Comments on: Cheeky Bastards http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/ The Marketing Rebel RANT Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:20:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Allan Wikman http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12731 Allan Wikman Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:00:06 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12731 Once a king always a king, but once a Knight's enuf. Am dispatching this to a friend in "Margaret River" (now THERE's a spot!) and an expatriate, GB to Oz to US, for the bounce. Professor Tobin (U/Iowa) was right: we need to read text six times just to retain sixty (yup, 60) percent of the ideas!!!! Wspecially if you can't read. That's twice. Even MORE riveting that the initial. Once a king always a king, but once a Knight’s enuf.
Am dispatching this to a friend in “Margaret River” (now THERE’s a spot!) and an expatriate, GB to Oz to US, for the bounce.
Professor Tobin (U/Iowa) was right: we need to read text six times just to retain sixty (yup, 60) percent of the ideas!!!! Wspecially if you can’t read.
That’s twice. Even MORE riveting that the initial.

]]> By: John Carlton http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12647 John Carlton Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:51:52 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12647 UPDATE: I thought Z'da would have commented again by now, explaining what happened from her end. Since she hasn't, I will fill in the void. Here's the story: Z'da was contacted by my personal assistant, Diane, as soon as we received an actual email from her. Problem was, Z'da had been emailing to a misspelled address here -- using "marketingregel" instead of "marketingrebel" (which she admits). There is a lesson here for anyone interested in communication. All is well. Everybody's been taken care of, happily. We have outstanding customer service. Again -- there are just a few people on the staff, and all are just one call away from me, personally. But there's little we can do if we aren't contacted in the first place. End of morality tale. UPDATE: I thought Z’da would have commented again by now, explaining what happened from her end.
Since she hasn’t, I will fill in the void.
Here’s the story: Z’da was contacted by my personal assistant, Diane, as soon as we received an actual email from her. Problem was, Z’da had been emailing to a misspelled address here — using “marketingregel” instead of “marketingrebel” (which she admits). There is a lesson here for anyone interested in communication.
All is well. Everybody’s been taken care of, happily.
We have outstanding customer service. Again — there are just a few people on the staff, and all are just one call away from me, personally.
But there’s little we can do if we aren’t contacted in the first place.
End of morality tale.

]]> By: Cinaea http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12642 Cinaea Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:04:18 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12642 Thanks for sharing all your insight and wisdom with us John, and for your comments about Down Under's media and journalistic processes. Your sense of humour and honest laid back approach to life seems to suit the Aussie character and it has been such a thrill having you here :-) thanks heaps Cinaea P.S. Are you taking any Carlton Draught back home with you?....a beer with your name on it is pretty cool :) Thanks for sharing all your insight and wisdom with us John, and for your comments about Down Under’s media and journalistic processes.
Your sense of humour and honest laid back approach to life seems to suit the Aussie character and it has been such a thrill having you here :-)
thanks heaps
Cinaea
P.S. Are you taking any Carlton Draught back home with you?….a beer with your name on it is pretty cool :)

]]> By: Leon http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12639 Leon Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:46:09 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12639 I agree, good reporting requires a lot of sacrifice and the nerve and hard detective work. If i a may add, a lot of patience too! I agree, good reporting requires a lot of sacrifice and the nerve and hard detective work. If i a may add, a lot of patience too!

]]> By: Rezbi http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12631 Rezbi Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:39:10 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12631 Hey guys, I hear vegemite is a 'delicacy' amongst aussies... Trevor Crook says so :-) My question is, does it taste anything like marmite? Have you heard of marmite? Hey guys,
I hear vegemite is a ‘delicacy’ amongst aussies… Trevor Crook says so :-)

My question is, does it taste anything like marmite?

Have you heard of marmite?

]]> By: John Carlton http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12628 John Carlton Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:16:47 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12628 Thanks, Maggie. Thanks, Maggie.

]]> By: John Carlton http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12627 John Carlton Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:15:21 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12627 Hey Mark. Haven't had the guts (literally) to try vegemite. Stan did, and couldn't find words to explain the sensation. Didn't lure me in, though. You reminded me that I started several underground-type "papers" in high school. None ever lasted more than a few issues, cuz they were hard to produce and caused lots of trouble with The Man (I got kicked out once for what I wrote). I think written communication is in our blood as humans -- it will struggle to surface, no matter what hampers the process (the Poles had newsletter under the Nazi boot, and Chinese bloggers stare down years of hard labor to get their stuff out). Unless we blow ourselves off the stage, I feel we're on the cusp of a new age in writing here... and it's exciting... You working on your book yet? Hey Mark. Haven’t had the guts (literally) to try vegemite. Stan did, and couldn’t find words to explain the sensation. Didn’t lure me in, though.
You reminded me that I started several underground-type “papers” in high school. None ever lasted more than a few issues, cuz they were hard to produce and caused lots of trouble with The Man (I got kicked out once for what I wrote). I think written communication is in our blood as humans — it will struggle to surface, no matter what hampers the process (the Poles had newsletter under the Nazi boot, and Chinese bloggers stare down years of hard labor to get their stuff out).
Unless we blow ourselves off the stage, I feel we’re on the cusp of a new age in writing here… and it’s exciting…
You working on your book yet?

]]> By: John Carlton http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12626 John Carlton Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:10:01 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12626 Don't mind at all, Hal. Thanks for the comment. Don’t mind at all, Hal. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: John Carlton http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12625 John Carlton Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:09:19 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12625 God bless Royko. And Cokie and her pals in the elite division should lie awake every night, shivering in shame for what they've done to American critical thought. I would kill to have been in that audience with Mailer, too -- those guys are still around, in our generations... but they never got into WRITING, dammit, and thus got diverted from the game. I sense we're picking up some steam, though... BTW: Melbourne is hosting a HUGE Dali exhibit here (starting the day after I leave, unfortunately)... part of a concentrated effort to help the old genius reclaim his place as a Great. (Scholars dismiss his advertising work -- he did Vogue covers, and full page ads for department stores and colognes and stuff! -- but it's great fun to examine now.) Kevin, if you've never read Herb Caen (the long gone SF Chronicle columnist), you have a real treat coming. He only wrote a few books, but they're worth tracking down... and sample a few of his columns, which I'm sure are somewhere online... true wit and verve and balls and total knowledge of the craft... God bless Royko. And Cokie and her pals in the elite division should lie awake every night, shivering in shame for what they’ve done to American critical thought.
I would kill to have been in that audience with Mailer, too — those guys are still around, in our generations… but they never got into WRITING, dammit, and thus got diverted from the game.
I sense we’re picking up some steam, though…
BTW: Melbourne is hosting a HUGE Dali exhibit here (starting the day after I leave, unfortunately)… part of a concentrated effort to help the old genius reclaim his place as a Great. (Scholars dismiss his advertising work — he did Vogue covers, and full page ads for department stores and colognes and stuff! — but it’s great fun to examine now.)
Kevin, if you’ve never read Herb Caen (the long gone SF Chronicle columnist), you have a real treat coming. He only wrote a few books, but they’re worth tracking down… and sample a few of his columns, which I’m sure are somewhere online… true wit and verve and balls and total knowledge of the craft…

]]> By: John Carlton http://www.john-carlton.com/2009/06/cheeky-bastards/comment-page-1/#comment-12624 John Carlton Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:02:56 +0000 http://www.john-carlton.com/?p=503#comment-12624 Lemme know what happens, Dave. Lemme know what happens, Dave.

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