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Wednesday, August 27, 2003
I just saw a messenger resplendent in shining orange, dressed from top to toe in gear from kozmo.com. It was nice to see somebody who aspires to be a walking brand, and in a far more sincere way than your typical logo-sporting consumer everyman: kozmo shirt, kozmo helmet, kozmo messenger bag, kozmo shorts (who knew?), and orange fucking socks -- these last items not being standard kozmo issue, but purchased separately to complete the ensemble. Fine! I applaud the unflinching devotion to your employer, fashion-forward kozmo guy!
Except see here's the thing about kozmo.com: they went out of business in April 2001. Oh yeah. I know, see, because I was there when they called us into the conference room and said in solemn tones "as of noon today, kozmo has ceased all operations, so burn all your mp3s onto CD, grab as much equipment as you hide in your backpack, and try not to stab the executives on your way out, or actually do try to stab them, because they are vampires. Go for the heart: here's a stake, it's nice and sharp. Buh-bye!" I was there, bwah. I did that. I even got the t-shirt. But I don't actually wear it. Not in public. It's like a laundry-day, hangin'-in-th'-hizzle-in-a-bathing-sizzle-and-muhfuckin'-dress-socks-cuz-errthing-else-be-dirrty kinda shirt. Dig? So kozmo got flung over the handlebars in a head-on collision with reality, which states that while people may be too lazy to go to the video store, and willing to pay for delivery, they will probably not be ordering more than $14 worth of movies every day -- unless they are Guinness-book fat or pants-shittingly agoraphobic -- and that Ben Affleck's porno rentals alone can't keep a struggling startup afloat. Since then, I have seen messenger after messenger wearing the trademark orange kozmo gear, especially the messenger bag. How pathetic is this? If they are former employees who can't quite let go (or are trying to benefit from some imagined residual cachet), that's bad enough. But I suspect they are weird-ass fans of the terrible, dead company I used to work for, ghoulishly collecting paraphernalia to make a Buffalo Bill-style "kozmo suit." Oh god! It puts the videotape into the basket! 0 comments |
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