Comments on: Gapingvoid's big adventure or monumental cock up?..

By: MariahSinclaire

MariahSinclaire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:33:12 +0000

Actually, I just realized I don't like anything daily– it's why I don't live with my partners, why I don't work a normal job, why I don't like having roommates. A couple times a week is perfect for me.

By: MariahSinclaire

MariahSinclaire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:12:47 +0000

Wow! Gone for a few hours and look at you two stuff words into my mouth!! So, how do I plan I getting my Hugh Fix? Convenience far more important than free. I own his book, so I can always open it to a random page, knowing what that what I need to see/read will be there. It's not the new stuff but I find after time passes my interpretation of his work changes. I was also planning on purchasing a piece when my living situation stablizes (and I can commit to one!) and of course he has a new book coming out. For the record, I do value Hugh's work, but not in daily email form, esp when the email didn't show the image and I had to click into a browser. Real pain on the iPhone.

By: Rrrrohini

Rrrrohini — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:23:06 +0000

I'm just glad Hugh felt like doing something and did it. Screw good decision bad decision smart move dumb move. We'll know about that eventually. As of now, I'm loving the emails. I dont care how or when i get to see the cartoons as long as i do. >I< am the end user. If on one hand the public discovery life blood is being 'strangled' it is also causing more initiation through forwarding, that too with special annotations. I have received an extra newsletter forward where the person wrote down why the cartoon was so relevant to him. It was only for me to read and appreciate. I dont deny that there are N number of ways of doing that - Url posting the biggest no-brainer of all. But people really are tied up. Even when they know they need a healthy dose of creative genius, they get distracted by life and forget. I love that their corroded brains will get a lil lubricated everyday as opposed to that one time in the month when they're out of inspiration and decide to turn to Hugh's work again.

Maybe Hugh is a slave to his whims (thank god for that) or maybe he's frikkin' selfish. But he is ending up giving more value-add to the takers of his work because we like being reached out to Thank You. And really as a consumer who has just as much empathy as he does (which is why i connect to this work) i'd want him to serve himself first. Thats the only way he'd be any good to us.

For those of you who unsubscribed. It just goes in showing you weren't the right target anyway. You wanted an occassional laugh is all? Why did you subscribe in the first place? Some good stuff to see once in 3 months is ok but everyday is too much to handle? Its like 'omg i cant see life changing cartoons everyday! My life might actually change! I might actually start thinking! Let me make space in my inbox for my boss's emails!'

By: MariahSinclaire

MariahSinclaire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:33:12 +0000

By: MariahSinclaire

MariahSinclaire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:33:00 +0000

Actually, I just realized I don’t like anything daily– it’s why I don’t live with my partners, why I don’t work a normal job, why I don’t like having roommates. A couple times a week is perfect for me.

By: MariahSinclaire

MariahSinclaire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:12:47 +0000

Wow! Gone for a few hours and look at you two stuff words into my mouth!! So, how do I plan I getting my Hugh Fix? I own his book, so I can always open it to a random page, knowing what that what I need to see/read will be there. It's not the new stuff but I find after time passes my interpretation of his work changes. I was also planning on purchasing a piece when my living situation stablizes (and I can commit to one!) and of course he has a new book coming out. For the record, I do value Hugh's work, but not in daily email form, esp when the email didn't show the image and I had to click into a browser. Real pain on the iPhone.

By: MariahSinclaire

MariahSinclaire — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:12:00 +0000

Wow! Gone for a few hours and look at you two stuff words into my mouth!! So, how do I plan I getting my Hugh Fix? Convenience far more important than free. I own his book, so I can always open it to a random page, knowing what that what I need to see/read will be there. It’s not the new stuff but I find after time passes my interpretation of his work changes. I was also planning on purchasing a piece when my living situation stablizes (and I can commit to one!) and of course he has a new book coming out. For the record, I do value Hugh’s work, but not in daily email form, esp when the email didn’t show the image and I had to click into a browser. Real pain on the iPhone.

By: Peter Çoopèr

Peter Çoopèr — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:58:10 +0000

Mike: Jason Calacanis moved to e-mail. Of course, they seem to get reposted on the Web quick enough again now

By: dahowlett

dahowlett — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:37:32 +0000

Even if you don't enjoy the 'pleasure' …..

By: gapingvoid

gapingvoid — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:31:01 +0000

Yeah, at least with short order cooks, you STILL have to pay them $8 for the burger & fries