I was planning on avoiding the Icelandic volcano story, since it’s a week old (and most of it happened while I was in NYC). But this video of newscasters trying to pronounce Eyjafjallajökul is awesomely funny. Most seem to have inserted at least one extra syllable. But I give them props for trying (most seemed [...]
Entries from April 1st, 2010
Loved Sleeping with You, Ace
April 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Good design, Novelty
First off, that joke isn’t mine–it’s how they sign your checkout paperwork at the Ace Hotel: Thanks for sleeping with us xox –Ace Can you believe that no one has been savvy enough (or sassy enough) to use that before? Welcome to the first Gen X hotel. My love of novelty drove me to the Ace [...]
Bon Voyage
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Novelty
Whew! We had a blast with our recent travel movie madness–and big props to Joan for her winning comment about our “Blue Crush” post. But now we’re going to take a few days off to…travel! If you’re dying for a newelty fix before we return next week, follow us on Twitter. There may be a twitpic [...]
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Travel Movies We Love: We Are For…Bath
April 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blog posts by Lia, Travel Movies We Love
#1. Persuasion (1995) Sense and Sensibility had Emma Thompson and an Oscar, while Pride and Prejudice has Mr. Darcy. Most Jane Austen die-hards have seen the movie version of Mansfield Park and even Emma. Persuasion, in my experience, causes people to scratch their heads. Persuasion? The movie has no marquee stars (although Ciarán Hinds has [...]
Travel Movies We Love: Wide Ties and Rotary Phones
April 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Travel Movies We Love
#2. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) Whenever I’m in Washington D.C., I walk through the National Mall. It’s expansive and intense, and I always feel something that falls somewhere between nostalgia, pride, and extreme power. It’s the backdrop for so many of America’s stories, both good and bad. And it’s one of the settings in [...]
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Travel Movies We Love: Madness in La Mosquitia
April 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Travel Movies We Love
#3 THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986) Clearly, Lia and I have a thing for Harrison Ford. Based on the book by Paul Theroux, “The Mosquito Coast” tells the story of an eccentric patriarch who drags his family to Central America in hopes of creating a Utopian society away from America’s capitalistic grip. Ford plays Allie [...]
Travel Movies We Love: On the L with the One-Armed Man
April 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Travel Movies We Love
#4. The Fugitive (1993) Chicago. The first time I remember ever paying attention to it as something distinct (unlike, say, St. Louis), was when I saw The Fugitive, and Harrison Ford made a phone call from some skyscraper-heavy downtown…that didn’t look like NYC. It looked just as it does in this photo above–which I took [...]
Travel Movies We Love: The Girl with the Perfect Plan for Scotland
April 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Travel Movies We Love
5. I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) Joan Webster could teach Carrie Bradshaw a thing or two about style. She may be headed to the moody, rainy Hebrides, but she’s a girl who wears her leopard pillbox hat–with matching clutch, natch–for an arduous day of trains, boats, and ferries. She’s the “I” in I Know [...]
Way Beyond the Couchette
April 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Good design, Novelty, Transportation bliss
Betty knows I’m obsessed with train travel, so a photo slideshow on the world’s fanciest train cabins is right up my alley. I get excited about train stations and virtual train rides, so clearly some tricked-out hooptie of a private train cabin was going to take me to my happy place. As I flipped through [...]
Travel Movies We Love: Sign Us Up for Communist Kitsch
April 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blog posts by Lia, Travel Movies We Love
6. Good Bye Lenin! (2003) Alex lives in East Berlin. It’s 1989. His mom falls into a coma for a few months, and in that time the Berlin Wall falls. Mom wakes up, and because she’s a true believer in Communism, he painstakingly recreates all the aspects of East Berlin that are quickly evaporating in [...]
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