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7.19.02
California Uber Coffee
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The Other CAFE Standards
Zen fascists back in Berkeley...huckster hypnotist...movie stars are all on drugs...

6.28.02
Coup d'ephemera
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A Diamond Is for Lemmings
Fighting the wedding industrial complex...chai babies...soap sampling makes me feel so dirty...

6.7.02
Fifth Graders Get Dog Breath
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Head Voice? Try Lip, Butt and Snout Voice
Weiner warblers croon branded tunes...let's all bow to the lobby...revolting repast...

5.17.02
Special Anniversary Edition
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The Lowbrow Lowdown on Slacking Off
The Lowbrow Lowdown on marketing to kids...advertiser-influenced editorial and entertainment... marketing in schools...product placement...demonization of big tobacco...marketing's influence on culture and society...anti-capitalism/anti-corporate movement...the art worlds' flirtation with commercialism...

4.25.02
Correctional Capitalism
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Customer Captivity
imprisonment for profit...can I misquote you on that?..focus dupe...

4.5.02
Lego My Good Sense
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Serious Ploy
Mixing work with pleasure...a fool and his sanctimony...comics heroine dabbles in Coke...

3.15.02
Human-Not-So-Kind
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Animal Pelt InFURiates Man with Bat
Save the humans...second hand coax...lotus deposition...

3.1.02
People's Republic of Commerce
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Sponsored Symbolism
Buying the chairman......satan's helper drives a Honda...who inked Davey Moore?

2.15.02
Grocery Store Cluck Up
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Jim Crow Tastes Like Chicken
Supermarket segregation...Doritos brand dain bramage...roses are red, violets are allowed...aussies share common bond with Sammy Hagar...

1.25.02
Peeping Tomfoolery
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Close Encounters of the Ad Kind
Focus groups meet reality TV...mad cow discharge...smoking the competition...Jeep season! hunter season!

1.11.02
Bouncing Baby Coleslaw
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Don't Know Nothin' 'bout Birthin' No Cabbages
Doll dilation...the meek shall inherit the work...full metal jumpsuit...harried by Harry...

12.28.01
Top Trash of 2001
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Mediocrity Is the Mother of Best of
Top ten trash of 2001...one pissed peacock...store whores at the food court...pre-pubescent porn promos...

12.14.01
Trading Card Inculcation
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1 Mohammed Atta, Mint
collectible war propaganda...throwin' the stone a bone...tattooed cub boys...what do housewives and Warhol have in common?...

11.30.01
Special Report
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Sales Pitch Society
Find out how advertisers get us to do their work for them, and why it does and will affect our relationships and society as a whole.

11.2.01
What's Read and White and Blue All Over?
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Promote-by-Numbers
Benedict Arnold in a belly shirt...does this Tolstoy make me look fat?..fire and brimstoned ...

11.2.01
Fun, Fun, Fun Till Abercrombie Takes the T&A Away
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Magazine Spread -- No Eagle
'Tis the Season to Be Gloomy...Oprah's book snub...envelope pushers...bargain hunt goes bust...saving the kid with the Coke bottle glasses...

10.19.01
Pop-up from the Pulpit
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Osama bin Laid
Hey, Mr. Space Salesman...daylight come and me want a website...public station degeneration...

10.5.01
Cold War Leftovers
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Attack Shack
Branding the bunker...capitol commercialism...appellation saps ...capitalism or capitalizing?...drug bust...

9.21.01
Smoking Out the Golden Marble Regime
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Anti-Marketing Misfire?
Read the ruminations of a fly on the wall at the Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children Coalition (SCEC) Summit.

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