My advertising career and my bartending career had similarities. Selling the dream. Selling a dream. With advertising, I sold the dream through the print, radio and television ads I created and produced. With bartending, I sold the dream through Johnny Walker, bar snacks and shot glasses. I could sell what I didn't believe in (advertising), but what I did believe in (alcohol), sold me. Our consumer culture did not consume me. It was alcohol, that vulture culture, that picked my bones clean.
from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 76)
Love that lamp. I'd buy it. I'd prefer a Jack Daniels or Crown Royal Motif, but still love the lamp.
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