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Yea many months ago (6) when I was still underemployed and was not certain that I still had health insurance and was harboring the pipe dream that I could support myself on my creative endeavors, I got an account at Associated Content dot com. I submitted one belated (for I live in the middle) reading (not really review) of Broken Flowers, which was rejected. Then I got a job. I didn't bother to unsubscribe to Associated Content dot com, because you never know the inspiration for a story about ten ways to lower your taxes on speculative real estate in Colorado would strike.

Then I got an e-mail from Associated Content suggesting that I sell old academic papers to them for a pittance - for what use? I can only guess for resale to the same type of mentally lazy student which had so recently populated the very classrooms I had since fled, thus resulting in my underemployedness. That was when I said to hell with Associated Content.

But then, as is my wont, I neglected to unsubscribe myself from their mailing list, and then today I got an e-mail with the following advice:

"While there isn't a lot of content out there relating to "TS Eliot's objective correlative," it is also not something many users would seek out. Think: consumer-driven content."

TS Eliot's objective correlative didn't go over so well in my classes, either. So, because I don't really want to write stories for $5 a pop about who has the best tits on "Dancing with the Stars," or whatever other "consumer-driven content" would sell, I am hereby upgrading my "to hell with Associated Content" to a big old: "Hey Associated Content: Go Fuck Yourself."

I get enough reminders of how not in line with the consumer-driven mainstream I am without a two and a half-monthly reminder courtesy of Associated Content.