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Honda 1 : Nike 0

Twitter went nuts over the last few days about the full-length-feature-version Nike World Cup ad. This one. But I just don’t get it. It’s the same old Nike formula. Yes it’s an epic. But it’s not “epic”. Yes I smiled at the Homer Simpson / Ronaldo vignette. Yes (big fucking …

Going Dutch in social spaces

On my last trip to the Netherlands I took the train from Schipol into Amsterdam. If my kids had been there, they’d have been all excited about the double-decker train carriages. But what I like best about Dutch trains is the lack of gratuitous, pseudo-service announcements. The Dutch treat you …

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67, on arrival Midwestern American airport greater xxxxxx area. Flight xxxxxx. Date xxxxxx. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name : Operation Havoc. Chuck Palahniuk is an extreme dude. Correction, I have no idea what kind of dude Chuck Palahniuk …

Mongol Rally – reasons to be cheerful (and fearful?)

Trepido, trepidas, trepidat. Trepidamus, trepidatis, trepidant. From the first declension Latin verb Trepidare. (To hurry with alarm, be in confusion, be agitated, be disturbed). All of the above currently apply to me. “Be disturbed” A good friend of mine recently paid a visit to the UK from his home in …