Seen on the street (outside of Credit Suisse, natch) is your latest installment of Brides magazine phone-booth advertising. The purpose of the ad is to communicate that Brides magazine was founded during the Great Depression, so this New Depression is not a reason to, um, cancel your subscription*, or, um, cancel your wedding, or, um, stop loving? In contrast to multitudinous layoffs at Conde Nast, it is mysterious thing. In final assessment, perhaps the message is "Sure the economy is bad, but we'll still be around and in fact spend money on conundrumic advertising and to prove that print isn't dead we'll run our ads on phone booth kiosks because phone booths aren't dead either, not at all."
*On a ponderous note: Do ladies actually subscribe to Brides? Do they keep it under the bed like lady-porn? Surely you can't bring a guy home and have that guy-scaring periodical on the coffee table.
