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Go With The Flow

If you’re like us, you can’t help but notice how this country's cash flow is quickly slowing down to a dribble. 

We know it's not uncommon for businesses to rely on an open line of credit with their bank to meet payroll from time to time, but companies large and small are going to start hitting a wall as banks begin tightening funds and clients delay payments as long as they possibly can. 

Even in the best of times, some of the big studios (and we all know which ones) have been known to take upwards of six months to pay invoices for work long since delivered. First, they insist that a purchase order request be submitted. Usually they "misplace" this and so an actual signed PO isn't issued for months while vendors wait and wait and wait, afraid to even bring the subject up with their client for fear of appearing pushy or ungrateful.

 

Meanwhile, their vendors are facing an office filled with all those pesky employees sitting around like baby birds with their beaks wide open waiting to get a paycheck every two weeks.

Doubtless we'll start to see a shift in the workforce to more freelancers, who can be strung along for 40, 60, 90, 180 days, afraid to even bring the subject up with their client for fear of appearing pushy or ungrateful.

When Will My Reflection Show Who I Am Inside?

Mission In Action

If you’re like us, your head is such a big, old bag of puffed up affectations and self-importance that you can barely lift it off your pillow each morning. Which is why we were so thrilled when we went looking for this month’s Mystery Mission Statement and came upon this agency's superbly pretentious website. 

So moved were we by the genuine artificiality of their site that we found ourselves weeping openly and unashamedly. Instead of some coarse About Us manifesto, instead of some boastful Client List, instead of some vulgar showcasing of their Portfolio, the site is simply, honestly, nakedly their logo and a line from The Karate Kid. 

So transported were we by the feng shuiness of it all we could have sworn we were seated at Benihana’s about to order the Hibachi Chicken.

Today's Double Feature

Meanwhile, Back At The Mill…

Normally, there’s nothing we love more than getting out our big, old wooden spoon and stirring up a piping hot kettle of gossip. But, alas, there is no joy in Mudville these days. We’ve heard from several sources that the entertainment advertising leviathan that shares its initials with a must-have bathroom item is cutting its workforce by fifty. Can that number be right? And can that be just the first round of layoffs? 

And we’ve heard that the dancing banana agency has let some people go as well. 

Not good, says we. Not good at all.

Couch Potatoes: The Next Generation

CBS Interactive is launching an online feature that lets us collectively interact with one another while watching their shows online at CBS.com. 

Aimed to keep viewers awake, or at least semi-comatose during the umpteenth season of Survivor: So Over, or the madcap hijinks that ensue on Gary, Unmarried, these "social viewing rooms," combine the wholesome fellowship of a chat room with the warm and fuzzy experience of video conferencing to create a virtual community of eyelift network devotees. 

"We're going to be using this technology on many of our future products," says Anthony Soohoo, senior vice president and general manager of CBS Interactive. "We believe this is groundbreaking." 

Oh! And to think if CBS would’ve launched this 15 years ago, Murder, She Wrote would still be topping their ratings. 

Meanwhile, NBC and Fox-backed Hulu has added a social media aspect to its site in the form of - hold on to your propeller beanies - Discussion Boards!

Rated Pee Gee

Like Mother Like Daughter

Thai Eye Yi!

If you’re like us, you find this sort of thing to be more than an eyesore. It’s gruesome to the point of being pornographic. 

Apparently this one-sheet and the ones shown below are for a series of Thai horror films called Art of The Devil 2 and 3 that came out a couple of years ago. 

However, our intent is not to wallow in the horror of these images, but rather in the horror that is a globalized economy. And by that we mean: if the art for these posters is being done in Asia, you can bet the designer is making around $8.00 to 14.00 an hour. Tops. 

Of course we have no idea who created this art or what country it originated from, nonetheless, like all good bloggers, we never, ever wait until all the facts are in before we post an item.

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Eye!2: Me, Also

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