Month: November 2003

bookmark_borderAlways time for…

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Weebl and Bob.

Especially when you happen to catch an advert for Anchor Butter and think: “Ye gads! they’ve only gone and ripped off Weebl and Bob” *

Well they haven’t – it was by the people behind Weebl and Bob!

Now THAT is a clever piece of cross-media marketing if you ask me… all they’ll need is for it to start being mentioned across the blogosphere and… ohh..

* No I didn’t actually think the words “Ye Gads!”

bookmark_borderI'll have a P please Bob…

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My brother-in-law works for Compaq/HP, they have a scheme where, at the start of their year, they can ‘purchase’ additional holidays. Nice touch that.

It got me wondering if there is any chance I could buy some extra hours in the day from anyone? Surely some of you layabouts have a few spare… I mean if everyone gave me, say, 30 mins of their time I might actually get through the weekend.

Yes I know my usual – ohh crap I’ve got a busy weekend – post normally happens on a Friday but I am THAT busy at the moment.

Here are the weekend ingredients:
Work is busy, that’s a constant. I’m also doing some extra work for a friend which needs to be done by Tuesday at the very latest!. Add in a belated birthday night out on Friday night, finishing laying the bathroom flooring (my back’s fine now, thanks), and a Stereophonics gig on Sunday night, squeezing in some (erk) Xmas shopping, shake and pour over crushed ice.

All I need now is a straw so I can enjoy my ‘howthefuckamIgonnadoallthis’ cocktail… Mmmm mmmmmmmm stressfulicious!

In short, keep an eye on the miniblog, probably all I’ll have time for…

bookmark_borderWTC memorial

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Eight finalists have been revealed in the competition to design a permanent memorial at the site of the World Trade Center.

Personally I think Reflecting Absence is the most appropriate, but prefer the design of the Memorial Cloud.

Unfortunately the whole thing is spoiled for me by the descriptive passages accompanying each submission…

For example – from the Memorial Cloud submission:
“Our design is guided by our respect for the sacred ground. Accordingly, we limit the cloud to touching the ground for support on only five points; we judiciously open the earth beneath the World Trade Center Tower footprints only to provide visitors access to the symbolic “bedrock” level, creating thereby a processional passage of light and subterranean darkness. The procession that carries visitors beside the repository for the “unidentified remains” connects both footprints with the channel along the exposed slurry wall.”

Or – from the Lower Waters submission:
“Our physical movement throughout the site, the inclined park and the various levels of memorial and museum, represents our emotional movement through the experiences of memory, grief, discovery, hope, and rebirth.”

Suggestion: why not leave the site as it is, surely that is the most provocative message of them all.