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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    And this is the guy who wanted to tell us not to be worried about status. Right.
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    May favorite Alain de Botton quote: "I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make. I will be watching with interest and schadenfreude."

    [www.steamthing.com]
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    Image of SultanaEleusis SultanaEleusis
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    I think they stole the idea from a guy who once spent 24 hours in WalMart and wrote about it. 24 hours in WalMart=one week in Heathrow.
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    08/19/09

    @SultanaEleusis: Well, there was also a Nickelodeon Magazine article where the writer spent 24 hours in The Mall of America.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/19/09

    @Carol Gardens: Originality = the most overrated virtue in the po-mo age.
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    Somewhere this morning Greg Lindsay is pissed.
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    Edited by Gabriel Snyder at 08/19/09 11:27 AM Gabriel Snyder was starred Gabriel Snyder was unstarred
    Image of Greg Lindsay Greg Lindsay
    08/19/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: Actually, this is exactly the book I didn't want to write (and didn't). Anyone thinking of buying this book should read Walter Kirn's "Up in the Air" instead.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/19/09

    @Greg Lindsay: Hi, a bit off-thread, but I hope you can indulge me. "Now Boarding" for €500: "The breakout James Joyce-ian novel of this European author unfolds over the course of 24 hours spent entirely in the Air France L`Espace Première Lounge at the Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport." (No Googling!)
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    Edited by snugbug at 08/19/09 12:15 PM snugbug was starred snugbug was unstarred
    Image of Greg Lindsay Greg Lindsay
    08/19/09

    @snugbug: The book on my shelf fitting that description is Brigid Brophy's "In Transit," which is so Joyce-ian I can't even read it. But she never had a breakout of any kind, so that probably isn't it.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/19/09

    @Greg Lindsay: Correct answer is "What is question stuffed with totally made-up facts."

    I thought I was being clever making it up, but your erudition, which is nothing short of inspiring, brought me to my knees and now I feel like a bit of a jerk. PS: I'm going to buy Brigid Brophy's "In Transit" now.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    Oh, I think this is a wonderful project. I'd completely buy the book. The Heathrow marketing people hit on a genius idea, and I bet de Botton had oodles of fun interviewing people. Plus, he provided a public service to those bored out of their minds waiting. (Heathrow truly has the WORST lines--I once read an entire paper, all the sections, including "Sports," which I'd normally skip, while waiting my turn for security check there.)
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    The real question is, could I get Julia Allison to live in a glass coffin on the upper deck of my houseboat for a 12-day Blueprint Cleanse and four dozen cupcakes?
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    He's not really all that respected over here, please see Charlie Brooker on the subject: [www.guardian.co.uk]

    Divine.

    Continuing on the Bottonymorons / Chabonorons theme: Philip Roth appearing as himself under a different name in your easily-shocked grandma's conservatory.

    (Can't wait to finish my novel! LOL)
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    Image of hypocriteoath hypocriteoath
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    rich people commissioning art for their own purposes? YOU DON'T SAY! not like this has been happening... oh... say.... FOREVER.
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    Image of Cheruth Cheruth
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    In A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll never do again, David Foster Wallace talks about a highly respected writer who wrote a puff piece on the cruise industry. The cruise line published it in their magazine but didn't label it as advertising and made it look like an excerpt from a stand alone book or article.

    That writer also said that his condition was that the cruise industry had no say over what he wrote.

    So this isn't exactly a new idea. But that guy got to go on a free cruise everything included. This guy gets to sit in Heathrow.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/19/09

    @Cheruth: Hey, was this nugget in one of those incredible footnotes? How could I have missed it, I love that piece.. Or are you referring to the piece itself, which DFW himself wrote for Harper's about a 7-day Caribbean cruise aboard the Zenith? (Harper's paid for the cruise, $3,000--if I recall, he makes kind of a big deal about the cost and how he got to sail the high seas on Harper's dime..)

    In any case, time to revisit "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again."
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    08/19/09

    In reply to Boring Airport Book Contract Better Than No Book Contract
    I'll read it. The Architecture of Happiness is a great book. If anyone can come up with an interesting commentary on airports, he can. I find them quite fascinating, myself.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/18/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein Is Micro-Marketing the Hell Out of Inglourious Basterds
    Wild horses could not drag me away from watching this flick on opening day. So Harvey needn't fret.

    I'm on asmallworld.net and have yet to run into any millionaires or European aristocrats. I jumped on it thinking the job board was going to be the cat's meow--but it's mainly offers to babysit in Dubai and the like. I think it skews Euro/Middleast-ish, too.
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    Image of Swordfish Swordfish
    08/18/09

    @snugbug: You mean Eurotrash. Yes, founded by the Count Wachtmeiser, the Eurotrashiest of them all.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    08/18/09

    In reply to Harvey Weinstein Is Micro-Marketing the Hell Out of Inglourious Basterds
    Poor Harvey. In his defense, "Inglourious Basterds" is terrific - maybe Tarantino's best movie. It's not going to make a dime, but it sure is good.
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    This post sounds like the New York Times "Whine Club."

    Ha! That’s my joke!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    They'd better have a cat. A bodega is supposed to have a cat.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    08/14/09

    In reply to The New York Times Is Now a Bodega
    The logo could've been better. I'm sure a designer could have found a way to turn the NYTimes "T" into a wine glass. Other than that, I don't see what the problem is. Why does Gawker hate wine so much?
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