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Look Who's Famous II

swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
edited March 2013
K Mikey M is going to be on the Today Show around 8am PST tomorrow morning. A few of us are going to meet at Joe's Cellar and eat breakfast and watch him on a television. Anybody in the vicinity should join us!

NW 21st and Pettygrove.
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  • 12341234
    This is a very good idea. The company approves.
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    I'm watching it east coast LIVE in the Bahamas! I already saw them tease the piece and they showed Mike. My Dad said Mike looked geeky. My dad doesn't know. Fun!
  • curtcurt
    I just saw it LIVE, too! Great segment. You guys are in for a treat!
  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    That was cool. MIKE & MATT, the new duo.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2013
    Did someone do your hair and makeup? Did you meet any famous persons (besides Matt Lauer)?
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    http://www.today.com/id/26184891/vp/51359474#51359474
  • ManInTheIvoryTowerManInTheIvoryTower
    I'm guessing no on the hair :)

    Shiz is blowin' up today. Wired piece finally hit too, I like the more in-depth and balanced approach the writer took over The Atlantic piece.

    http://www.wired.com/business/2013/03/ipo-man/all/

    “The price was too good.” Even Merrill’s brother cashed out, spending his profits on a new dishwasher.“I didn’t blame him,” Merrill says. “He needed a dishwasher.”

    In my defense, it was a pretty fly dishwasher.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Great job Mike!!!

    NAILED IT!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    How did you know what to say?? Did you get nervous
  • LelandLeland
    So they flew you to New York?
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    you had your talking points dialed
    it was so professional!

    "I've always been a democrat"
  • LelandLeland
    edited March 2013
    LT's question reminds me of a piece of conversation from last night's ARTSHOW:

    Q: "How do those guys do what they do?"
    A: "Because that's what those guys do."

    I've watched the piece twice off the Facebook, both times wondering LT's same question. I see the pause, the eyes shift, the hard drive engages, and it looks like the first 'on point' impulse out of the subconscious gets trimmed and pressed to concision. It's quite beautiful and seems more or less effortless. Like a golf swing.
  • LelandLeland
    edited March 2013
    Timing is good for an eBook of life advice.... repack the blog as Kindle single?
  • SchlabeSchlabe
    I like this a lot.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    It was so fun to see the project through the "filter" of the Today Show production style.
  • AndrewAndrew
    I know we NEVER READ THE COMMENTS but the comments at wired.com and today.com are pretty incredible. Most people appear to be very disturbed by the whole thing; and a lot of the same joke about how Mike "must have sold his brain first."

    Funny (and not surprising) that only a few people seem to get the social critique part of the project.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I'm dying to see this get covered on Yahoo, they have the best comments (Reddit is second best)
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    the one where it's all "I got yer number buddy, this is just a ponzi scheme! sheeple!" etc
  • MatthewMatthew
    This is a disgusting story. Once again, it shows how people who have too much time and money will do useless things to waste it. Since they thought Merrill's ideal to "sell himself" was so great, it's no leap to think they support prostitution and people who sell their body parts for cash. It's the same thing. They all need prayer. Especially Merrill who should put God not man as the supreme ruler over his life. The shareholders are fools too. Once he dies all their investments are instantly lost.
  • NickNick
    Oh right I forgot about God.
    Yeah, this is wrong.
  • LucyLucy
    Give all your earnings to an invisible man in the sky, instead!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2013
    Isn't the concept like totally Calvinist, which is a very popular american way of worship
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    "Funny (and not surprising) that only a few people seem to get the social critique part of the project."

    True story: many years before I met my tall-drink-of-water man-friend, I saw The Subconcious Art of Graffiti Removal on the interwebs and, because I am STUPID and HAVE (had?) NO BRAIN, I posted it on my then-blog with the text: "Is this a joke?"

    !!

    I don't think I've ever told him that. It's so embarrassing!
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2013
    Ha ha! I love that. I think it is sweet that you had a strong enough reaction to comment on it. Many of my favorite things have started out as my least favorite things... I think when you have a strong reaction to something, you can flip it to good or bad feelings. Especially with aesthetic judgments. Then you have a deeper understanding of something instead of an initial attraction.

    If it were art critics making these comments about Mike, that would be a great thing.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I love that that comment starts with how immoral it is but ends with this very sensible observation about shareholder equity or whatever

    DON'T READ THE COMMENTS

    DRTC

    DRTC4EVER
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2013
    "This is not a new idea. In the Honeymooners episode "Ralph Kramden, Inc" Ralph sold 35% of his earnings over and above his salary to Ed Norton."
    Very timely Honeymooners reference on the Wired thread
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Seems like almost everything is an affront to God. His life must suck.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2013
    p.s. *References "The Unincorporated Man"*
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    other things that are not new ideas due to appearing in honeymooners episodes:
    - drinking your neighbor's milk then filling the bottle back up with water
    - threatening to punch your wife in the face
    - being too fat to drive a bus
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    MZ - God actually seems pretty cool? https://www.facebook.com/TheGoodLordAbove
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    He's super emo tho.
  • ManInTheIvoryTowerManInTheIvoryTower
    http://dealbreaker.com/2013/03/short-term-shareholders-arent-looking-out-for-the-long-term-and-vice-versa/

    Offhand ref in a financial blog.

    Also spotted coverage on Yahoo news crawl and a French news site.
  • joeyjoey
    I am so impressed, Mikey!

    I love reading the comments when I read the news. I find it does me some good to be faced with the thought processes of idiots. Good ideas for jokes, you know?

    What is the French news site? I want to read!
  • ManInTheIvoryTowerManInTheIvoryTower
    http://www.newsring.fr/actualite/1003755-mike-merrill-lhomme-cote-en-bourse-qui-vend-son-sort-son-corps-et-ses-decisions-aux-investisseurs

    KGW should really stop calling him Keith. TV and now their web story...

    http://www.kgw.com/news/Portland-man-sells-shares-of-himself-as-a-company-200513521.html

    I love that they got it right in the link to his twitter account but not in the first line of the article.
  • curtcurt
    Who's Mike's publicist? They did really solid work on this week's media blitz. :)
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    I, too, would like to express just how impressed I am at what a fine job you did, Mike! I would have been terrified, but you totally rocked it.
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    yes!

    add this one to the list: Pilloried on The Billfold
    http://thebillfold.com/2013/03/the-publicly-traded-man/
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    good one dokuchan!
  • 12341234
    Oh, those people are PISSED!
  • ManInTheIvoryTowerManInTheIvoryTower
    80% of the internet is pissed at any given moment. It's a corollary of Sturgeon's Law.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    It's enough to make a man think the internet IS alive, and it feeds off of negative energy.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited March 2013
    Ah the Billford, usually home to multiple articles about how hard it is to make money when you're depressed OR interviews with multi-millionaires whose words of wisdom are basically "I dunno, I fell ass backwards into all this money! It's fucked up!"
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    dokuchan really shut em all up. Like shining a light on a bunch of roaches and watching them scatter.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    edited March 2013
    god mike those questions that dude asked you that you posted on your FAQ are SO FUCKING STUPID. I don't mind that people are being critical of the project but they're doing so in such a profoundly UN-critical way ("it's wrong! it's bad!") that it is making me really bummed out on humanity. How come no one is talking about corporate personhood or whether this is a conceptual art project or whether it maybe asks us to confront ideas about capitalism that are subconsciously entrenched in our ways of life etc. etc.

    or maybe they are and I'm not seeing them because I don't read the comments
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I think we as a culture are learning to take everything at face value without remembering how to be critical. So because YOU aren't talking about corporate personhood or whatever, that concept doesn't occur to anyone encountering your project.

    Sad and depressing
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Shay Shay on the Billfold nailed it
    Sometimes the people over there are so fucking twee I can't handle it
    They were also SO UPSET about David Rees' pencil sharpening book.
    I can't handle sensitive face-value people unwilling to do the work of digging into something that initially confuses them. Get some callouses and fucking dive in to some difficult conceptual brain work for once in your life, jesus
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    I'M SORRY BUT I AM PISSED
  • 12341234
    SHE IS PISSED!
  • LelandLeland
    LEAVE PERSONHOOD ALOOOOOONE!
  • ManInTheIvoryTowerManInTheIvoryTower
    https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=kmikeym

    Greek and Chinese sites starting to pick up the story. Get ready for an influx of foreign investment.
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