December 16, 2006

MIDDLE BROW TRIUMPH

Post-modernist gobblygookers beware! Yalies, Duke, NYU, UC Berkley-boasting social text credentials with narcissistic egocentric tendencies, used to letting loose at 6 bucks a drink MLA conventions letting the rest eat cake while lauding Kristeva, Gramsci, Baudrillard, et alia--admit that you love your mothers and that middle brow culture still rules after 25 years and thank god the subaltern classes don't live in your neighborhood and now that you have tenure and lament that Last Year at Marienbad never made the AFI top 100 film list and breathe a sigh of relief that you got in under the wire before undergraduates realized cultural studies would put them on the soup line unless they got your job, now is the time to repent. Sneak a read at this book and let those tears come even if it's under your blanket at 3 a.m. Remember those times in summer camp? And since you're getting too old to really get up the intellectual drive to deal with post-industrial, post-McLuhan, post postal mail issues because the younger generation has you beat, take solace your post-angst angst can find an outlet. Now's the time for your tears.

December 10, 2006

READING & BACK OPERATION

Have you discovered that hours and hours of reading can ruin the health of your spine: herniated disks, osteoarthritis, stenosis, lumbar pain, slipped disks, bad posture??? If you write, you might already have carpal tunnel. Is it worth it? Yoga, meditation, diet...and WHILE you're reading, consider these....

LOOK COOL AT STARBUCKS

Are you the guy/girl writing the great American screenplay, novel, post-modern analysis of the millenium generation while sitting at Starbucks. Have people admire you even more than they do now with this super book bag, laptop carrier with this Samsonite Carry Bag (it's not just for traveling anymore). Sorry, no place to fit a coffee cup.