UPDATE to Son of a Pitch!
The day af­ter the ar­rival of Cardboard Dave, the flesh-and-blood one called me. He sheep­ishly asked me if I re­ceived his pack­age, then stated that he wasn’t ego­tis­ti­cal; the idea was his mar­ket­ing de­part­ments. (Um, you are the VP of Integrated Marketing, so I as­sume you have a say in their cam­paigns?)
In my most pleasant […]

Being a stu­dent of PR I now see life through a dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive. For ex­am­ple, if I came across some­thing so de­ranged and un­be­liev­able, I would have sim­ply laughed and e-mailed it to all my friends, cre­at­ing a vi­ral joke that would have lasted, oh, per­haps a day and led to a few min­utes of de­creased work flow. Then I would have for­got­ten about […]