AI turns it over vs. the press
A cautionary tale about AI and digital revisionism Anyone who questions the efficacy of AI's usage in writing and research, this one's for you —…
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Us lucky sevens – Remembering Paul Johnson
Remarks on Paul "Pableaux" Johnson in Austin • April 12, 2025 Good afternoon. A reading from Paul: “Brick House” by The Commodores ought to be…
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Reviewing Chaos
Book review (plus) Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill; Chaos, Netflix documentary by Errol Morris. In the late 1990s,…
1000 years of spin
The millennium's greatest PR moments (1999) 1000 YEARS OF SPIN The Millennium's Greatest PR Moments Year 1000 — World fails to end. Advisors to Norwegian King…
The Onion
The Onion In 1998 I successfully pitched The Onion to join its roster of contributing writers, selling them headlines. This was when it was still…
The briefing
A breakthrough item of mine is The Briefing, a press conference satire I created after viewing network coverage of James Kallstrom, then-FBI director, updating media…
Film review: Rounders
I’ve mentioned Paul was a connector. Through his networking, several of us became regular freelancers for Citysearch.com, an online local guide competing with Microsoft's Sidewalk.com. We…
He put the Heino in heinous
After I made several late-90s Switzerland trips, Paul enjoyed hearing my enthusiastic tales of the great German crooner Heino — reacting uproariously at my 1997…
Be a book reviewer
New City When I began freelancing, my objective was "smart irreverent writing about media and pop culture," for which Paul Johnson proved to be an…
Musical time machine
93XRT's Saturday Morning Flashback Every Saturday morning, Chicago's alternative rock station WXRT airs its long-running "Saturday Morning Flashback," a three-hour deep dive into a single…
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