h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I ran across this in newsvine.
one of the most exotic varieties of journalism flourishing in Britain. We tend to think of the feuilleton as a continental European literary diversion, a melange of impressionistic observation and reflection ill-suited to buttoned-up Anglo-Saxon sensibilities, especially in these straitened times. When done by a gifted and knowledgeable writer, however, the feuilleton can show what newspapers, and newspapers alone, can achieve – even in a culture that is supposed to be inhospitable to this kind of writing. Describing the pieces collected in Facts Are Subversive, Timothy Garton Ash writes: “I conceive these mini-essays as an English version of the journalistic genre known as a feuilleton; a discursive, personal exploration of a theme, often light-spirited and spun around a single detail, like the piece of grit that turns oyster to pearl. Or so the feuilletonist fondly hopes.” I'm not sure what to make of it. It was in a political piece that described the years between 911 and the election of President Obama as "the decade without a name."

sounds like a right piece of grit, doesn't it?

good for brushing up French though

That's a great extract there Shagbark Have you ever heard of 'Pseud's Corner'?

here is an example from an old copy of Private Eye magazine where over elaborate or corporate speak is lampooned.


http://www.compulink.co.uk/~stevemann/pseuds.htm

this i like:

Organised religion developed some of the first truly great global brands. They created powerful, globally recognisable symbols such as the cross, told great brand stories, used the mass media of churches, used brand ambassadors (clerics, missionaries), created a sense of identity by attacking rivals through various holy wars and created a sense of awe and spectacle through grand cathedrals and major festivities.
SEAN BRIERLEY
Marketing Week

humans!