@BookishLookish: vincent gallo, some time next year when the attention level hits a nadir. lock the doors to your downtown creative living space ladies. also - in the vein of fixed-gear bicycles, would a hipster buy a single-shot 12-gauge for home defense?
@paxcincinnatus: only if it's an oakland raider's starter jacket... and maybe charlotte hornets (i realize they are no longer in charlotte, but back then they were)
Fun fact: 233 Norman Avenue in Greenpoint is where the first hipster fossil was discovered (a 1997 green, low-top Converse All-Star with "PLO" written in black magic marker on the front).
@Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Stuck to it: a back issue of Stay Free! via a wad of Bubble Yum. Also traces of really stepped-on coke and the tears of both Leonard Cohen and Richard Hell.
You can see why Hillary lost to Obama in the primaries right here. The guys from BM (heh)are stuck in their self-made echo chamber of lies and excuses and have completely lost touch with how people really perceive them. They can get away with not giving a shit about that when it comes to corporate clients. But when you're marketing a person directly to consumers, like in politics, Penn's tone-deafness, excessive focus on dumbshit buzzwords and terrible ideas cost them the prize.
This is about marketing honchos, who follow Mark Penn's 'advice,' being too lazy and too arrogant to get out into the trenches and actually listen to people and get clear first-hand information. Instead they use some erratic, semi-delusional, self-congratulatory insider as their go-between and promote his work like crazy because he says cool-sounding things. All this applies to Thomas Friedman too.
Does anyone else find Burson-Marsteller domain name amusing? Awesome brand management, PR guys! Or am I just being fecal? (See Gottheimer's email address.)
@daveyjonesisdead: And frankly, I think you may be the only who reads him, Ham. Stop! You're just encouraging him! He probably thinks he's the cat's meow because you care what he says and does. Eventually the WSJ will realize that Clinton didn't win the election and they will can him.
Waitapicosec... If "there's no such thing as bad publicity" and HamNo knows this, and knows he's boosting Penn and BM, and he knows that non-insane-fat-white-guy posts get minimal page views...
..............what's this post really all about? Hmmm?
@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: I felt that way about Gawker's relentless discussions of Politico stories, which in accordance with netetiqute included a link to the stories. And then there was the fact that Politico did some kind of ad-revenue sharing with sites that linked to them. THINGS ARE NEVER WHAT THEY SEEM! Except glamping, of course.
So, there's no denying that the WSJ is having an ethical problem here. A particularly egregious one. But does anyone else find Gawker's attempts at policing others a bit...ah...ridiculous?
time for a flaming bag of doggie doo on his doorstep, as that is apparently all he is capable of understanding. a disgrace. and the wsj has lost whateve few shreds of dignity it still clings to
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And when, Lord, when ALREADY!
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But the trend is dying anyway. Hipsterism is going mainstream (Gap ads, tweens in neon wayfarers), which automatically makes it lame.
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That means - by my fashion recycling timeline calendar - it's only a matter of months before my old Starter jacket is back in.
Yesssss!
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This is about marketing honchos, who follow Mark Penn's 'advice,' being too lazy and too arrogant to get out into the trenches and actually listen to people and get clear first-hand information. Instead they use some erratic, semi-delusional, self-congratulatory insider as their go-between and promote his work like crazy because he says cool-sounding things. All this applies to Thomas Friedman too.
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Waitapicosec... If "there's no such thing as bad publicity" and HamNo knows this, and knows he's boosting Penn and BM, and he knows that non-insane-fat-white-guy posts get minimal page views...
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I'm seeing him as more the Thundercats type, or Kroft Superfriends.
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With who knows what personalities for the Mark Penn client list . . .
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I so wanted to do the goofy scooby laugh in response, but how do you do that in text?
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