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> You've been trying to type this rant up for three weeks, but you screamed
> too much into it. It's too much … I can't take the tape out, I'd lose it. I
> can't take the tape deck out, I'm certain I'd lose that too. I lose tape
> decks at a rate proportional to the stress I'm under. Recently? One a
> month. On the tape I'm shouting so loud …
> 
> There were 97 separate marketing messages in my kitchen, **97**—200+
> duplicates, and I didn't know. I didn't know. I had to process these
> messages, and then block them out, every morning, just to get breakfast and
> plan my day!
> 

“Beating the Brand [1]”

And I thought I was eccentric.

I met Mike briefly a few years ago and he just came across as this guy, you
know? But in reading his journal of the past few months it seems that his
life is a bit more off the deep end than mine.

Puts things into perspective.

[1] http://the-edge.blogspot.com/2003_06_08_the-edge_archive.html#200399808

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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