Desktop Publishing Specialist Prints

"Dear Miss Philpott, aren't you excited to be part of a ground breaking experiment in desktop publishing?"

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

"Oh, Jeff, you swore this wasn't a podcast."

'Please put that confusing mess of documents, files and folders where it belongs...in your computer.'

'You'll soon get the hang of it - then they'll change it.'

'It's only fair to warn you that if you get the job there would be a lot of filing involved.'

'With these video-phones, there's just too much documentation on all my promises.'

Trays on desk read: In/Out/Lose in the Shuffle.

Freedom of the Press

'How fast can you hype?'

"We do not usually acknowledge unsolicited manuscripts, but we want you to know that we tore yours into tiny pieces. Yours sincerely, The Op-Ed Page."

"Yes, I know, Munger. But Wallace Stevens didn't scribble his damned verses on company time."

"It's finally happened. This magazine has more subscription cards than pages!"

"Well, Sara Kalen is wrong – Edward Snowden is not a 'tattletale.'"

The Truth

Man selling lamb weekly

'We know it's good...we had an excellent ghost writer.'

"I'll check your circulation."

Federal Departument of Edutainment.

'For the next sixty seconds, this station will totally freak out....'

'I can type 500 words per minute.'

"Hibernate sounds better than binge watch."

"I don't know how he does it, but trust me, he will find it."

'We don't believe a word of this c.v... And we'd like to offer you a job.'

"And that was the news. . . But please feel free to go online and vent your spite, spread your conspiracy theories and promote your ill-informed opinions. . ."

Man dies unnoticed in his office cubicle

"I was desperate, dear. I had to find a way to teach and do all my required publishing."

"As a voter, I don't follow any party line, I follow a cable channel."

IN...limbo...limbo...OUT