Red Mosquito

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:For no tangible reason I’m pivoting to The Nix

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:For no tangible reason I’m pivoting to The Nix

75 pages in and this isn’t doing much for me so goodbye.

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:For no tangible reason I’m pivoting to The Nix

75 pages in and this isn’t doing much for me so goodbye.

I don’t blame you. You saved yourself some time you won’t get back.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:For no tangible reason I’m pivoting to The Nix

75 pages in and this isn’t doing much for me so goodbye.

I don’t blame you. You saved yourself some time you won’t get back.

I don't know where to go from here

wease wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:For no tangible reason I’m pivoting to The Nix

75 pages in and this isn’t doing much for me so goodbye.

I don’t blame you. You saved yourself some time you won’t get back.

I don't know where to go from here

Nowhere left but down

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

wease wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:For no tangible reason I’m pivoting to The Nix

75 pages in and this isn’t doing much for me so goodbye.

I don’t blame you. You saved yourself some time you won’t get back.

I don't know where to go from here

Nowhere left but down

On who?

wease wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

wease wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:For no tangible reason I’m pivoting to The Nix

75 pages in and this isn’t doing much for me so goodbye.

I don’t blame you. You saved yourself some time you won’t get back.

I don't know where to go from here

Nowhere left but down

On who?

Take your pick

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

wease wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

wease wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

dad wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:For no tangible reason I’m pivoting to The Nix

75 pages in and this isn’t doing much for me so goodbye.

I don’t blame you. You saved yourself some time you won’t get back.

I don't know where to go from here

Nowhere left but down

On who?

Take your pick

What’s mrs. wease up to next weekend?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Only 20 pages in, but I have a good feeling.

Spoiler: show

the insinuation that the Rhode Island mob killed JFK.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:Reading No Logo by Naomi Klein. Instead of firing me up and inspiring me to go out ad busting, it's just making me feel powerless and guilty.

Formative book for me, read it back when it came out. So much has changed about the corporate landscape since then -- Occupy Wall St gave way to AOC, corporate DEI initiatives have waxed and waned, Brexit/MAGA/LaPen have all metastasized into our society, US is trying to onshore its manufacturing again, and there's been an explosion in mission-driven finance.

All that to say that I'd think it's probably still a great read, but there's been enough momentum in both directions -- regressive and progressive -- that I'd take much of it with a grain of salt today.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

I couldn't get path that prologue mostly because I was busy and it was giving me brain damage. I still have it on my shelf and I'd like to try again sometime, let me know how you're liking the main story?

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:Reading No Logo by Naomi Klein. Instead of firing me up and inspiring me to go out ad busting, it's just making me feel powerless and guilty.

Formative book for me, read it back when it came out. So much has changed about the corporate landscape since then -- Occupy Wall St gave way to AOC, corporate DEI initiatives have waxed and waned, Brexit/MAGA/LaPen have all metastasized into our society, US is trying to onshore its manufacturing again, and there's been an explosion in mission-driven finance.

All that to say that I'd think it's probably still a great read, but there's been enough momentum in both directions -- regressive and progressive -- that I'd take much of it with a grain of salt today

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:Reading No Logo by Naomi Klein. Instead of firing me up and inspiring me to go out ad busting, it's just making me feel powerless and guilty.

Formative book for me, read it back when it came out. So much has changed about the corporate landscape since then -- Occupy Wall St gave way to AOC, corporate DEI initiatives have waxed and waned, Brexit/MAGA/LaPen have all metastasized into our society, US is trying to onshore its manufacturing again, and there's been an explosion in mission-driven finance.

All that to say that I'd think it's probably still a great read, but there's been enough momentum in both directions -- regressive and progressive -- that I'd take much of it with a grain of salt today

It is a page turner, that's for sure.

How did you adapt your own consumer habits back then versus now that you're a family man?

Back then I was staunchly anti-corporate whenever possible, to the point of exhaustion.

Now I view capitalism as the historically best way to increase an individual's earnings potential and access to things like housing and medicine; but fully acknowledge that the capitalist/globalist system has stepped on a lot of people, and just left others in the dust. So I am very intentional about buying from businesses that have some sort of impact element of their operation, or at the very least, allow me to see the majority of my dollars stay within my community. And of course I am working profesionally in this capacity too.

washing machine wrote:Reading No Logo by Naomi Klein. Instead of firing me up and inspiring me to go out ad busting, it's just making me feel powerless and guilty.