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...most rebellious thing of all may be to suggest that white-collar workers can be complex, sympathetic, even noble. If this idea hasn't broken through in mainstream pop, there's a market for it on the Internet, that brackish borderland between work and play. Jonathan Coulton went online to release Code Monkey, his Rick Springfield--esque single about a computer programmer who endures the taunts of a dim-witted manager because the programmer is in love with the receptionist. "It's about having an escape fantasy but being unable to act on it," Coulton, a programmer himself, says...
Somebody must agree; the song became an Internet hit, with around 1 million downloads, Coulton claims. Most of them were free, but he's successful enough that he's getting by without a day job. Let's hope that he--and any other songwriter who wants to capture how the audience really lives--remembers that many of the rest of us still have...
...discount stores "Your middle name must be Teflon." George Mudie, British M.P., on how the country's chief statistician survived after his office made a $67 billion accounting error "We had been promised a great leap forward. What we got was an inch in the right direction." Brian Coulton, senior director at the Fitch rating agency, on Japan's new bank reform plan
...most important result of the Tablet's editorial was not evident until the next issue of Landscapes approached readiness for the press. Just what happened is unknown--students say one thing, Deans another. Dean Coulton received the copy for the issue before it went to press. He claims the submission was voluntary, editors claim they were pressured into giving it to the Dean for his approval. Coulton, speaking as an individual, not a Dean, told Landscapes' staff that he found the tone of the magazine one of preoccupation with "sex, disease, and abnormality." He suggested that the material...
...situation today as work goes forward on this term's Landscapes is cloudy and ill-defined. No one is quite sure what will happen. The editors plan to revert to the procedure followed before the controversy: discussion of copy with their faculty adviser. Coulton hopes that students will find something other than sex, disease, and abnormality on which to base their stories--he has suggested printing philosophy papers submitted in courses...