Stock Smarty Pants, what sort of stock photography should I be producing?
I’d be the first to admit that melancholy, sentimentality and jingoistic patriotism are emotions that Mr. Stock Smarty Pants rarely indulges in. However, the inauguration of Barrack Obama in Washington, D.C. a few weeks actually did get MSSP all choked up, mainly because he realized that he had missed out on a terrific opportunity to flog his patented “I Saw The Barrack Star!” T-shirts to a throng of several million potential customers scattered in and around the city many locals like to think of as Murder USA. Damn: another blown opportunity! So, in an act of unselfish generosity, as he wallows in the throes of self-loathing over the pile of cash he failed to rake in from the tchotchke-seekers, MSSP has selected this e-mail from an almost equally forlorn photographer who, like Mr. Stock Smarty Pants, just wants a chance to succeed in life. ——————————- Dear Mr. Stock Smarty Pants: I’ve been sitting on the sidelines for quite a while but now think I’m ready to plunge
