Poor Gerald Ford eh? Thanks to Saddam, even in death he’s just a footnote.
So, guess what I did today..? That’s right! I signed the papers to complete the first round of funding for the new company. We now have money in the bank and shareholders to suck up to.
So now I can safely say just [...]

Well, I made it home and managed to finish my Christmas shopping at exactly 3:55pm. Early this year. I’ve bought books for almost everyone. A gift you can open again and again, said the sign in the shop. They are so right.
Christmas is always a bit odd for our family. My parents run a hotel, [...]

So here it is Merry Christmas eve eve. I’m supposed to be going home to my parents’ place in Newark later this morning to enjoy four – count ‘em – days of home cooking and merriment. I plan to do absolutely no work at all for those four days but, given that everyone I’ve told [...]

I’m absolutely freezing. For some reason – no matter how often I turn the heating on, or how high I set it – it remains absolutely freezing. Icy even. No, more than icy. Arctic.
I’m too cold to type anything more.

So, Lembit’s doing a Cheeky Girl. Brilliant.
He’s a funny fish, Opik. He wrote a great thing for LNR/TFT a few years ago about The War Against Liberalism. And now he’s doing a Cheeky Girl.
And I’ve just remembered I wrote this about him for the Guardian in 2003…
WHY I LOVE LEMBIT OPIK
I’m terribly worried about Charles [...]

Actually is twat masculine or feminine?
Right, so, what a weekend, eh? Decided, given that the first of the advance from the book is in that, having paid my rent and various bills that were nagging, I’d have a bit of a night out. To celebrate, like. Actually, that’s not true. It was more of a [...]

So, I just sent out the big launch announcement. They say every time someone writes their own press release, a PR person dies.
So, that’s something.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
14th December 2006
Carr announces launch of new digital publishing house specialising in bringing together traditional media and user generated content.
Paul Carr, co-founder of leading web-to-print book publisher, The Friday [...]

That last post was terribly boring.
I’m listening to the Fratellis and writing a press release now. Can I use the phrase “unfuck the media”, do you think? I’ve lost all sense of perspective.

Last week it was words, this week it’s numbers. I’m buried in spreadsheets. Cashflows, P&Ls. All that good stuff.
We’re meeting investors next week, you see. Having just bought a big thing, while setting up an even bigger thing, based on the first thing, my bank manager is looking a little nervous. It is Christmas [...]

Ok, a couple of days of post-book winding down and meetings to get everything clear and straight. But now it’s Wednesday and it’s time to get things started. I’m going to be blogging all the way, you’ll be pleased to here. So it’s likely that you’ll hear things here first. Worth a bookmark, for sure. [...]