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Archive for October, 2007

Relative values

Posted by Chris H on October 29th, 2007

Cracking interview with Will and his brother Jonathan in the Sunday Times the other weekend. Jonathan Self’s The Teenager’s Guide to Money is out now.

Karl Pilkington on Channel 4

Posted by Chris H on October 22nd, 2007

Will is going to appear on Comey Lab: Karl Pilkington — Satisfied Fool on Channel 4 on October 22, 11.05pm. “After disappointing exam results nineteen years ago, Karl Pilkington looks to find out if more intelligence and knowledge will make him happy by meeting some well-known intellectuals.”

Watch it here on YouTube.

Expressway to Damien Hirst’s skull

Posted by Chris H on October 22nd, 2007

Will writes about Damien Hirst’s £50 million diamond-encrusted skull

Alison Jackson Confidential

Posted by Chris H on October 22nd, 2007

Will has written an essay focusing on celebrity and our uncomfortable relationship to it for Alison Jackson Confidential, published by Taschen, which has been reprinted in the Daily Telegraph.

Psychogeography book tour

Posted by Chris H on October 16th, 2007

Will is going to be doing a number of talks and readings with Ralph Steadman for their new book, published by Bloomsbury on October 22, in November and December

Psychogeography on Night Waves

Posted by Chris H on October 16th, 2007

Will was talking about his forthcoming book, Psychogeography.

11.10.07

Flight of Fancy

Posted by Chris H on October 8th, 2007

Norman Foster comes to me: “I’m sorry,” he moans pitifully, shaking the cuffs of his shirt as if he was Marley’s ghost and they were silken chains. “Sorry…?” I gag on mucous sleep. “What the hell for?”

“Stansted,” the architect wails. “I never should’ve designed it that way. True, it looked good on the back of the envelope — and elegant once my team had put it on the Cad system, but I now realise that it’s a monstrous wedge of a building, a static plane crash of a structure, forever ramming a humungous divot out of the living, beating heart of old England! Aaaargh! Euurgh! Oh woe is little me!”

Growing bald disgracefully

Posted by Chris H on October 8th, 2007

“I went to a barber’s shop in Greek Street, Soho, about a month ago and realised that it was only the third time I have been to one in my entire life. In the mean old brilliantined days, small boys were forced to sit on a plank placed across the arms of the barber’s chair, and this, I contend, made them scowl, because they were the objects of ridicule. Consequently, I refused to go to a barber and preferred to cut off my own hair when necessary.