Tag Archives: Tiger Woods

the paper chase

A just arrived and newly married combination of wire-bound sketchbook from Daler-Rowney: Buy the 8.5 x 11 inch and get a 4 x 6 inch free. Why, you don’t think Tiger Woods would not have been better off writing the … Continue reading

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London calling : just leave a message

To the overwhelming majority of Brits, of all races, creeds and colors, well off or in poverty, a fundamental change in social structure, is probably just as unthinkable as it was to those English citizens in the eighteenth-century. But, as … Continue reading

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tee it up: triple bogey on consumption

Throughout history, people have often been idle, and they have always had holidays. Even in the darkest periods of the Dark Ages, the rich hunted, jousted, sang, danced and made love. The peasants gorged, got drunk and cavorted. Yet, true … Continue reading

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Fiction of celebrity: somewhere drunk with passion

Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The  concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading

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Clouds of celebrity:A fiction somewhere drunk with passion

Dancing with the stars. Celebrity. What price? ……..Celebrity is not the same as being celebrated , but celebrity is often a precondition of being famous.The  concept of celebrity as study in itself, as in being a celebrity,is a modern invention, … Continue reading

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DOUBLE BOGEY ON ADULTHOOD

Feeling both grown-up and not grown-up is a timeless, ageless, human state, explored in poetry and fiction for generations. It’s currently being explored by a generation with miserable job prospects and good access to birth control, that’s all. Its called … Continue reading

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LIKE PULLING TEETH

”That there is a gigantic combination of the money dealers, a powerful international trust of usurers, asserting a superiority above all jurisdictions, and having for its servants the so-called statesmen and potentates of various nations, who willingly register the decrees … Continue reading

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WHEN HARRY MET HUBCAP SALLY

“Copengahen is the epitome of modern summitting; a long session, a huge cast earnestly discussing what there is no chance of agreeing, to reach compromises everyone will then ignore, promising to avoid doing what all decry and will continue to … Continue reading

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TIGER HAMLET, BRAND CONTAMINATION, DESDEMONA …

Ophelia and golf’s 19 th Hole. Call it brand intoxication. Imagine Tiger Woods as a handbag or a gladrag. Can you tell the difference between a luxury handbag and a fake? A new  Associate professor of marketing at MIT’s Sloan … Continue reading

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