May 2009
44 posts
Suck my wisent →
I expect more from a hotel review by Mike Albo than this. What happened? Not sure if it got edited to death or what, but there’s potential for a travel writer to operate in the manner of a Critical Shopper column. This is not that. Too bad.
Sotomayor’s Sharp Tongue Raises Issue of... →
Um, Clarence Thomas sleeps through the sessions and never asks a question. That’s better how?
“And I am very big on seat belts. I’m a seat belt absolutist, front or back, with...”
– Scocca
I AM GOING TO HAVE NIGHTMARES. →
(via katiebakes)
These terror treyf are spot prawns, by the way. They’re in season over in Vancouver and so they are everywhere.
Kentucky Wordy →
All Mike'd Up
As always, plenty of Francesca goodness to be found here. At a certain point, I guess we have to give up on Mike and the Mad Dog ever getting back together, so what happens now? Are we stuck with Mike forever?
Independently, I hate them, and if there’s no alternative, let’s create one. What if ESPN gave Bill Simmons a show instead of a podcast? Or put Carolla, whose podcast is also...
Attempt #1 at solving the problem
davidcho:
So, as I mentioned before, I’ve been having trouble staying asleep. As a result, someone gave me a Lunesta that I plan on taking tonight as soon as the Cavs game is over.
I’m pretty excited to potentially get more than 4-5 hours of sleep, but even more exciting are these potential side effects listed on the Lunesta website.
-getting out of bed while not being fully awake and doing...
“Ahh, the famed meeting of Diddy and the Hottentot Venus. Pynchon would be...”
– You may have been gallivanting / “working” someplace fabulous at the time, but fear not: I made sure the Hottentot Venus beat was covered in your absence. In other news, I must know: professed still-don’t-liker of McNally restaurants, how’d you feel about the trey? (via katiebakes)
Clearly it had...
"It's kind of a sad statement when someone's fun... →
(via katiebakes)
One wonders how long it will take them to get suspicious when they to make Nebraska the “Colbert Nation” state.
“The flash entertainment system [on Jet Airways] includes power plugs, adapters,...”
– YES PLEASE. (via paulbrady)
Is it weird that I don’t totally flip my shit over AVOD like this? I want in-flight wi-fi, for sure, but a couple movies are enough. I come prepared when I travel, so it’s not like I’ll have that much of a shortage of entertainment between the iPod...
Spain Drain
I mentioned this briefly on Twitter, but man, is paella the most disappointing food you can order in a restaurant or what? It never lives up to my expectations, and at this point, my expectations are pretty low for paella. I would go so far to call it the Boston of food dishes. That is, they’re both conceptually great, whether it means being chockablock with colonial history and/or mollusks,...
The Raiders and Air Asia X have a plane together... →
Dubai: Let's Talk About Slavery →
fek:
Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is revered by Emiratis (residents of the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a member state) as a man of true “vision.” The vision thing was the party line even back when I visited in 2006, and likely before that. His vision is treated as all but oracular when it comes to the proper course for Dubai, the best execution of business,...
"Some places should be off limits to any sort of...
katiebakes:
gm:
Why aren’t we building a ton of wind farms? Is it purely financial? Are there any drawbacks to it besides that investment? No choice that appears this black and white is ever so easy. Where’s the catch?
The catch is NIMBYs.
Can’t we work all these NIMBY things together? Gitmo detainees go in a special prison on Yucca Mountain, with a wind farm on top. Everyone who wants...
“So now I’m 40 years old and I’m back living on the streets of Hollywood in a...”
– Read this interview with Charles Napier (best known to people my age as Duke Phillips, of Duke Phillips’ House of Chicken and Waffles, from The Critic) on the AV Club.
maura:
the kiefer-voiced bank of america ads don’t really give you the same warm fuzzies of home when they air during 24.
Just deposit your money in Bank of America! There’s no time to explain!
Dubai Is Sorry to See You Go →
paulbrady:
doree:
chrismohney:
Press trips are indeed icky no matter how you slice it. Unfortunately they’re pretty much critical to travel writing, since no one but the NYT, Time Inc., Conde Nast etc could actually afford firsthand reporting (or “reporting”) otherwise. Probably the worst ROI of any genre of journalism if individuals had to pay for everything they experienced on assignment....
“On our third and final day, we do a round of round-table interviews. First up is...”
– from Mohney’s Dubai story for BlackBook. Apologies for the inside baseball, but Nigel is in every Dubai story ever. Yes, he’s the rep, but there’s no one else to quote, apparently. And yet, Chris is being generous in calling him charming.
Actually, I’m surprised they were...
"Taxi? TAXI?...
katiebakes:
kmase:
it’s funny when people talk about calling a car service in manhattan and someone says, well you can call seven seven seven…seven…seven…seven…seven and i always wonder if they’re going to commit to it and say all the sevens through to the end or if someone will cut them off and be like, yeah call them.
I use them to/from the airport (which is often) and I love the...
Sullied!
I knew something felt wrong when I woke up this morning. All three Boston teams won yesterday. Yes another problem President Obama will need to solve, because we can’t have this level of confidence in that part of New England for long without ripping a tear in the fabric of the space time continuum. Or worse, a sequel to Daredevil just ‘cause Affleck’s feeling...
One Sentence Review: Stogo →
Walking to the bank the other day, I passed the following tableau: a man walking his French Bulldog, talking to a delivery man standing next to his delivery truck, leaning on a pallet of boxes about chest high. The delivery man listened intently as the dog owner said “Well, you know, he’s technically in the non-sporting group…”
