It can’t be often that a man (or even a wildebeest) returns from Paris with a drastically improved view of the French people, but I think I MAY have done just that.
I am second to none in my dislike of the French: their rudeness, indolence and self-regard, but this recent trip saw my attitude shift [...]
Archive for May, 2008
The French
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Paris, Service, Wife on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Sound of Screaming
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know this comment isn’t really “on” – but as we sit here “en famille”, I can’t help but notice the striking resemblance between the youngest of the Von Trapp daughters and the red-hooded dwarf murderess who appears to such striking effect at the end of “Don’t Look Now”. I wonder if there is an [...]
YouTube vs. The BBC
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BBC, high culture, idiocy, popular culture on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is someone on youtube.com who has made it his work to transfer some of the jewels of the BBC’s dramatic output of the last thirty years onto that site, and I would like to shake him by the hand and/or buy him a doughnut.
Thus it is that The Theban Plays by Sophocles (with a [...]
Feng Shui’ed to Fuck
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Death, Feng Shui, House on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wife is on a purging mission. If I didn’t know better, I would assume that she was eight months pregnant and the famous “nesting instinct” had kicked in in reverse. I came upon her (not like that, it’s not that kind of blog…) sweating and carting around bagfuls of toys and books for the charity [...]
“Where did you learn THAT word?”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family, Swearing on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Normally, this is something that we say to one of the children when they start using words like “Toilet”, “Ta” or “Night night”: the middle-class enzyme kicks in and we defend our vocabulary as if it were our fortress (and now is not the time to go into the fact that “vocabulary IS our fortress, [...]
“How It WILL Be”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Showdown on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have had an absolute show-down with Travesty Of All Things Gay.
Working with him is like trying to do your job, while at home there is a girlfriend who keeps phoning to say “I’m going to slit my wrists”, following up fifteen minutes later with “I’m going to take an overdose”. I think he doesn’t [...]
Exhaustion and Champagne
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crillon, Shakespeare, Work on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This has been an absolute shitter of a week, with so much to do that I have started workdays at 5am, and finished at 11pm on three occasions. Add to that a trip to Milan, and it’s no surprise that I’ve just had 14 hours’ sleep, and am looking forward to this Bank Holiday Weekend [...]
Big Balls and Small Balls
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Drunk on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wife and I went to a ball last night, along with Kind But Deadly Couple, Governmental Head of Communications With Filthy Laugh and Sardonic Scot, and any number of others.
The high point (also the low point) of the night was probably Woman Who Dressed As An Elf At Christmas (who was absolutely CLITTED), returning to [...]
Working With Creatives
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Briefing, Collaboration, Creatives, Planning on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had a fantastic session with Impossibly Chic Creative Director and Not Gay Gay Satan Creative Director. We held it in Madrid, where (even though it was a Public Holiday) we stayed talking about the creative territories for four briefs until nearly midnight.
This is the bit of my job that I absolutely love. I’m lucky [...]
Being Nice
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think I have achieved what professional success I have by being outwardly frosty, dour and withdrawn from people: who ISN’T going to want to be around someone like that and reward them with high-ranking positions and riches beyond the dreams of Croesus? This persona also gives me opportunities to be so blisteringly sarcastic, scatological of tongue and [...]
