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04/07/2005: :: Criminally Absurd

If you thinkin' bout money, then you readin' my mind
or, Ads to Appear On Dollar Dollar Bills y'all
from CNN

The [USA] network is distributing 50,000 one-dollar bills in trendy bars in Los Angeles and New York. Affixed on each of those bills: a removable sticker bearing the USA Network logo, along with the title and airtime of the three-part miniseries.


This, along with the TD Banknorth Garden is cleary a harbinger of the end of Western civilization. Some of you may recall that David Foster Wallace predicted "Subsidized" years, where the good ol' Anno Domini years were replaced by corporate sponsors. A chart of Wallace's Subsidized time, lifted from Wikipedia:

Subsidized Time

  1. Year of the Whopper

  2. Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad

  3. Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar

  4. Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken

  5. Year of the Whisper-Quiet Maytag Dishwasher

  6. Year of the Yushityu 2007 Mimetic-Resolution-Cartridge-View-Motherboard-Easy-To-Install- Upgrade For Infernatron/InterLace TP Systems For Home, Office, Or Mobile (sic)

  7. Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland

  8. Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment

  9. Year of Glad

Infinite Jest is a worthy book, even if you only like the Les Assasins des Fauteuils Rollents.