A veritable "poet of garbage":
Garrulous and hilarious, Atkinson's a poet of garbage who fancies himself a scatologist, spending his nights nipple-deep in corporate excrement. "My dad was a hunter, and though I was never into that myself, I never forgot him explaining to me that the way you track your prey is though its crap. You can tell how the herd is eating, if there's a sick animal in the group, whether they're growing or contracting. If I was a CEO, I'd spend some time out back in the garbage every day--you learn more here than you ever could from a balance sheet."