chumpy?

Someone just posted this link to Facebook because they agree with the idea of doing real marketing for your shows as opposed to just emailing your friends, Sure. I get that. But shouldn't you do both? And don't most performers, especially comics, want friendly faces in the crowd? Faces that know how to laugh? And what if you're nervous and not ready for a gen pop crowd? Or you just suck at the whole marketing thing?

How chumpy is it to get an email with your friend's name at the top and an opt out at the bottom and respond with an anonymous, assy form email complaining that a "come see my show" email is too impersonal? And the worst thing is that it includes a link to the original author of the assy email's book on Amazon. So, your friend, who helped you move and listened to you bitch about your stupid girlfriend/boyfriend/cat can't send you an email about their new play/gig/cat show, but you...you, Chumpy Mc Chump Chump, can send out an anonymous ad for a book written by some ass you've never met? Chumpy? Hells yeah. But on a scale of 1 to Federline...just how chumpy is it?

For Bitter's next show (at this rate, it'll be 2012), maybe we should include a link to this hastily-written blog at the bottom of our promo emails... just in case anyone wants to be a chump. But none of our friends are that chumpy.

Oh...and it must be said that the person who posted this on Facebook is NOT a chump. Just a performer with some serious marketing skills. But when I pointed out that she had posted an ad for some dude's book, she ranted at me. Ranted. She used the word "crusade". Now that's a rant. But she is not chumpy...just a ranter...or possibly working part-time doing marketing for the chump who wrote that chumpy book.