I can remember exactly where I was as the 9/11 atrocity unfolded. I was in Edinburgh then Brussels. The Brussels trip was for a pan-European advertising pitch on 10/11. As Gerry (creative director), Giles (bag carrier) and I dashed out of the agency, an account manager came dashing in saying, …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDaSvRO9xA&] This Lancashireman is struggling to compete with the extreme, and extremely competitive, privations described by the four Yorkshiremen. Working a twelve hour overnight shift in the (now defunct) Rathbone’s Bakery in Wigan may not be as bad as licking a motorway clean before breakfast, but it felt pretty close …
11.30 pm Heading to bed. Light on under the door to eldest daughter’s bedroom. 11.31 pm WiFi modem on. Flickering LED light indicates that bandwidth is being used. Coincidence? 11.32 pm WiFi modem switched off. 11.33 pm Light under bedroom door goes out. Assume that iPod Touch, rendered useless for …
Culling is usually only required when natural selection, or more precisely nature itself, fails to control relative populations of species in an ecosystem. It’s either natural selection or culling. One or t’other. Well I’ve used both to reduce the number of people I follow on Twitter. One of my …
F*ck, sh*t, p*ss, c*nt. People are overly coy with their use of vowels in four letter words on Twitter. To avoid the risk of upsetting people, and (woe of woes) becoming the victim of a mass unfollowing, they replace said vowels with an *, or a £, or a $. …
This blog is not immune to turn-of-year introspective reflection. And if collating your favourite posts of the year is good enough for BBH Labs, then it’s good enough for me. But I thought I’d do it with a bit of a twist. The Labs guys curated the ten posts that …
Norman Mailer told me to stop being a fucking pussy. I went to see him speak at the book festival and asked him a question at the end. What did he most regret doing, what did he most regret not doing, and which was the bigger regret of the two? …
I got up at 5.10 a.m. this morning. I downed a pint of water, which I really didn’t feel like doing. I looked at email and Facebook for 5 minutes, mainly to kill time whilst I became properly awake. I changed. I warmed up. And by 5.30 I was off …
