Exquisite corpse
Who knew that teaming a convention center with a biotech park downtown would create the ideal business environment for IBI, a company that makes its—ba-dum-dum—bones putting on medical seminars complete with cadavers? I think Bill Pantele is being a bit shortsighted here—there's finally a business perfect for downtown and he wants to chase it away?
Sorry dudes, but when you throw an easy pitch, you don't get to complain about the other guy knocking it out of the park. (Incidentally, I remember reading a fascinating article on the cadaver/medical seminar biz a few years ago but can't seem to dig it up online. Larissa MacFarquhar, maybe? Anyone remember?)
Moreover, Philip Morris, the main tenant of the biotech park (located just a few doors down from the Tom DeLay Center for Ethics, presumably), is in an excellent position to supply IBI with dead people simply by selling names of its customers. Clearly, the mistake we've made in marketing our city is that we've been trying to sell only the idea of dead people with monuments, cemetaries and battlefields. City Council should have been on this years ago, if you ask me.
Sorry dudes, but when you throw an easy pitch, you don't get to complain about the other guy knocking it out of the park. (Incidentally, I remember reading a fascinating article on the cadaver/medical seminar biz a few years ago but can't seem to dig it up online. Larissa MacFarquhar, maybe? Anyone remember?)
Moreover, Philip Morris, the main tenant of the biotech park (located just a few doors down from the Tom DeLay Center for Ethics, presumably), is in an excellent position to supply IBI with dead people simply by selling names of its customers. Clearly, the mistake we've made in marketing our city is that we've been trying to sell only the idea of dead people with monuments, cemetaries and battlefields. City Council should have been on this years ago, if you ask me.
posted by Andrew Beaujon at 08:05
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If the living won't come to the convention center, maybe the living dead will.
I also remember reading an article about the cadaver-pieces business. I think it might have been in a recent issue of Harper's...within the past year or so.
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