Word: coulton
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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