Michelle Higgins is the best. Also, T5 at JFK cameo.
Mandatory thinking man’s travel crumpet reblog!
Pivo Divo
I still don't like McNally restaurants. Or Sonic Youth.
Nov 05
Feeling Berlin today.
Nov 04
Proper ice bucket use (via Paul Brady)
“ The feedback I got was that it looked like I was setting a double standard by creating a policy for everyone at the company except me. My HR chief suggested that I consider taking down the two pictures where I’m shirtless. My reaction was swift: “Screw that,” I said. “People who don’t like it can go work at Marriott.
— Chip Conley, CEO of Joie de Vivre, being his awesome self and keeping photos of himself at Burning Man up on his Facebook page.
Nov 03
Congratulations on your new governor, New Jersey!
Weezer with Kenny G
“I’m Your Daddy”
AOL Session 2009
Rivers Cuomo has Lil Wayne guest on his record, jams live in session with Kenny G, and is selling his new album as a bonus gift with a Weezer-branded Snuggie. He exists in a continuum of irony and non-irony so hilarious and confusing that if he’s not the new Andy Warhol, he’s at least rock’s answer to Jeff Koons.
The new Klosterman—shh—has an essay that in part touches on Rivers Cuomo being “authentic” in his artistic output. Essentially, he can make both Pinkerton and… well, everything else that followed and they are both true to his own personality—but not the fanbase, which for the most part wants him to remain in the Pinkerton era in what he does. Klosterman mentions as an aside how there is a big chunk of Weezer fans who take the latter albums as a personal affront—these people feel the albums aren’t just bad, they’re actually mocking the fans.
It’s impossible to separate Weezer, aka one of the first bands I ever cared about (I had the blue album on tape, thank you very much) with their output. From where I sit, I don’t consider anything after the green album as an affront. It’s more like seeing a friend from adolescence at a wedding every year or so, and at each one, he’s managed to get drunk enough to piss his pants within the first hour of the reception.
“ One online commentator suggested that the 27-year-old designer who had submitted the winning name be tarred with Vegemite and forced to run naked through the streets of Sydney “as retribution for his cultural crime.” Others called the name “uStupid 1.0” and “un-Australian.
— Tamper with Vegemite and name a spin-off product “Vegemite 2.0”, and bad things will happen to you. Especially in a land where everyone is descended from criminals, like Philadelphia.
Oct 30
I have several ties to non-NYC New York so I loved this article and slideshow about hiking in the Lake Placid area.
We slept like Rockefellers in luxuriously comfortable double beds and in the morning stepped out onto our little balcony as the sun rose over the lake.
Slept like Rockefellers. That’s perfect, right?
On a bed of money?
Senator Tom Coburn, star of The Straight Story.
Oct 29
Hotel Experiment
Other Hotels Worth Checking Out (for an affair or otherwise):
- Waikiki Resort Hotel, Oahu Hawaii — Hotel Review
- Hilton Grand Vacations at the Flamingo The Strip Las Vegas Hotel Review
- Marriott’s Grand Chateau: A Marriott Vacation Club Resort Off the Strip Las Vegas Hotel Review
- Marriott Suites Las Vegas Off the Strip Las Vegas Hotel Review
- Clinton Hotel and Spa South Beach Miami Hotel Review
- Haddon Hall Hotel South Beach Miami Hotel Review
- Hotel of South Beach Miami Hotel Review
- Le Meridien Sunny Isles Beach Miami Hotel Review
- Richmond Hotel South Beach Miami Hotel Review
- Savoy Hotel South Beach Miami Hotel Review
- The Delores Clarion Collection South Beach Miami Hotel Review
- Waldorf Towers Hotel Midtown East New York City Hotel Review
- Hotel Mela Times Square and Midtown West New York City Hotel Review
- Milford Plaza Times Square and Midtown West New York City Hotel Review
- Radisson Martinique on Broadway Times Square and Midtown West New York City Hotel Review
- The Benjamin Midtown East New York City Hotel Review
- The Cooper Square Hotel East Village New York City Hotel Review
- The Maritime Hotel Chelsea New York City Hotel Review
Le Meridien Sunny Isles! Does the affair involve treating one another for trauma after riding the elevators with the horrible sound installation?
Brand Extension
Are you a travel junkie? Our mobile app (Travel Channel GO) let’s you experience local US destinations like a local. http://bit.ly/33LrYg
Interesting if you are obsessed with Travel Channel personalities. No word on whether Charles Runnette’s recommendations will be included.
Pshaw, locals don’t sit in the last row.
Oct 28
“ The Breslin will serve breakfast and lunch beginning Thursday, Oct. 29, and add dinner a week or so later. U2 hosted a party there earlier in the month, and Alain Ducasse recently named its fries the best in New York. The restaurant was named for James Breslin, who originally opened the hotel as the Breslin in 1904 and hosted the longest boxing match in history in a special ring he built in its basement (he also once dated an Andrews sister). “He was the Andre Balazs of his time,” Mr. Friedman said.
— NYO
