Posts from July 2008My appearance on the Guardian podcast is now live. It’s beautiful. But look closely at the cover... Yes, that’s right... it’s magic! And it has a picture of me on the back! (With Richard Moross photo credit, of course) Ooh crikey, I fucking love it. Thank God it’s wipe-clean. It seems our mutual friend-proxy filtered out a second haiku from Belle. And this one’s even better... to tell Paul he wants his last decade’s ideas back Bigger tits than Billie and a Po Bronson reference. It’s enough to give a man a cyber crush. [Update: And there's more: Belle's missing haiku. Second time, funny.] “You should write a blog post for us.” When Hannah from Growing Business made the suggestion at a networking event last week, one thing was clear. She clearly hadn’t read my book. What a day - beginning this morning in Covent Garden where I picked up copies of my book from RFW&N. Yes - copies. Actual printed copies. “Being the first ‘Rong’s’ event, the party promised to be a hell of a night. The sort of night that, had Caligula been hosting a networking event downstairs, he’d have probably come up to ask us to keep it down a bit because we were frightening the horses. Needless to say, I was looking forward [...] Well now, wasn’t Thursday a blast? Despite not one, but two venue changes - we still managed to pack a roof terrace with the great and the good of London’s dot com sector. You find me at the end of not one, but two, entirely self-imposed but still no-less-traumatic-for-it deadlines. My brain is friend and my body clock looks like the work of Dali. And yet, so much still to do! Get the Flash Player to see this player. var s1 = new SWFObject(”http://www.paulcarr.com/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/mediaplayer.swf”,”n1″,”320″,”260″,”7″); My copy of the Edinburgh Book Festival programme arrived yesterday - and it seems I’m in it. If you happen to be north of the border on Thursday 21st August, then do come along. If it helps, think of it as spending £9 to see the excellent James Harkin (a bargain!) and getting me for [...] Every day, I get at least one email asking me why I haven’t updated Haikurious for a while. These tend to be from people who don’t read the blog, or follow me on Twitter, and so haven’t heard me whining on about how busy I am with things that - occasionally - pay the bills. I’ve spent the entire day, holed up in a hotel room, drinking dangerous (physically and mentally) amounts of coffee and gorging on mini-bar Pringles. I’m writing, you see. The bonus chapter for The Book, plus something new and exciting that I can’t talk about. Anyone who knows me well will know that I’ve never really seen eye-to-eye with the writing of Douglas Coupland. In fact, I once wrote the following review thing for The Penny (sigh). Jason Calacanis - co-founder of Weblogs (Inc) which sold to AOL for $30million - has quit blogging. Or more specifically, he has decided to stop publicly blogging and instead to send out a kind of email/blog hybrid. What we used to call in the old days ‘an email newsletter’. This decision - we, the Internet, [...] A few weeks ago, when I was up in the Valle (as it were), I did a telephone interview with the delightful Danuta Kean for the Orion website. The resulting ‘featured author’ profile is now live. Here’s the first half; click the link at the bottom (or here) for the rest... “The event’s organiser, Mike Butcher, took to the stage and introduced our panel. A couple of years earlier we’d had a very public spat after he wrote an article accusing me of using my Guardian column for blatant self-promotion (he was absolutely right, of course, but there was no need to draw attention to it). [...] “Richard Moross is thirty years old, and a taller, better dressed man you will struggle to meet. There’s a scene in the film Men in Black where Will Smith is being indoctrinated into the MI B agency. He’s taken to a completely white locker room and Rip Torn’s character gives him ‘the last suit you’ll [...] “And there it was. An entire website dedicated to me - created by Karen and full of details of our relationship, stories about how much of a crap boyfriend I had been in every single way. How her friends had always hated me. How I was a worthless ‘douchebag’ (her favourite word ). But it [...] “If you close your eyes after reading his email, you can almost see Nicholas Hellen sitting at his desk, masturbating furiously, imagining he’s Carl Bernstein phoning John Mitchell during the Watergate scandal... ‘Sir, this is Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post, and I’m sorry to bother you but we’re running a story in tomorrow’s paper [...] “If two-and-a-bit months in the US taught me anything, it’s that Samuel Johnson was wrong. Being tired of London does not necessarily mean one is tired of life.” - Me |
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