Someone wise once said that life is not only stranger than you imagine, it is stranger than you can imagine. My friend George Machun, trapped in the deadening toils of academe at San Francisco State University, recently put up some …
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God’s holy trousers! Your brilliant wit can cause real problems. I think it cost me a client
The other day John Walsh let fly a blast of condemnation in The Independent about the latest Diesel campaign, which he headed A dose of something unlovely. Here’s what he said: Do you ever see an advertisement that really turns …
Read MoreNews from the department of “Who Would have Guessed It?”
I’ve almost giving up reading most of the papers. That’s because so much is devoted to things you don’t need to know or know all too depressingly well. This morning, for example, there was a feature on which female “stars” …
Read MoreHurricane? Another dreadful few hours I’d almost forgotten
In 1992 I went to stay in Coral Gables for a couple of months – pretending to write a book, or maybe I really was. Talk about the wrong place at the wrong time. We were bang slap in the …
Read MoreWhich is more ridiculous? The sunglass maker or the vagina evangelist? And how has the human race survived?
If you had to decide who comes out with more undiluted shit, politicians, marketers or journalists, you’d have a tricky time, believe me. On the plane back to London, at a loss for what to read, I turned to the …
Read MoreAnother failure on my part: I didn’t make myself clear, Lorraine
Two days ago I talked about Rowan Gormley’s unique Naked Wines club as a rare example of genuine social marketing. Lorraine Rogerson, who I see lives on the Turks and Caicos Islands, lucky beast, wrote on facebook saying, “I like …
Read MoreI stand before you astounded …. by a wild goose chase
Since as I remarked not long ago nobody learns history now you are excused for not knowing anything about the gent on the left. He is Clive of India, who won battles which transformed the position of the British in …
Read MoreA miracle! I’m back from the dead … Plus what’s missing from most social media?
“Back from the dead?” I hear you cry Am I Lazarus? Or did you think I was referring to a ghastly two day birthday hangover, you cynic? Not at all. Let me explain. I am in Sweden to speak at …
Read MoreWhat should you invest in now? How about something worth more than gold?
I don’t envy you if you want to invest. America is broke and getting broker. Europe is in chaos with the weak getting weaker and the strong getting fed-up with supporting them. Britain is no better, embroiled in wars we …
Read MoreNot sorted out your summer holidays yet? How about a trip to the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan?
I get regular messages from my friend Greg Waggett, an ex-army chap who makes his living in dangerous places. (He also used to correspond regularly with David Ogilvy, but that’s another story) Here’s his latest, only of interest to those …
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