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Nice newspaper… who books it?

Todd Barry has another essay in the Sunday New York Times.

I was pretty sure I knew who had sent me the e-mail message, but I had to find out for sure. I wrote to him and asked if he was the same guy who once gave me a free gym membership after I did a benefit comedy show. It turned out he was. The guy who used to work for a major fitness company was now working for a major cake company.

I wrote back with my address, wondering what cake-company swag would consist of. Believe it or not, I was partly hoping that it wouldn’t consist of actual cake. My doctor had just told me that I was consuming too much sugar. He didn’t mention cake specifically, but I’m betting he would have if the appointment had lasted more than four minutes.

It’s called “Free Refills” and you can read the whole thing without having to register.