Layout is pretty swank all right, but the production values, if that's the phrase I want, are quite uneven. The portrait of Our Leader on p 2 looks swanky, as if Kyle Cassidy himself might have shot it, but the head shots of the "Employees of the Month" on p. 7 are truly disgraceful -- if I were one of these lackeys I might be inspired to burn down the massa house, simply on the basis of how I was portrayed publicly.
But the photo of the atrocious "brand new planters" comes through loud and clear. BTW who ordered those montrosities? They look like the scat of the 800-pound gorilla, up and down the avenue. Presumably the logic is like that of the US bases in Iraq -- if we put em on the ground, it will be very hard for the natives to get rid of them. Not only are they extremely ugly and already becoming garbage magnets, but as others on this list have observed they are very high maintenance -- which presumably is the point. I don't know if I should be grateful that I am now receiving my very own copy of theQuest in the US mail -- does that make me one of the anointed? -- but as I mentioned before, I didn't even subscribe. I didn't ask for the planters either. Or any of the rest of this yuppie swill. Much more of this junk and I'm gonna turn into Glenn Moyer, only a violent edition, and it won't be purty. My only consolation is that the real estate boom is rapidly going bust, and hopefully the resulting dive in inflated house prices is going to bring the neighbors to their senses and get em moving on out to Narberth, like in the good old days. On 7/25/07, Kyle Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The newsletter won a graphic design award from Inhouse too I read a couple weeks ago. The layout is pretty swank. I hope they did my beer-swilling photo justice.
-- Ross Bender http://rossbender.org
