Wife and I have been given carte blanche by my parents to inflict the children on them for a week, so that Wife can find something she has not yet bought, and I can go and see my sister. This enables me to use the free ticket that Virgin Atlantic compensated me with when they [...]
Archive for June, 2008
A Trip To New York
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged New York, Virgin Atlantic on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Film Without Actors
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beauty and The Beast, Samuel Beckett, The Incredible Hulk on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Samuel Beckett wrote a piece called “Play Without Words”. I haven’t read it, though I imagine that it contained stage directions (probably destined for that remarkable woman, Billie Whitelaw) that consisted of “Breath. Pause. Breath. Breath. Pause. Breath. Die.” Anyway, today we all went to see the modern equivalent: a film without actors – “The [...]
“Is Kate Moss Pregnant?”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kate Moss, Moving, New York, Pregnant on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first time that Wife became pregnant, we invited our parents, Sister and Brother in Law around to the house for “drinks” (I daresay some of them had guessed why they had been invited). Apparently, Brother in Law had not guessed. Wife (in an atypically oblique way) made her announcement by asking our guests: “What [...]
Underwhelmed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Interviews, Strategy on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am spending roughly fifty percent of my time interviewing people at the moment – and not just Planners (though God knows, most of the ones that I have seen are stupefyingly bad), but Account Directors too – and I absolutely detest it. I’m a terrible interviewee myself. Veering wildly between unwelcome familiarity and the sort [...]
Changing My Mind
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Fembot, Planning on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I really hope that I’m not going to have to change my mind again. I am massively judgemental and absolute in my views on people – and I don’t enjoy having to re-think that position. However, it turns out that Fembot is actually not just super-efficient and good at her job (which always gets my [...]
Madrid. Again.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Frenchman Who Wants To Be Spanish, Madrid, Planning on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday sees a big presentation to a big Client. However, in about one hour, I am off to Madrid (where we are holding the meeting, on the grounds that the agency there is a real-life, honest to God palace, and tends to silence people) to start writing the fucking thing. Frenchman Who Wants To Be [...]
Chart Monkey
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Account Handler, Advertising, Fiona Shaw, Planning on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If one more Account Handler hovers at my door with a half-frightened look on their face, and then unleashes a request for “a couple of charts” on me, they will find a framed picture of Fiona Shaw as Medea hurtling towards their cowering forms. Fuck me! Is there ANYTHING worse in this job than someone [...]
The Eternal Meeting
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Fembot, Meetings, Sofa Gonk on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, my meeting started at 10am and finished at 5.50pm. I am tempted to leave that as the sum total of this entry, as I feel convinced that right-thinking people everywhere will know what that means, and the expressions of condolence will start flooding in. But I never could leave well enough alone, so I [...]
This Way To The Corporate Hostility Tent
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Corporate Hospitality, Drunk, Fucked on the bonnet of a car, Pimm's on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ah! Corporate Hospitality – as fine an example of an oxymoron as one may find in all the loose-stooled sewer that is marketing speak! The pretense that, given the option, both parties would CHOOSE to be where they are, laughing at each other’s terrible jokes and re-telling stories so ancient that they have grown a [...]
The Un-Row
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Winehouse, Creative Review, Travesty of All Things Gay on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vaguely disappointing return to work on Friday. Not because it was hard on the back of a thirteen hour flight which, for all its Business Class glamour, saw me in the seat next to the kitchen (which is always both noisy and smelly), but because the much anticipated fight with Travesty Of All Things Gay [...]
