The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:48:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 The Way We Die Now http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/the-way-we-die-now http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/the-way-we-die-now#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:48:05 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/the-way-we-die-now Admit it, you want one for your wallIt is admittedly still early in our Summer of Death, but I have to believe that when we look back at the sunny season of 2009 from the vantage point of twenty years on, this is how we'll see those more innocent times. Kudos to graphic artist Todd Grantham for so expertly capturing the zeitgeist.

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]]> Admit it, you want one for your wallIt is admittedly still early in our Summer of Death, but I have to believe that when we look back at the sunny season of 2009 from the vantage point of twenty years on, this is how we'll see those more innocent times. Kudos to graphic artist Todd Grantham for so expertly capturing the zeitgeist.

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]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/the-way-we-die-now/feed 12 Billy Mays, 1958-2009 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/billy-mays-1958-2009 http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/billy-mays-1958-2009#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:11:27 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/billy-mays-1958-2009 Friend to insomniacs, shiftless alcoholics, and the elderlyWilliam Darrell Mays, Jr., the modern-day colporteur whose stentorian tones helped overcome Americans' innate distrust of barbate concessionaires, passed away this weekend, possibly as a result of being struck on the head by a heavy object during a difficult commercial airplane landing. Mays, whose legacy of encumbering consumers with gimmicky products of dubious utility was a microcosm of the Long Boom and its senseless spending patterns, was 50 years old, which means that both he and Michael Jackson were older than the President of the United States. Weird, right?

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]]> Friend to insomniacs, shiftless alcoholics, and the elderlyWilliam Darrell Mays, Jr., the modern-day colporteur whose stentorian tones helped overcome Americans' innate distrust of barbate concessionaires, passed away this weekend, possibly as a result of being struck on the head by a heavy object during a difficult commercial airplane landing. Mays, whose legacy of encumbering consumers with gimmicky products of dubious utility was a microcosm of the Long Boom and its senseless spending patterns, was 50 years old, which means that both he and Michael Jackson were older than the President of the United States. Weird, right?

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