David Quinn published this entry on Saturday 19 September, 2009 at 10:05 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + business + journalism category . {Comment}
Apologies for not getting back to you. I’m here now, it’s OK.
I’ve been thinking a lot about newspapers recently. About how I never buy one anymore except when I’m going on a long train journey, about the supposed closure of the Observer (which isn’t now happening), about what I can’t help thinking is gross mismanagement [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Sunday 06 September, 2009 at 1:54 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + celebrities + television category . {2 Comments}
Britain’s cleverest man. Polymath. National treasure. All descriptions applied at various times to Mr Stephen Fry. To celebrate the first episode tonight of Fry’s new BBC2 series Last Chance To See, I’ve gone to the trouble of assembling some of this intellectual giant’s most illuminating quotes. There’s something here, I feel, for us all to [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Thursday 20 August, 2009 at 10:25 am. It's been filed in the advertising + television category . {2 Comments}
Since the start of this week, I have been unemployed embarking on an exciting new freelance career, which means I’ve found myself watching daytime television. The programmes are dreadful but the adverts, which appeal to housewives, the retired and the out of work, are kind of fascinating for what they reveal about the UK’s socio-economic [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 24 July, 2009 at 9:03 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + business + pr category . {1 Comment}
There’s something a tiny bit contemptuous about Asda’s response to the recent story that its £70 flat-pack bike is only slightly less dangerous than an un-earthed electric chair standing in a puddle downwind from Niagara Falls on a moderately blustery day.
Mark Brown, director of the Association of Cycle Traders, noticed that in the TV advert, [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Sunday 24 May, 2009 at 12:32 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + politics + television category . {Comment}
There’s something inescapably awful about the latest Conservative election broadcast, which essentially consists of David Cameron saying the words “Cameron Direct” a lot while prancing about, pointing a lot and occasionally sitting on a train. I’ve checked and it’s not a parody but I’ve still watched it about six times on YouTube since it was [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Thursday 19 February, 2009 at 9:44 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + television + web category . {Comment}
I suppose it’s about time I confessed to the fact that I am contributing to a new blog. It’s called AdTurds and, as the name suggests, is simply about television adverts that me and (regular Words Dept. commenter) Robin think are shit.
Web geeks will notice the hilarious AdWords pun, on top of the fact that [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Monday 26 January, 2009 at 6:25 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + business + journalism + manchester category . {Comment}
Crain’s this week has a nice story about “council and quango chiefs” spending “hundreds of thousands of pounds” of public money travelling by first class train. The editor’s comment bemoans
the first-class gravy train
and
free gin and tonic for fat cats.
It’s a nice story that’s bound to cause a justified outbreak of tutting among the Manchester accountants and lawyers whose travel [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Thursday 01 January, 2009 at 4:39 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + books + food + movies + music + personal + television category . {5 Comments}
As I’ve nothing better to do and 2008 has now definitely finished, I thought I’d provide you with my list of my favourite things from the year just gone. Happy New Year, by the way.
Film
I thought Wall-E was surprisingly deep for a kids film and was also technically flawless. But There Will Be Blood blew [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Friday 28 November, 2008 at 9:19 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + design + manchester + television category . {Comment}
Ofcom has ruled that an advert about the congestion charge shown on ITV earlier this month directed viewers to a website that “contained material that was almost exclusively in support of the congestion charge” and, as such, broke the Television Advertising Code rules on political impartiality. You might think this is quite a serious [...]
David Quinn published this entry on Tuesday 18 November, 2008 at 10:26 pm. It's been filed in the advertising + celebrities + food + television category . {3 Comments}
By far the most hideous aspect of this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here is the various idents for Iceland that appear around each ad break. They feature a range of party food that looks so disgusting it could easily become the subject of a Bushtucker Trial.
Firstly, what the hell is a [...]