Easy Way Out
Can't think of much to say.
I will just post the smarter words of a smarter writer.
"Caution, caution, caution: to prevent electric shock
do not, do not, do not, remove cover.
No user-serviceable parts inside.
Refer servicing to qualified
service personnel"
Let this be the epitaph for my heart
Cupid put too much poison in the dart.
This is the epitaph for my heart
because it's go
ne, gone, gone
and life goes on and on anon
and death goes on, world without end
and you're not my friend
Who will mourn the passing of my heart
Will its little droppings climb the pop chart
Who'll take its ashes and,
singing, fling
them from the top of the
And life goes on, and dawn, and dawn
and death goes on, world without end
and you're not my friend
(Again) The Magnetic Fields
posted by Que-ni @ 7:07 PM
5 Comments:
So was the Brill Building built by the same people who invented Brill Cream? That certainly seems deserving of a building.
So was the Brill Building built by the same people who invented Brill Cream? That certainly seems deserving of a building.
Probably not because the product is Brylcreem.
I'll take 1950s hair products for $400 please, Alex.
Damn you and your megalocephaly Bob!
But then, what if it really is the Brylcreem people, but they are too modest to have a building named after themselves so they came up with a pseudonym, but they wanted it to be something that people would be able to figure out, or even something that they could claim isn't them, but would sound like them and therefore be subliminal advertising - "I've got a meeting at the Brill Building later" "Oh, that reminds me, my hair has been really unruly today so I think I'll swing by the apothecary on the way home and pick up some product." "Good idea, me too." You just never know about these mega multinational hair product conglomerates.
Some googling shows that it was named after the Brill Brothers, who had a clothing store there.
The wikipedia article on the building contains a rather interesting piece of info on 1650 Broadway, a building near the Brill Building:
[The building] was built to be a musician's headquarters, so much so that the laws at the time required that the "front" door be placed on the side of the building due to laws restricting muscians from entering buildings from the front.
Who knew musicians were such second-class citizens?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Building
Oh, you kids and your fancy 'web browsers.' You just think you can learn any old thing these days, huh?
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