Subject: Humor Writer - National Lampoon, Vanity Fair, McSweeney's...
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 3/16/09, 15:57
To: gigs-6vzxb-1077728321@craigslist.org

Howdy-

I understand that you're looking for a comedy writer to do some content for your e-commerce website, and I'd like to be considered. I've written for National Lampoon, Vanity Fair, McSweeney's, The Onion A.V. Club, and dozens of other publications, and I've done some copywriting for a variety of firms as well. In late 2007, I did a stint as a contract writer for the animated financial humor program Hoofy and Boo's News and Views, which appeared on Fox Business Channel and Yahoo! Finance.

I've pasted a link and sample below; the sample is a press release I did for a search engine start-up a few years back. Please take a look and let me know if you'd be interested in discussing this further.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/9/19brown.html

July 26, 2007 (Press Release) -- The balance of power among search engine providers and nation states alike is set to shift as Anglesey Interactive, Inc. launches its Riight.com search engine, an innovative new system which not only provides web page, video, audio, news, and image results from dozens of individual search engines, databases, and content providers, but which also offers the use of several
revolutionary smart search tools entirely new to the industry. Riight.com's comprehensive metasearch capabilities are augmented by automatic search history logging, giving users a complete and instant record of what key terms they've used and when they've used them, thereby eliminating accidental backtracking and general disorganization.

Likewise, the engine's integrated bookmarking tool provides users with a complete list of pages they've visited and when they've visited them. Taken together, Riight.com's innovative approach provides the user with a smarter, more powerful, more streamlined search than those available from other, lesser search interfaces, as well as from the People's Republic of China, which provides users with absolutely no search functionality whatsoever and is in fact not even a piece of software, but rather a conventional socio-national entity possessed of a skyrocketing male-to-female ratio, this being a
demographic trend which has historically led to civil unrest and disaster.

As Riight.com proceeds with the development of other, similarly advantageous features scheduled for release later in the year, those who would oppose our smarter search solutions would do well to remember that, though officially headquartered in Chicago, our company's human assets are actually scattered across the globe. The benefit of this decentralized status is two-fold: it thus provides our employees with a degree of individual freedom conducive to the sort of creative, outside-the-box thinking necessary to develop similarly creative, outside-the-box solutions, and it also renders us effectively immune from air strikes and invasions.

Can China - with its largely coastal-concentrated industrial assets and Beijing-centralized executive leadership - say the same? Our intelligence indicates otherwise.
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Welcome to the 21st century. It's the Riight time for a smarter search.