I’ve got too much work to do today to go talk to Bird, Adrien.

No you are lying. You know that stoushing with Graeme is the most useful thing you could ever do and you just don’t want to do it because adhering to the mainstream view of climatology disqualifies you from teaching humanities subjects at Uni.

Peter Carey worked in advertising for a lot of years, although I think he went part time when he started to get published.

And Don Delillo; and Raymond Chandler who once wrote that chess is the greatest waste of human intelligence you’ll find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

Peter Carey worked in advertising for a lot of years, although I think he went part time when he started to get published.

Oh yeah, middleweight and heavyweight ad teams talk about the great art they’re gonna do someday while the artists talk about the grants they’re applying for.

There are people who do advertising and art. Altho’ being advertising full time sucks the creative cordial out of you. And gives you a certain kind of tunnel vision:

Y’know what Bill’s doing. He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a big dollar we’ve done our research. He’s doing a good thing

I’ve seen lots of filmakers, aritists, writers etc get sucked into the Money-Go-Round. They can’t get off. Fine living is addictive and erodes willpower. But there are people who manage to to plug in without getting sucked in: – http://www.adamcruickshank.com/

http://catallaxyfiles.com/?p=3503#comment-89256

Oh yeah, middleweight and heavyweight ad teams talk about the great art they’re gonna do someday while the artists talk about the grants they’re applying for.

And re the whole “Mark is selling out” thang. The only thing worse than selling out is not getting even a whisper of a nibble in the first place.

Temporary canvas shelters and my urinary tract have intersected many times over the years. So I can tell y’all for experience that outside the tent pissing in is not a patch on being inside the tent, pissing in the punchbowl and then sticking to freshly opened champagne for the rest of the evening.

I used to accept money from one of the world’s biggest weapons merchants for copywriting work. Cheerfully. And then spent quite a lot of it with glee on pursuits that would never be sanctioned by the senior management of L*ckh**d.

As did Thomas Pynchon, who used to write copy for Boeing’s missile division in the early sixties. The fact he went onto possibly more impressive creative shit than I did in no way disproves my point…whatever the fuck it was.

Oh yes, it’s only truly selling out when you’re offering up for the best offer your means of production instead of just your product.

Jo, I believe I may have mentioned before I reckon you’re one supremely smart cookie!

Creative Industries crew (on whose ship I sail through the academic seas currently) emphasise a very different sort of economism than any Marxists had in mind.

The economic culture of the Creative Industries lesson #1: Ettiquette.
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Speak like a hippie but behave like a member of the mafia.

I will forbear to elaborate on what one Griffith left-wing delegate did to the instant coffee in the Labor Right students’ shared kitchen one year.

They had it coming, they had it coming, they only had themselves to blame.
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Actually it might’ve been Geelong? No it definitely wasn’t Geelong it was in the middle of nowhere far from the water. Christ I haven’t been out the Parkville-Carlton-CBD triangle in years.
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Anyway it is interesting that considering the 6-7 figure sums this most over-rated producer of cheap posters and posers charges each student council you’d think they could orgnaize a conference that didn’t put people in surgery. But then you’ve got to get to know ‘em.

Calls for your ‘head’ – excellent!! – the HES readership could double with the right management of this.

Alas, Bolt & Blair are just mine hosts for skanky blog taverns (dank surrounds, watered down threads, badly cut opinions), but sadly, not enough influence to create a front-page gate.

But just imagine a fully formed Rag-gate! You’d have to remodel the fourth quarter forecasts for LP advert revenues.

And have an opinion piece ready – Is biting the hand that feeds it un-The Australian?

Taking coin from Rupert? Way smarter than giving him yours.

Get as many sackfuls as you can. Or hankies full.

You’ll be breaking even on GG’s at some point. Not many can say they are ahead on News.

As for gandhi, if he thought about what he wrote on his blog, instead of just writing it….from his own keypad:

“At one stage last year I decided to totally boycott the Murdoch media and not even read their stories, let alone link to them. But it proved impossible to continue blogging about Australian politics while doing so, because the Murdoch team was actually creating much of the news (Newspoll is only the most obvious example). Another big problem with a boycott is that Murdoch owns so many bloody media outlets.”

Yes, cloven hooves are rubbed together every time you link to a News site, gandhi, and you’ll be needing a new bottle of windex to polish up the glasshouse.

Btw, I’ve just responded to some of the comments on the Higher Ed thread.

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/markbahnisch/index.php/theaustralian/comments/partisan_nonsense_obscures_sensible_debate/

I haz bolding!

They seriously need some decent blogging software!

He thinks he can put out his cigar in single mothers’ eye-sockets for Rupert’s filthy money and just get away with it?

I can’t for the life of me see what the problemo is here: I’m glad Mark will be writing for it.

And personally, I feel if pseudonymous critics wanna have a go, they should first ought feel obliged to disclose every source of income they enjoy…

Lets apply a bit of scrutiny, hmmm? Just cos you’re doing wholly unremarkable things out of the public limelight, doesn’t mean you get get a different standard … does it?