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I still don't like McNally restaurants. Or Sonic Youth.
Feb 09
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I liked this one, even though it didn’t make the final slideshow.

I liked this one, even though it didn’t make the final slideshow.

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noahkalina:

view - seattle (ace hotel) previously

noahkalina:

view - seattle (ace hotel) previously

Feb 07
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Great Scott!

Allow me to be vague—you’ll see why in a few sentences.

Last night I had dinner with the gf at a new restaurant. This restaurant just opened on Friday in a year-old hotel next to the Cooper Union building. I think that narrows it down sufficiently. Ya with me so far?

We took a waywayway early reservation because that’s all they had, and we hadn’t eaten lunch, so fine by us. It was so early that when we arrived, they weren’t actually ready to seat people. We hung at the bar, and I noticed the chef was in the building, so I tweeted this.

Great meal, and great for people watching. I guess the really fashionable people prefer the ridiculous 10pm resys but of course, things are generally a clusterfuck at most restaurants, not to mention two-day old ones, by then. Instead we were seated in-between two older couples, where the respective men were in a competition to see who could slump more in their seats while trying to read the menu. I particulaly liked the lady who, at this Italian restaurant with swanky cocktails and an extensive Italian wine list, ordered a margarita staight up with salt the moment she was seated. This is what you get to see when you have a 5:30 reservation. It’s pretty fascinating.

About halfway through the meal, right around the time that we were served our pasta course, the manager came over. “The chef thinks your stubble looks great,” he said. “We have email alerts, even for Twitter.”

Yes, ladies and gentleman, they had traced my tweet mentioning the name of the restaurant to my account, which had the same name as my reservation, to my table. On the one hand, yes, I was twitter-stalked by the restaurant where I was having dinner. On the other, I am highly entertained by this. I’m glad I didn’t say anything snarky, it showed they’re paying attention and that they enjoy engaging with me on my (low, low) level.

So, to all you eaters and tweeters out there, you never know who’s listening. Except at Shopsin’s—I’m pretty sure you’ll always be safe there.

Feb 05
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Still the most beautiful plane ever made. The fact that it was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ride before he shuffled off this mortal coil helps, too.

Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Still the most beautiful plane ever made. The fact that it was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ride before he shuffled off this mortal coil helps, too.

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During the 1930s the need for a proper airport for Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden, became urgent. The airport was opened in 1936 by King Gustav V, and was the first airport in Europe to have paved runways from start. During World War II Swedish and British aircraft flew to the United Kingdom from Bromma airport. Since these flights sometimes carried Norwegian and Danish refugees the airport became of interest for German spies, and two Swedish Douglas DC-3 that had taken off from Bromma were shot down by the Germans during the war.
— The surprisingly tumultuous history of Stockholm’s Bromma Airport.
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There are three WASP foodstuffs for setting out and feigning eating, but the one I’m here to talk to you about today is mayonnaise. (The other two, cucumbers and shrimp, are only around because they’re pink and green and cold, and WASPs like food created in their own image.)
Awl
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Did you get fed up with blogging? Or was it that you tried to break up with Citysearch before they broke up with you?

michaelorell:

“I did break up with them before they broke up with me. I liked having an $80,000-a-year job with benefits and a nice office and a title, but on the other hand, blogging’s one of the hardest things that anyone can do. I mean, the kind of blogging that I did for three years, of writing news and opinion — in real time — eight to fourteen posts a day or whatever it was, nobody who hasn’t done it can imagine how hard it is.”

- Friend (and former colleague) of MOP Josh Ozersky in the Village Voice

#thisisforFosterfortoomanyreasonstolist

So hard! That’s why Grub had a copy editor assigned to fix all his posts, right?

Feb 04
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choire:

English candy deadline speed-writing snack attack happened. THINGS I ATE THAT I WISH I COULD GET OUT OF ME.

I take it you already know about the Malteasers ice cream from Ciao Bella? ‘Cause it’s real, and it’s fabulous. If you like Malteasers.

choire:

English candy deadline speed-writing snack attack happened. THINGS I ATE THAT I WISH I COULD GET OUT OF ME.

I take it you already know about the Malteasers ice cream from Ciao Bella? ‘Cause it’s real, and it’s fabulous. If you like Malteasers.

Feb 03
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Paul: More! Always more! I love putting things on the web. I like the paywall because it helps us pay writers and writers should be paid.
Choire: *blinks*

This speaks to me even more after I was offered an assignment last week and came thisclose to responding by calling the proposed rate Dickensian. And not in the sprawling cast-of-characters way, in the penny per word way.

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Abbriviated list of menu items at Congee Village

paulbrady:

  • Snail and frog porridge
  • Rice baked with Chinese mushrooms and frog
  • Baked fish intestine in clay pot
  • Duck’s blood with chive
  • Preserved meat delight

Full PDF menu here.

These are things that the Froog orders. I do not.

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Sometimes, abbreviated RSS feeds are a blessing.

Sometimes, abbreviated RSS feeds are a blessing.

Feb 01
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azizisbored:

My hotel breakfast pre-order menu had a special instructions section. Unfortunately, they did not follow through on mine.

I would have gone with “You have great things to do today!” but maybe that was just in my family.

azizisbored:

My hotel breakfast pre-order menu had a special instructions section. Unfortunately, they did not follow through on mine.

I would have gone with “You have great things to do today!” but maybe that was just in my family.

Jan 31
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Win!

davidlandsel:

Just read a blog post analyzing an article I wrote for the paper last week. The blogger referred to me as an idiot.

The only downside here is that it took ten years of writing (very publicly, I’ll add) to get someone that pissed off. Better late than never, I suppose.

This remains my favorite comment about my work, from a BT article over the summer:

“This was so twisted and exaggerated, I automatically presumed it was written by Chris Elliott until I looked at the byline.”

Jan 29
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allthecoolkids:

Wow. I can’t wait until I am over 35 and get to drink out of big girl glasses.
Pub chain to use ‘much larger’ wine glasses, flowers and complimentary toiletries to entice women over 35 to its bars

This reminds me of the horrible, horrible Girlfriend Getaway packages when that trend picked up about five years ago. One of them included a fancy pillow and a pint of ice cream. As long as this isn’t limited to Chardonnay, it will surpass that idea.

allthecoolkids:

Wow. I can’t wait until I am over 35 and get to drink out of big girl glasses.

Pub chain to use ‘much larger’ wine glasses, flowers and complimentary toiletries to entice women over 35 to its bars

This reminds me of the horrible, horrible Girlfriend Getaway packages when that trend picked up about five years ago. One of them included a fancy pillow and a pint of ice cream. As long as this isn’t limited to Chardonnay, it will surpass that idea.