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George Best falling off his last barstool
The pathetic George Best is near death. Poetic that he, complete with retrofitted liver, should die on the same day Britain allows its pubs to open 24 hours a day.
Swoooooosh
November 23, 2005
Humbled. I’m an okay swimmer for a hobbyist triathlete, which means at almost any health club I’m the fastest guy in the pool. Not last night. My pool’s divided into three sections – fast, faster, and insane – and the ‘insane’ lane is where I’ve made my home. 25m is just about big enough for […]
Turning my back on bacchus
November 22, 2005
I’m thinking of giving up alcohol. Wine has always been my drug of choice. The history-soaked terroir of France, celebrated in labels tapestried with breathless tales of five hundred castles; the velvety chocolate mudslides of Italy and Spain; the fat burgerlike reds of Australia and California, packaged and consumer-friendly as a Ready Meal. I even […]
Barf!
November 17, 2005
A fast-moving day in my rootin’ tootin’, project-managin’, conference-callin’ life. Into town. Outatown. All around the town, in fact. And when the town is London it all just seems to happen on a bigger scale. I don’t hit the office until 5pm and I’m fizzing after a new business win. Two hours later I head […]
Cool things to do in London (1)
November 13, 2005
Walk into the amazing new Apple Store in London and wander around nonchalantly bringing up your home page on all the Macs. (Then walk around more furtively checking who’s reading your blog.)
Out of the ad industry!
November 12, 2005
With a shock yesterday, I realised I’m no longer part of the advertising industry. With a final invoice paid last week, there’s no part of my income I now get from dreaming up campaigns. I’m strangely happy. That loosely-defined mob of multinationals, agency brands, creative boutiques and marketing services companies I’ve worked with for a […]
Blair’s misstep
November 10, 2005
Blair suffers his first Commons defeat. Oh happy day. This massive extension of police powers, letting them hold terror suspects without charge for an incredible quarter of a year, has been struck down to 28 days max. So Police State Britain – and its Supreme Commander Blair – has suffered a setback, if not a […]
Hospital in copyright neverland
November 4, 2005
One of those rare news items that really makes you think rather than take sides by the second paragraph. London’s Great Ormond St Hospital was granted sales rights from ‘Peter Pan’ forever by its author, and the hospital’s done well out of it. Now Google’s publishing it online, and the sick kids are crying foul. […]
November 24, 2005
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