Roy Blount Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

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A funny and incisive collection of essays on oddities of life in the 1980s, from one of America's most cherished humoristsFirst published in 1985,Not Exactly What I Had In Mindis Roy Blount Jr.'s smart and witty examination of the era's most glaring absurditiesfrom the ever-growing deficit under then-president Reagan to the Game Theorylike levels of strategy required to pack for a vacation. In ';Testimonial, Head-on,' Blount offers a loving ode to the virtues of full-bodied beer. In ';Who You Gonna Call?' he enumerates the indefatigable charms of Bill Murray. And in ';What You Personally Can Do about the Federal Deficit,' he proposes a brilliantly simple and populist way to reduce government debtand probably make your neighborhood post office very happy in the process.Powered by Roy Blount's irresistible sense of humor,Not Exactly What I Had in Mindrevels in Reagan-era topics, but with a humor that is truly timeless.