07.12.05

Tube posters to avoid

Posted in London, Signs of London at 12:15 pm by Jon

Notable posters on the Underground, No. 1.

The advert for Iain M. Banks’ new novel, The Algebraist:

Have your mind blown to smithereens.

Thanks for the offer but, right now, probably not.

Arnold said,

July 12, 2005 at 4:39 pm

I notice that the ads for the DVD of Creep, showing a bloody hand emerging through the window of a tube train, have all mysteriously disappeared since last Thursday.
janey said,

July 15, 2005 at 10:46 am

One person I feel particularly sorry for is Chris Cleave, whose first novel, Incendiary, was published last week: it was about suicide bombers in London. Not at all catchpenny, it was actually written from the pov of a woman who has lost husband and son, in the firm of an open letter to Osama Bin Laden asking him to try and comprehend the enormity of what he is doing. There was a big poster campaign planned and everything. All gone, of course; another form of collateral damage. Such are the operations of the Meeja that the only way the poor sod could have got his book off the ground would have been to have been blown up himself.