HeyJaredAll In Our Imagination - John Caswell
Uncovering the things that make up our minds. Strange brews, ideas, ramples, rants, and raves. You know.
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Dispatches From The Edges (opens the original)
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This is the first in a series of snacks from the book that are not in the book. They didn’t quite make it. Not because they failed in some way, but because when the shape of the book started to reveal itself, they didn’t add to what the book needed. They were still fun to write, and I have promised to share them here. I will only post them here, but I may drop ‘nibbles’, sections from other snacks in notes.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_
Talk About. Pop Muzak (opens the original)
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It’s busy on the river where I live.All kinds of life pass by. Big ships, cruise liners, special service police ribs, barges, fancy yachts and disco boats full of drunken revellers singing to dreadful music.At night the sound from the disco boats carries a long way across the water. Drunken people can’t sing. But that doesn’t stop them. For some reason two words spring to mind.Muzak and Spam.Muzak. Music designed not to be listened to, but to do something to us while we got on with something els
The Catchpenny (opens the original)
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Don’t you love it when the enemy shares its strategy with you? And an eighteenth-century strategy at that.Imagine being duped this way today?A cheap, sensational pamphlet sold on street corners. Deliberately lurid, designed to extract a coin from a passing stranger. Scammed before they noticed the content was worthless.A transaction wholly dependent on completion before a buyer can think twice. You would have to be mad to get caught like that.<div class="caption
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