Oblivio: Stories and such by Michael Barrish

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Encounter | Dec 19 2001

Pictured are eleven of Microsoft’s first thirteen employees (thanks bitstream). My idea (a funny one, I thought) was to give them scurrilous nicknames and scribble obscenities on their foreheads—basically deface the image in any way I could, and in the most adolescent manner possible, similar to what folks have been doing to the Britney-as-Elvis posters—only I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

Not out of sorrow, as the poet says, but in wonder.