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Johnnie Moore

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Adam Curry‘s podcasts often cite the Saturday Night Live spoof in which Christopher Walken plays a mad record producer. Walken interrupts the recording of a classic rock track with incessant crazed demands for “more cowbell”.

I thought of this reading Laura Ries’s blog this morning, when she comments on Super Bowl ads.

However not all of Budweiser

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