February 2012
2 posts
My brother knows my weird taste in music better...
January 2012
2 posts
“How often do you hear the marketing person say, “that’s a neat idea,...”
– Seth’s Blog: Do ads work?
BBC NEWS | Magazine | A prediction that's a safe... →
“We’ve reached a turning point. A madness has gone out of fashion: the madness of behaving as if only too much can be enough. There will always be another madness, but not that one. From now on a man will have to be as dumb as an petrodollar potentate to think that anyone will respect him for sitting on a gold toilet in a private jumbo jet.”
- Clive James
2009: The New Rules - Telegraph →
“Because nothing is safe, one is freer to try and to fail.”
November 2008
1 post
January 2008
3 posts
“There is nothing inevitable about young people from deprived backgrounds ending...”
– From a letter to the Times, December 2006.
December 2007
3 posts
“The magazine’s relentless focus on high-end consumption as a literal way of life...”
– Adam Greenfield on Monocle magazine.
“Anyone can be fit. It’s being hard that’s hard.”
– Richard Askwith, Feet in the Clouds