If you got an email from a stranger who said they’d donated $200 to the charity of your choice IF you’d have them (and a friend) to a vegetarian dinner, would you say yes?

I turned to the cleverly named 50DollarLogo.com, a site based in Sri Lanka or somewhere promising six logo designs, unlimited revisions, and a 1–3 day turnaround. Who needs messy things like research, insight, or even a modicum of information about my business, when I can have unlimited revisions?

This feels a lot like my life at the moment, only I am the one trying to make a decent logo out of cheese and Nazareth and the people I work for want something with more anthropomorphism.

“The vibe is, we can’t play without headbands,” he enthuses. “We keep popping down to Claire’s Accessories to find slightly more elaborate ones.”

- Justin Hawkins, formerly lead singer of The Darkness, about to release the first single from his new band, Hot Leg.