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Last week I left Chicago for a project out here in California. I’m working Palo Alto and thankfully staying in San Francisco. Palo Alto still sucks ass. One morning though while standing in Peets Coffee, waiting for my ’small-mocha-no-whip’, I saw the local rag that passes as a newspaper around here, the Palo Alto Daily News. The headlines run like, “Local patron buys more shitty art to hang on wall already used for self conscious party conversation.” or “Sometimes bad things happen to good/rich people”.

But a little gem of an advert for calendars caught my eye, with it’s catchy uplifting tone:

“It’s not too late to start the year off right! Your favourite calendars are here. Step by and pick up a couple.”

Brought to you by your good friends at Roller Hapgood and Tinney, Funeral Directors.

Err.. what? Hold on a sec.

Who in their right mind uses a calendar with a massive endorsement from a funeral home, stuck to their fridge? “Ok, wednesday is dinner with the Nussbaums, thursday is Karen’s recital… oh look, Roller Hapgood and Tinney are having a sale on caskets this Saturday!”

And what’s this in the ad copy about “your favourite calendars are here”? Does that mean that they had a bunch printed last year and they’re back by popular demand? Were “Puppies in a casket 2005″ a huge hit?

It feels like I’m watching Six Feet Under.