The Walton Firm Memos

Scribd, the website where anyone can publish their own documents, is an often overlooked resource.  These documents can be, like, political-tirade pamphlets, unpublished (unpublishable) books, business-school homework, whatever. The whole boat-and-parade is like a rowdy, misfit Google Books. Check it out sometime. I’ve discussed Scribd before of course, but the specific case I’m going to make for [...]

“I think selling out is pretty much a dead concept,” said the panel’s moderator, Rob Levine.
It’s okay everyone, Rob Levine said it’s ok, and not a moment to soon might I add. I’ve been sitting here on this sort of upbeat, dancey elctro-pop thing for which the new energy drink, Twitpocalypse has just been pounding [...]

Before it gets too far away, there was another thing I wanted to mention about Infinite Jest, particularly the fish joke that appears on page 445:
Robert F./Bob Death asks Gately if by any chance he’s heard the one about the fish…He leans in more toward Gately and shouts that the one he was talking about [...]

We are often times the last wave of people to occupy these great houses. A particular house I mean was probably a family home for several generations, was probably lived in and cared for by several generations of owners, but as the city changed around it, it’s role was altered. Many family homes find a [...]