ESCAPE! Videos #1

40 Demoted Saints protest at California Unemployment office, 1969.

Is the world starting to look like Hell? Are you able to sleep at night? Can you face another tomorrow? Is this the end?

If it’s looking real bad and you just can’t stare another election-denier in the face, you need my method of escape — the youtube ESCAPE! video-binge.

Back in the 1960s, I had an Ampex tape recorder available to me at KNX-TV and CBS Records, and in my spare time I created, with the help of the radio station’s enormous records library,  what were then called “Trip Tapes”, intended for use while meditating or on LSD. Continue reading

How to Get People to Buy Your Stuff

We had up to 300 customers per day, just a fraction of our eBay exposure.

“How do I get people to buy my stuff???” I hear you ask. Actually, that’s almost the whole of the conversation these days, because marketing isn’t like it used to be, and to begin with, that’s the wrong question.

It isn’t “How do I get people to buy my stuff?”, it’s “How do I get people to just L@@K at my stuff???”, and that’s the hardest question to answer, especially when you’re talking about online sales and marketing.

Let’s say that you’ve just invented the greatest tag line ever invented. Let’s say the tag line is “Cut Your Food Budget by 90%!!!”, which is the ultimate Breakfast-Table Subject. Continue reading

Surviving Nuclear War

murry the mummy
Murry the Mummy at the Hollywood Magical Mystery Museum, 1969

Surviving nuclear war is eminently possible unless you’re within a few feet of Ground Zero. You can certainly survive the initial burst of gamma radiation if you’re a few miles away — you’ll survive all right, but you aren’t going to like it, nor will you live for very long — not only because of radiation, but weather and crops and animal life along the chain. Most species will die out, especially humans, who are very dependent on crops and other earth-exploitations.

Still, survival is possible, if you happen to be in a clear area, but eventually the weather patterns will catch up with any short-term survivors.

Perhaps it’s best to go with the blast.

But don’t worry too much about Nuclear War, when Race War, Religious War, Gender Wars, Civil Wars and General Civil Unrest abound — war will be at the core of the 21st century, pretty much like the civil wars and bands of criminals that follow every collapse of organized civilization, bringing darkness and suppression for, generally, about six centuries.

Speaking of Christmas Marketing, golly whiz, I almost forget to mention my Christmas Gift Line, which I shall put together forthwith, that is to say, right now before your very eyes.

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Whatever Happened to What’s-His-Name???

 

Degas rare canceled incomplete plate “women in laundry”

Whatever happened to what-s-his-name??? Well, now, that’s always been one of those questions best left unanswered. In the meantime, while you’re waiting, let’s tackle the biggest problem in marketing, which can be summed up as “The JUNO Principle:

“What’s the sense trying to scare people if they can’t even see or hear you?”

See, that is the problem. You can have the best item in the world, the most attractive advertising and promotion, but if nobody sees you or your ads or your product, it’s as if you were a tree falling in the forest, and you can quote me on that. Continue reading

Hey, Looka This!

The Titan docked and completed an Ashram cruise this morning.

You can take a tour on the Titan for FREE, just by showing up, but enough about cruises on a fabulous yacht that I bought for under $50.00,  let’s take a look at the incredible tee-shirt collection I’ve made. You can peruse it merely by clicking on the hot-link below:

see my tee-shirt collection

Of course, we mustn’t neglect the tank-top department:

see the tank top department

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Do You Hear the Sirens?

Well, did you wake up dead? Speak up, I can’t quite hear you.

Yes, it’s getting to be THAT TIME again, when the sirens of the world will wail out “Take Cover”, but there is no cover for nuclear, and there’s no cure for “Stupid”.

So while we’re waiting for that final “All Clear” signal, let’s engage ourselves in some worthy work, along the “Blessings” line. My stuff is made to carry Blessings. If it can’t carry Blessings, I don’t use it, sell it or recommend it, and that includes you-know-what.

Those of you who don’t know what are already Blessed.

I had the idea that we could develop a line of badges that represented various ideas, something for my “ClickBait” collection on zazzle. Continue reading