December 2011
27 posts
WatchSitting by Dickey Brook in Westchester County on Monday afternoon.
Watchroadsandkingdoms:
Roads and Kingdoms dines al fresco in the street stalls of Rangoon with acclaimed cookbook author Naomi Duguid. And a monk.
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My favourite country pub walk →
Writers and editors from the Guardian and Observer recommend brilliant walks in the countryside – with the vital ingredient of a welcoming pub along the way.
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“This was our fifth visit to Isla and one we looked forward to through the rough...”
– Chicago Tribune
What insensitive, brainless ding dong is running the Tribune’s travel wire? (Wait, is “editor” even still a job at the Tribune Company?)
This purported dispatch from Isla Mujeres manages to be utterly tone deaf, light on facts and full of cliches: call it the...
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I wrote about why I refuse to boycott Kayak →
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Why Indie Bookstores Shouldn't Be All Complain-y →
seedz:
towirr:
A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well.
Genuine question: To what extent are indie bookstores competing directly with Amazon? Obviously Amazon would...
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The relative impressiveness of station names along...
Glenwood
University Heights
Morris Heights
Cold Spring
Yankees—East 153rd Street
Tarrytown
Garrison
Scarborough
Harlem—125th Street
Riverdale
New Hamburg
Cortlandt
Marble Hill
Grand Central Terminal
Ludlow
Beacon
Yonkers
Greystone
Dobbs Ferry
Irvington
Manitou
Peekskill
Poughkeepsie
Ossining
Croton-Harmon
Hastings-on-Hudson
Breakneck Ridge
Philipse Manor
...
“I actually do a lot of dinner dates in Chinatown cause you get privacy, there...”
– Eddie Huang
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