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York, Napoleon, 4 Crazy Things I learnt This Week
Dan Pope
March 28, 2025
His eyes glistened and he smiled when he decapitated it and sucked out its innards.
At 8.12am this morning, I was at Kings Cross having a snout and a over-priced Cuppa Joe on the phone to my Bro, Mo.
A brash beautiful blue blanket sky smothered Kings Cross. Londoners had a Spring in their step knowing Spring is only a couple of steps away.
Spring Springing to Sprung to Hung like a Fucking Horse (soz, soz, soz typo…was watching some weird stuff on Youtube last night !!!!)
My mind wafted, in step, with the cig smoke into the cold bright air as commuters scampered and scuttled and scurried and hurried into Kings Cross.
Suddenly, I realised, I’d forgotten to write a newsletter for this week.
Alas, I’m spaffing one out live right now quickly.
I’m in York. I’d rather be in New York. But I’m in York.
I am ready for a debauchery-drenched weekend in sun-spangled York.
Alas, am writing this, currently, plopped up at a Naff pub drinking Plush Guinness. The yummy innards of The Dubliner are festooned with a plethora of Irish memorabilia. Guinness pictures.
On the booze-soaked bar, 5 Guinness taps stand proud and pointed. Cannons of Great Craic. Ready to blast me, soon, yes, very soon, into a Creamy Dreamy Squiffy State of Delirium.
The Smiths, The Cure, Morrissey are wafting out the speakers. “Hang the DJ, Hang The DJ, Hang The DJ…” (get a GREGGS Steak Bake down yaaa Morrissey, you miserable git).
The Northern twang has a luscious lick as it boons and tickles your ears.
I’ve chinned a double brace of Guinness.
The Murderer is next to me as I type this.
He’s breathing heavily. Alarmingly heavy.
He looks like a Pontificating-Pete. He possesses a Ziplock bag.
He has a rusty goatee, the colour of freshly-fallen ripe Autumn leaves flecked with little pebbles of silver.
He is fastidiously and ferociously playing Sudoko.
He decided to take off his - climbing or hiking boots - he had socks with Liquorice All Sorts on it - ohhhh fuck me.
At school, I never trusted those who ate a KitKat by nibbling the chocolate around the outside like a fucking harmonica before scoffing the wafer.
The early Friday afternoon sunshine is drooling through the stain glassed windows in The Dubliner and crawling over Pontificating-Pete’s ziplock bag.
In Pete’s Ziplock satchel was an orange and an apple and a plumb and a Creme Egg
A… fucking…. Creme Egg…
He ate the Creme Egg - as expected - unconventionally - weirdly - strangely - he scoffed it like a sparrow giving a blow job.
His eyes glistened and he smiled when he decapitated it and sucked out it’s innards.
In other news, some things I’ve learnt this week.
Don’t Try - Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski is an author I love. He has a great quote for life.
Don’t Try.
so often we hold the brand building steering wheel so tightly. so often we try to control everything. so often we are anxious. so often we’re scared of the future. so often we’re paralysed with fear that it’s all going to go wrong.
for Type A anxious over achievers, who constantly feel like they’re not good enough, aka moi (and probably you, if you’re reading this)
we believe we HAVE to be stressed to be successful.
we confuse stress with success.
Just Try to Don’t Try
Soften the grip on the steering wheel.
Two lessons from Sam Hart, founder of Barrafina, Quo Vadis
“Hospitality is Enjoying Other People Enjoying The Enjoyment You’ve put on for them”
The Dogged Persistence Rule: a successful restaurant requires 20 Years: always ask yourself, “how can I jump out of bed, excited, in 20 years time?”
Napoleon is THE OG Challenger Brand
Am reading Napoleon’s fucking whopper of a biography at the minute. Napoleon is the OG challenger brand. Will write an essay on this in the near future.
“Nothing is lost when courage remains”
“Present terrible news as merely bad, bad news as unwelcome but acceptable, acceptable news as good, good news as a triumph”.
Peace and Love fools xxx
Popey
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