portrait of a Middle-Aged artist

Bennie Bear,

What you are doing online
is strikingly brilliant and exactly
why we're not together anymore.

Your recent art installation
is a new kind of art,
an intellectual sculpture.

I assume you will elaborate
on a distinction between
narratives and stories.

==> this may help...


This is what draws me to you
and your absorption
in your art is what keeps
me

i didn't want to email you
because i don't mean to
encourage you

i want you not to send me
presents. yes, the skirt
is something amazing
and i wore it to a meeting
with a progressive client
and i was the rage

Thank you. Now, stop reaching
out to me. It hurts me to say no
to you.

simply typing "Ben Mack"
in any blog makes your Google Alert
go off, so this is how i'm saying hi

my request is that you be nicer
to others while you use my name
please.

i will expect this of you

Now, in terms of your Avatar Management.
Salesman ==> http://authorsbusinessplan.blogspot.com/
Connector ==> http://onlinemarketingdump.blogspot.com/
Maven ==> http://anothergreatformula.blogspot.com/

Ben,

I'm going to make this brief. I'm at work,
meaning my regular Starbucks a block
from the beach. I'm billing this time
to America's largest producer
of frozen deserts... my friend Sarah.
I introduced a brand mgr to your
Legend Platform and they dug
it... so charging this time that
i'm writing to you, to them, feels
right

on the other hand i know this is
a rationalization and i don't really
care, only that i can't be with you
because YOU MAKE ME THINK
too much

here's a to-do list

1) re-read Wes' MySpaceTippingPoint

2) you need major help with your names

3) re-read Wes' MySpaceTippingPoint
and remember your notes to him. BEN!
you aren't following your own construct!


BENNIE, BENNY, BEN-BEN, why do
you have the ugly data of list of sources
for your Blog/Radio efficiency report on
this blog... This is your salesman blog.

DATA LISTS belong on your Maven blog.

Ben, I'll always love you, just not as you
want me too. If this reads cold i'm sorry

there are a lot of people that are trying
to help you succeed. The trick now
is to get out of your own way and
make yourself easy

in all ways my friend

practice making yourself easy
to read, easy to hear, easy to
be with

practice practicing what you preach

i read what you helped them with...

Live Smart
Enjoy life and make a difference.

solid. it's clunky and i see you
threaded three hoops and that's
the elegance that attracted me
to you and the kind of elegance
that will best attract everything
you're craving

did you also write:
"When you're with Robert
you can do nothing Butwin."

that's really solid.

to your grace and success,

Liz