Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480457744

<DIV><DIV><b>A funny and incisive collection of essays on oddities of life in the 1980s, from one of America&rsquo;s most cherished humorists</b></div><DIV><BR>First published in 1985,&#160;<i>Not Exactly What I Had In Mind</i>&#160;is Roy Blount Jr.&rsquo;s smart and witty examination of the era&rsquo;s most glaring absurdities&mdash;from the ever-growing deficit under then-president Reagan to the Game Theory&ndash;like levels of strategy required to pack for a vacation. In &ldquo;Testimonial, Head-on,&rdquo; Blount offers a loving ode to the virtues of full-bodied beer. In &ldquo;Who You Gonna Call?&rdquo; he enumerates the indefatigable charms of Bill Murray. And in &ldquo;What You Personally Can Do about the Federal Deficit,&rdquo; he proposes a brilliantly simple and populist way to reduce government debt&mdash;and probably make your neighborhood post office very happy in the process.</div><DIV><BR>Powered by Roy Blount&rsquo;s irresistible sense of humor,&#160;<i>Not Exactly What I Had in Mind&#160;</i>revels in Reagan-era topics, but with a humor that is truly timeless.</div><DIV></div></div>