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amen!

Posted by dzienkowski | December 12, 2006 1:51 PM
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What was the ad?

Posted by inquiring mind | December 12, 2006 1:56 PM
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Best letter ever.

And yeah, I kinda wish there were an online version of that ad. He certainly doesn't deserve any further publicity than he paid for, but he does deserve to be ridiculed far and wide across the internets.

But philfischer.com will give you the general idea.

Posted by Levislade | December 12, 2006 1:59 PM
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This guy is a toolbag and he believes his own shit smells like candy cane incense.

Best letter ever.

Remember Phil's last "outburst" when he was trying to sell one of Kurt Cobain's amplifiers? He and Kurt used to hang out "under the bridge."

Posted by Jeff | December 12, 2006 2:05 PM
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I just looked in our office copy of last oeweek's Stranger, and it skips from page 36 to 51, and doesn't look like anything was taken out of the paper. What's going on here? Who is that letter talking about? And, why did they send it to YOU (the Stranger) and not whoever took out the ad?

Posted by Renee | December 12, 2006 2:11 PM
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Sweet. Now post a link to the ad.

Posted by Jonathan | December 12, 2006 2:18 PM
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Hey, but he's sold out in India!!!!

I don't know what his beef is with S'bucks, but I can see why they wouldn't play his music, if that's what he's whining about. Talk about derivative of posers of early 90's moan bands. Yuck.

Saving Souls through Music. Give me a fucking break.

Posted by dreary | December 12, 2006 2:21 PM
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He claims, on his web site, that his 2004 release "Wounded Soul" sold 800,000 copies.

...there's no way in hell.

Posted by No Way in Hell | December 12, 2006 2:34 PM
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Go to www.philfischer.com and at the bottom left click on "starbucks help" (in red print) and it will take you inside and show the contents of the ad.

"Writing christian songs is easy. You just take popular love songs and change 'baby' to 'jesus'." -Cartman

Posted by monkey | December 12, 2006 2:36 PM
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He claims the sales are in Argentina and India. It's possible. It doesn't explain anything, but it's possible.

The custom-plate Hummer, on the other hand, explains a lot.

Posted by Fnarf | December 12, 2006 2:46 PM
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well can't blame the whore for trying to sell himself to on of the biggest johns in the area.

Posted by seattle98104 | December 12, 2006 2:46 PM
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Posted by Lulu | December 12, 2006 2:54 PM
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There is no way he sold that many copies. Period. Try doing a google search, all you find are "self-generated" articles and "unauthorized biographies" on him and they all appear to be written by the same source.

If 500,000 people bought his CD how come there are so few google hits on him?

This guy is a con artist.

Posted by Jeff | December 12, 2006 3:09 PM
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If this email is really from a Starbucks Exec, the power of the letter is diminished somewhat by hypocracy...

"As an executive, I am gagged by a corporate policy that strictly prohibits offending anyone; everyone is a potential consumer to be exploited.

But as an individual, I have a responsibility to raise humanity higher for my children and for the future of this planet. This Christmas, remember why you no longer believe in Santa, and consider the same for Jesus. And while you’re at it, lose the Hummer."

You, Starbucks Exec, are a total hypocrite. You make huge amounts of money of each "potential consumer to be exploited" but then claim that that is just your day job. In your free time you "have a responsibility to raise humanity higher."

I am really curious what this person is doing to raise humanity higher, besides writing anonymous emails and "urging the enlightened public to start giving ["help"] to Christians." (what does that mean?)

Maybe this Exec should try promoting 100% fair-trade, organic coffee at Starbucks or coming up with ways to decrease the amount of paper and plastic waste Starbucks produces?

I don't know the whole story, but from the info in this email the writer appears to be a rich, self-absorbed hypocrite.

(The music guy sounds like a dope too, but probably harmless)

Posted by Jude Fawley | December 12, 2006 3:26 PM
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What if it's a Hybrid Hummer?

Posted by Will in Seattle | December 12, 2006 4:33 PM
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More like letter of the year!

Posted by Tiffany | December 12, 2006 4:41 PM
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Man, I've worked with this douchebag before. Rest assured he is a lying, delusional sack of shit.

Also, the Biodiesel stickers on the Hummer are a ruse. He just thinks they'll keep people from fucking with it. So if you see the "SONGWTR" hummer, key away!

Posted by Dade Murphy | December 12, 2006 10:14 PM
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The Phil Fischer I knew was a fabulously flamboyant interior decorator for Mutual of Omaha back in the 60's. I worked in a dining room he decorated: Mirrors on the ceiling, big foufy chandeliers, fake plastic philodendrens, gold and turquoise chairs, and oodles of paintings of greek ruins, Venitian canals, etc - all of which he painted himself.

Gay as the day is long, of course. Rest in Peace, Phil.

Posted by Catalina Vel-Duray | December 13, 2006 9:37 AM
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Oh Catalina! A decorator for Mutual of Omaha! Honey, your post is truly poetry. Thanks for making my morning.

Posted by Mark Mitchell | December 13, 2006 10:19 AM

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