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Title: A Friend of the Best Show Causes Trouble
Post by: buffcoat on January 31, 2007, 04:10:50 PM
http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_031092841.html

Watch the news story - all these people are freaked out about an attack - look who's on the "circuit board device!"

"Those aren't the words, Err."
Title: Re: A Friend of the Best Show Causes Trouble
Post by: bruce on January 31, 2007, 06:46:30 PM
my tax dollars at work folks, it was hysterical to watch the news anchors utter the words Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Title: Re: A Friend of the Best Show Causes Trouble
Post by: jed on February 01, 2007, 03:52:07 PM
i got distracted reading this blog i hate:
http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2007/02/marketing_bomb.html
that led me to another blog i now hate:
http://antiadvertisingagency.com/news/who-hates-guerilla-marketing-in-boston/
which is whining about how this is an example of a corporate "co-opting graffiti and street art culture" that were originally designed to fight against advertising. the commenters take the phrase "street culture" seriously and wax philosophical on when street culture is no longer truly street culture. "STREET CULTURE NOT FOR SALE!"
Title: Re: A Friend of the Best Show Causes Trouble
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on February 01, 2007, 09:29:53 PM
Neither is tall bike culture!

Fight the power!
Title: Re: A Friend of the Best Show Causes Trouble
Post by: Emerson on February 02, 2007, 02:34:21 PM
Thank god for Stay Free! and the Baffler. If it weren't for them, I'd believe everything I hear about anything. We should really stand up for this "street culture."

Stay Free! actually used to be a charming and idiosyncratic little zine, before it started beating the old anti-consumerist drum. Now it's ten shades of no-fun, and makes me want to like advertising.

~EmD