A Very Yuppie Christmas

Christmas Sweaters Are Mandatory at a Yuppie Christmas Party

Several years ago, someone made me a Christmas mix and I plan on giving the world that same gift. Some songs are necessities in every Christmas mix such Mariah Carey (the best Christmas song of all time) Frank Sinatra, and Brenda Lee, there are a huge range of choices out there, many classics in their own right. The epicness of the Smashing Pumkins, the 80’s cheese of Wham, the soul of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke all blend together to make one big happy Christmas Mixtape.

Oh and not to kill the mood but hearing Michael Jackson singing “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” might explain just how messed up the Jackson family is. Should this song be taken literally?

Leave it to a yuppie to intellectualize Christmas music…

Merry Christmas from YDP

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Can’t Touch This…Haggling Skill

All the junk in the world you could ever want...marked up 600%

I was speeding from one work event to a second one yesterday, when I noticed a tag sale.  Naturally, I decided that it was the perfect time to pull over and check to see if I could get myself a much needed piece of furniture for my room: a coffee table.  It was pretty much the perfect accelerated shopping experience; I saw the item i wanted, perused 3 other options, then asked the guy how much.  He tried to sell it to me for $20, I pointed out that a smaller one was worth $15, he caved quickly, saying he could give it to me for $15.  At this moment, I faced a make or break.  I could take him to the limit (knowing I could probably get it for $10 ultimately) but I’d run the risk of blowing my cover and having my superiors know that I stopped during the workday to haggle street side over furniture – or, I could stretch the value of my purchase even further.

I noticed a box of cassette tapes and  casually asked, “yo can I get some of those thrown in?”  The guy shrugged, “yea, sure, the hell am I gonna do those.  Take whatever.”  What he didn’t know is that I spotted some pretty primo albums.

Thanks to my powerful skills of negotiation, I am now in possession of 3 new used cassettes, classics every one of them.  And through the magic of the internet, from the platform of this blog, allow me to share with you my acquisitions of MC Hammer’s Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’em, Paul Simon’s Graceland, and Sam Cooke’s The Man and His Music.

Sorry, but the coffee table is just for me.