Tim Siedell, who you may know as Twitter’s Bad Banana, was one of the first bloggers I ever avidly read (from the Vox days!). He’s an ad man and he started his own company 8 years ago. This is the ad they made to announce it.
Perhaps we were a bit naive. I prefer to think we were confident in our talents and experience. One thing for sure, we have never regretted the decision. Which brings me to the true message of this post.
Quit your job.
That advice isn’t for all of you, of course. But it’s good advice for someone. My guess is you know exactly who you are, too. You want to start your own business. It’s a fire in your gut. It keeps you awake at night. But you’re afraid. Afraid of failure. Afraid of giving up a good job for the unknown.
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“Do you really want to be a cog?” — Bert Cooper/ Joe Strummer.
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OK. I’m ready.
DAMN THIS DIURNAL TRACK OUR HATEFUL EARTH SPINS ON!!!!!!!! WEST COAST MAD MENNNNNNNNNNNN SKFHJALDGLAGLAEHGEGHOEGK’s
Is this what the world series was like for yall? I guess it’s like a team of A-rods playing against a team of centaurs??? WITH CIGARETTES???
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'Besides elevating the profile of the novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the original 1996 book, Mr. Fincher’s film has spawned a video game (featuring the Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst as a character) and a Donatella Versace fashion line (men’s wear adorned with razor blades). The swaggering gospel of Tyler Durden, much of it taken verbatim from Mr. Palahniuk’s book, has provided the cultural lexicon with one seemingly deathless catchphrase (“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club”) and numerous pop-sociological sound bites (“We’re a generation of men raised by women”; “You are not your khakis”).'
Ed Norton uses the word ‘vituperative’ in this piece.
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Related: PR 101 thanks to Bucky Turco
(btw, this was the original crap email:
Hey, Natasha -
I think it would be a good idea to credit the illustrator whose image you’re using on today’s FoMM post. Daniel is a friend and collaborator of mine, and it’s not cool to steal his work (nor anybody’s).
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'Talk about amphetamine-style. My nose even starts to drip when I read her.'
An ovation for virtuoso long-form criticism.
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Modern Love
- UCLA: They probably punch each other by candlelight.
- Yale: They just jerk each other off while fondling their Chanel Everything.
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