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9.7.01
Listen to What the Brand Says
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Subliminal Sound Seduction
Lite hits for the lobotomized...imperial war reparation...Coors cons-beer-acy?...cig-arrest...cosmetically compromised cinema... ...

8.24.01
As The Cubic Zirconia Taints
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Diamond Encrusted Delusion
Commerce in the afternoon...preservation stomp...bucking the Broncos brand...back-to-score shopping...

8.1.01
Bearers of Bare Tidings
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Gettin' Postal on Your Ass
BAM bums get banned...carosell of progress...all the news that's fit to slurp ...hell hath no fury like a sponsor scorned...Abercrombie & letch...

7.4.01
American Pie á la Mode
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Federal Fashion Victim
It's a Lowbrow Lowdown Star Spangled Spectacular! America's spokesman, Uncle Sam gets a makeover...

6.27.01
Profiting Prophets
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The Word of the Whored
Chris and Luke sermonize on the marketing mount...wham! bam! culture jam!..peddlin' pride...disrespectin' Tiny E...

6.13.01
Scare-Lactics
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Don't Take Manipulation from Strangers
Dairy doom...burger flippin' Barbie...Cokeland, CA...anti-gravity heartburn...child's pay...

5.23.01
Private Penetration
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Not-So-Alan Funt Stunt
Full disclosure...artificially flavored reality...the long harm of the law...drool Britannia...telephone taps...

5.16.01
Advertainment Lament
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Huckster Detector Gear Up
Is your Huckster Detector out of commission? Find out in this very special one-year anniversary edition of The Lowbrow Lowdown...

5.9.01
Snap! Crackle! Flop!
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Sycophantic Cinema
Tijuana bible study...Mennen To Jersey: puck off!..Harper Valley validation...mighty Casey strikes a deal...puff the magic cancer stick...

5.2.01
Let's Call it Product Placement.
No, Let's Call it Shirley.
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Brought To You By the Letters A,O and L
Elmo sells...retail revelation...happiness is a warm coat...just say blow...

4.25.01
Farvegcrooken
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Automatic Ad Campaign
Car company commandeers culture...mon petit choux slam...drug infirmation...Mr. Potato Head gets forked...

4.18.01
Tube-steak Brand Boogie
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I Feel Like Nitrates Tonight
Engorged meat shticks...captivate a minute, Mr. postman...clean up, white people!..see the ads flyin' by...the degradation will be advertised...

4.11.01
Radio Free Lowbrow!
Have a listen to Lowbrow Lowdown author, Kate Kaye's 3/29 Columbia University Radio (WKCR 89.9 FM) Late City Edition interview with Damon W. Root.
Stream it in Real Audio format or download the MP3.

4.4.01
Much Ado About Shopping
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Futile Mercantile Maneuver
Clueless about capitalism...mini data-mining minions...bulletins of the flesh...picture producers puss-out...

3.28.01
Mutiny on the Bondi
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Brand Bondage Breakaway
Commercialism with cajones...the youth is getting wrested...puttin' on the ad blitz...kibosh on the car wash...death rotisserie...

3.21.01
Man of Spiel
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Sympathy Sells
Wannabe Muppet mocks shameless center square...dilution by design...good brand/eye coordination...diagnosis: sponsoritis...a residual a day...

3.14.01
ToadieWood
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Celebrity Spokes-whores
Oscar-style heiny-sniffin'...the real odorono...tugging at heart and purse strings...press payola...sucker? I hardly work here...

3.7.01
Right Wings Get Clipped
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The Shackles of Political-correctness
autoerotic admonition ...revolutionary pick-up line...kid pro quo...cell phone subbacultcha...

2.28.01
Rushkoff-colored Glasses
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Rush to Judgment?
Doomed generation...false advertorial alarm...sodanistas attack...b is for boycott...deep fried deep throat...

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