I’m posting this because it’s kinda funny. But at the same time, it’s not. But it kind of is.
It’s not funny because I think there’s nothing more important than an informed, passionate client. I’ve worked with some great ones. They’ve elevated my game. A great client can make up for any short-comings on the agency team. That said, this is kinda funny.
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The last book book I read was “A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali“. After this horrifying account of Rwanda, I was ready for some good old-fashioned hippy lit about a bunch of people who just want to kill themselves. Earle does a great job of setting up his main characters, establishing place and giving us enough reason to stick around for the finish.
I liked “I’ll never get out of here alive” for a lot of the same reasons why I liked “Jim Giraffe“. These are slightly surreal, quirky, easy-to-read novels about unbelievable things happening to very believable characters. It’s fun.
Here’s what the Guardian had to say: Steve Earle‘s debut novel borrows the title of Williams’s final, posthumous release; though some would say it’s a minor miracle that Earle is still around to participate in this world at all. In the early 1990s, Earle’s songwriting career derailed in spectacular fashion when he received a jail term for drugs and firearms offences. But at the age of 56 he has settled into his seventh marriage (two of which were to the same woman), while joining Kinky Friedman and Rosanne Cash among the small but distinguished corpus of country musicians with parallel literary careers.
Read the rest here.
TweetEpisode 1 of Shit Girls Say is pretty funny and worth a look.
Nothing more to say about it. It’s just fun.
TweetNow that YouTube is the new, free TV for advertisers it’s inevitable that we’ll see more of these self deprecating efforts to appear hip. This would have been funnier with a bit more edge but it’s still worth a look.
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This copy stinks like a rotten egg.
No doubt, the adjective “new” was mandated by the creative brief. But, in this case, it results in an absurd form of ambiguity. It begs the question, “how much for a used sandwich?”
Adjectives that qualify nouns are sometimes necessary. More often than not, they’re just reckless.
And why the “each” after $1.99? Isn’t sandwich singular? We can probably hang that one on legal.
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Thanks to the awesome talent Elliot Smith for finding this site. Hipster Ipsum lets designers use place-holder font based on Hipster lingo instead of the traditional Lorem Impsum text. It’s fun.
If Hipster lifestyle is your thing or the thing you hate most, check out Stuff Hipsters Hate or buy the book by the same name. It’s funnier than you might think it would be.
Fonts in “The Periodic Table of Typefaces” are arranged by family, and according to their ranks on a series of “Best Of” font fave lists from around the design world.
This makes a great wall poster.
Read more: http://www.dwell.com/articles/periodic-table-of-typefaces.html#ixzz1hvleAdUI
TweetI love the simplicity of this idea. Although this is an ad, it’s also a great story. Have a look and imagine what you could do.
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The Wheatsheaf Literary Society hard at work on recommendations for your Christmas book list. It's a tough job but someone has to do it.
Still wondering what to buy the real man for Christmas?
Here is a list of manly books, read, discussed and recommended by members of the Wheatsheaf Literary Society. Of course, most real men are hoping for a bottle of peaty, stinky Lagavulin. But if you’re going to cheap out and go with a novel, these are fine.
A Fan’s Notes Frederick Exley
A Fraction of the Whole Steve Toltz
A Man in Full Tom Wolfe
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali Gil Courtemanche
Barney’s Version Mordecai Richler
Billy Bathgate E.L. Doctorow
Blood Meridien Cormack McCarthy
Chump Change David Eddie
Dirty Sweet John McFetridge
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Faceless Killers Henning Menkell
Factotum Charles Bukowski
Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
Flaubert’s Parrot Julian Barnes
For Whom The Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Getting Away With Murder Howard Engel
Gould’s Book of Fish Richard Flanagan
High Fidelity Nicolas Hornby
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
I Know This Much is True Wally Lamb
LAMB. The Gospel According to Biff Christopher Moore
Legends of the Fall Jim Harrison
Master and Commander Patrick O’Brian
Ninety-two in the Shade Thomas McGuane
Skinny Dip Carl Hiaasen
Still Waters Barry Callaghan
The Bishop’s Man Linden MacIntyre
The Englishman’s Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Great Santini Patrick Conroy
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler
The Mambo Kings Sings Songs of Love Oscar Hijuelos
The Man Who Was Late Louis Begley
The Night Manager John le Carré
The Road Cormack McCarthy
The Rotters Club Jonathan Coe
The Sirens of Baghdad Yasmina Khadra
The Sportswriter Richard Ford
The Stowaway Robert Hough
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien
The Van Roddy Doyle
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Trout Fishing in America Richard Brautigan
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