The Cranky Media Guy

MySpace gets a date with Prom Queen - Mar. 29, 2007

Lookie here.  The same Michael Eisner, the guy from the story immediately above this one, is the producer of this show about to debut on MySpace.  Hmm, I thought the Web hasn’t given us any new, professionally-produced content, Mikey.  Oh wait, I get it:  YOU are going to be the Messiah who bring us Web peasants that “professionally-produced content,” A.K.A. the crap he can’t foist off on any TV network, even PaxTV (or whatever they’re calling it this week).

Lead us to the Promised Land, Mr. Former Mickey Mouse Boss.

The Genuine 7-Foot Robby The Robot. at Hammacher Schlemmer

I’ll take one of these, thanks very much.

Publicity - a photoset on Flickr

There you go!  All questions will be answered.  Well, some.

TimesDispatch.com | Real Kwik-E-Marts? Woo-Hoo!

Yeah, THIS publicity stunt will work, if we define “work” as “bringing a lot of attention to the stunt’s sponsor(s).”

Expect to find the Kwik-E-Mart stuff on eBay within 15 nanoseconds of 7-11 unveiling the redecorated stores.

Artist Updates Warhol’s and Duchamp’s Theories - PR.com

When I started to read this press release, I thought it was a lame (and potentially dangerous) publicity stunt on the part of an artist who feels he hasn’t gotten enough attention for his work.  As I read further, however, I began to see it as a brilliant piece of satire on contemporary American society.

This is the line I liked the best:

“Technology and the Internet has allowed fame to be experienced at homeopathic levels.”

Overlooking the fact that it should say “have” rather than “has,” that’s a pretty funny and insightful sentence.  I assume the reference is to the homeopathic concept that the more diluted a substance is, the more powerful it is (this is refuted by mainstream science, by the way).  It’s a funny line, in any case.