Mega Sale Quotes

Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?

Music is crucial... Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising along in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you - do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, close-out, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?

Engkau adalah penggemar matematika dan aku adalah pecinta biologi. Kau menyandarkan hidupmu semata mata pada logika sedang aku lebih suka bermain fakta dan persepsi. Sebab menurutku, kita tidak dapat memastikan segala sesuatu hanya dari sebuah gejala atau fenomena belaka. Sementara, kau memainkan angka angka itu lebih sebagai bagian dari realitas keseharianmu. Namun sesungguhnya kita hampir memiliki begitu banyak persamaan sebagai seorang Pareidolia, meskipun mungkin saling bertolak belakang. Kau seorang kolektor tanaman langka dan aku pecinta kaktus yang unik. Pong Kdor Moha Tep adalah tanaman karnivora dari Kamboja yang jadi favoritku. Loofah adalah tanaman sayur dari Vietnam yang jadi kegemaranmu. Kita saling berbagi kesukaan sebagai pengumpul aneka jenis tanaman yang menarik dan eksotis. Kau beri aku kaktus Echinopsis Lageniformis Monstrose dan jamur mabuk Psilocybe Cubensis yang kutukar dengan sepasang kaktus Myrtillocactus Geometrizans dan bunga parasit Hydnora Africana yang aku peroleh dari daerah pesisir barat Namibia. Itu adalah sebuah pemberian yang katamu adalah hadiah terbaik yang pernah kau terima dariku. Sebab aku terbiasa membaca isyarat lewat gambar atau penampakan. Sebagaimana aku sering melihat dirimu menjelma sebagai Rorschach. Sudah berpuluh kali kulihat engkau muncul begitu rupa di antara mega mega, atau di antara kerlip bintang di malam hari. Bayangan wajahmu mengeras di permukaan bulan, timbul tenggelam di antara bebatuan di sungai atau serupa tetesan tinta di atas kertas putih. Entah sudah berapa kali kudengar pesan yang menyerupai suaramu nyelonong begitu saja di radio atau di dalam dialog sebuah film yang kutonton di televisi. Namun kita tetap saja saling membenci dan menyukai dengan cara kita masing masing. Sebagaimana logika bengkokmu memberikan alasan alasan delusional yang tak masuk akal; yang seakan mengharuskan dirimu menanam kaktus yang menyerupai penis itu di dalam sanctuary-ku. Dan sebagaimana balasan yang aku sampaikan dalam bahasa nenek moyang Paolo Maldini; aku bukanlah truffatore atau imbroglione. Seorang penyemu yang dengan mudah termakan oleh tipu daya dan muslihatmu.  

There is no fault that can’t be corrected [in natural wine] with one powder or another; no feature that can’t be engineered from a bottle, box, or bag. Wine too tannic? Fine it with Ovo-Pure (powdered egg whites), isinglass (granulate from fish bladders), gelatin (often derived from cow bones and pigskins), or if it’s a white, strip out pesky proteins that cause haziness with Puri-Bent (bentonite clay, the ingredient in kitty litter). Not tannic enough? Replace $1,000 barrels with a bag of oak chips (small wood nuggets toasted for flavor), “tank planks” (long oak staves), oak dust (what it sounds like), or a few drops of liquid oak tannin (pick between “mocha” and “vanilla”). Or simulate the texture of barrel-aged wines with powdered tannin, then double what you charge. (““Typically, the $8 to $12 bottle can be brought up to $15 to $20 per bottle because it gives you more of a barrel quality. . . . You’re dressing it up,” a sales rep explained.) Wine too thin? Build fullness in the mouth with gum arabic (an ingredient also found in frosting and watercolor paint). Too frothy? Add a few drops of antifoaming agent (food-grade silicone oil). Cut acidity with potassium carbonate (a white salt) or calcium carbonate (chalk). Crank it up again with a bag of tartaric acid (aka cream of tartar). Increase alcohol by mixing the pressed grape must with sugary grape concentrate, or just add sugar. Decrease alcohol with ConeTech’s spinning cone, or Vinovation’s reverse-osmosis machine, or water. Fake an aged Bordeaux with Lesaffre’s yeast and yeast derivative. Boost “fresh butter” and “honey” aromas by ordering the CY3079 designer yeast from a catalog, or go for “cherry-cola” with the Rhône 2226. Or just ask the “Yeast Whisperer,” a man with thick sideburns at the Lallemand stand, for the best yeast to meet your “stylistic goals.” (For a Sauvignon Blanc with citrus aromas, use the Uvaferm SVG. For pear and melon, do Lalvin Ba11. For passion fruit, add Vitilevure Elixir.) Kill off microbes with Velcorin (just be careful, because it’s toxic). And preserve the whole thing with sulfur dioxide. When it’s all over, if you still don’t like the wine, just add a few drops of Mega Purple—thick grape-juice concentrate that’s been called a “magical potion.” It can plump up a wine, make it sweeter on the finish, add richer color, cover up greenness, mask the horsey stink of Brett, and make fruit flavors pop. No one will admit to using it, but it ends up in an estimated 25 million bottles of red each year. “Virtually everyone is using it,” the president of a Monterey County winery confided to Wines and Vines magazine. “In just about every wine up to $20 a bottle anyway, but maybe not as much over that.

In the United States, on average, nearly 80% of new product introductions fail to generate more than $7.5 million in first-year sales, with less than 3% of products achieving ‘mega hit’ status of over $50 million in first-year sales.7 Against that background, gate-crashing someone else’s party can sound quite attractive.

Subway, the world-dominating "Eat Fresh" mega-deli struggling with sinking sales, said Thursday that it plans to drop all artificial colors, flavors and preservatives from its American menus by 2017.