January 2010
42 posts
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...
Keep the noodles in your purse for protection
Great round-up from the New York Post Travel fellas on restaurant and food trends of ‘09/’10. I was with Landsel for his Xi’an Noodle experience. Yes, they are delicious. Also, the interior of their Manhattan location is smaller than that of the location in Flushing. It’s also smaller than the interior of a Smart Car. There is a metal console with room for 2 1/2 people...
“It’s like, if you could have a sitdown with God and say, “Why is a...”
– Lost is coming. Prepare to have some crabby friends this May.
Not afraid to be (self) servicey
paulbrady:
Stranded in the Sacred Valley? Might as well make the most out of your unplanned stopped in Ollantaytambo.
That 90's Show
Got totally sucked into watching Pulp Fiction on the teevee last night. It’s been awhile. I had forgotten how enjoyable it is, and how iconic it has become.That said, as much as Tarantino borrowed from the 70’s, to my mind it has to be one of the defining films of the 90’s in its very 90’s-ness. (More than Kicking and Screaming, which, much as it pains me to say it, is a...
“The sentences are superior to a lot of the stuff I write now, but the story...”
– NYT Mag article on James Patterson, in all his multi-million dollar glory. A must-read read for anyone involved in publishing.
Alisha at Sosauce Interviewed Me. →
(via paulbrady)
And I helped! By existing. Well, maybe “helped” is too strong. Being an example mentioned off the cuff is a kind of helping though, I suppose.
JetBlue Considering Moving Headquarters to Orlando →
(via paulbrady)
Interesting, but then again, wasn’t in Schumer that negotiated the slots for JetBlue at JFK in the first place? That’s why they fly to Buffalo and Rochester et al. Seems like they’re fishing for some kind of sweetener.
Ryanair fares to appear on Kayak →
(via paulbrady)
Hot dog, a whole ‘nuther airline to filter out of my searches! Can they put them in the same tick box as US Airways so I don’t have to do any extra work, please?
“The way this guy releases vintages, it’s like he’s Neil Young releasing live...”
– So, Sifton got recognized at Danny Meyer’s Maialino. After the USQ debacle, not surprising. That quote sounds like the wine director practiced it in the mirror every day before work.
Sam Goody's Radio
Love this essay by Maura about musical genre in 2009. I was thinking about this last night, spinning off from her opening. Do we even need to categorize music anymore? No one finds it on the radio or even in a CD store, so why bother labeling? Unless there were tons of people who found the Dirty Projectors by googling “Brooklyn Alternative” or something.
“For the time being, all the new hotels will add to what was already a buyer’s...”
– Hotel Industry Is on Brink of Major Expansion in Big Cities (via paulbrady)
Mandatory those-hotels-aren’t-opening-on-time reblog.
Strippers, Schnitzel and Speed: The Audi Driving...
fek:
Here we have a multinational car corporation subsidizing drunk driving, *maybe* paying the 5,000 Euro bill for a strip club, and my first lap dance….
Now, a lot of champagne was stirred, if I remember correctly what little I can. And the one lap dance I got—my first ever, from “Katya,” which got less and less sexy the more we argued about why she thought Hackensack, New Jersey was a better...
On Travel Writing
Briana: sometimes it's just like... the fact that you got to go to this cool place does not make your writing automatically interesting
Paul: STRONGLY AGREE
Kids, that's why you should only travel to Tuscany or Paris--then it doesn't even matter!
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The Wanderer
So, I’m not sure how, exactly, but I woke up this morning with “Runaround Sue”* stuck in my head. As I listened to it and I found out that Dion was:
—a teenage gang leader in the Bronx
—addicted to heroin
—almost in the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens
Crazy life.
*Let the record show that I always have “Chantilly...
"Listening to Liz Cheney explain why Harry Reid's... →
(via katiebakes)
And that was AFTER she said that Obama should stop ignoring the press and start taking questions from reporters. I know the Bush years were so bad we’d like to forget, but didn’t he give the fewest press conferences of any president? Le sigh…
I would pay any amount of money to have Liz Cheney sit in an ejection seat during her This Week appearances.
“Mr. Durant, 26, who works in online advertising, is part of a small New York...”
– NYT (MISS U ALLEN SALKIN)
Still don't get it
paulbrady:
It’s not that I don’t understand the concept. Formspring and the new Ask feature on Tumblr are both ways to stay anonymous while asking a question or leaving a comment. But what so important that you can’t say it without having the heart to put your name on it? If you don’t mind putting your name to it, why not just send an email? (Or, from the other side, why not install Disqus...
One Sentence Review: Pizzeria Veloce →
One Sentence Review: La Lucha →
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Breaking Dawn →
“And while it wasn’t more than five degrees that morning in the New York City of...”
– Landsel
“The act of publishing on Twitter is so friction-free — a few keystrokes and hit...”
– Carr
Formsprung
If I wanted to know, I would have asked by now, OK?
Long Island’s Commack High School Rethinks Honor... →
They did show the Incredibles on TV a lot over the holidays, didn’t they?