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Hot agency (cool shop) chats flash-mob instigator.

Check out the ZeitSwarm:
Wildly talented and only modestly modest, Gyro Worldwide (“We are the inventors of…guerilla and viral marketing, integrated event programs, unorthodox promotions, innovative new product development and packaging design.”) publish the Vulture interview with Bill Waskis (“We Eat Brains for Breakfast”) on his recently published Harper’s piece:

The Untold Tale of His Magnificent Flash Mob Hoax
Why Hipsters Get So Angry When You Call Them Hipsters
The Pleasures & Perils of Living in New York City
How You Too Can Write Email That Gets Forwarded

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    Joy of Sects: Chef, a cult, a Cruise, and his wives

    So much has happened in such a short time with Southpark and Scientology. A chronology is in order and Kerry Bailey’s done a great one.

    Even if Tom Cruise didn’t threaten to skip doing promotion for his next film, someone did get Comedy Central (whose parent company is releasing the next Mission Impossible) to pull the Southpark rerun in which a cartoon Cruise hides out in Stan’s closet while former-wife, a cartoon Nicole, cartoon tv reporters, and everyone else implores him to “come out of the closet.” Meanwhile, Stan is hiding out from his inevitable destiny since being recognized as the reincarnated Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. A mouthful, like all good Southpark episodes.

    Isaac Hayes quit after many shows trashing the pope, jews, islam, and christians, saying making fun of Scientology had gone too far.

    Matt and Trey aren’t backing down, are funnier than ever, and will be back for more.

    This week’s new episode ended with a gnarly death for Chef and one of the boys saying at the funeral, “We can’t hold it against Chef, we have to blame the silly club that scrambled his brains.”

    And, they showed their mastery last week with a press release after the rerun was pulled (Defamer). It’s even better read aloud.:

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!

    -Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu

    The Secret Message

    The Secret Message behind our tolerance of atrocity:
    When you can’t imagine, you can do anything.

    – From a post/”new game” at How to Save the World

    BarCampLA: What it is…

    BarCamp is live performance blogging.

    …with full audience participation.

    …and it’s not as bad as that sounds.

    • An overview of BarCampLA in David Markland’s video log from blogging.la

    Like the blogosphere, simple tools that work, ostensibly polite people with an obsession or three to share, conversations with faster comments, real asides and trackbacks, blog stalkers, climbers and celebs.
    Posts, or presentations, ranged from 1st grade art class (pic: Cody Simms, kid’s allright) Barcamp first grade art class. pic by Cody Simmsto seriously alpha-geek visions for things i hadn’t considered. Also a young guy’s fleshed out plan for a tv network, the launch of a new non-profit, Bloggingforgood, (not too late to join), and Jason Calacanis‘ critique of 10 overblown digital entities in 15 minutes, with the audience as his geek chorus yelling “Bullshit”.

    And to round up: the content was better than you’d expect, if not as varied as the blogosphere. A lawyer and a Microsoft evangelist business blogged, a Scottish dude in kilt podcasted through, a Franklin Covey-hating dominatrix (and certified hypnotist/life coach ) prostelytized for the cult of Getting Things Done, Belkin came thorugh with a pile of free powerstrips…and somehow, though it seems impossible, I didn’t hear a single reference to the Oscar’s all day.

    All your talent are belong to Google?

    And the only way to recruit in Silicon Valley is this brazen pitch for in-demand workers to consider another employer? I have to believe it’s true though. They quote Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and other successful endeavors, and he’s no Chicken Little.

    And not beside the point, Backbase is doing interesting things, and enabling more interesting things.