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[Carrie McLaren <stay.free AT verizon.net>]

NEW ON THE STAY F---! SITE

Free for download:
Irwin Chusid - "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (lo-fi mp3)

I've added an mp3 of one of the songs on The Best & Worst of Xmas, 
our mix CD -- a crowd-pleasing (and terribly funny) recording by WFMU 
dj and bon vivant Irwin Chusid. Music geeks know Mr. Chusid as the 
man to credit (or blame) with helping revive interest in lounge music 
and popularizing audio's "outsider artists" (though he might kill me 
for saying so):
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/holiday_offer.html

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"PR Machine: Robot Marketer Robert Doornick uses hi-tech wizardry to 
warm consumers to his Fortune 500 clients"
by John Aboud

Should you ever need a spectacle sure to stop trade-show attendees in 
their tracks, Robert Doornick is your man. As the president of 
International Robotics, Inc. (IRI), Doornick provides an array of 
high-priced high-tech marketing solutions to corporate clients. Among 
the showstoppers advertised on IRI's web site are computer-controlled 
"dancing" banners, holographic signs, and music-playing water 
sculptures. But IRI's key product, and Doornick's passion, is a line 
of interactive robots. Several models resemble gleaming "spacemen" 
like the kind you'd see roaming alien landscapes on a 1950s lunchbox. 
Others appear to be close cousins of C-3P0. And Doornick recently 
created a massive animatronic killer whale for an aquarium in Japan. 
We spoke to Doornick about his new-fangled pitchmen and the 
old-fashioned sales techniques that guide their design.

continued at:
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/robot-robert-doornick.html

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"Popsong Piracy, or, Napster in the 1930s"

In April 1930, in a raid on bootleg song-sheet peddlers on Broadway 
between 42nd and 43rd, Traffic Patrolman Broger made the first 
arrest: Mrs. Sarah Yagoda, age 80. After a Music Publishers 
Protective Association representative and the district attorney 
interrogated Mrs. Yagoda in a failed attempt to identify the sheet's 
printer and distributors, she was allowed to go home. Nine years 
later, nothing much had changed in Times Square. The New York Times 
noted that "on any afternoon or evening, if the magistrate sitting in 
West Side Court is known to be lenient, the area north of 
Forty-second Street is a beehive for the street sale of song sheets," 
as well as watches, French pictures, neckties, jewelry, flowers, and 
suspenders.

continued at:
http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/piracy-fakebooks.html


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UPCOMING NYC EVENT

Wed. Dec. 8: Wal-Mart expert Liza Featherstone, who I interviewed in 
the current Stay F---!, will be speaking about her new book, _Selling 
Women Short: The Landmark Battle For Workers' Rights At Wal-Mart_. 
I'll probably be there selling Stay F---! back issues so be sure to 
say hi if you come by.

Info:   Brecht Forum
        122 West 27th Street, NYC
        Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
        7:30 PM