Introductions

As you can see from the post below, my associate needs no introduction. Allow me, then, to introduce myself and our concept.

People are dumb. This is why we have whole seminars dedicated to teaching us how to "think outside the box" and "manage creative capital." You know how to think outside the box? Stand on your toes and look over the edge of the damn box, that's how. Problem is, thinking doesn't get you outside the box. Yeah, sure, you can rock it back and forth until it falls over, but what if your box has a lid? Oooh. Toughie.

Anyways, if you are unlucky enough to have cable news in your box, you're aware that we're in a recession. All the happy flying dollar bills that usually circle around the nation's collective head have gone south for the winter, leaving us with nothing but student debt, human interest articles ad nauseum, and one free Dark Cloud of Sad Sadness over everybody. This is where we come in.

We're here to think INSIDE the box. The broke-box, if you will. Chin up, kid. Chances are, you are not the first person in history to have been as broke as you are. In fact, most people out there on our big blue marble don't have the resources most Americans have. And somehow, they all manage not to commit mass suicide from depression. There are reports that some even LAUGH occasionally.

We are here to find the fun inside the box. Decades of prosperity have given us a case of cultural amnesia. People didn't used to spend twenty bucks (inflation-adjusted) to go out and have a good time. They used to - in the words of crusty old codgers everywhere - "make their own fun."

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready for good times made from scratch.