Bob Dylan Nonsense, Brendan Rogers, Sweeping the Floor, Corporate Drivel

 

Feast of Fools
Frans Floris the elder (c.1517-1570)
Photo Credit: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust [CC BY-NC-ND]

Where once he was the most interesting Hamlet of his generation, he is now the most interesting Prospero.  As with Goethe or Beethoven or Picasso, the late works stand as measured and resonant equal to the raw, intense virtuosity of his unsurpassable early output.

(Edward Docx, The Guardian, 2021, in Private Eye, No 1549)

Brendan Rogers -Manager Of Leicester City

But then, this has always been the basic and fascinating paradox of Rodgers: an artifice that has always been underpinned by a strong sense of authenticity, an authenticity that owes so much of its potency to artifice. This tension - between bombast and insecurity, style and substance, the holistic guru who just wants you to be the best person who can be and the self-publicist with a vaunting personal ambition and a habit of leaving his clubs abruptly - is the defining note of a career that has taken him from the 6.am shift at the Waitrose warehouse to the Wembley dugout.

(Jonathan Liew, The Guardian, 2021, in Private Eye, No 1549)

Sweeping the Floor

Sweeping the floor engages even the most hoity-toity of us in a humble task that is actually and metaphysically cleansing. Humility can be thrilling. Especially if you have a beautiful broom. My choice is one designed by Stefanie Giovannoni that Magis, based in Torre di Mosto in Veneto, has been making since 1998. This broom is made in air-moulded polyprophylene, reinforced with fibreglass...

(Stephen Bailey, Times Luxx supplement, 2021, in Private Eye, No 1549)

Corporate Drivel

Qwasi is a mobile engagement platform with a polymorphic architecture and simple APIs. QWASI works with global enterprises to activate real time data, augment legacy systems, engage cross channel and cross device. QWASI technology is channel, event and trigger agnostic technology allowing global enterprises to pivot on real time events, homogenise multiple data sources and deliver contextual engagement from one platform.

(From a Linkedin profile, in Private Eye, No 1549)