Hey there ad people of the world! (And I really mean the world, 'cause I'm in charge of visitor monitoring and you won't believe in how many places we get read) A year of WAS is coming soon... Just to think about how this all started... One Saturday I was bored and stayed home and decided to write something. Called up some friends of mine and boom! Now we have this wonderful place at the net that we lovingly call WAS.
This has been a place to do many things.
For RestrictionsApply, it's a place to leave all his wisdom (I for one consider this man a true mentor) and bitch slightly about the job he loves to hate. Without him, we sometimes we wouldn't go: shit, he has a point. He's the relaxed one of the bunch, since he has been doing this shit way more time than any of us. I could only wish you had the pleasure of having some drinks with the dude and listen to him talk business.
For Joker... well, let's just say I think he uses WAS to write all his fantasies about going postal on someone. Damn, dude. Do you kill for hire? Just kidding. Oh, and let's not forget all his wonderful dick jokes. Genius. As you might have read, he's the angriest of us and with a damn point every single time. He's the one who channels all our frustrations and pure evil anger, and damn it I truly respect that from him. He was the first to install extreme foul language in this blog and I for one applaud him for this. He taught me that this is how we talk, how we think and how we live. And if someone gets offended by it, so be it.
For TravisFckr... it's a place where he reads and silently agrees with everything we say, and once in a blue moon we get (well, I post them for him) cool stuff from all the websites he visits, daily. No, honestly, most of the things I write here are in some way what we talk all day at the office. What happens to us, what we endure day by day. If you knew how many times he bugs me to write about stuff and I don't have the balls to do it. You would be surprised.
And for Me? I think I use it to write whatever the fuck I want, with no restrictions whatsoever, without a worry that I might offend someone down the line. Honestly? I just think writing this blog for me has been a sort of journal (well, I do write about what happens from time to time), but all I think about is all the young dudes and dudettes that are starting out. I sometimes wish I can help them in some way to not make the same mistakes I made along the way. In all my time here I have had two major things happen to me: I got feedback from the girl who left her job (post's name is "Somewhere in this world there is a woman with balls") and learned that my post helped and made her feel happier. The other? Getting nominated at the Ad Blog Wars. I felt that we all had achieved something big, more than any ad prize there is.
Well, sorry for the sentimental post and because it's long. I'd just like to say thank you for reading and we truly hope to keep making you think, laugh and going "what the fuck?" once in a while.
Oh, and another thing? Should we quit writing in September or do we keep at it? Let us know...
11 comments:
Kudos!!
no way u guys shud quit, i and many of us need the daily dose of WAS to keep us smiling and go thru the day..
what the heck we know we love the job, yet no harm in cribbin..
Stop writing? Stop writing? If you do that, whatever will I email to all my dear, dear AE friends?
-Ed
Damn. I would miss Ed's emails...
Quit?????? are you nuts!!???
I love this place!!!! I check it every freaking day. First the msn now you guys??? No way, just kill me now.
YEAH!!! Let's quit on top, like Seinfeld. We disappear from the internet (the Bobby Fischer sindrome) then after a decade of absence, we make reunion blog called "What was was? And a reunion world tour!
If you have better things to do, well go ahead.
uhh guys, that's what all the AEs want, that you guys quit.... think about it.
Damn, TravisFckr's point is brilliant. But, no, this is way to fun. I am the first dudette who reads WAS in the morning, waiting for cool stuff from my other cowriters and of course, our loyal ad sucky friends.
So... in September there will be a special WAS party all over the world. I'll keep you posted. More WAS for everyone. Enjoy!!!
Although I'm sure it is tempting to pull of a "Police" or "Nirvana", this is therapy. A little cybernetic haven where I can spew all the vile poison I am saturated with on a daily basis. I take the liberty of verbally torturing people without them knowing and I feel a sense of release when I not only admit my demons, but put them down on a blog to share with everyone. For my part, I can say it's an honor to share the WAS moniquer and if I were into tattoos, who knows if I'd be nuts enough to get one from here. For my part, WAS helps me vent and practice my craft. When the time comes to close it all down, I'm sure we'll all agree to it. For now, let us bask in the angry moment and write on. Lord knows I bump into way too many assholes not to have material to write about.
if you quit now, then the terrorists has already won
We could host a Berlin / Germany WAS party. Think of it.
Greetz. s.
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