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You people in the ad business now have no idea about the height of surreality that things got to in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Take a trip down Memory Lane with Stay Free, the excellent 10-year-old ‘zine (remember ‘zines?) that "explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American (consumer) culture," according to its Web site, www.stayfreemagazine.org. Author Tom Harrod chronicles and comments on the supreme silliness of several old-school McDonald’s ads, many featuring Ronald McDonald, who—I must say—aside from the hair, looks alarmingly like Michael Jackson.
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