Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef, arrived in Beirut not too long ago with a camera crew to shoot footage for his Discovery Travel Channel show, No Reservations. His aim was to show the revival of Beirut’s cultural and culinary life after…
Day: July 28, 2006
Just Goes To Show, You Can’t Win For Losing
The discussion below, as it always seems to when a young woman is raped or murdered, turned to the kinds of Monday-morning quarterbacking people do after the fact, which always has an undertone of she asked for it. The “What…
The Making of a Proper Victim
What happened to Jennifer Moore, a young New Jersey woman who drove into Manhattan with a girlfriend two days ago for some partying and wound up dead in a trash bin, is tragic. She and her friend became separated at…
This Will Get You Banned
Quoth Mark, who was stamping his little feetsies because I refused to a) buy into his framing of certain questions and b) do his Googling for him: You say you’re a lawyer, huh? No doubt, one of the shittiest ones…
Friday Cat Blogging – The Old Skool Edition
Doug, Pablo, And by popular request, Merle. And poor Sasha, She doesn’t feel well. She’s lost quite a bit of weight and seems as though she’s on the verge of something sinister. We have a feeling the adoption agency lied…
Friday Random Ten – The Sippin’ MaiTais at BlogHer Edition
Ooh, it feels good to whip out an FRT. Yes, I blogged this before I actually left for San Jose, but I’m hoping I at least get a mimosa up in that blogger con. A further note: Jill has asked…