December 2008
19 posts
Merry Christmas!
This will be my last post before Christmas - unless fortunes blesses me with more than 20 minutes between eggnogs - so this is my chance to wish you and yours a Merry and Festive Non Denomination Winter Solstice and Associated Malarkey.
Things I have learned this year:
1) When it comes to design and build, there is no such thing as Too Over Budget.
2) Sometimes a chap needs a push.
3) Putting...
Mightier
What you’re looking at here is no less than the Next Thing That Brands Who Are Interested In Digital Marketing Should Be Exploring.
And that is a bona-fide Joe Saunders guarantee.
Some genius has editted Harvey so that it features only the parts with Josephine Hull in them. Which is a strange, strange thing to do, let’s face it, but its does allow me to round out today’s semi-theme of Curiously Long Posts About Little Regarded Films And Actors with my favourite old film and my favourite little regarded actress*.
*And when I say “little regarded” I...
Those last couple of weeks of the American election campaign were littered with Awesome Things To See On The Internet and, while I definately saw it at the time, someone just pushed this video under my nose. I’d entirely forgotten how indescribably excellent it is. Just in case you missed it.
It’s Always Fair Weather isn’t the best of the Comden/Green, Kelly/Donnen musicals - and to be honest I always get it mixed up with American In Paris (because it’s got all those slightly over-indulgent Kelly dance digressions) and On The Town (because, duh!).
But it is unique in that its one of the few films that’s remembered only for one scene. This one:
Ask anyone...
Safety Dance
No but seriously, it never got better than this.
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Manchester votes no to congestion charge
My well-reasoned response:
Fuck you, Manchester.
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Floored
I’m being super-duper busy and important at the moment; splitting my time between some freelance crisis management and desperately trying to get the living room finished before my family arrive for our first Christmas in Manchester.
I only mention it because I want to stress how tired I am at the moment. And when I get tired, my bladder moves closer to my eyes.
So when I chanced upon this...
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How companies should act
This widely linked story about a recent attempt by Ford to control use of its logos and graphical assets online should be required reading for…well…everyone.
Whenever I read one of these stories about lawyers for [Insert Corporate Monolith here] acting like douchbags, I always get the mental image of a gang of drunken cowboys wandering into a quiet frontier town and attempting to...
Very succinctly put. →
WatchYes. Its a walrus playing a saxophone.
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Debenham's FAIL
Dave Gorman’s post over here reminded me of my own fist-shaking, rage-inducing Post Office moment this week. We got a note through the door from the postman telling us that the Postie had tried to deliver SOMETHING EXCITING to us but had been unable to because insufficient postage had been paid by the sender. Long story short, if we wanted it we’d have to pop into town and hand over...
Oooh. Oooh. Oooh. Awesome song alert! Amanda Palmer is my new favourite person ever.
Being totally ignorant, I have ignored Dresden Dolls entirely, but this solo stuff is really working for me. All that indie-cred and grrrrrrrrlyness (which I univerally love but have never been cool enough to carry off) is tempered by the fact that Ben Folds produced the record and thus the whole thing is...