Musings on Halloween Candy

November 1, 2006 D. H. McKee

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Been eating candy all week, since I tend to eat everything in front of me, and I can’t bear to throw food away, and R won’t take any of it to work to hand out. In addition to the belly aches and sugar crashes I’ve been getting, I started thinking about that famous “Life is like a box of chocolates” monologue. No, not the one from “Forrest Gump“; the one from the Cigarette Smoking Man from the X-files:
“Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you’re stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there’s nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there’s a Peanut Butter Cup or an English Toffee. But they’re gone too fast and the taste is… fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. And if you’re desperate enough to eat those, all you got left is an empty box… filled with useless brown paper wrappers.”

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

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