neils clark

I must confess an unconventional love of spam email. When I see phrases like “BIGGER THAN EDISON! BIGGER THAN LIFE ITSELF!” I crack the hell up. It doesn’t have to be your bag, that’s fine. It’s just that these guys have a creative inspiration that occasionally lets the sun shine through on a cloudy day.

So I was jolted today when I read a popular Marshall McLuhan quote in the body of an email (you know, gmail gives you a little snippet of the beginning of emails). Though the sender had a believable name, he was not in fact a media theorist. He was selling \/ | a g r /\.

Please, a round of applause for the genius that is spam email.

Neils Clark :: Apr.14.2008 :: General ::

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