I’m going to be honest–I don’t care about the methods the TSA uses. And furthermore, I think the people that are so very excited seem to be men worried about someone touching their weens, and the people who retweet them. Which is why I find this Saturday Night Live sketch so very funny, because at [...]
Entries Tagged as 'hackery'
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Body Scanner Freakouts!
November 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, Wary of the advice of others
Golf Courses Are Dead, and the LA Times Keeps Puttering Along
March 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Fail 'o' the Day
Sigh. WHY? The LA Times recently ran a story in their travel section entitled, “Playing golf courses the pros play.” Again, this is why travel sections are increasingly becoming irrelevant. Let’s look at data. New hospitality developments are forgoing golf courses as part of their schemes for other revenue producing vehicles (such as spas) because [...]
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Fail ‘o’ the Day: New York Times Man-Crush Edition
March 9th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, The point of travel, Wary of the advice of others
It’s unclear to me exactly how the first “issue” of an online “magazine”–a.k.a., a blog–gets covered by the New York Times. But based on today’s review of Nowhere, the qualifications seem to be: An Andy-Spade-like preoccupation with pencil-scribbled notebooks Courier font An aversion to using paragraph breaks, or in other ways admitting you’re publishing on [...]
Tags:dreamscapes·hackery·obsession with fonts·pomposity·travel writing
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Time for the Gold Watch Edition
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Fail 'o' the Day, Wary of the advice of others
Growing up, my dream was to be a foreign correspondent. I didn’t really have any idea of what that meant, except it sounded sophisticated and extremely exotic. The notion of traveling overseas to report the truth consisted of wearing khaki, dodging bullets, and sleeping underneath mosquito netting. Now my travel for work has little, if [...]
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Cutesy Travel Cliche Edition
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Betty, Fail 'o' the Day
You have GOT to be kidding me. “Beat baggage fees by taking a ‘nakation,’ say nudists” is the lead story for the Seattle Times travel section this week.
Lead story.
It’s not by a Seattle Times writer. It’s not even journalism. If they’re going to take stuff from the wires, at least give us information we can use. Something.
Nacation? NACATION? SERIOUSLY? A bullshit term devised for going on vacation without clothes?
Friday Fail: Reconstituted Brochure-Wear Edition
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day
I swear, I won’t make the Friday Fail about Carol Pucci every week (as I did with this previous post). But she’s making it hard to ignore her.
When I think of the position of travel writer for a major metropolitan newspaper, to me, it should involve research, reporting, and/or opinions. Possibly even insight
Fail ‘o’ the Day: Snowglobe Edition
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, Wary of the advice of others
Let’s just say it: How does Carol Pucci, travel writer for the Seattle Times, still have a job?
Friday Fail: Absurdly Obvious Travel-Advice Edition
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Fail 'o' the Day, Wary of the advice of others
Have you traveled on a budget? I mean a real budget, where six bucks can make or break your daily balance?
Evidently, Matt Gross, the New York Times Frugal Traveler hasn’t. Or he wouldn’t have his 2010 resolutions made up of patently obvious items for anyone who’s ever actually traveled on a budget. Here are two of the six gems of wisdom for the budget-minded.
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Give That Girl a Pulitzer
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Wary of the advice of others
This post on “10 Words and Phrases We Never Want to See in Travel Writing Again” from Teresa Ponikvar over at Matador Network is dead on, starting with number 1.
