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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Carl[/i] [br]Apologies for the flimsiness of this topic, but it may be of interest. From Ben "Doolittle 33 1/3 writer" Sisario's blog... [url="http://charmicarmicat.blogspot.com/2009/08/black-francis-on-biz-soup-is-soulless.html"][b]Crimes Against Music.[/b][/url] [font=Georgia][teal]Monday, August 31, 2009[/teal] [b][size=4]Black Francis on the biz: ‘The soup is soulless!’[/size=4][/b] Black Francis of the Pixies, a.k.a. [url="http://charmicarmicat.blogspot.com/2008/11/exposed-real-frank-black.html"]Frank Black[/url] not of the Pixies, wrote [url="http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2009/08/31/e-mail-of-the-day-18/"]Bob Lefsetz’s letter of the day[/url] today. It’s in response to a [url="http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2009/08/31/im-a-pc/"]column[/url] about [url="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/business/media/30ad.html?pagewanted=all"]this article[/url] in the Sunday New York Times about Microsoft’s [url="http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/marketing/hello_im_a_pc.html"]“I’m a PC”[/url] ad campaign, which is a very deliberate response to Apple’s popular [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac"]“Get a Mac”[/url] spots. He sez: [i]Subject: Re: I’m A PC Dear Bob. Yes! I DID read the New York Times article today (even though I AM a career indie rock college drop out), and the same quotes about the “I am a PC” ad campaign jumped out at me, too. Too many lame-ass, greedy cooks in the kitchen! The soup is SOULESS! Thankfully the beat goes on… Black Francis (The Pixies)[/i] Hope he’s not taking any person offense at those ads. Oh look, here’s one of them now:[/font=Georgia] (I'm getting "Sorry, no videos were found" - maybe just unavailable outside U.S.?) [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.