{"id":531,"date":"2007-01-17T19:15:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T00:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2007-01-17T19:15:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T00:15:20","slug":"i-overdosed-on-hugh-macleod-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/01\/i-overdosed-on-hugh-macleod-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I overdosed on Hugh MacLeod today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t register on Hugh’s radar. I’ve never commented on his blog which I read with varying degrees of regularity in much the same way I imagine fundamentalist bible thumpers look at Playboy: they’re sort of revolted and compelled at the same time.<\/p>\n

Hugh works in marketing. He is a marketing guy. He also thinks pretty hard about how marketing, branding, and the internet intersect and he writes about them regularly at Gapingvoid.com<\/a>. These are all topics in which I have some interest but my view of Hugh’s blog matches that of the fundamentalist bible thumper’s in that I believe marketing to be one of the primary sources of evil in modern culture. <\/p>\n

Put simply: Marketing exists to tell you that you’re deficient and point out the ways in which Company A’s product can help you make up for that heretofore unknown deficiency in ways that are so much more productive, efficient, and have a higher probability of getting you laid – because creating the illusion that a product will increase your probability of getting laid is really what marketing is all about – than Company B’s product. Given that religion already existed to tell us we were deficient on an eternal damnation sort of scale way before anyone thought of marketing did we really need another juggernaut force beating us down? I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

Still, marketing is tangentially part of my professional life so I need to pay attention to what the people who get paid to think about marketing think about marketing so I can steal their best ideas and pass them off as my own.<\/p>\n

Hugh also does a wee bit of drawing. His cartoons always strike me in the most visceral ways. Unlike marketing they lack prevarication and, more often than not, cut directly to the center of a particular situation or emotional state. This is the sort of mood I was in today.<\/p>\n

\"Hate<\/p>\n

Let’s just say that I’m looking forward to tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t register on Hugh’s radar. I’ve never commented on his blog which I read with varying degrees of regularity in much the same way I imagine fundamentalist bible thumpers look at Playboy: they’re sort of revolted and compelled at the same time. Hugh works in marketing. He is a marketing guy. He also thinks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}