The problem with friends of friends: the mutual friend thinks their friend treats all of their friends like they get treated. This is rarely true, and I often find the ‘trouble’ friend tends to be treating the mutual friend nice because they’re useful somehow. Example: Spill, who is a good fabricator and is willing to do all the work while others take credit as long as she’s paid.
To quote John Stuart Mill: Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. (A quote often mis-atributed to Edmund Burke in a slightly different wording)
You’ll learn to like him. . .with time. . .and patience. . .and a lot of practice. . .
Eventually
Just remember what they say. An ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure.
and wine. Lots and lots of wine…..
Tolerance… maybe… with all the wine Mark suggests… or … maybe not. Why let the energy vampires suck you dry?
He lets others do the grunt work of art, while he saves his artistic talent for the part where he signs his name to their work…
Just like Jeff Koons.
Salvador Dali did it, too. Don’t buy any of his signed prints.
The problem with friends of friends: the mutual friend thinks their friend treats all of their friends like they get treated. This is rarely true, and I often find the ‘trouble’ friend tends to be treating the mutual friend nice because they’re useful somehow. Example: Spill, who is a good fabricator and is willing to do all the work while others take credit as long as she’s paid.
To quote John Stuart Mill: Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. (A quote often mis-atributed to Edmund Burke in a slightly different wording)