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Miley Cyrus Talks To AM

Well not really, I just want to do my part to increase our share of Miley Cyrus related search traffic. We here at American Madness are of course huge Hannah Montana fans and we just want to do our part to support her and Miley. (What?! They’re the same person…well if it isn’t one thing, [...]

Smoking Habit

By Aneta Kowalczyk via Matthew Haggerty

The age of web usefulness

Call it web 2.0 or whatever, but we are in a very exciting time for Internet usefulness. In just the last month, a slew of new applications have popped up that show the promise of the internet to make life more entertaining.
Muxtape, while operating with dubious legality, is a very simple way to share [...]

How not to pitch a hedge fund reporter

Today in Gawker:
This email has been floating around for a week or so, but we’re going to run it as a public service. It was first circulated by a PR guy as a classic “How Not To Pitch A Reporter” lesson.
In this case, the email pitch below was sent to a hedge fund reporter. [...]

At The Bar: U’Luvka

As I mentioned in the AM review for A Casa Fox, they are currently still B.Y.O.B. as they wait for their liquor license.
Since we were there for brunch, this could have quickly turned into a travesty had we not been prepared. Armed with an unopened bottle of ultra-premium vodka we were rescued from having [...]

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