There’s a great Mitchell and Webb sketch, wherein they play an author and an editor, with the latter giving endless recommendations to the former, and then withdrawing them with the coda of “…not that, obviously. YOU’RE the creative one.” After minutes of this, the author is left aware that he is being asked to do [...]
Posts Tagged ‘American Diva Planning Friend’
When Planners Get Together – “I Don’t Know…”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, American Diva Planning Friend, Design, Mitchell and Webb, Open Plan, Planners on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Search of Mojo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Advertising Planning, American Diva Planning Friend, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Old Friend at Work on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written previously about the lack of appetite that everyone around me appears to have for their job at the moment. A new entrant into the fray has been Enthusiastic Account Guy, who was telling me during our day trip to China that he also felt that he’d lost his sense of purpose and enthusiasm: [...]
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 [...]
The Current Reality
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Diva Planning Friend, AMVBBDO, Recession, Sainsburys on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the things that alarms me most about marketing’s reaction to the current economic crisis (or recession, depending on where you’re living) is that it has become an all-consuming (and almost entirely misunderstood) context for all discussions had, and all decisions made. “What are we going to do in the current economic climate?” has [...]
American Diva Planning Friend Comes Up Trumps
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged America, American Diva Planning Friend, Golf Umbrellas on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Below is American Diva Friend’s “build” on the Golf Umbrellas’ issue – one that has preoccupied me much of late. I think she has done VERY WELL:- Golf umbrellas spring forth from New York City. Where no one actually plays golf. (Too much walking around). NYC (and all of America, for that matter) is the [...]
Office Mayhem
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Diva Planning Friend, Bookshelves, World's Greatest P.A. on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 30th June 2007 So, for a while now, myself and American Diva Friend have been awaiting transfer to our new offices. This has involved leaving our old offices and being transferred to “holding offices” – by the loos on the Creative Floor. If you are interested in the bowel evacuation schedules, habits and (grotesquely) [...]
“In America, That Would Be A Lawsuit”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Diva Planning Friend, French Account Guy Who Wants to be Spanish on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, 24th September 2007 American Diva Friend is back from Japan, where her experience was the same as mine in Bangkok: a combination of the excitement of the opportunity there and screeching, noir-ish horror at how uneven the quality of the people that we have in the region to tackle the challenge is… Anyway, this [...]
Pumpkin – Who Knew?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Diva Planning Friend on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 25th November 2007 Don’t worry: this isn’t a review of a recent, unwelcome Jeanette Winterson novel (actually, I like JW: I even wrote to tell her so – and pretty remarkably, got a reply from her): it’s a reaction to American Diva Friend’s Thanksgiving Party – which was FANTASTIC. To use an Americanism: “Pumpkin [...]
The Move
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Diva Planning Friend, Bookshelves, Fearless Leader, Moving Offices on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 12th January 2008 I have been at my current Agency for fourteen months. In that time, I have moved my office four times: most recently, yesterday. I will reward long-term readers of this monstrosity with specific references to the placement of my bookshelves, and the level of CEO involvement that they warrant this time, [...]
Oh Just GET OUT
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged American Diva Planning Friend, Sofa Gonk on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 2nd February 2008 The office move has gone well. For me. I now have a bigger, lighter, quieter office on the corner of the building. I am next to American Diva friend (“Would you like a GREEN TEA?” – something she says with semi-incredulity, as if she’s found herself offering me a goblet of [...]
