18.12.06
Gone
VNU Business Media Europe has just been sold to 3i. We'd only just been bought by Valcon as well. No idea what will happen, but I'm sure it will stay interesting.
Reason #539 not to leave the camera behind
I walked past the long-closed Marshall Street Baths just 'round the corner from my office this morning. The door was open, so I looked in, saw a couple of people and asked if I could take a peek. The Baths have been closed as long as I've worked at VNU, but I've never had a chance to look inside. The interior is clean and dry, and quite stunning. I was lugging a test laptop in, so didn't have room for both lunch and a camera. Curses.
looking at the bottom of the pool, there were a couple of gaffer-taped tripos marks in the shallow end, so someone has been filming in there.
The good (nay great) news is that, thanks to a bunch of people who care about it, the Baths are scheduled to re-open in 2009. I probably won't be working around the corner then, but I will definitely try to visit.
looking at the bottom of the pool, there were a couple of gaffer-taped tripos marks in the shallow end, so someone has been filming in there.
The good (nay great) news is that, thanks to a bunch of people who care about it, the Baths are scheduled to re-open in 2009. I probably won't be working around the corner then, but I will definitely try to visit.
11.12.06
Second horseman of the apocalypse arrives
Latest from Romeike: June Sarpong is to present WAG's Boutique. I believe the next sign of the impending apocalypse will go something along the lines of Vernon Kay presenting Family Fortunes in a cod-ironic, seventies-suited style. The two competing families will be made up of D list celebrities and their wall-eyed relatives. Oh.
7.12.06
Reality jumps the shark
From today's Romeike bulletin. I'm really not sure where to start, and that has nothing to do with the hangover under which I am currently labouring following our client party last night.
Let's just say that we're a bit screwed if we start putting people who have no discernable talent other than the ability to spend money up on a pedestal. Yes, I know, there is also a knowing, ironic meeja take on all of this, but that only applies to knowing, ironic meeja retards, and they make up around .00001% of the population. There are people out there that thought Nathan Barley was a blueprint for trendy urban living, and not a vicious parody of trustafarians who got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't looking.
Let's just say that we're a bit screwed if we start putting people who have no discernable talent other than the ability to spend money up on a pedestal. Yes, I know, there is also a knowing, ironic meeja take on all of this, but that only applies to knowing, ironic meeja retards, and they make up around .00001% of the population. There are people out there that thought Nathan Barley was a blueprint for trendy urban living, and not a vicious parody of trustafarians who got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't looking.
National Broadcast
Stops and Starts
- WAG's Boutique is a new show presented by June Sarpong that will follow two teams of wives and girlfriends of UK's top footballers as they set up and run two rival fashion boutiques in Central London. The show, which is produced by Talkback Thames, will first broadcast on ITV2 from 30th January 2007, between 21:00 and 22:00.
6.12.06
Waggle Dance
Waggle Dance doesn't get much love, but it's one of my favourite pieces of Redlands-built singletrack. Most of that is to do with this set of corners. ironically, they were put in by accident after we found a colony of ground nesting bees on the original line. Seb and I dug in a serious set of foundations for this dropping berm, expecting it to be ripped to pieces in weeks. but it's still going strong after three years.
