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How To Fame: Stand Out/Get Ahead/That Simple [Part 1]
By guest author Richard Laermer We are all known. Our perception by those who know us, or who encounter us even for the tiniest time, affects our lives in tangible ways. But it doesn’t matter how fantastic you are if others’ perception of you is…off. For this reason, my new project for 2010, “How to Fame”—
The Bad News Bores (Celebratory Nature of The News)
By Richard Laermer, Guest Author I noticed it first at a Kwanzaa party late last year. Having trouble keeping myself amused, I started quizzing those holding drinks and discovered that everyone there was kind of “into” news and recent events.
Demeaning (Any) President (Really): America’s New Low
By Guest Author Richard Laermer Last year, responding to a question about President Bush, now-beleaguered Representative Charles Rangel told his television interviewer: “I really think that he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all; it shows that, in this great country, anybody can become president.”
Will The Real John Edwards Sit Down?
By Richard Laermer, Guest Author Everyone act surprised: John Edwards, the handsome, millionaire, politician attorney wunderkind, stepped outside of his marriage. Wow. Let’s crucify him! He had an extramarital affair with some videographer, he might well be a baby daddy, the media is going ape-shit, his wife is terminally ill.
Why Reality TV Will Soon Die a Healthy Death
By Richard Laermer, Guest Author Besides writing the stories that Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck and A Scanner Darkly were all based upon, Philip K. Dick was also known for his own reality-bending brand of social commentary. His observation that “reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it”
Just Think …
By Richard Laermer, Guest Author It’s uncanny how little we do for our brains considering all they do for us. Imagine the following scene: One day restaurants put a simple bin near the door. Not for lost and found. Not for umbrellas. But for our cell phones, Blackberries, Treos (do they still make those?), anything
The Last Thing You’ll Ever Have to Read about “Sex and The City”
By Richard Laermer, Guest Author Arthur Harris of the Royal Air Force is often credited as the innovator of carpet bombing during World War Two, which was a tactic used to achieve the complete destruction of a target region and demoralization of its residents. When the head of marketing at New Line Cinema sends out
Carefully Folded Business Plan: What We Can Learn From Gap’s Failures
By Richard Laermer, Guest Author I was watching an old TV show from last year –gosh, my TiVo has so much stored it could have been from two years ago– and found myself gawking at a super-colorful Sarah J Parker dancing and carousing to “I Just Love Being a Girl” in a really horrible ad
