21 Jan 2003
Project SCUM
“Maintaining the highest share of the gay market, Marlboro imagery is fairly instant and clearly dominated by the Marlboro Man. Among gay consumers, this image has particular importance as an overt cue to masculinity / sexuality. Marlboro’s success in this context depends wholly on the relevance of this cowboy image to the world (fantasy and real) of these gay consumers.”
Information about how the Tobacco industry targeted the gay and homeless communities in the mid-90s.
15 Jan 2003
The United States Has Gone Mad
The United States Has Gone Mad. “Last Friday a friend of mine in California drove to his local supermarket with a sticker on his car saying: ‘Peace is also Patriotic’. It was gone by the time he’d finished shopping.”
14 Jan 2003
Convert LPs to audio files
Convert LPs to audio files. Since I’m trying to reduce the physical size of my recording collection, I’ve been trying to dub all my records onto CD. But the process of splitting up an entire lp side into separate tracks kept slowing me down. Now, thanks to this program, it’s as simple of dragging a bar across the screen.
Now I can enjoy my out-of-print Danny O’Keefe records.