Every so often here in Britain it snows. This usually happens in winter. We have a lot of people paid to predict these things, and plenty of others paid to prepare for them, but this always comes as an immense …
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This just made me laugh
It’s from The Oldie – a mag for old lags like me. Always full of good stuff.
Read MoreSo what’s your value proposition, pal?
Lo, and it comes to pass that every now and then, emerging from the endless swamps of the Lost Kingdom of Marketing Jargon, the Anointed High Priest of Pointless Bollocks brings forth a new Sacred Morsel of Bullshit. And, yea, …
Read MoreDarling, what’s all this “we” shit about?
This morning I read that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling says that though we face the worst recession of all developed countries we will pull through. It reminded me of an old radio serial featuring The Lone Ranger …
Read MoreThe curse of waffle – an Indian perspective
Has this ever happened to you? It happens to me all the time – and did again today. Somebody suggested I approach a possible client, so I went first to their website. For the life of me I couldn’t understand …
Read MoreSomething for the weekend
The video looks a bit squashed, but you get the idea. http://www.draytonbird.net/Draytons_blog/Forensics.wmv If you think it’s in bad taste, blame my partner Al, the degenerate swine. He’ll have to go.
Read MoreThe World Weather Conspiracy – Again
In the 1970s, desperate for money, I wrote anything for anyone. Chapters for books, speeches, ads, direct mail, all-singing, all dancing presentations – anything to stave off the bailiffs. And here we are 30 odd years later – not much …
Read MoreStrange things go on in the mind
Apropos of David Ogilvy, in 1985 he gave me a little booklet called “Type and Layout. Communicating – or just making pretty shapes” by Prof Colin Wheildon of New South Wales University. It was the first (and only) example of …
Read MoreNew David Ogilvy biography out now – Tells you what his biography failed to
If you’re interested in perhaps the most influential advertising man ever – which you surely should be – read The King of Madison Avenue, by Ken Roman. Few people knew David Ogilvy better than Ken, a former CEO of the …
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