Archive for December, 2008
Why Is Don Draper So Cool?
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008So the other week, much to my dismay, I found myself finally joining that group of people who’ll confess to you at parties that they’ve neglected vital functions (sleep, food, human interaction, etc.) in order to plow, uninterrupted, through an entire season of a TV show on DVD. Fortunately in my case, the series in [...]
New clips…
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008My Private Air interview for Craig Ferguson (nothing like buzzing above L.A. in a Cessna 400 piloted by a late-night comedy host) is up here and on the Clips page.
What’s that smell?
Friday, December 19th, 2008Yes, I saw the Portfolio article. Instead of a long-winded dissection of the article and its effects, let’s just say that for the past few days, I’ve been responding to emails of “How’s office life?” with a link to this.
In the meantime, there’s a far more pressing concern: Namely, how we can track down the [...]
There are some perks to the Job, after all
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008Thanks to a confluence of circumstances that won’t be belabored here, I was unexpectedly gifted enough bottles of high-end liquor to at least partially restock Underbar after a somewhat busy Tuesday night. Everything from triple-distilled single-malt Scotch whiskey to Zacapa Rum sits in a neat row beside my desktop Mac; combine that with the boxes [...]
Terrifying
Thursday, December 11th, 2008Being an editor means that, for better or worse, you’re the target of many a poorly aimed pitch email from PR flaks. These pitches range from the innocuous (“New Dunhill store opening!”) to the unexpectedly useful (“And you thought the economy doing its best impersonation of the RMS Lusitania meant we couldn’t release a half-million-dollar [...]
New clips…
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008The winter issue of the Cigar Report is out, and that means a caviar/cigar pairing review, travels to southern Mexico and Honduras, and assorted smoky goodness from yours truly… Click Here or visit the Clips page.
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Current Music: Wumpscut, “Wreath of Barbs”
Current Movie: “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” (2008)
Current Book: ‘The Master and Margarita,” by [...]
Staying Hungry (BVI, Part III)
Monday, December 8th, 2008Flashback, for a brief moment, to the day I landed in Tortola…
One of the joys of travel writing is encountering new people and their belief systems. That’s what I tell myself as my driver, Troy, takes me from the airport to Road Town in a battered van that’s nonetheless in better condition than any of [...]
Walking the Devil (BVI, Part II)
Friday, December 5th, 2008Every remote location, it seems, is duty-bound to have some sort of natural formation to whose name the locals have stapled with the word ‘Devil.’ Think ‘Devil’s Cut,’ ‘Devil’s Pass,’ ‘Devil’s Cove,’ ‘Devil’s Juniper Bushes,’ etc. To spice things up a little more, the locals often pair the formation with some legend involving the Prince [...]
When Rogue Waves Happen to Good People (BVI, Part I)
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest–
…Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest–
…Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
Roughly three hundred years ago, a group of pirates under Blackbeard’s command decided that they’d had enough of working long hours in cramped conditions with their stinking brethren, and petitioned their [...]