February 2012
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If there’s two things I despise about PR people, its 1) they’re always unbearably attractive and 2) they’re horrendously nice, all the fucking time. It’s of course, one big giant ruse, the same way the staff in American Apparel look at you with a I am ready to get it on, and you there goblin, are in luck glance in order to trick you into buying more in some desperate...
So I just had the crushing experience of firing someone. I’ve developed a really good technique with this. What I like to do is hysterically beg for forgiveness until they hang up. I think that works for both parties because I go in some way to alleviating my immeasurable and impenetrable sense of guilt, and the other person feels a relief that they no longer have to work with someone who...
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This morning I opened a parcel that had a press sample in it. Press samples, in case you aren’t aware, are free products given to journalists in the hope they will review/include it. It works well because most journalists are so unbelievably poor that we live off this stuff and so largely, like a greased up stripper dancing for pennies, we grudgingly provide the promo. I went through a stage...
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R.I.P Brown Around Town
If you’re clicking this, you’ll see my old blog ‘Brown Around Town’ is no more. If you’re one of my followers that somehow has stumbled onto this new blog despite me severing our virtual ties without so much as a note- I’m sorry. It wasn’t personal, rather things in my career took a turn for the better and I realised that I should probably remove all the...