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Yes, We Are Thankful

We’re sure you’re familiar with the current state of the economy. It’s bad. In the words of one noted economist appearing on a recent news program, “Dang, it’s poopy out there. Real, real poopy.” Indeed it is. The stock market is in the tank. Unemployment is high. Major corporations are posting cataclysmic losses. Our kids are facing the very real possibility of receiving homemade sock puppets for Christmas this year. Times are tough.

Still, here we are on the eve of Thanksgiving and we feel compelled to count our blessings. And, of course, we feel compelled to share them with you. Here you go.

We’re thankful for smart people. You inspire us. You make us try harder.

We’re thankful for dumb people. You make us look good. You make us feel superior.

We’re thankful for the marketing minds behind the Obama campaign. Forget your political persuasion, this changes everything.

We’re thankful for the Denver 50. The people who’ve given of themselves to make this happen a second time — even against opposition from the national club — deserve our gratitude.

We’re thankful for freebie design competitions. Okay, not really. But we do enjoy seeing our readers get all pissy about them.

We’re thankful for Cactus, Cultivator, Factory, Sukle, Cypher13, Moxie Sozo, TDA, Mighty Karma, FL-2, Genesis and the handful of other shops in our area that participate and give us work worth talking about. You make us proud to call Denver home.

We’re thankful for the people at CP+B in Boulder who notoriously work day and night, week after week, month after month. You make our 10- to 12-hour days feel quite pleasant and tolerable.

On CP+B, we’re thankful you’ve taken up permanent residence here and brought tremendous talent to town. It will only make things better.

We’re thankful for the people who invented the Internet. Without you we’d be making crappy ‘zines for an audience of nine people.

We’re thankful for proper grammar, spelling and punctuation in our friends’ Facebook status updates. We’ve seen it a few times and it’s something special.

Speaking of Facebook, we’re thankful our parents still haven’t joined. The day will come and it’s going to be weird.

We’re thankful for 60-degree days in November. Yes, we miss the snow. But only until we step outside, pen and pad in hand, to do a little worky-worky in the sunshine.

We’re thankful the Qwest work sucks. If they had left town and started doing amazing work, the sting would have been that much worse.

We’re thankful for beer. And wine. And vodka. We could probably get by without rum.

We’re thankful the Colorado tourism account is coming back to Colorado! (Note: This is a total fabrication. But maybe if we say it enough, it will become reality.)

We’re thankful for the people who get it.

We’re thankful for the people who don’t get it. You provide such good fodder.

We’re thankful for our tireless, unpaid writers. They’ve sacrificed relationships, missed seeing their kids’ first steps (don’t worry, the video is on YouTube), neglected their full-time jobs, let their homes fall to disrepair and generally given up on their own health and hygiene to make this machine work. You are the virtual wind beneath our blog wings.

And, most of all, we’re thankful you’ve read this far. Thanks for staying with us for over a year and a half. Now go enjoy a great Thanksgiving holiday. And save us some punkin pie.

41 days ago / / Link

Comment

  1. Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Egotist. :)

    — B. Suter · Nov 26, 02:44 PM · #

  2. Things will pick up a lot sooner than you think.

    — PalmerPolanski · Nov 27, 06:13 PM · #