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August 26, 2014December 15, 2023

What Shall I Be When I Grow Up? Joey Skaggs!

Sal Cataldi, founder and president of Cataldi PR, reminisces for MediaBistro about early influences on his impressionable brain…

What Shall I Be When I Grow Up? Joey Skaggs!
by Sal Cataldi
Media Bistro
August 25, 2014

What makes you want to be what you want to be when you grow up?

Like many a person with eclectic interests (writing, music, art, travel and, yes, cash) and the fuzzy liberal arts degree to prove it, I ventured off into the world of periadulthood with nary a clue as to what I would do to house and feed myself, much less the wonderful children I would be fortunate enough to have.

My professional calling didn”t arrive until my late mid-20s, after a few years spent bumming around the animation and video businesses, playing in rock bands and writing record reviews for freebie vinyl. That”s when I stumbled into the broad world that goes by the narrow moniker of “public relations.” Read the rest of this article here.

October 14, 2010December 15, 2023

Improv Everywhere’s Game of Simon Says

Submitted by Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere:

The Mp3 Experiment Seven

For our latest mission, over 3,000 participants downloaded an MP3 file and pressed play simultaneously in retail stores in Midtown Manhattan.

Created by: Charlie Todd & Tyler Walker
Co-produced and Edited by: Keith Haskel
Music by: Tyler Walker

For more information and photos, visit Improv Everywhere
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April 3, 2009December 15, 2023

Puppetry of the Penis Offers Stimulus Package

For Immediate Release:

Get your unemployed ass back to work by taking advantage of the stimulus package

puppetryofthepenis Open Audition to be held for all laid off Wall Streeters, AIG Staff and any other struggling members of the financial community

Tuesday, April 14
Beginning at 12 Noon
Comix (353 West 14 Street)
New York

As the unemployment numbers rise to an all-time high, the producers of the internationally acclaimed show Puppetry of the Penis, the Ancient Australian Art of Genital Origami, will hold open auditions for its upcoming Res-Erection Tour and Private Parties. This audition is open to any member of the financial service community who has been laid off or anyone else in need of a stimulus package. Puppetry of the Penis is a bailout package that puts your financial future back into your own hands. Become a member of an elite group of performers and travel the world “dicking around.” Continue reading “Puppetry of the Penis Offers Stimulus Package”

March 30, 2009December 15, 2023

Interactive Movie Promotion Prank

From GetObsessedWithAli.com:

A movie promotion for Obsessed, in theaters April 24th, allows you to prank a friend, while helping them promote their movie about a woman who falls hard for her boss, who unfortunately (probably for him), does not reciprocate. Fill in the blanks and the site generates a video clip obsessing over your friend.

To get there, just click on the image.

The movie stars Idris Elba, Beyoncé Knowles & Ali Larter.

via National Post

December 12, 2008January 15, 2019

Sign of the Times

Sign Stunt Pays Off for Laid-off NYC Man
1010WINS
December 11, 2008

New York (AP) — A laid-off financial engineer who got worldwide press attention after he walked around midtown Manhattan wearing a sign that said “MIT Graduate for Hire” has landed a job.

Joshua Persky joined the accounting and consulting firm Weiser LLP at the start of the month.

He had been out of work for nearly a year.

Persky’s sign struck a chord with journalists reporting on the financial crisis. He was profiled in local newspapers, on national TV and by global wire services.

But he only wore the sandwich board for a week, and he says it was his blog on business valuations that finally caught a recruiter’s attention.

Persky says the new job will allow his wife and kids to return from Omaha, Neb., where they had been staying with family.