Well this is interesting

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I thought their end of the road occurred circa 1979.

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Profits over artistic integrity.

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Madmen did a episode on this

season one, episode 11

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Artistic? Integrity?
Those words have never been associated with Kiss.

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I bet one of 'em did back in 1979, lol!

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Fun on a Sunday morning.

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here’s my contribution, the blobfish emoji
blobfish_emoji_small

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Turns out Brazil’s costume designer did:

I remember some cinema executive telling me that what he loved most about Brazil were the hats. Our costume designer, Jim Acheson, was brilliant at finding quirky things, and the shoe hat worn by Katherine Helmond was actually real, a Schiaparelli.

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Now that I think of it, it may’ve been Walt Rostow, not McNamara.

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Finally–Elon Musk can count all his pennies

not to mention his level of empathy.

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So many interesting bits-- how royalties advances, and book proposals work, how the compariison between fast fashiion and fast publishing is obtuse and insultiing, and a brief history of dime novels.

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