Stupid PR companies don’t you just love them. Great entertainment on a wet afternoon. For the third week running – despite my sarcastic prompts I have been sent a breathless Friday email. – “Hello Idiot PR is expanding! Idiot PR are looking for new fresh talent across various departments. If you are passionate about brands, […]
It is nice that the Telegraph has reminded the great unwashed about our Easter stunt for Thornton’s last year and the effect that it has had on the recent sales figures. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/ Thornton’s pockets sweet sales While high street consumers have been reluctant to delve into their pockets of late, Thornton’s has proved they still indulge […]
I find Andy Rowell’s blog compelling; his recent article on the The Covert Pro-Nuclear Push in Schools is very disturbing. Time to dust down my DVD of Edge of Darkness http://www.spinwatch.org/content/blogcategory/248/30/
Family weddings, funerals and birthdays always throw up the black sheep of the family. At a recent shindig a distant relative of my wife turned up in his rather extraordinary chrome penis extension. The guests, like proverbial fish wives, gossiped relentlessly – inebriated by vintage champagne and in hush tones speculated on the source of […]
I saw a Neval motorbike on the street earlier today, and I had only one thought. My great friend and first freelance client was the crazy Marcel Steiner who ran his Theatre off the side of one twenty years ago. Marcel is a forgotten genius. I found the obituary I penned for the Guardian. He […]
Times are tough in the communications business and it’s going to be a grim 2008 if we believe the statistics. The IPA noted that in the last three months of 2007 there was a large cut back on marketing spend by the major brands. In fact, it was the biggest fall in spending for the […]
Roland Butler, the famous circus publicist came up with a great idea to publicise the listings for local circuses. Most newspapers in Chicago would not print circus listings which was obviously very costly to the circus owners. Butler created a fictitious eleven year old from Chicago who couldn’t write from left to right so wrote […]
The media’s feeding frenzy on poor old Britney’s latest crisis has suggested that further slips into the pit of despair, have actually been a boon to her record sales. Clearly the media who feed from her problems balance it out by suggesting that they can gaup and plunder column inches and that somehow it does […]
THERE was a strong wind gusting through the cornfields as Kenny Richey arrived at his brother’s rural Ohio home, ahead of tomorrow’s return to Edinburgh – delayed a day by fog. He strolled from the car, stuck his nose in the air and ambled for the front door. It is likely Richey will be heading […]
Jim Moran strikes again; this time for a well established piano manufacturer in the U.S. He publicised the fact that Professor James Burt from Jamestown had broken the world record for continuous piano playing. The Professor sat in the window of a famous New York department store for days and nights without food or drink […]