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"\"&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re starting a prog-metal band and you want to take the title of this post as your name, that&amp;#8217;s fine with me. I won&amp;#8217;t sue you. In fact, if you email me, I&amp;#8217;ll post a link to your MySpace and say your tunes are smashing.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u00a0&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Also, it seems that 200 people at Quiksilver will soon be trading in their neon pink retro-Quik t-shirts for neon pink layoff slips. &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/forums.surfingthemag.com\\/forum\\/showflat.php?Number=246090\\\"&gt;Here&amp;#8217;s the official press release&lt;\\/a&gt; with attending corpo-speak about streamlined operating costs and reductions in overhead. The bad news, of course, is that 200 people who thought they had a dream gig working in the industry of their choice are now unemployed and possibly underdressed.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u00a0&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;What I offer is consolation: If you&amp;#8217;ve just been fired and are thinking the gig is up, that you bro-shook your way into Quik&amp;#8217;s doors and have no marketable skills and are an unshaven good for nothing failed photo pro destined to work security at Fashion Island while tending to the growth of a perfectly spherical beer-belly, fear not. You&amp;#8217;re one of 200 Richard Woolcotts in the making. He left Quiksilver and tooled around for a while before launching Volcom during the early-90&amp;#8217;s recession, and now he&amp;#8217;s all grown up and gone public and probably laying off foot soldiers of his own. In crisis there is opportunity &amp;#8211; and you&amp;#8217;ve just been handed the opportunity to look beyond your cubicle in what&amp;#8217;s fast becoming the Wal Mart of surf apparel. Don&amp;#8217;t waste it! Clean out your desk, cry a little if appropriate, steal a stapler, and get busy delivering unto the world a new chapter in surfing&amp;#8217;s industrial evolution. Youth in Favor of Establishment!&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u00a0&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;If you start a company and you&amp;#8217;re wicked cool, post to the comments section of this blog and we&amp;#8217;ll get the word out in exchange for some socks.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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