RARA-AVIS: Re: product placement
BaxDeal@aol.com
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 22:26:26 EST
>It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, according to
my >XR-7 Timex
Omnilight Sportswatch, mid-October, with the >sun not
shining and a look of
hard wet rain in the clearness of >the foothills. I was
wearing my Ralph
Lauren powder-blue >suit, with dark blue Arrow Excelsior
shirt, tie and
display >handkerchief from the James Ellroy Collection at
J.C. >Penney's,
black Thom McMann brogues, black wool Nike socks >with dark
blue slashes on
them. I was neat, clean, shaved >(Nick's on Mulholland) and
sober, and I
didn't care who knew it. >I was everything the well-dressed
private detective
ought to >be. I was calling on four million
dollars....
actually, this isn't all that different than Brett Ellis' prose
in American
Psycho.
BD/jl
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