n author. He also maintains a blog on various topics, including writing, marketing and politics. When he published his first novel, Syrup
, he spelled his name "Maxx", but subsequently has used "Max".
Barry is also the creator of NationStates
, a game created to help advertise Jennifer Government
, and is the owner of the website 'Tales of Corporate Oppression'. He lives in Melbourne
with his wife and daughters and worked as a marketer for Hewlett-Packard
before he became a novelist.
In early 2004 Barry converted his web site to a weblog and began regularly posting to it.
When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
I feel comfortably qualified to talk about anything, but that's a personal problem and I'm dealing with it.
Corporations! It's like there are these gigantic monsters living among us, and we don't mind that they're monsters because when we look at them they smile and hand us cheeseburgers. That's nuts.
"John here," the other John said, "pioneered the concept of marketing by refusing to sell any products. It drives the market insane."
"I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas — for generics, for Christ's sake."
The easier your job, the more you got paid. John had suspected this for many years, but here was the proof: pulling down five hundred bucks an hour to sit in the afternoon sun on top of an L.A. office tower.