Working with internet startup Sellaband, Public Enemy hopes to turn its fans into investors, bucking The Man in the process. For as little as $25, you too can become a greedy record executive. Just like those slammed by Public Enemy.

The Way We Live Now: Beneath our proper stations. Respectable PR men and attorneys are now voluntarily doing so-called "other" jobs, like common hippie layabouts. The actual hippie layabouts are complaining because they lost their second jobs, to attorneys.

Jon-Barrett Ingels was fired as a waiter thanks in large part to Jane Adams. The co-star of HBO's Hung couldn't pay her check, then failed to tip when she did. The waiter complained on Twitter; Smith complained to his boss.

The Way We Live Now: Jobbing differently. Gone is the stuffy old paradigm where we "get up and go to work" and "clock in at a certain time" and "act professional." In its place: all types of crazy shit.

If this recession has you down, take heart in the fact that "chief creative officers" at America's biggest ad agencies are still able to charge people almost a thousand bucks an hour.

Bonnie Fuller just hired TMZ's New York bureau chief, Will Lee, as executive editor of her soon-to-be relaunched HollywoodLife.com. Fuller is known for taking underlings' underwear and making them wash breast pumps. Our thoughts and prayers are with Lee tonight.

The Way We Live Now: Underminingly. Have we forgotten the principles of Chaos Theory that we learned in that Jurassic Park sequel? All these "cutbacks" to "save money" will "destroy us." Is the bright side really a dangerous money fire?

We always found it strange the Huffington Post was unprofitable, what with the Web juggernaut's traffic growth, editorial accomplishments and army of unpaid writers. It turns out HuffPo's investors thought that was weird too. Time for a new ad man.

Tim Armstrong has begun to shape AOL to his liking, four months after Time Warner announced the much-diminished internet conglomerate's spinoff. Here's the internal memo in which the CEO calls some serious buckling down — and jettisons two executives.

Bee Shaffer is the daughter of Anna Wintour, Queen of All America. Despite that fact she cannot "find" a "job," allegedly? It's because she keeps it too real, yall.

Michael Kinsley—a smart columnist who's maybe not the world's best manager—has been hired by The Atlantic as "editor-in-chief of a new digital media property" that's launching next year. He'll also write a column. Good for us, regardless. [Politico]

In your clinically insane Thursday media column: We reveal Julia Allison's freelance rate, Mark Whicker says more unfortunate things, laid-off journalists hustle, and Garrison Keillor suffers a stroke. Possibly after hearing Julia Allison's freelance rate.

Are you out of work? Maybe you should consider dealing a little pot to get by. Thousands of Americans are now doing it to make ends meet, according to the AP, which reports that "demand for domestically grown marijuana is at a record high, in part because stricter border control has made it more difficult to import pot from Mexico." The economy isn't putting a damper on sales; on the contrary, "demand appears to be rising with the unemployment rate." Which makes perfect sense. What else are you going to do when you're unemployed and sitting on your couch watching TV all day? [AP via Daily Finance]

Teen Vogue is cannily taking advantage of the widespread yearning to work in fashion by publishing a new "Handbook" which says—we're paraphrasing—"You will fail. Fashion sucks." But the NYT digs up one solitary useful piece of advice.

Earlier this summer, American Apparel got nailed for having nearly 2,000 illegal factory workers in L.A.. Now 1,500 of those workers have been fired. Dov Charney is even sadder about it than they are.

The unemployment rate climbed to 9.7%, with 216,000 jobs lost last month.

Gawker Media, publisher of some of the web's most loved titles, is seeking a Controller to oversee all things finance at a fast-growing online media company. Duties include overseeing the accounting staff and bearing ultimate responsibility for financial reporting, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, and internal controls.

Are you a newspaper reporter under the age of 35? No, because if you were, you would be fired immediately.

Seriously, this whole Shop Class As Soulcraft idolatry movement full of retro-blue collar yuppies: stop it. You people are like hippies but instead of getting back to nature you want to get back to... floor cleaning jobs, apparently.

In your recovering Thursday media column: layoffs at the AP, a truly awesome correction, another restaurant critic gets canned, the SPJ conference is good for alkies, and Incisive Media has contest that is fun and tasty!