An Excerpt from ELEPHANTS IN MY ROOM, chapter "Selling Out"

​When I went for my interview, I learned that “Mountain Subscription Services” was a fancy title given to a not-so-fancy telemarketing company. I was surprised to see that the manager of the call center looked as if Tom Petty had intercourse with a female snake and she laid a bunch of snake-Petty eggs, and the ugliest hatched and was making his way in the telemarketing sales world in Seattle, of all places. This fact made it extremely difficult to take him seriously (and not zone out with a vivid visualization of Tom Petty fucking a snake. By the way, RIP, Tom Petty.)