Archive for February, 2010

I read through a proposal yesterday and was totally blown away. It looked, smelled and, I’m sure, would have tasted lovely. Everything was on brand and I could see it was oozing success. This morning I re-read the proposal and you know what? There’s almost no substance. In those 15 pages, nothing had been committed to and nothing actually said – never has so little looked so damned nice! Of course, this says very little about my own rigour – was I really like a six year old in front of a fruit machine yesterday? I don’t know.

But I do know this – it’s easy to get dazzled by the lights.

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No introduction need apart from to say, my friend James Kent was at the movies the other day and half way through a member of the noisy audience shouted ‘Come on my Son’ at the screen …

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If you’re at work there’s one sat near you now. Someone who loves to spoil the ending of a film you’ve yet to see. Here’s a tip. That person, the one who’s likely to spoil an ending is either: overpromoted and not bright enough to be doing the job they’re in, feeling like they’ve been passed over for promotion. Eiither way, they have something to prove – and they use the information they’ve gained by watching a movie as a power play. Never trust them – with information, sweets or your email passwords. If they can spoil the end of a film, they will think of nothing at wrecking your career. You’ve been warned.

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It does interest me, although not that much, that certain attributes tend to find certain people. It can’t be a coincidence, for example, that UFO’s only ever land in the gardens of people who dribble when they’re being interviewed on TV. You can’t tell me it’s a fluke that everyone who is gifted the ability to read the future from a crystal ball always looks a bit mystical and witchy. And people who are blessed with a combination of racism and arrogance seem be those people who find it easier to get on TV news interviews.

I can also be no coincidence whatsoever that the gentle art of snobbery always seems to find itself inside the hollow souls that you dread being stuck near at parties.

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I am so truly incredulous that the body set up to stop MP’s stealing money via expenses is going to cost six times more than the money the MPs were stealing in the first place, that I can’t even put pen to paper.

I’ve had to transfer my mind elsewhere – into the world of music – to stop me thinking of it. £6.5 million per year, every single year, to stop MP’s wetting their beaks. See I can’t do it …

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