Archive for July, 2007
A White Guy’s View of the “Hot Ghetto Mess” Mess
Sunday, July 29th, 2007(I refuse to give credentials in order to speak, though I got plenty. And to those of you who discount anything any white person says, no credential will ever be enough. So you really just ought to click the “back” button and read something else.)
I’ll start off by paraphrasing a sermon I heard at Watch […]
Aromatherapy: Catch a Whiff of This PR Obfuscation
Thursday, July 26th, 2007I was thinking the other day, while munching a tuna sandwich, about public relations and its corruptive influence on language.
To be sure, language itself carries intrinsic properties of obfuscation. Mayonnaise is really just a euphemism for “congealed vegetable fat with raw egg.” And if you had to walk into a McDonald’s and order “ground cow […]
Rubenstein: He Huffs; He Puffs; and He Blows “Himself” in the Press
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Just came across a recent post by Howard Rubenstein on the Huffington Post about how the PR profession needs to communicate better on it’s high-minded ideals and practices. “He” opens by saying: “…there has never been so much misunderstanding and misinformation about what PR practitioners actually do.”
Well, true and not true. The general public knows […]
The Starting Gun…
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Me: (the angel-devil)
This site is new. And the starting gun isn’t even loaded yet, so go to the refreshment stand and get yourself a $15 hot dog and a beer. Chat with your friends. Take a leak. Enjoy the sunshine.
If you want to know what the aim of the site is, you can go […]