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Letter of Recommendation
March 22, 2007    File under: Information Technology

To whom this may concern:

I've been asked to recommend to you as a candidate for consumption my the work of one A. Gadsden, but I have decided I cannot make that recommendation to you at this time, as I would much rather make other recommendations to you.

The first is that you obtain and read and re-read and re-obtain and re-distribute and generally repeatedly speak of and read Zachary Schomburg's The Man Suit, just published (lovingly and lovely) by Black Ocean Press. This is the sort of book that you'd want working for you. Its numerous qualifications not only suit it for all manner of endeavor but are also more engaging that almost any novel. As the apparently or semi-dead Carlos ghouls through the book, which is populated like a Hall of Presidents, the most wonderful things happen. I will tell you now, if you hire this book to operate your front-end loader, you will suddenly find that you are the curator of a museum of miniature replicas of Mt. Rushmore carved into grains of corn. If you hire this book to teach your introduction to geography, you will suddenly find that while you were sleeping your entire house was moved by ants to the shores of a lake around which those who hated you in high school are constantly mixing new flavors of margarita for you to try, but you will never get a hangover or want to puke. If you hire this book for a tailor, you will find that everyone covets your clothes, especially the legislators. You will tell them they already own them, but they will be confused and will fall into a stupor in which a true democracy will arise.

Is A. Gadsden capable of such wonderment?

I'm enclosing with this recommendation a copy of Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, which I'm calling my favorite album of the year so far. There have been some good ones, ones indeed I love, but this is it, not only a fulfillment of the promise that has been Modest Mouse for so long, but one that is inexpressably more wonderful than any of us, let alone A. Gadsden, could have imagined.

I give each of these works my highest recommendations and hope you will find an important place in your organization for each and I hope you will not hesitate to contact me if I may speak further on their behalfs and I hope you will not hesitate and I hope you will stop reading this now.

Sincerely,

You

Posted by Jake Adam York at March 22, 2007 8:49 AM



COMMENTS

Well-put. I have yet to hear it but feel the need to absorb it and that other. Was listening to MM straight away this morning. It must be that kind of spring.

Posted by: ked at March 23, 2007 12:32 PM