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Monthly Archives: March 2005

Gonzo, We Hardly Knew Ya…

Thursday, March 10, 2005

I stopped reading Hunter S. Thompson’s missives from the edge around twenty years ago. I didn’t want to stop reading him… but, like Picasso, he had moved on to a place I could no longer understand. So, I sated my jones for good, hilarious political writing through P.J. O’Rourke (who, conincidentally, replaced Gonzo as Rolling

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Lest You Think I’m Whacked…

Monday, March 7, 2005

The first artist to catch my eye, as a kid, was Wally Woods. His best work was in the “great” years of Mad magazine (before the asshole publisher fired Kurtzman and Elder and turned the rag into a creative blob)… mostly the decade between the Congressional hearings on the dangers of comic books in the

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Can You Feel It Coming?

Friday, March 4, 2005

I am not psychic, can’t see into the future, and haven’t got any special insider info that isn’t available to anyone else willing to dig a little bit. What I do have, however, is some wicked-long experience in marketing… and I’ve seen this movie before. I know how it ends. I’m talking about the free-for-all

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