Here’s the latest installment of The New York Times’ fascinating series “why the richest people in America are also the most important!” This piece reveals the utterly selfless devotion to mankind demonstrated by a particular AIG financial products VP, who is totally selflessly quitting AIG because the American people selfishly stole back his “earnings.” In [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Poor Millionaires
Posted in frumious bandersnatch on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Amanecer
Posted in blah school on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I woke up on a pull-out couch. Lost and Found. Get dressed, grab my bag and bike, and head out the door of a new apartment building. Guys in suits with newspapers. Buy breakfast at Noah’s authentically fake-thentic new york bagel repository. Bitter, overhot coffee.
Disembodied BART announcement: people who eat inside the station [...]
Anger MGMT
Posted in blah school on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shit is constantly happening to us. There’s all this noise out there, bouncing off walls and bashing your eardrums, from carhorns to expletives to the subsonic hum of radio waves on their way into outer space. Sometimes it hails on you while you’re standing alone by the side of the street.
Sometimes the shit [...]
Commutication
Posted in blah school on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
She’s late. “Go.” Out into the drizzle, in a hurried half-jog, important papers shielding important hairdo from the damp that California’s empty reservoirs so dearly need. “C’mon, c’mon, c’mon!” The car starts on the first try (“YES!”) and Renee Montagne’s authoritative voice introduces a piece about Mattel’s strategy for selling Barbies in Shanghai. “Christ.” The [...]
