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This is horrible. I used to be able to spill out a fantastic brief on just about anything but I've now got brief fear. It's taken days to finesse, when it usually should take a matter of hours. Doubly frustrating that ten years ago, I could shit a top level campaign over four days when now "fragmentation" means that it's bolt-on bollocks of ( Read more... )

About a week ago, I stumbled on this ( Read more... )

Compare and contrast Yesterday's Hero by the Bay City Rollers with The Card Cheat by The Clash. I'd hoped that such a discovery would never be made, but alas, my iconoclastic streak welled up and I had to let it out into the public domain ( Read more... )

Friday was not helped by the threat of the Trading Standards people bearing down on me. The problem? A BT DECT phone for which I write the content was picked up by them. Thanks to a man with no arms in Blackburn saving up his disadvantaged pennies for one and discovering that where there is a headphone illustrated on the box, but it actually comes ( Read more... )

I was called today by someone trying to get in touch with John Cooper Clarke. The best bet is to send a postcard to whichever place he's gigging during the next week or so and he'll pick it up there. Now, he's a quite lovely chap, frankly, a national treasure and Johnny Clarke is, however, a tad eccentric, doesn't hold with mobiles and relies on ( Read more... )