Kenneth ‘Witty’ Williams
Kenneth Williams to Neil Gaiman, 1985: “I’m a cult. I’m an enormous cult. People stop in the street and point to me and say look, it’s that cult from the television.”
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Post It Paradise
Damon’s Post-it Office. Oh the pranksters!
The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
“People, even in this day and age, are still frightened about death. They won’t talk about it and it’s such a shame because it’s part of life. So, why not organise it like you would organise an anniversary or a birthday? Let’s get it right.”
Channel 4 really pull out some crackers sometimes. True, it was morbid, and maybe a touch voyeuristic, but The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off showed the last 4 months of Jonny’s life, as he courageously battled an awful skin condition that developed into cancer. He had a ball though – planegliding, hosting a houseparty, even visiting 10 Downing Street. He was also the narrator – and was all the more moving as he had the amazing prescience to narrate his own funeral. Humourous, uplifting, courageous and even to the end raising money for his charity DEBra – there was a big man inside that distorted body.
EVolvoing Marketing
You’ve seen that Volvo documentary about all the people from the same town buying the same Volvo on the same day, yes? Here’s the link if you haven’t. Turns out, as you should have suspected, that it’s a fake ad. Even the director came out and said he was conned.
But here’s the rub: the director (and his website) are also a figment of the ad agency’s furtive mind (discussed here). What we have here is a “spoof within a spoof” – the next step in marketing confusion…
TinyURL – a Wired article
Wired.com investigates the ultra-useful web tool tinyurl.com. What is tinyurl? Well, I’ve even used it for the link on this post, like the useful thing it is.
Dasani – The secret
What’s the secret to Dasani, Coca Cola’s new bottled water?
1. Go to www.dasani.com
2. Click on ‘downloads’
3. Hover your mouse over the woman.
(via bloggerheads)
UPDATE: Dasani seem to have removed the offending word now…
Ulrika – Ex Boyfriends Are Everywhere
“What on earth must poor Ulrika be
thinking? Two ex-boyfriend sex-fiends on the same front page.
That’s not something that happens every day. Let’s hope she
doesn’t blame herself. All eyes on Sven….” (also from The Friday Thing)
Obesity – Throwing The Jowell In
“Chocolate bar slogans will be rewritten to highlight the negative effects of eating them, for example ‘a Mars a day makes you fat and ugly’, or ‘Lion -
it’s a bastard of a bar’, or ‘it’s the air in the Aero that gives
you wind and blocks your capillaries’…. The names of chocolate
bars will be changed to give more a accurate suggestion of their
content; Rolos will become ‘Cholesterolos’, Kit Kat will become
‘Kit Kalorie’, and Cadbury’s Mini Eggs will become
‘Phenylethylamini Eggs’.” (via The Friday Thing)
The Passion Of The Christ – fictitious.
The Passion Of The Christ* – end credits.
(* A film by Mel Gibson. Loads of hoohaa about it. Read it all here.)
Note to Self re CMS
Note to self re CMS: ExpressionEngine and textpattern.com
