I work at the kind of office where people all have titles like Senior Business Head of Global Creativity Strategy, and suchlike, so I didn’t guess when I was re-writing Tom’s bio, that he was in fact, seriously senior. Kind of my boss’s boss senior. Conversation turned, as conversations do, to beer pong. “You any good?†he asked. Continue reading
Beer Pong in an office setting – not just for fun
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Hipster Trap
As Jon and I walked through the urban wasteland of Gowanus Brooklyn, looking for a disused canning factory, we had to wonder; had we fallen into a Hipster trap? Continue reading
Writing
Chris, of City Hall, and a fellow writer on SlapFight sent me this email, “It’s always good to work & re-work them fundamentals.” He’d been digging around at home and uncovered a writing list that his friend Scotty Watson, (who was artistic director of Second City Toronto) had compiled.
Here’s the email. Full of great advice. It’s good to take a step back sometimes and think. Continue reading
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The unexpected risks of trapeezing
Too hot to walk quickly through the muggy Manhattan weather, I strolled along behind a couple of girls and listened to them chatting.
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Delayed gratification, and naming stars with physicists
It’s interesting to talk to Jon’s physicist colleagues, who often have a very different spin on things that happen in life. “Nobody wants to do local galaxies anymore,†they say in passing at parties. Continue reading
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