Notebook: New York

 Walking out of my G-Train station in Greenpoint yesterday, I noticed this bit of clever, if common, idea-marketing on a vacant poster slot near the entrance. 

The sticker's web address you can't read in this photo points to a website, www.socrepsoc.com, which, as it turns out, is the landing page for a very entertaining organization billing itself as the "Society for the Representation of Society."  No word on whether black turtleneck and French accent are required for membership.

The society seems to be an equal-parts mixture of Ad Busters magazine editorial and Tyler Durden's Project Mayhem.  The group boasts of public "lawn interventions," anti-consumerist April Fools pranks, and even has set up a fake email chain letter contest...

All in all, a good show -- way beyond the scope of simple rage against chain java.