Just discovered a bit of banter about this blog at http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001923.html

Some people quite like it, some don’t. Most amusing is Hamish, who says:

What a bunch of Nathan Barley wankers, sitting around drinking free beer that they advertise, and so is hip, fucking Albanian or somesuch…Can you imagine the paucity of ideas from the kind of c—-s that having climbed up to the edge of the shit filled cesspool that is the shrinking London ad scene. these fuckers are the lungfish that live long enough in the dry season.

I can just imagine that they all have real stiffies thinking about how they are kind of on reality TV, but that it is Ironic and hip because its also about advertising. Bet all of those shits have the website on the favourites, and look about once an hour to see if they are on it

Oh, how we laughed.

Now to get back to my Albanian beer.

A story in Adweek suggests that wieden + kennedy has won the Coca Cola business in North America. ‘Welcome to Optimism’ is unable to confirm this but, thanks to Rob Mortimer, we’ve been alerted to some amusing online gossip occasioned by this story.

American Copywriter blog tells the tale of an alleged meeting in the US between Coke and W+K.

‘The WK account person deftly presented the work. The Coke people smiled, nodded and then suggested some revisions. The WK account human sat there a little bewildered and then said, "Well…you can’t honestly expect me to go back and tell the creatives that."

All of us at American Copywriter raise a Diet Coke with lime to our friends at WK who, it would seem, enjoy life on an entirely different plane of existence. Congrats on your new biz you magnificent bastards.’

Well, cheers, American Copywriter. Though I’m not entirely sure if it feels like we inhabit such a different plane.

There’s a follow-up post by David Burn that is too flattering to W+K for me to reproduce it in full but if you’re interested you can read it here:

http://americancopywriter.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/a_god_dont_you_.html