Hugh MacLeod
Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards
April 12, 2005
Tom got back from New York yesterday and we’ve been scrambling like crazy ever since to keep up with events as they occur.
I’m feeling really fried. But in a good way.
Sorry to everybody who wonders what weird drug I’ve been on lately. I’ll try to get back to normal by the end of the week. Promise!
I'm a cartoonist.
I sell limited-edition prints.
I wrote a book.
I'm CEO of Stormhoek USA, which markets South African wine in the States.
I also draw private commissions.
Prints |
Opening | Current |
|---|---|---|
Bluetrain |
$900 | |
We Need to Talk |
$650 | |
Portfolio #2 |
$300 | |
NY NY |
$275 |
… and feel like a fucking laser??
Ok, after looking twice I can see that it’s supposed to be an o, but it really looks quite ay to me
Here’s something perhaps more to the point of your blog — “Netimperative: Carat targets blogs”
http://www.netimperative.com/2005/04/12/carat_media_buying_blogs
Another case of the the big boys trying to catch on …
Ow.
Truth hurts.
Jan
Man of the month,
that’s the great thing about blogs. if you don’t like them you can always fuck off somewhere else.
Man of the Month, whoever you are, you need to chill the fuck out. If you want to do some online slagging, this isn’t the place. Go someplace trashy for that kind of shit.
If you just wanted to get a rise out of somebody, congratulations!!!
Have a nice day.
Complaining is part of the game.
“complaining is part of the game”
Well, then, for anyone who’s interested in individual opinions, I’ll join the game and chime with my sadness at the content shift of this site. I’m fine with (and actually interested in) watching an entrepreneurial endeavor such as English Cut. However it’s gone beyond an interesting case study and has moved into a straight-up shill. The magic of market conversations (manipulation) has become a daily update of the digits on the cash register. Yay. Whoopee.
As veedubya stated, I’m free to leave and I likely will take that to heart and remove GV out of my “daily check” list. It makes me sad though, as I used to get relevant content here. But, (and this is admittedly personal opinion) where this has gone isn’t relevant to me anymore. I guess this doesn’t even qualify as a complaint, because I’m not asking Hugh to change a damn thing.
Doing his own thing IS the content that has attracted the following he has. Good on ya. Maybe I tuned in earlier for a small subset of his content that has now gone by the wayside. Fine. I’ll look elsewhere.
So register this not as a complaint, but just a little note dropped as someone leaves the room, in case the speaker wondered why people were leaving during the conversation. I’m sure I will check back semi-often, looking for a break from, or maybe real relevance tied to, the EC undertaking.
Weird how a loudmouth lout even caused me to come out of Lurkerville and even state what I had been thinking for some time now.
Best of luck, Hugh. I hope you not only make a zillion bucks with your insights into markets, but are able (through skewering the fuckers who don’t get it) to smarten up the whole of communications.
” We were here for some conversations and some cartoons.”
Hmm. You check with all the readers before stating what they were all here for?
“Let see how many numjobs visit here to buy some suit from a lunatic in London.”
Correction: *rich* lunatic in London. (not justification, just a correction)
“Perhaps you should sell some suits to the Royal Family eh?”
Probably has.
Buddy, we ain’t compatriots in complaint here. I don’t even know where you’re coming from. I don’t even know why I bothered coming out of the woodwork to join in. I suppose I though someone might be interested in what might make someone decide to check out of a conversation.
As to you, good luck in changing the world to the way you want it, but if you are looking to lay waste to those who are telling tales of their successes (and boring you in the process), you better grab a big fucking stick and start building up your stamina.
Dont get yourselves in a tizzy over Man of the Month, my dears. It’s painfully clear that he is suffering dreadfully from infinitesimal penis syndrome.
Remember rule #1 of the Internets: don’t feed the trolls.
Cheers! Time for work!
Hey how about I’m not afraid, and Hugh has never claimed he’s not a narcissist, in fact all his cartoons have the implied word balloon “HEY I’m a narcissist, stroke me baby” But I’ll stroke away because I’ve already hitched up my little wagon to this big ol’ train and if I don’t stroke fast enough i’ll go flying off the back into a splintered wreck. WEEE
this is a hell of a ride, yippeee.…
Stop being jealous of success and start building a rocket er something. I’ll surf anything that goes fast enough.
I gotta agree with Scott … I was as interested as anyone else when this ‘bespoke’ stuff started, but it’s getting a bit old and more than a little sold.
I don’t have anything of consequence to say (when do I ever) but I’d like to support Scott and John. The e-cut stuff is getting stale as a topic of discussion. Take a break if you need one and come back fresh.
It’s a blog. It ain’t Shakespeare.
Dig it or wander off to something more sexy. Your choice.
And I want a t-shirt saying: “the market for something to believe in is infinite”!
The Market For Something To Complain About Is Infinite
Yeah, I know what you mean. It’s kinda taken over my life these last two months or so…
Luckily, things are starting to return back to normal. Just in time– Both Tom and I are starting to feel a bit burned out.
That being said, I pretty much have the same MO as I’ve always had:
1. Post new cartoons.
2. Write about the stuff that’s currently on my radar.
If you worry too much in advance what others think every time you post something, blogging becomes impossible.
But thanks for the feedback. I’ll try to be less monomaniacal in the future
PS: I deleted Man Of The Month’s comments.
He violated the “Don’t shit in my living room” rule.
That’s what happens.
“Where else but New York can a man make $150,000 a year and still feel like a fucking loser?”
London. And with even less purchasing power.
Yup, London — $150k ~