Fishin'

[prog]

One of the angel groups I threw an unsolicited pitch at last week has set up an informal meeting with us this Thursday. This is in addition to the semi-solicited meeting with a VC person that we already have scheduled a couple of weeks out.

Woo woo. Wish us luck.

(Also another angelic representative, from River Valley Investors, sent me a rejection letter with a reason for rejection and some relevant advice in it, directly refuting a statement I blogged yesterday about how most capital groups reject applicants. I wrote him a nice-thank you note acknowledging this rare kindness, and he wrote me a you're-welcome note. So there you go.)

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Are those anti-environmental ads for real, or a parody that lost its attribution and got out of hand? I listened to one on a podcast while in line at the post office today and made noises. They imply that environmentalists are against all CO2 emissions and therefore wish to make breathing illegal. Especially children's breathing. (Too bad for them that fetuses don't breathe or they'd able to swing some sweet cross-base message there.)

Comments

[cnoocy]

I think those ads are the last gasp of a tactic that's going to fall in the very near future, at which point anyone in the industry who is already dead is going to get all of the blame.

[misuba.livejournal.com]

This is an excellent example of why irony is inadequate as your sole response to a political message you object to. To negate a frame is to strengthen a frame.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Who is negating whom, here? Are you criticizing we barking moonbats' poking fun at the wingnuts' jawdropping ads, or the ads themselves?

[misuba.livejournal.com]

I was criticising the ads themselves on the basis that they were parody, which it seems they aren't... yow.

And it'll be great to see you and the crew at Origins!

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Wow... "they call it pollution, we call it life"? Just... wow. Is that even allowed?