Archive for June 29th, 2009

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

Posted: 29th June 2009 by Marocharim in Current

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

Posted: 29th June 2009 by Marocharim in Personal

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 make sense anymore from where I [...]