gentlemen, start your hormones

Hibearntion started today… we’re not attending…. and it feels friggin weird.

As we have done since 2000, we’ve developed the identity for this year’s event – but mid-year the club suffered a PR tragedy, and the political infighting, pissing contests and rouge ego trips have skyrocketed.

I decided to, as gracefully as possible, step back and distance ourselves from the club and try to ween them off of their reliance on us for their marketing / graphic identity support.

It’s not been easy… Saying “no”…

This year they got their theme logo, poster and application design but that’s about it. The countless hours we’ve spent in previous years coordinating and managing the visual elements of an event we’ve left to this year’s committee.

In the past our efforts have been rewarded by deep gratitude, a comp hotel suite at the host hotel and a few sponsor mentions for my company. This year it didn’t feel fair to ask for anything since I essentially pulled our support mid-year.

A genuine sense of burn-out and annoyance with a lot of the petty shit has made us INSIST that we receive ZERO compensation – not even a mention.

I think we’re just tired of clubs (and all the dynamics they imply).

Nonetheless, it feels weird not participating in what used to be our “big November thing” for the past 5 years.

Regrets aside, this year’s event committee seems to have re-molded the event to be very “sexcentric” – which, is not part of or priority set. So chances are if we “did” attend this year, we’d probably feel displaced wanting to simply mingle and meet folks from all over instead of going to one of the reported TWO dungeon sex rooms they’ve created this year. (shrug).

chrisglass will be in town for the event and we’re scheduled to have brunch on Sunday.. woohoo! it’s always great to get some “Glass-time” in… even if we have to share him with 500 other guys.