Bobby Goosey, JOBS I'D LIKE TO HAVE: CEO of Impression-Producing Factory

 

 

Jobs I’d Like To Have

I’d like to open a small, economical impression-producing factory. There we would manufacture good impressions, bad impressions, deep impressions, sad impressions, and, especially—the top of the line—impressive impressions. The ultimate aim would be to please our customers, or at least to make a lasting impression on them.

Although somewhat in demand by a small New York clientele, nebulous impressions would expressly be not produced at our enterprise. Too many impression factories have gone in for that sort of thing in recent years, and although nebulous impressions seem, on the face of them, to make a sort of positive avangardist impression, they are, ultimately, empty and unimpressive.

 What will I call my factory? Well, maybe something with a certain highfalutin ring to it, like, “The Bobby Lee Goosey Enterprise for the Production of Highly Artistic Impressions.” No, that won’t work. I think I’ll just stick with “The Hoboken Impression-Producing Plant.” That should make an impression, although perhaps not too impressive an impression.

 Speaking of Hoboken. Bruce Springsteen once included a mention of my town of birth, Metuchen, NJ, in one of his songs, then proceeded to omit that verse of the song. See “Glory Days.”

[excerpted from book by U.R. Bowie, Here We Be. Where Be We?]