After the 08.08.2007 PRBlogNews post PR & LSD - a long strange happy tradition , I got inquiries into where AEs can find jobs at agencies specializing in the resurgent ‘psychedelic PR’. Some questioned whether we should be promoting such questionable practices, and another accused of us of being cultural jihadists. Not surprisingly, this subject brought up [...]
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Darren Dopp, the beleaguered and suspended-without-pay former Communications Director for New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, is in the media cross hairs.
David Weidner at Dow Jones is glad that Dopp is is getting his comeuppance because Dopp apparently didn’t think Weidner was important enough to feed news to. That’s how it seems from Weidner’s petulant post “Sayonara [...]
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Social Media & The Bad Guys
“What happens if some bad, bad, motherf**kers want to do this (social media)? The government? The Rand Corporation? Terrorists?” Loren Feldman says in the 8/8/07 Strumpette TOTAL RANT: Outrage for the Flies. I have to say, first thing in the morning, before the first cup of coffee, Loren’s dark unshaven [...]
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Posted in Media, News, Politics on Aug 10th, 2007 3 Comments »
As Communications Director for newly-elected New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, left, (Democrat), Darren Dopp was hitting a high point in his career and his life. He was by all accounts a respected PR guy who furthered Spitzer’s reign as Attorney General when he was riding roughshod over Wall Street, and he was key in Spitzer’s tremendously successful campaign for [...]
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Psychedelic PR is making a comeback.
Founded in 1968 in San Francisco Biggles & Joy was a pioneer in psychedelic public relations, the practice of publicity by osmosis and transference of cosmic thoughts through mind altering experience. The work of Biggles & Joy has permeated the work of dozens of breakthrough highly-recognizable PR campaigns in the past [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
Loren Feldman finally entered rehab for sensitivity training. First he confessed to all his PR 2.0 sins and apologized to the many he has offended. Is it enough? Can he be cured in 24 hours? Contrary to rumors, Loren is not going to the Cirque Lodge in Sundance where Lindsay is reputed to be. We [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
THE WEATHER
New York, Manhattan (New York)
357 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2007
…HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM EDT TUESDAY…
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HEAT
ADVISORY…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 6 PM EDT TUESDAY.
THE COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID 90S ALONG WITH HIGH [...]
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