Academik

Thursday morning I’m heading to work as usual.  I descend the bus at Stockton and Grant and proceed on my leisurely stroll to the office.  There’s a Mont Blanc store at the corner of Maiden Lane and Grant that’s been under construction and so when I see a number of construction workers outside it’s no surprise…

One of them is fumbling with a stack of blueprints and right before I get to him he emphatically spits out “Fuck!”.  He looks up at me in a Navy Blue suit and tie and says “Sorry.”  A little perplexed at his need to apologize for speaking, let alone to me, I walk past thinking nothing of it. After I pass him and I am about to turn the corner I hear, “I thought that was the mayor…”

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Perhaps… ?

I was looking on the IRS website today and saw

this headline…’huh?’ I thought. I started reading about their ‘outreach’ on the website and I think it’s pretty hilarious. Celebrities will now have to pay taxes on the gift bags that they receive at places like the Academy Awards - some of those bags have like $20k worth of items in them. After doing a quick search on the net bags have included high thread count sheets, RAZR mobile phones, well just read this excerpt…

“Tech goodies in previous year’s baskets included a Samsung high-definition television set with one-year subscription to satellite HDTV provider Voom and a TAZ I personal video and media player from Tight Systems.

The freebies aren’t limited to the Oscars. According to published reports, presenters and performers at last year’s Teen Choice Awards received a Sprint PCS Vision phone from Samsung; and TiVos were given out at last year’s Independent Spirit Awards.

Past Grammy gift bags have reportedly included a 20GB iPod from Apple Computer, a Siemens mobile phone and a Logitech digital camera. Last year’s American Music Awards’ bag included a Sirius satellite radio. And Hewlett-Packard gave away cameras in the goody bags handed out to some attendees at last year’s MTV Video Music Awards.”
taken from here @ 7:38 am.

Now they’re going to have start paying taxes on all that stuff. Haha suckers - the seat on my couch ain’t looking so bad after all.