tbf a lot of people have a set workload they have to get done and the email problems are on top of that! I think it's more an issue of jobs assuming you get done with a set of tasks and never have to return to them, whereas a lot of jobs involve maintenance and support.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
maybe don't work in publishing if you don't like answering emails?
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
"asking me to do things I did not want to do or presenting me with problems that I now had to solve"--I might be kind of a Puritan about industriousness but like is this guy somehow incapable of...life?
Things I do not want to do = almost everything I have to do to live that doesn't involve reading, drinking, or making out. Problems I have to solve = everything in life, including how to maximize opportunities to read, drink, and make out.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
laurel on the money!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
this is making the roundshttp://travel.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/travel/single-in-chicago.html?pagewanted=all
On a different evening at Roof, this time well past midnight, two go-go dancers twirled like woozy tops, flanking a D.J. who was blasting Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up.” It was more lively than the night I arrived, which suits the space: it’s too sprawling for tête-à-têtes. Still, I later wondered aloud to a man I met why a lounge with fire pits, a 12-foot-wide HDTV monitor, and million-dollar views felt it also needed to throw in a couple of dancers in panties.
“Are you visiting from New York?” he asked.
I nodded.
“It’s the Midwest,” he said. “Welcome.”
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
manages to be even more condescending than you might expect a NYT article about chicago to be
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
a coffee shop where people work on laptops! a guy held the door open for her and was nice!
did not know the midwest was know for going big
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
theres so much for me to discover out there *writes times travel diary*
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
"Boy, Chicago sure seems different than the two years I've spent in New York after moving from Cleveland"
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
It's also pretty funny that they devoted like half of the slideshow to Milennium Park. It was on national TV when Obama accepted the presidency, it's not some hidden treasure. Maybe next they should travel to San Francisco and tell us about the Golden Gate Bridge.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
haa this bar she visited multiple times is on the roof of the hotel shes staying in
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
I shivered. This time, it wasn’t because I was chilly. It was because the Windy City blew me away.
*writing*
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 July 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
do they just let anyone write these dravel diaries because ive seen a lot of bad ones
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
Luckily, exploring Chicago on your own is not like wandering around Turks & Caicos..
what a relief
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 6 July 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
its just like some randos personal travel blog level writing idgi
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
It looks like she's written quite a lot for the Times actually
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Friday, 6 July 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
i guess people tend to get uninteresting when they have to talk abt their own uninteresting experiences
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 July 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Whenever I read stories about tourists' visits to Chicago, I always get a little nervous -- fearful, I guess, that their very particular experiences will skew their impressions of the city. This article mostly struck me as pointless rather than misguided, though.
(I've actually been to one of the bars in the Wit -- a coworker once dragged me to watch her boyfriend play background music -- but not to the one on the roof.)
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 6 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
Gazing out at Marina City’s towers, rising like two corncobs (as the locals call them)
GTFO
― kate78, Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
I know! that sentence!
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
The wit roof top bar isn't too bad. But there are about 500 more interesting places to go.
― Jeff, Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
Like Navy Pier.
Is this being talked about in the Chicago threads at all? I feel like that would be entertaining.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
the stupid thing about bad travel writing is that you'd assume tons of great writers would be like YES PLZ COMP MY TRAVEL & PAY ME TO WRITE ABOUT IT & yet so many travel writing is just completely terrible
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite part tho was this:
This is the second in a series of articles about traveling alone.
is "traveling alone" a special genre of travel writing? can't all travel writing just be applied to whatever your situation is?
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
and the feeling you get from the piece is 'weird! chicago is not like new york!' which surely can't be what people want from travel writing
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
I assumed most travel writing was 'travelling alone'
She actually comes off as so PROVINCIAL, like those people who say "OMG, the McDonalds in Arizona had quesadillas! It was so weird!"
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, July 6, 2012 10:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
well travel writers travel alone, but i guess the implication is that they write about things that are to be done for people that are travelling in a group? but that really doesn't matter at all. almost anything you would or could do while travelling in a group you could or would do while travelling alone. if the NYT travel editor thinks that's novel, that person is not very good at his or her job.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't there some article where a young Sulzberger traveled around the midwest and wrote about it or something? Perhaps even in this thread?
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
is it true abt the mcquesadilla
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
I linked to this thread on the Chicago thread so we're talking about it here.
― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:57 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think i have ever looked at a chicago thread. seems like it would be rude to.
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
Well hey, *y'all* Chicagoans are welcome here on our thread. I hope it's not too intimidating and different, this is a BIG city, not like Chicago!
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
lol at thinking nytimes is ny-specific
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
joeks
I don't think that at all, my parents always subscribed and we lived in DC
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
I game their system for the weekday shit and occasionally subscribe to Sunday edition
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god I just came in here to mock that fucking corn cob sentence. Fuck you forever, lady.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
what bums me out the most is I finish read it and I *don't* want to visit chicago. Chicago's a cool place!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
*reading
"You could spend a whole weekend in places like Wicker Park and Bucktown with their neighborhood bars and denim-and-flannel dress code."
What? I mean, what???
― carl agatha, Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think she actually went to Chicago. She just read five or six previously published shitty Chicago travel articles and was like, "The Loop, Millenium Park, the Pump Room, call it the 'windy city' and file it!"
― carl agatha, Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
"People in their 20s and 30s adorned with clunky 1980s-style headphones and glasses were reading and eating alone on couches, or clacking on their Macs."
Oh wait no. She nailed it.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
Also she stayed in the business district and criticized the lack of foot traffic on the street at night. Also she can't read a map and she wrote this: "Yet I was foiled again and again like a video game avatar."
― carl agatha, Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, July 7, 2012 3:54 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't either!
― carl agatha, Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
wait which chicago mcdonalds have mcquesadillas??
― now all my posts got ship in it (dayo), Saturday, 7 July 2012 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
no idea why but i heard this to the tune of "wkrp in cincinatti"
― goole, Saturday, 7 July 2012 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
wkrp in cincinatti reboot
voiceover reads 'single in chicago' nytimes travel piece
wkrp theme plays
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 July 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
I have no idea whether any McDonalds has ever actually served a quesadilla, I just meant lol regional differences like "OMG there's a grocery store here called Piggly Wiggly" -- those kinds of disgusting savages who say that kind of stuff.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link