Posted by sean at threshold7n.jpmorgan.com on August 01, 2002 at 20:09:53:
In Reply to: 100:1 says you bring it up again before i do. posted by Pitstain on August 01, 2002 at 17:36:11:
: : Ok, he built an empire, and because Brian asked me to work on his
: site before it was launched, I took the easy way out?
: did you come up with the concept or were you "hired" on after the site
: was conceived. there's yr answer.
You're saying that he should've said "No thanks, Brian, I'd rather my stuff didn't get good amounts of exposure." What a stupid stupid thing to say.
And, beyond that, Andy has come up with the concept for everything that Andy has done. Brian invited him to contribute (as opposed to 'hired' as you put it) before the site was up anything at all. Brian's idea, as you put it, was "I want to make a website".
: yeah, you would. because it would be something you built from the
: ground up, not just a piece of a larger pie. for someone who
: complains about being ragged on for "being creative" yr missing the
: main point.
That's because you have yet to make a point. I can take everything you've said and boil it down so that it is a point. listen:
- Brian Lynch and only Brian Lynch made Brian Lynch's website for Brian Lynch's things
- Anybody to whom Brian makes the offer to host things on his site for is "riding his coat-tails" and, therefore, can not possibly be talented or funny in any way (I extrapolated this from the fact that you say Andy isn't funny but have offered no evidence to this other than the fact that he's on Brian Lynch's website instead of his own)
- Anybody who puts their own things on the web, regardless of whether anybody sees it or not, has a 'media empire'
- Anybody with a 'media empire' is automatically worthy of more respect (because they're loners with no friends like you?) than somebody who is a part of another 'empire', regardless of people's opinions of the work (because, of course, their opinions are lies anyway)
I guess you're right ... I'm looking at this and I realized you aren't bitter because you don't have the sense to be bitter. You obviously hate Andy because he's doing something you wish you could be doing if only you didn't have the oh-so-convenient ethics regarding 'media empires' to fall back on (which is to say, saving you from failure). But you can't be bitter because you won't allow yourself to admit how badly you're courting Lynch's favor [except in earlier posts] because you have this stupid (I won't go as far as to say you invented it to perpetuate your own argument, but it's too stupid for it to be anything else) belief that getting any help from anybody along the way is wrong for some reason. Does that mean that Lynch was riding Kevin's coattails? Did Kevin ride John Pierson's coattails when he cut the ending of "Clerks" at his suggestion? Where does it all end?