Like Navy Pier.
― Jeff, Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
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
I shivered. This time, it wasn’t because I was chilly. It was because the Windy City blew me away.
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
where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho
― lag∞n, Saturday, 7 July 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
cleveland mcdonalds serve pierogies
― that's why Love made the weirdos (brownie), Saturday, 7 July 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
and degradation
mmm degradation
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 July 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
Mchumiliation wraps
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 July 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
mcdilla
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 July 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
I just meant lol regional differences like "OMG there's a grocery store here called Piggly Wiggly"
http://cdn.discountqueens.com/uploads/2011/05/hellmans.png
― MacArthur Parkour (Phil D.), Sunday, 8 July 2012 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
Granted, I'm not single, but when I read that piece to my wife she wondered why the writer spent half her stay hanging at the Wit and other spots a block from her office. Really? The denim and flanel line cracked her up, too. She asked if this was an article from 1994. I can't believe the editor OK'd something so boilerplate and cliched, from loading up the iPod with Sinatra to all the attention paid to the politeness of the midwest.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 July 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
"[A New Yorker is] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 July 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
lol even here New Yorkers are so oblivious as to how obtuse they really can be.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
truly all new yorkers think with one mind
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
the ones who write lifestyle articles for the NYT certainly seem to be!
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
oh no doubt. http://www.movingimagesource.us/images/articles/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-003-20080627-121656-medium.jpg
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5922392/i-used-to-love-her-but-i-had-to-flee-her-on-leaving-new-york
Was that quote above posted on account of this article?
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Sunday, 8 July 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://live.wsj.com/video/dont-forget-to-pack-a-photographer/DA606752-74E7-4A2F-AB24-205B3F9C9766.html?mod=wsj_hps_tboright#!DA606752-74E7-4A2F-AB24-205B3F9C9766
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
wau that Gawker piece
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Monday, 9 July 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Her parents had proposed the idea of buying us an apartment somewhere in the Bay Area
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 July 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
tbh I was still back on "whaddaya gonna do, it's New York *poops on sidewalk*"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Monday, 9 July 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
when in rome
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
"[ A New Yorker is ] usually someone who, for one thing, thinks this is the only place in the world to be. Which is to say, you don't think of the other options one would have in life."
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Many of us here in New York are so blindered that we don't even stop to consider how easy it would be to have our girlfriends' parents buy us apartments.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Tourists and brown nannies with white babies are constantly in the way of your giant steps, keeping you from getting to all the great readings and gallery openings you need to attend (often it seems as if New York has no parties, only "events").
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Monday, 9 July 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link