One of the great lies, this protestation was a staple of my teenage years and my (pre-Wife) twenties (post-Wife, there was never any doubt that I was trying to get her into bed, up the aisle and make her mine forever). It was one of those things that you had to say to prove that [...]
Archive for August, 2008
“I’m Not Trying To Get You Into Bed”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, Apple, Brands, Matching Luggage, McDonald's, Nike, Sony on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Role Play
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family, Role Play, Wife on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Along with “workshop” and (a new dread phrase, uttered in all seriousness during an interview this) “stratecution”, “role play” is the sonic trigger than sends my bollocks shooting up inside my body for warmth and my whole body contorted in a silent rictus a la “The Scream”. However, some examples of it are easier to [...]
Words, Words, Words
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Planner, Advertising Planning, Ben Whishawe, Brand, David Tennant, Hamlet, Simon Russell Beale on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
David Tennant’s “Hamlet” opened last night to what appears to be pretty universally good notices. They’re not in the league that was accorded (to my mind, rightly) Simon Russell Beale (which won the plaudit from Benedict Nightingale in “The Times” of being “The best Hamlet in living memory”), nor to Ben Whishaw (who was good – [...]
Best Friend Pulls The Pin
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Anchorman", Best Friend, Family, Will Ferrell on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“You do that once more and I’m going to punch you in the ovaries, Straight in the babymaker.” So the great Will Ferrell announces to his female Nemesis in the comedy masterpiece that is “Anchorman” – and so a lunch date with Best Friend always ends, as she tries to scrabble for the bill and [...]
Things One Shouldn’t Say
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Save the Males", "Wall-E", Andrew Davies, Best Friend, Kathleen Parker, Men, Wife, Women on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first is relatively easy to deal with: “Wall-E” is shit. It’s over-length, smug and a masturbatory piece of indulgence from some (phenomenally talented animators). Of course there is some welcome sourness to the picture it paints of modern America – but that doesn’t excuse the self-indulgence of much of it. Wife and I were [...]
Digging for Victory
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged House on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the torrential floods that afflicted London (and a huge number of other areas) last year, our cellar was flooded. The most severe losses (aren’t they always?) were our photographs: all the baby photographs of the children and most of the surviving ones of late Mother in Law. The insurance covered us well, fortunately and [...]
