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]]> http://www.jrnls.com/20091205/sudden-death/feed/ 0 The Advertisement Agency’s Sex Scandal http://www.jrnls.com/20091007/the-advertisement-agencys-sex-scandal/ http://www.jrnls.com/20091007/the-advertisement-agencys-sex-scandal/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:02:35 +0000 Tim http://www.jrnls.com/?p=392 You Money Save New Results Easy Health Safety Love Discovery Proven Guaranteed ]]>

The 12 Most “Powerful” Words in English-language Advertising>

  1. You
  2. Money
  3. Save
  4. New
  5. Results
  6. Easy
  7. Health
  8. Safety
  9. Love
  10. Discovery
  11. Proven
  12. Guaranteed
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  1. Automatic:
  2. operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control; “automatic transmission”; “a budget deficit that caused automatic …
  3. automatic rifle: light machine gun
  4. resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; “an automatic `thank you’”; “machinelike efficiency”
  5. automatic pistol: a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released
  6. without volition or conscious control; “the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light”; “a reflex knee jerk”; “sneezing is reflexive”
  7. “Automatic” is a song by Prince from his 1982 album, 1999. It was released as a 7″ single only in Australia, with the B-side of “Something In the Water (Does Not Compute)”.
  8. “Automatic” is a funky New Wave-styled dance number by the Pointer Sisters, released on the Planet Records label in 1984. The song became one of the Pointers’ signature tunes and was the first of four consecutive top ten singles from their multi-platinum landmark album, Break Out. …
]]> http://www.jrnls.com/20090926/automatic/feed/ 0 An Excerpt from Burroughs’ Junkie http://www.jrnls.com/20090925/an-excerpt-from-burroughs-junkie/ http://www.jrnls.com/20090925/an-excerpt-from-burroughs-junkie/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:08:20 +0000 Tim http://www.jrnls.com/?p=254 Joe the Mex had a thin face with a long, sharp, twitchy nose and a down-curving, toothless mouth. Joe’s face was lined and ravaged, but not old. Things happened to his face, but Joe was not touched. His eyes were bright and young. There was a gentleness about him common to many oldtime junkies. You could spot Joe blocks away. In the anonymous city crowd he stood out sharp and clear, as though you were seeing him through binoculars. He was a liar, and like most liars, he was constantly changing his stories, altering time and personnel from one telling to the next. One time he would tell a story about some friend, next time he would switch the story around to give himself the lead. He would sit in the cafeteria over coffee and pound cake, talking at random about his experiences.”

- William S. Burroughs, Junkie

Buy the book here and check out this film, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, that looks quite entertaining.
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