So have you heard about this jackass who is selling advertising space on his forehead for one month? I guess he netted something like $37,000 for a completely pointless stamped on ad for an anti-snoring product. His name is Andrew Fischer.

I’m kind of torn over the whole thing. On the one hand, it’s always awesome when people figure out ways to bleed the system like this. Suck the bastards dry, I say. And if you can make a years pay for looking like a jerk for a month, well, why not? I mean, it’s all just a game anyway, right? Why not be clever about it?

But then on the other hand, it’s like why don’t you just paint a sign on your face that says, “I’m a whore!” or “I stand for nothing!” or “I don’t have any respect for myself at all!” or “Give me some money and I’ll be your fucking little monkey and you can whip me and piss on me and I’ll smile happily because money is the only thing that drives me!”

But who knows, maybe he’s actually making the ultimate subversive statement, calling into question traditional notions of value and how identity is created by media, something like that. I mean, there’s no indication that’s what he’s doing - but maybe? The articles say that he’s just going to use the money for college, which I think is too bad. In other words, he’s one-upped the system, stolen money from idiots, only to put that money right back into the hands of other idiots and flush it back away into the system. And the annoying thing is he’s already proven that he’s smart enough to not need to go to college. There are a million and one better ways to capitalize on the score he just made than to study graphic design. Oh well.