Quote of the Day (Paul Simms, Imagining a Corporate Upper-Management Move)

“Alex Kerner (C.E.O., C.O.O., chairman, and president of Alex Kerner's Personal Life, Inc.) announced today a wide-ranging restructuring of his imaginary company's upper management….

“In a reshuffling move unrelated to the current streamlining, former Best Platonic Female Friend Lisa Mayberry has been summarily terminated from the organization for malfeasance involving telling Kerner's ex-girlfriend details about Kerner's current girlfriend.”— Paul Simms, “Shouts and Murmurs: For Immediate Release,” The New Yorker, Aug. 31, 2009