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Heavy Breathing with the Scam Call Center
Everyone knows the best thing to do with an incoming phone call from a number you don’t recognize, at a time when you’re not expecting a call, is to ignore it. Everyone knows it’s probably going to be a scam … Continue reading
Posted in The Internet, Wit
Tagged brian larue, credit card scam, heavy breathing, scam callers, telemarketing scam
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Bad Advice Musicians Hear, Part 7: You Can Do It All on the Internet
It’s a Friday night down at your local rock club, or maybe a Wednesday. Who even knows anymore? You’ve played at this place six times in the last nine months, and the crowd is still made up of seven of … Continue reading
Bad Advice Musicians Hear, Part 6: It’s All Just About Who You Know
After you’ve spent about 30 to 45 seconds involved in making and distributing music, you start to recognize something important: The music “business” (whatever that means) is not a pure meritocracy. There is no consistent correlation between quality and popularity … Continue reading
Why Cassettes Rule if You’re in a Band
Out here in 2022, we’re about 15 years into the ostensible Cassette Revolution* – well past the point where it could reasonably be considered a “revolution.” Tapes are just part of what we’re doing now, as a culture, or whatever. … Continue reading
The Collected Brian LaRue New Yorker Caption Contest Submissions
For reasons I can no longer remember, but that probably had something to do with needing another vector through which I could scream my frustrations and disappointments in being forced to exist as a human being in the physical world, … Continue reading
The Fifth Universal New Yorker Caption: “Almost Positive You’re in the Wrong Panel, My Guy”
As a society, we’ve accepted there is such a thing as a universal New Yorker cartoon caption — a gag line that can work with any New Yorker cartoon. It’s an elusive thing. I’d be willing to wager the dream … Continue reading
Posted in The Internet, Uncategorized, Wit
Tagged Almost positive you're in the wrong panel, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn, Mark E Smith, my guy, New Yorker caption contest, New Yorker cartoon caption, The New Yorker, universal imperative, universal New Yorker captions
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On Staying Out of the Comments in 2023
I’m taking a few seconds right now to consider how my social media habits have changed over this past year. Of course they’ve changed, because the discourse on pretty much all of the major social platforms has been changing. You … Continue reading →