http://zeus-advertising.com/blog What's going on - inside our office and inside our heads Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:59:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During the election, the Tories kept saying they were going to make massive cuts but it wouldn't deepen the recession because they would be cutting out lots of waste. I thought then, and still do now, that it was just a smokescreen for deep cuts that were ideologically rather than ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/the-105-million-website/ I read, in Runners World of all places, that this week is National Doughnut Week. Apparently bakeries that are taking part are giving money from the sales of doughnuts to the Children's Trust charity. I don't know much about the Children's Trust, but I'm sure they're doing good work, so ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/its-national-doughnut-week/ As a copywriter I'm always terrified of missing a typo myself, but always very amused when I see other people's public spelling mistakes - I believe it's called schadenfreude. So following on from Rick Stein's effort, I'm pleased to share with you some banners I saw in Birmingham at the ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/public-spelling-mitsakes/ I saw this ad on the tube and thought it was a very neat way of telling the public that people like me will be running the marathon on the 25th April and causing lots of disruption. Well done whoever did it. http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/nice-london-marathon-ad/ Yesterday on the way home from Cornwall, my family made our usual detour to Padstow to grab lunch at Rick Stein's fish & chip shop. Now if I was the most famous fish chef in the country, I'd make sure that the specials board in my chip shop didn't contain ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/is-rick-stein-losing-his-touch/ First Batman in Hampstead Garden Suburb, now the Penguin (well two actually) at Wembley.  I went to the Carling Cup Final at Wembley last Sunday and found myself sitting next to these two guys. What you can't see in the picture was the rest of their outfits under their Villa shirts ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/penguins-at-wembley/ There was an article in the Guardian last Saturday, reviewing the Gillette TV ad where a mechanic looks at a razor. You can read it here. All very amusing - why we don't need a blue strip to turn white to tell us when we need to change our razor, ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/the-wrong-idea-about-beards/ I was in Hampstead Garden Suburb this weekend, and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this... (click the picture to see it bigger) Batman! On the balcony! I saw him on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon and he didn't move a muscle either time. Either he's keeping guard over the Hampstead ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/gotham-city-suburb/ It'll be interesting to see what happens on the AndyMurrayOMeter this weekend. It will certainly be more interesting than the tennis, that's for sure. As I write this, it stands at him being 88% British. You'd assume that if he wins the Australian Open in Melbourne, his Britishness score will ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/andy-murray-o-meter/ Feeling very pleased with myself for finding the g-spot, I got to wondering which other problems the iPhone could solve for me. I tapped the maps app and searched for the answer. Whatever your problem, the answer, as you can see below, lies on Long Lane between Addiscombe and Beckenham, just ... http://zeus-advertising.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/iphone-solves-all-your-problems/