The great George Parker, now in book form George Parker has two main strengths: candor and crotchety humor. Hopefully both are on display in his new book, MadScam, which you can pre-order from Amazon, if you’re “brilliant, perspicacious, sagacious, drunk, crazy or fucked up enough” to do so. (A third strength is George’s liberal and inventive use of the word fuck, which he says more often in a single post on AdScam than most of us can muster in a given month. It’s unclear how many fucks this book contains.) Due out Dec. 1 from Entrepreneur Press, MadScam is about how small and midsize businesses can harness great ideas for their advertising at a fraction of the typical cost. And it sounds like George has been working hard on it. As he eloquently puts it: “Writing a few poxy ads is a piece of piss compared to writing a book.” —Posted by Tim Nudd

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Yawn.

Posted by: Dale | Aug 14, 2006 12:13:59 PM

Logroll much?

Posted by: TangerineTadpole | Aug 14, 2006 1:52:48 PM

“Writing a few poxy ads is a piece of piss compared to writing a book.”

piece of piss? mr. parker needs to see a urologist pronto.

Posted by: HighJive | Aug 14, 2006 3:10:28 PM

Tim
Thanks for the plug... The check is in the mail. High Jive should realize I'm originally a Brit... Piece of piss is the vulgar version of piece of cake... Also, the publisher thought I might put people off if I said "Fuck" too much. So I said "fuck it" I'm an AdHo I can refrain from saying "Fuck" for 285 pages if I make a shitload of money. 'Course, if I don't, I'll be fucking pissed!!!
Cheers/George

Posted by: George Parker | Aug 14, 2006 6:06:48 PM

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