to the crowd-sourced response for everyone that demands answers to”useful stuff for freelancers?” from google.
1. billable: this had me at the built-in timer thingie, that tracks how long you’ve been working on a service for a particular client. i’m hoping it’s going to be the harness i need to keep [...]

completely hilarious!

it actually made me want to buy dr. bronner’s soap! and i NEVER wanted to buy it before, cuz the packaging is so personality-less, and spouts those weird quasi-culty hippie messages.
but hey, anything punk-rock endorsed can’t possibly be as hippie as i thought, right? and their great sense of humor totally absolves them of [...]