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"You Have 3,893 Unread Messages"

Hallo! That's German for "I haven't checked my email in a week." Many a trend piece has been written about Americans' reluctance to take vacations. (The flip side of this, noted in the Sunday Times, is that they're going on vacation just totally buck naked.) Most are afraid of losing their jobs. Some are afraid of falling behind. Others have trouble letting go of what's happening back at the office. This does definitely happen, as evidenced by the actual angst I felt that people were covering Ryan Adams's blog without me. But it's OK. I dealt with my feelings by drinking many beers on the subway, totes legally. And it was good.

10:09 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Sheila
958 views, 12 comments

Latest by Gayyker: You went to the new Williamsburg?? How was it? more »

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The Creative-Underclass Expats in Berlin, Again!

Berliniamsburg: everybody's doing it! The European sister of Williamsburg is perfect for a perennial trend piece on the antidote to gentrification: you know, just chillin' while being a beatiful loser or an artist or a creator in Berlin. (Even me. I'm so going on vacation in two weeks!) And then T magazine tortures us with photos of two stylish musicians in a Berlin apartment to stab for. As it turns out, "What New York was in the 80s, Berlin is now," is a cliche, according to an interviewee. More »

1:41 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Sheila
2,755 views, 27 comments

Latest by n/a: @TiaMaria: I only know one person here who gets money from her grandmother. The rest of us work. @Papa Lazarou: So who's your wife now? more »

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Designs for the towers


Steven Berlin Johnson, he of Emergence, weighs in on the designs for new towers in Lower Manhattan. SBJ votes for the lattice structures of THINK because, after all, no one would actually want to work in teetering towers that just beg to be toppled.
Steven Berlin Johnson for THINK
New York Post readers prefer Foster

9:24 AM on Fri Dec 20 2002
By Gawker
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