Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

doug rr wrote:thanks..I'll get through them..I have a good support system

tommy wrote:

doug rr wrote:thanks..I'll get through them..I have a good support system

Us?

Alex wrote:tommy is a great sounding board. you’re lucky to have him.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Describe his works, Reid. Can’t say I’m familiar.

doug rr wrote:they started a few months before I knew my dad was going to die..he's the only one in the family I could ever really talk to..mom, brother and sister are trumpers and he was anti trump...the lovely mrs.doug is an only child with parents in their late 80s and not in the best of health which is a reason we are just 90 minutes from Vancouver now..I dont know, the older you get the more reality sets in..also the move back into Seattle is some added stress but we're both looking forward to being city people again..walking to stores and restaurants seems like it was a hundred years ago.plus I'm looking forward to finger flicking bammer in the nuts at a mariners game one day..

washing machine wrote:

doug rr wrote:they started a few months before I knew my dad was going to die..he's the only one in the family I could ever really talk to..mom, brother and sister are trumpers and he was anti trump...the lovely mrs.doug is an only child with parents in their late 80s and not in the best of health which is a reason we are just 90 minutes from Vancouver now..I dont know, the older you get the more reality sets in..also the move back into Seattle is some added stress but we're both looking forward to being city people again..walking to stores and restaurants seems like it was a hundred years ago.plus I'm looking forward to finger flicking bammer in the nuts at a mariners game one day..

Glad you're back in a walkable neighborhood.

BurtReynolds wrote:

Alex wrote:tommy is a great sounding board. you’re lucky to have him.

Do you regret losing him?

doug rr wrote:

washing machine wrote:

doug rr wrote:they started a few months before I knew my dad was going to die..he's the only one in the family I could ever really talk to..mom, brother and sister are trumpers and he was anti trump...the lovely mrs.doug is an only child with parents in their late 80s and not in the best of health which is a reason we are just 90 minutes from Vancouver now..I dont know, the older you get the more reality sets in..also the move back into Seattle is some added stress but we're both looking forward to being city people again..walking to stores and restaurants seems like it was a hundred years ago.plus I'm looking forward to finger flicking bammer in the nuts at a mariners game one day..

Glad you're back in a walkable neighborhood.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.