Years ago, I played a game during my visits to Prague: Spot...
Jul 1st
PersonalIy, I Would Have Gone With...
The restaurant at the freshly opened Courtyard by Mariott in Plzen (don’t ask, I’m not...
Jun 30th
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The Salmon Dance—The Chemical Brothers
Jun 30th
Man, there is nothing finer than sad Germans on a Sunday...
Jun 29th
Front pages like this are why it’s scary when the...
Jun 29th
Translation: Delusional
katert0t: This from Publisher’s lunch on Friday: “Bloomsbury issued the standard happy statement...
Jun 29th
Just the essentials
Jun 29th
“Most important, there is the FIFA soccer World Cup, for...”
— from “Soccer:1, Mugabe:0”, a...
— from “Soccer:1, Mugabe:0”, a...
Jun 29th
Memo to CNN International:
Please stop showing the “Mandela at 90” special eight times a day. It makes it seem like...
Jun 29th
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brooklynmutt:
Today Now!: How To Pretend You Give A Shit About The Election
“Use...
Jun 28th
So…is the monkey the busboy?
Jun 28th
Kayak has all the airline's fees listed as a...
Jun 27th
If you're gonna make the bar the only...
Do you really have to put a pair of Czechs with keyboards singing Josh Groban and Celine...
Jun 27th
Holy shit, they're going to start selling...
Jun 26th
Write Your Thesis in 15 Minutes a Day
katert0t: This is an example of titles that explain the entire interior of your book so well that...
Jun 26th
lowlife:
Jesse Malin’s pizzeria opened last night
From...
Jun 26th
Jun 26th
Chuck Klosterman, Deep Throat
Listen, kids: Don’t blame the fact-checker. When writers do it, it comes across as plain...
Jun 26th
Rites of Passage
“It was a busy day for recent Yankees alumni on Wednesday: pitcher Shawn Chacon was suspended...
Jun 26th
the gchat bloopy sound that you hear...
thegreenfieldsofthemind: is what ovulation sounds like, according to my friend at work. He just said...
Jun 25th
Meta-Meta Blogging
lowlife: A food writer who I quoted in a piece about super-expensive hamburgers was called out by...
Jun 25th
I like the “Mycenaen Beef” in...
Jun 25th
Duck and Green Papaya Salad at Angel—part of the best...
Jun 25th
MasterCard Pays $1.8 Billion to American...
Glad to see I’m not the only one that owes AMEX money.
Jun 25th
“Later in the day, after a panel discussion on the strange...”
— Wired [via]
— Wired [via]
Jun 25th
As a former bartender I can assure you that the lede of this...
Jun 25th
Pony Express
“Your government money arrived today, you massive asshole. I hate you and your check. Where...
Jun 25th
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thegreenfieldsofthemind:
dazzlingdelta:
aliexplainsitall:
dazzlingdelta:
esandberg:
...
Jun 24th
“New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s favorite put-down...”
— Slate
— Slate
Jun 24th
Pretty sure this is the world’s first Roma buddy...
Jun 24th
Fowl Doings
After an extensive tasting menu (for lunch) at CzecHouse—during which time I managed to...
Jun 24th
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lowlife:
Steven Colbert Interviews The Cookie Monster
“Me like the Robert Downey Jr. of...
Jun 24th
George Carlin
alexbalk: I hope Mike Barnicle can repurpose some of his encomiums for Tim Russert. Don’t...
Jun 24th
Pigs, Dollars, and Peacocks
I had a $25 hamburger at Hergetova Ciehelna today. Stupid exchange rate. Sure, you’re paying...
Jun 23rd
How Did They Find Me?
Somehow it seems cosmically unfair that there would be jackhammering and construction in front of my...
Jun 23rd
Klaster Emauzy
Jun 22nd
I’ve been watching The Wire a lot, so I read this and...
Jun 21st
Oh boy! America gets to be the new Costa del...
Jun 20th
Modern Villians Decoded
katert0t: Carter and Ethan decided that the only realistic way a true super villian would exist in...
Jun 20th
Which might sum up “The Love Guru” in its...
Jun 20th
Small European Car of the Day: The official Subway Skoda....
Jun 20th
That Diane Lane stinker “Untraceable” is called...
Jun 20th
The Outfit in Question
Jun 19th
Interpretive Dance Comes to the Prague...
Chances to experience old school Czech weirdness are few and far between these days, in this era...
Jun 19th
Lunch with Gordo
I ate at Maze, the new(ish) Gordon Ramsay restaurant in the Hilton Old Town in Prague, for lunch...
Jun 19th
Small European Car of the Day: VW Polo, which in this case,...
Jun 19th
It’s the ABCs of Meat, friends.
Jun 18th
“here’s no Beatles on this, and no Sinatra. But yeah, I...”
— Pitchfork (new Girl Talk this...
— Pitchfork (new Girl Talk this...
Jun 18th
Small European Car of the Day: It’s the new Fiat...
Jun 18th
katert0t:
Manny and the Manicure
At least there isn’t...
Jun 17th
Pizza at Pepe Nero.
Jun 17th
In Case You Wondered
Jeff Koyen’s the travel columnist at Penthouse. I like the “Foreign Tongues”...
Jun 17th
Harvard Students Still Flaming Rich...
A “children’s book author”, yes. Also the only publishing billionaire....
Jun 17th
Small European Car of the Day: The Skoda Roomster, which...
Jun 17th
Hippy Dippy Trip to Prague
Jun 16th
Jun 16th
On ugliness
And he couldn’t have anticipated HD—Zing! Seriously, I respect that there are way too...
Jun 16th
Goleo, spotted in Prague.
Jun 16th
“Miss Japan is a dwarf who charges down the stage on a tiny...”
— Shteyngart
— Shteyngart
Jun 16th
Fascinating dispatch on the end of eXile. I was more of a Think man—different city, different...
Jun 12th
Old Devil Moon
I visited to update the review last night. I’m not sure if no AC is charming—perhaps it...
Jun 12th
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Nick Cave, “Red Right Hand”
(Yes, I remember it from that “Songs in the Key of...
Jun 12th
“Russian girls appear unfamiliar with the North American...”
— Alan Richman, gourmet...
— Alan Richman, gourmet...
Jun 11th
“It’s hard not to like the Czechs. They’re the...”
— Hirshey
— Hirshey
Jun 6th
Assisted Living
Ways to feel old: —Derek Jeter turns 34 at the end of June —As of this fall, there...
Jun 5th
“Obama’s and McCain’s speeches were not on the...”
— James Poniewozik
— James Poniewozik
Jun 4th
I guess "Choke it Down" is taken...
Jun 2nd
“Sometimes it will be good and sometimes it will be bad, but...”
— Jonathan Coulton
— Jonathan Coulton
Jun 1st