It seems to be slowing down, people are very nervous, but it's hardly grinding to a halt. Still lots of, uh, hip-looking people out on the street, in and out of stores, doing their thing as fashionably as they know how on a sunny Saturday afternoon

I can say that voice-audition-wise (Lady Z's career of choice) the ad copy has trickled to crud like Pepsi and Wal-Mart (plus the occasional video game) and all the smaller companies just seem to be re-running ads they made a few years ago instead of coming up with new stuff

Morally or ethically I couldn't care less - the industry is corrupt and it bugs me to live here in the first place, but it's what Z wants to do so I'm all for it - but it is interesting to watch the fluctuations and to see how people with plenty of cash to last them the rest of their lives panic at nothing