Exciting news: it’s all going wrong for Box-Ticking Account Guy. My process-happy Nemesis appears to be losing his grip on the shiny spreadsheet of process, and instead a joyful Bacchanalia of “seeing how we go”, “let’s just think of the story we want to tell” and “creativity”, with me dancing cloven-footed at the front of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Enthusiastic Account Guy’
The Forces Gather
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Box-TIcking Account Guy, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Planner in My Own Image, Swearing Account Director on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Nastying Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, Box-TIcking Account Guy, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Good Friend in PR, Planning, Process, Routine on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Good Friend in PR was over in London recently. As ever, it was good to see him and we had a great time in a variety of river-based locations from Chiswick to the Royal Festival Hall. However, there was a bit of grit in the oyster – in terms of his assessment of THIS VERY [...]
The Global Home Redecoration Tour
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best PA in the World, California, Conference, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Old Friend at Work, The Global Home Redecoration Tour, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on January 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Word just in: our next global conference is to be in Los Angeles. Ours is a carefully tuned, commercial business, of course. We are in the business of asset creation through the power of ideas, so it’s only right that we take our business responsibilities seriously. Advertising is not an art (though it shares some [...]
Birthday Boy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best PA in the World, Birthday, Daughter, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Family, Fearless Leader, Old Friend at Work, Royal Albert Hall, Swearing Account Director, The Messiah, Wife on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m 39. I began the day with a fantastic pile of presents from the children (ie: from Wife), with Daughter providing a commentary to my opening of every present that was expertly timed to reveal what the content of each parcel was JUST before I opened it: “That one’s a book, Daddy.”; “That one’s chocolates…” [...]
“…And Then We Could Eat Our Own Shit.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eating Shit, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Jakarta, Simon Cowell, Workshop on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’ve banged on long enough and often enough on this site about my loathing for the horrifying cliché of lazy thinking that is “the workshop” – but I’m afraid that I just can’t help myself. I’ve just returned from Jakarta (oh – and by the way, it’s a shit-hole. Just to be clear, the hotel [...]
Jakarta
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Enthusiastic Account Guy, Jakarta, Workshop on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I don’t want to go to Jakarta. It follows then, as night follows day, that Jakarta is exactly where I AM going on Tuesday night. This arse of a trip is designed for one stupid reason only: the holding of that behemoth of contemporary corporate life: the workshop. I won’t witter on about the ghastliness [...]
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: [...]
Angry and Disappointed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Favourite Client, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Friday saw me fuming at Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director, but falling short of the full shouty-crackers, as he has the resilience and maturity of Daughter, and I saw no point in entering the weekend in a really bad mood. Essentially, he didn’t show up for work all week (two days [...]
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 [...]
Escaping Travesty of All Things Gay
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Enthusiastic Account Guy, Travesty of All Things Gay on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It looks like ToATG may not feature in my future to any great extent. The impasse that we appear to have arrived at may well mean that I (and Enthusiastic Account Guy) decide to say “Fuck it!” and move on to the next big challenge – but without the destructive force of Travesty careening off [...]
