Paul Brady: Archive

“That fatuous piece that dick-wad William Langewiesche wrote in Vanity...”

– Comments “The Devil at 37,000 Feet” || Jaunted This is better than the time Arthur Frommer had to admit he reads Jaunted.

Dec 31st

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Dec 30th

Dec 29th

“Right now, business is so slow. Some nights, only one customer,” said Jodie, a...”

– Worst Slump in Decades for Tourism in Thailand - NYTimes.com No last name for this exceedingly credible source?

Dec 26th

Dec 22nd

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Emerging Markets

Thank God The New York Times has the guts to go where no other news organization will to report on the serious issue of China blocking internet access to… nytimes.com.

Dec 22nd

Dec 19th

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MillerCoors to stop selling Sparks →

rickyv: R.I.P. Sparks, I’ve had a lot of fun with you in my body. I second that emotion.

Dec 18th

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et Simulation

Hey, it’s an article about the “Sex and the City” tour! I’d be all into the fun of how New York is but a similacrum of its former, gritty self except I already read this when Neel Shah and Paige Ferrari did it in May.

Dec 17th

“ON THE ARABIAN SEA —”

– NYT — This is a dateline I would like to use one day.

Dec 16th

Dec 15th

Travel Schedule.

jennabee: December 21 - 29: Vail, CO December 29 - 30: New York December 31 - Jan 2: Washington, D.C. Jan 2 - 15: NYC Jan 20 - 24(ish): Dallas Jan 30: Ithaca February: Vegas? TBD… If you’re gonna be where I’m gonna be… Put it on Dopplr, girl.

Dec 15th

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Wow, WorldHum →

Dec 15th

“Another top foreign service officer called me after his interview to be...”

– NY Times op-ed on the doofuses who ran the Office of Presidential Personnel for the Bush Administration (via alexanderbasek) This reminded me of the time the Amazing Race went to Ouagadougou.

Dec 12th

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Discuss Amongst Yourselves

juliana6: In my dreams last night I was trying to sign out my tab at a hotel bar with Mike. Except the waitress confused our card with someone else’s and took like three hours to sort it out. I was throwing a temper tantrum at everyone that worked there until I realized I stayed at that hotel a lot and had stashed my shoe collection there. (For the record, I am a hugely passive aggressive...

Dec 12th

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Dec 11th

Fun Jetpunk quiz: How many countries can you name... →

ellenwernecke: Fewer than half of them, apparently! Me too, but I was close with 92. Also, you are queen of the geography timewaster!

Dec 10th

“Ellen Howe, a spokeswoman for the T.S.A., said Monday that the agency has fired...”

– NYT Come on, Joe: Paying out less to victims doesn’t mean that theft is down, it only means the TSA is paying out less to victims. (And let’s not mention the thefts that go unreported or claims not actually filed.)

Dec 9th