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The excellent blog, Letter of Note, has just released a fascinating compendium of Edward Mike Davis's Tiger Oil Company memos. This guy makes Buddy Rich look look warm and cuddly. He is consistently angry, tyrannical, and unintentionally humorous.
As I also wrote about that Johnny Carson egg sketch with Dom DeLuise, this makes 30 years ago seem like a long, long time. Jump over to Letters of Note and check out these gems.
The website also includes transcripts of all 22 memos. Wow. Many years ago, I had one boss nearly this bad, at Carl Fischer Music Publishers in NYC. What kept him in check was that he was not actually the owner of the company, although he liked you to believe he was. He was like a zeppelin in a hurricane, straining at his moorings. It seemed like any minute he could go completely crackers...He had a frightening, but in retrospect, awesome and wonderful pompadour. He was from Staten Island, natch.
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