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: