I sort of made a vow to myself that I wouldn’t let this blog become a Bill Cosby-esque “Kids do the funniest things!” site for cute reminescences – but I tell you something: kids do the funniest things. While I was away in Langkawi, Wife was left on pancake and Lent patrol at home, where [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Not Getting the Point of Lent
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family, Ken Loach, Lent on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jeremy Bullmore – Adman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Jeremy Bullmore, NABS on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are many things to warrant a feeling of worthlesness on refelction that one has not measured out one’s life with coffee spoons, but with granulated, freeze-dried-for-greater-aroma-and taste-coffee. Nescafe, MasterCard, Carling – this is what I have “done” – and many brands less celebrated (and some, rather more so). And then there are the people: [...]
What a Piece of Work Is A Man.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Oscars, Sean Penn on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“…how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable…” So: Sean Penn won the Oscar – and although I haven’t seen “Milk”, I have admired him unreservedly in everything that I have seen him in. And then he goes and makes a speech like this – and one realises what [...]
Highs and Lows
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, American Diva Planning Friend, Fearless Leader, Langkawi, Old Friend at Work, Planning, The Smallest Media Planner in the World on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just returned from the Malaysian island of Langkawi: a ludicrously idyllic spot where we held a conference – or what American Diva Planning Friend refers to as “Fearless Leader’s Prom” (and it is true that Fearless Leader approaches it with all the excitement and soon-to-be-disappointed expectations of a young girl trembling on the doorstep before [...]
Fiona Shaw – Slipping Away From Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Mother Courage", "The Good Person of Sichuan", Brecht, Deborah Warner, Fiona Shaw, National Theatre on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am alarmed. Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw’s “Mother Courage” is now being written of in terms of a Summer slot at the National Theatre – that means an average of one Fiona Shaw London production every eighteen months, and as I have written before, on that basis, she is not going to get through [...]
A Comeuppance for Travesty Of All Things Gay
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Travesty of All Things Gay on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh happy day! Travesty of All Things Gay appears to have been hoist by his own petard! The client from whose business Travesty removed me with such haste has contacted me and asked me out to lunch. According to Enthusiastic Account Guy, when informed by Travesty that I was off their business, the immediate response [...]
Trumping The Jesus Toy
Posted in Uncategorized on February 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I think Wife has excelled herself. Yesterday, Eldest Son revealed another in the list of “things we’d like to erase from his character before it’s too late”. He and his class were changing for P.E., when Youngest Son saw one of his friends – one of his best friends, in fact – wearing what Youngest [...]
On Balance
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Travesty of All Things Gay on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have had the strangest week. I have to confess to being torn between enormous disappointment and enormous relief: disappointment because I think I have been treated very shoddily by My Agency; relieved because I am now no longer working with Travesty Of All Things Gay. It’s a truth that Client Services Directors are the [...]
The Wisdom of Edmund Burke
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Edmund Burke, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Travesty of All Things Gay on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“All that is needed for evil to thrive, is for good people to do nothing” wrote the great thinker, author and all-round party boy, Edmund Burke – and the man had a point. On the plus side, my working relationship with Travesty of All Things Gay is at an end. No more subterfuge, no more [...]
Prague
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Exhausted Creative Director, Fearless Leader, Prague, Woody A on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fearless Leader, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director and I all went to Prague last week, ostensibly to assess our local agency’s suitability for handling specific projects but (as it turned out) actually farting around and having a marvellous time with our people from the Agency, including the much-missed Permanently Exhausted Creative [...]
