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Archive for June 29, 2009

Death of a Pitchman (Billy Mays, 1958-2009)

And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.  What could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of 84, into twenty or thirty different cities… and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different [...]

Like Ten Thousand Spoons

A traffic jam when you’re already late And a “No Smoking” sign on your cigarette break It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife It’s meeting the man of my dreams, and meeting his beautiful wife. – Alanis Morissette, “Ironic” Jagged Little Pill, Maverick (1996)  All of a sudden, things don’t [...]

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