Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their WALLET. I see it as retail outlets showing the CUSTOMERS the full WEIGHT of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live WITHOUT, to me, is an insult.
Read MoreOften, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It's amazing that BRANDS create a WHOLE ILLUSION of exclusivity and luxury, and then you can go get the $5 version of a $30,000 thing and feel the same way but have a cool LITTLE SECRET.
Read MoreWe danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, open city where anything could happen and ANYONE could be star. Rents were cheap, CREATIVITY was encouraged, and bottle service was still 20 years AWAY. That was the era the Club KIDS came into.
Read MoreI'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some LEGS to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a CHEAP VERSION of the DOLL. Achmed started out just being this little PLASTIC toy from the store.
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