Why does a PR person have spokesman? I mean, is that like an accountant hiring a book keeper, or more like a plumber's plumber? Now where is my gentleman's gentleman with my coffee coffee? #aliwise
@BookishLookish: It's sorta like the gimmick created by that fun mobster Crazy Joe Gallo which put a hit on the hitman. Like in that old-timey movie Night of the Following Day when the cops traced the call to a couple of phone booths with the receivers of each taped to the other?
Or, like a spokesperson who says, "No comment." #aliwise
@FormerEnglishMajor: They have the same generalized Oompa Loompa tone, too. What is it with these flacks and their hatred of paleness and incessant ability to photograph looking as cheap as possible? #aliwise
Couldn't we call St. Augustine the first Blair-esque life coach? As I recall, Augustine's confessions are all basically "do as I say and not as I did," cus *that* guy was a *baller* before he found Christ.
Penn and Teller's Bullshit! did an episode on life coaching, and needless to say it was both sad and hilarious. The best ones are the ones who claim that an angel who lives inside of them is the one who's REALLY giving you life advice. Because if it's divinely inspired, you're more likely to fork over the cash!
Ugh, his counseling center is Ashburn -- land of overpaid tech executives sucking at the government IT teat and football players all living in horrible plantation-colonial style McMansions.
From his bio there:
"Mr. Blair holds a B.S. from Jones International University, has studied ... at Capella University. He also studied journalism at the University of Maryland-College Park."
These days I'm working in direct marketing and I swear, 90% of these "gurus" all have a story about how "15 years ago I was bankrupt and living on food stamps and completely hopeless. If I can turn my life around and make millions, SO CAN YOU!"
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Are these really the only two options: "matchy matchy" or "Let's pick out accessories in the dark"? #aliwise
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Or, like a spokesperson who says, "No comment." #aliwise
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@BookishLookish: #aliwise
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Does Ali Wise have a famous pit-bull lawyer dad who people will pay for "PR" to keep on his good side? #aliwise
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C'mon, you let the other literary fraud do it, give a brotha a shot .. :[]
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From his bio there:
"Mr. Blair holds a B.S. from Jones International University, has studied ... at Capella University. He also studied journalism at the University of Maryland-College Park."
Funny those are BS schools as well!
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It's one of the oldest sales pitches around.