Archive for November, 2009

The Empress saves the day

Monday, November 30th, 2009

I’m constantly to be found yabbering on about The Empress – a pub in Cambridge’s Romsey Town which I live in close proximity to. It’s my favourite pub of all time, and has the friendliest atmosphere you can hope to find. Due to my aforementioned geographical closeness to the establishment, I often mistake it for my living room.

Yesterday, for instance, I left my coat in the pub along with the iPod sitting in its right-hand pocket. This was enough to significantly raise my anxieties to a level of life-shortening magnitude . I recovered the coat about half an hour ago, finding that one of the staff had placed it somewhere safe in the meantime.

Good ol’ Empress – she came to the rescue. There’s something about that pub. If I can, I’ll have to put some photos up showing what they’ve done with their Christmas decorations. They are unlikely to be bettered by anyone.

“For staff to function, they have to luncheon”

Monday, November 30th, 2009

This brilliantly ingenious quote is courtesy of the Armstrong and Miller show. As an apt personal motto, I am now adapting the phrase to ‘For Olly to function, he has to luncheon (regularly)’.

Doodle-o-gram #7: Error of Judgement

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

You can’t put a price on doodles like this. Of course, that’s a lie. The price is £100,000. Get it before it’s gone. I am probably being bombarded with enquiries as we speak. Not from Dubai though, they’re bankrupt now.

Doodle-o-gram #6: Cauliflower Cheese

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

At just £100,000, you won’t have found a deal this good since Woolworth’s closed down last year. Make me an offer I can’t refuse. (The offer is that 100K I was on about by the way).

Doodle-o-gram #5 – I’ll Just Claim It As Expenses

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

One hundred thousand smackers – that’s £100,000 – will net you this. If it was any good, I’d say it was my magnum opus.

Doodle-o-gram #4: Organically Farmed Fairtrade Doodle

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Buy this one-off piece de resistance from me for a penny above £99,999. You won’t regret it. (After the initial ten years of regret has worn off and your investment in stocks and shares has covered your loss). Just message me.

Doodle-o-gram #3: Persistent Bowel Complaint

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Relieve me of this picture by inserting the negligible sum of £100,000 into my bank account. Go on, it’ll look beautiful in a dimly-lit room. Badger me via this website, or use Owl-mail, to begin the acquisition process.

Doodle-o-gram #2: Regulating the Funkiness

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

You can purchase this bad boy off me now for the ludicrously inexpensive price of £100,000. Just pop a message in my direction and we’ll sort something out.

Doodle-o-gram #1: Dolce Far Niente

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

This doodle-o-gram is up for the bargain price of a mere £100,000. Get in touch with me to acquire this masterpiece.

Olly’s Doodle-o-grams

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you something which may make me very wealthy. If somebody purchases one of the entities which I am about to share with you, I may be able to purchase a loaf of bread or something.

Yes, in the next post, I’m going to show you Olly’s Doodle-o-gram #1, shortly followed by six other posts also containing a doodle-o-gram. Handcrafted using some A4 paper and some rather funky pens which I own, I’ve produced some patterns born from boredom and laced with ingenuity. Okay, I’m overhyping, but I nonetheless aim to sell each doodle-o-gram for £100,ooo each. Oh the audacity.

You see, most modern and contemporary art is absolutely and utterly pants. It is neither aesthetically pleasing, nor particularly meaningful, nor did it require any discernible talent to produce, and yet people are prepared to fork out a lot of money to place it in a prominent position on a newly-ruined wall. Well, I’d like to think my doodle-o-grams are, at the very least, quite nice to look at. And, if nobody finds them remotely pleasing then they can remain as they are, which does not bother me. But, if the one-in-a-gazillion chance of people finding them worth parting with £100,000 for became a reality, I might actually be able to pay off my Everest-sized student debt.

There is logic there, trust me.

Each doodle-o-gram is true to modern art in that it has a title which bears no relation to the picture in question. Beautifully pretentious. Enjoy.