August 24, 2009

This party's over

That’s it
Because it’s easier to open the valve on Twitter
Because I’ve been so damned busy
Because the anonymity thing is feeling just a tad jaded
The blog started by accident. I was playing around with different blog platforms, experimenting for the sake of the agency planning department, which wanted its own blog (still going strong on Typepad). I have no idea why I picked FishNChimps as a name. Maybe I had a takeaway the previous evening. I thought it would be fun to demo the blog with a few articles about the harmless subject of chimps in advertising. And then my spleen took over.
A big problem is finding something to say. It was easy enough most of the time. My job means that I regularly come across some interesting stuff, almost by accident. But then the middle ground of satirising stuff got stretched to, on one side regurgitating amusing links, and on the other pontificating on things that annoy (what the great George Parker would call piss ‘n vinegar).
I must say, it did damn well for a long time, even becoming for a very brief period the UK’s #1 advertising blog. This was partly thanks to some timely links from those huge, Star Wars Episode 6 Death Star-sized blog beasts AdRants, Copyranter and AdScam.
So, I’m killing this blog and starting afresh with a rebooted Blogger version of my shitty Wordpress blog. Wordpress is supposedly a good platform if you’re an html freak but not even I, with a passing competence in it, could tolerate its stupid restrictions. Blogger’s a bit simplistic, but very easy to customise. I do, after all, have other things to do with my time.
My brief for the newish blog is, very loosely, advertising (my industry) + science/scepticism (my interest) + researchy stuff (my job). There may occasionally be monkeys.
Let’s see how it goes.

12 comments:

RFB said...

Big baby.


Fine - links updated to Weakly Thunk at my sorry, tired blog.

M.M. McDermott said...

Ditto'd.

RFB said...

SRK Henry:

Your timely comment shall live for eternity as a testament to your awesomeness. May your online newspaper site go far.

Insider said...

Sorry and said to hear this, I enjoyed your blog a lot. Good luck with your other activities!
Michael in Amsterdam

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Charles Edward Frith said...

Yo. This might not be the coolest but it should work as my reply has been on a note since I got your comment about wtf is the brown stuff in my video.


That's a useful question to know the answer to, so here goes:
The plastic containers in the opening shot seem to have three important Thai cuisine items. It looks like the two in the rear on the left are curry pastes.. On the right in the rear it looks like small shrimp.In the foreground there are only two containers I can guess the contents of. On the far left it looks like Palaa.Palaa is a fermented fish condiment. The method for making it, and the way it looks and smells is legendary which puts Western palates off.There is no greater Kudos than ordering a Som tam boo palaa (spicy salad) from a street vendor. I get a folk hero reception for doing so, or even an occasional nod of respect from Thais that no amount of language fluency has ever earned me.That main container could be Palaa too, or it could also be shrimp in muddy water. But you get the gist.Hope that's interesting :)

SchizoFishNChimps said...

Well, I'm sure they taste delicious

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