New song -"In Its Place"

In its place by ChrisTheo

Hey all, I've been a busy bee working on some new music and I thought I'd share. Enjoy!

Critics have said:

"hahah i love it"

"my boyfriend is awesome and so is his song, listen to it"

"I like this song"

Joined an online start-up

 

Pastures anew

Hey all, so it’s been a while since I’ve posted and that’s because I’ve been pretty damn busy (instead of lazy – let’s face it, that’s what you were thinking). Just over a month ago I interviewed for a marketing position with a brand new online start-up and I guess they liked me or figured I had some sort of potential (if only they knew!) because I landed the position. It’s been a while since I tackled the 9-5 but a month in and I’m finally getting used to it. It’s also great to be working with other people again as opposed to working from home, I think I was turning peculiar if I’m honest - *twitch*.

As for the details of what I’m doing, well, that will have to wait, I can tell you we’re called Flutteroo and you are bound to hear more about us in the coming months as we step up the marketing and prepare for launch in the Autumn. Overall, I’m having a good time learning on the job (if you ain’t learnin’ you’re dyin’) and can’t wait to show you guys what we’ve been up to.

Stay tuned!

PS - You can follow me on Twitter for more incremental updates and lots of other mundane observations in the style of Jerry Seinfeld.

Government sponsored obesity?

Yeah, we get it, everyone is getting fatter, we are all going to die with dribbles of lard from the corner of our mouths after a fatal heart attack facilitated by clogged arteries and type II diabetes. The thing is, if the UK government is really behind tackling obesity then where are the proactive measures, where are the subsidised gym memberships for the unemployed and where can people get real access to dietary information that is based on fact? I’m not talking about ‘traffic lights’ or the extreme musings of the mad, poo-poking pretender that is Gillian McKeith.

So the government isn’t being proactive enough, but the last thing I thought would happen is for them to take a role in making it worse, let alone take money for it! But this is the exact scenario that greeted me today when I boarded a London bus near my house. The reverse of my bus ticket revealed something I had not noticed before, McDonalds vouchers for cheap fast food deals.

My bus ticket

Now, I realise that the government advertises this kind of thing all the time, just take one look at the billboards on the tube for example and you are likely to see some kind of fast food advertising but in my opinion a clear line has been crossed with my bus ticket. This is mainly due to the financial incentive offered by McDonalds due to my purchase and the general ‘in-your-face-ness’ of it all.

You wouldn’t catch a public limited company acting like this, they have to answer to various stakeholders  and any contradicting messages would be seen as a bad way to do business (it’s like Apple promoting software that only runs on PCs). My question is, as the public aren’t we stakeholders in the government’s decisions and as such entitled to a say in something like this? Ummm, yeaaahhhh riiiiiiighttt…