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m_content=creditCopyText">Milada Vigerova</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/woman-crying?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>. Card created by author on Canva.</figcaption></figure><h2 id="b34c">Startup tanked</h2><p id="1bf8">At the end of the day, it’s the end of your day. Never moved the needle on the low-hanging fruit. For a guy who gave it 110%, arithmetic wasn’t your forté. Time for a paradigm shift. Next time you wade into the blue ocean, bring a rubber dinghy.</p><p id="e023">I’d take it offline, but you’ve already done so. And then some.</p><figure id="c1f8"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*AkXGrUY9d2PDHXnlk_7U6Q.png"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@liamd197?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Liam Nguyen</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/loser?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>. Card created by author on Canva.</figcaption></figure><h2 id="7a87">And piles to soothe before you sleep</h2><p id="ff38">This card speaks for itself. Disclaimer: Mallshark collects a modest product placement fee from Pfizer, and gets free factory seconds.</p><figure id="550f"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*OFPvl-KOQ-vY7kIVpiUdtA.png"><figcaption>Screenshot by author. Card created by author on Canva.</figcaption></figure><h2 id="0ff8">Tax audit</h2><p id="0677">Don’t want to say<i> I told you so</i> but did I not mention that the $197,392 you made shilling Dogecoin — and kartrashianed about relentlessly on Twitter I might add— was taxable? Ouch! Too soon right?</p><p id="5963">Just for the record, pretty sure I outlined the relevant state <i>and </i>federal statutes on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. From 5:52 pm to 6:43 pm. Or thereabout. I urged you to take notes. You were absorbed in <i>Total War: Warhammer 3 — </i>specifically,<i> </i>annihilating Nurgle, the plague god.</p><p id="4b90">To avoid confusion, I recorded our conversation. Text me if you’d like the YouTube link. A bit long for TikTok, I’m afraid.</p><p id="33eb">Track me down if you need a suit and tie

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for the meeting. I imagine you’ll be selling yours, along with the bulk of your wardrobe, plus the Rolex.</p><p id="4839">Put that suede jacket aside for me? I’ll give you fifty bucks. OK, sixty, I know you’re short. No, I mean on cash.</p><figure id="4034"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*5UsDVUT_LlzeZqJmaxNoyQ.png"><figcaption>Photo by Yan Krukov: <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-frustrated-businessman-in-front-of-a-laptop-7793650/">https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-frustrated-businessman-in-front-of-a-laptop-7793650/</a>. Card created by author on Canva.</figcaption></figure><p id="37b6">Leveraging <i>Schadenfreude©</i>’s success, Mallshark is bringing the concept to its movie channel. Feeling warm and fuzzy actually <i>isn’t</i> about finding your roots in Maple Cedar Springs. Or burly plaid-shirted craftsmen who make hand-tooled cherry cabinets and look like Ryan Reynolds. Or overcoming material ambitions to rediscover traditional values just in time for Christmas.</p><p id="0ec9">What <i>really</i> leaves you warm and fuzzy is watching that snide poison-tongued Porsche salesman Simon Cowell blowing his entire 401K on some greasy NFT rug pull. Then contracting head lice from some retro fedora he borrowed to chat up your niece.</p><p id="bfef">Starring Simon Cowell as Simon Cowell with Shia LaBeouf as the craftsman-turned-Boogaloo doing 3–5 at FCI Edgefield. For taking selfies in Nancy Pelosi’s office, with his scuffed Doc Martens steel toes propped up on the credenza.</p><p id="c4cf">Bummer, dude.</p><div id="d510" class="link-block"> <a href="https://andrew-rodwin.medium.com/subscribe"> <div> <div> <h2>Get an email whenever Andrew Rodwin publishes.</h2> <div><h3>Get an email whenever Andrew Rodwin publishes. By signing up, you will create a Medium account if you don't already…</h3></div> <div><p>andrew-rodwin.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*pCFckKiqJt_wbE88)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Bummer, dude

Mallshark launches Schadenfreude© Greeting Card Line

Sorry to hear about your girlfriend — hey, can I have her number?

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Mallshark Card, Inc.™, a global leader in mawkish sentiment, believes that when you care — really care — you prop up our bottom line. When loved ones celebrate, we all share the joy — at $3.95 a pop, the Street freakin’ loves us.

But we really celebrate when those we pretend to like but frankly loathe, stumble. Horribly. Screw the pooch. Faceplant. Epic fail. george w. bushville.

That’s why we’ve launched Schadenfreude©, a disruptive new line of greeting cards for caring people to relish the misery of frenemies. Some call it faux empathy. Let’s call a spade a shovel. Schadenfreude is the new empathy.

Check out Schadenfreude© in action.

You’re Fired

That schrutebag Dwight’s got his beezer so far up the VP’s rectum, he breathes through a snorkel. Dude gives you the stink-eye whenever you clear your throat. In the most compelling proof that God exists since Thomas Aquinas penned the Summa Theologica, Dwight got cashiered for creative accounting. Let your pal know you’ve got his back.

Image public domain. Card created by author on Canva.

He just wasn’t — you know

My fiancé this. My fiancé that. 🤮.

Your fiancé fell for a hedge fund manager while you were blathering on about your fiancé this’ing and that’ing.

Welcome to Tinder, pumpkin.

Photo by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash. Card created by author on Canva.

Startup tanked

At the end of the day, it’s the end of your day. Never moved the needle on the low-hanging fruit. For a guy who gave it 110%, arithmetic wasn’t your forté. Time for a paradigm shift. Next time you wade into the blue ocean, bring a rubber dinghy.

I’d take it offline, but you’ve already done so. And then some.

Photo by Liam Nguyen on Unsplash. Card created by author on Canva.

And piles to soothe before you sleep

This card speaks for itself. Disclaimer: Mallshark collects a modest product placement fee from Pfizer, and gets free factory seconds.

Screenshot by author. Card created by author on Canva.

Tax audit

Don’t want to say I told you so but did I not mention that the $197,392 you made shilling Dogecoin — and kartrashianed about relentlessly on Twitter I might add— was taxable? Ouch! Too soon right?

Just for the record, pretty sure I outlined the relevant state and federal statutes on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. From 5:52 pm to 6:43 pm. Or thereabout. I urged you to take notes. You were absorbed in Total War: Warhammer 3 — specifically, annihilating Nurgle, the plague god.

To avoid confusion, I recorded our conversation. Text me if you’d like the YouTube link. A bit long for TikTok, I’m afraid.

Track me down if you need a suit and tie for the meeting. I imagine you’ll be selling yours, along with the bulk of your wardrobe, plus the Rolex.

Put that suede jacket aside for me? I’ll give you fifty bucks. OK, sixty, I know you’re short. No, I mean on cash.

Photo by Yan Krukov: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-frustrated-businessman-in-front-of-a-laptop-7793650/. Card created by author on Canva.

Leveraging Schadenfreude©’s success, Mallshark is bringing the concept to its movie channel. Feeling warm and fuzzy actually isn’t about finding your roots in Maple Cedar Springs. Or burly plaid-shirted craftsmen who make hand-tooled cherry cabinets and look like Ryan Reynolds. Or overcoming material ambitions to rediscover traditional values just in time for Christmas.

What really leaves you warm and fuzzy is watching that snide poison-tongued Porsche salesman Simon Cowell blowing his entire 401K on some greasy NFT rug pull. Then contracting head lice from some retro fedora he borrowed to chat up your niece.

Starring Simon Cowell as Simon Cowell with Shia LaBeouf as the craftsman-turned-Boogaloo doing 3–5 at FCI Edgefield. For taking selfies in Nancy Pelosi’s office, with his scuffed Doc Martens steel toes propped up on the credenza.

Bummer, dude.

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