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Web Pro News always has the handle on the cutting edge. Here are some salient points about blogs, please remind me if I do this. How To Destroy Your Blog By Wayne Hurlbert There are several ways that you can destroy your own blog. It might be a slow and […]
Tina Brown writes in the Washington Post on Jocko, and describes Martin Bashir thusly..Why on earth did Jackson and the Princess of Wales both choose to open up their entire lives to this brooding, charm-free figure? He looks about as well-intentioned as the interrogator you meet when you are rendered […]
Andre Agassi and Roger Federer enjoy a game atop the dizzying heights of Dubai’s famous seashell-shaped hotel. The watched 211 balls fly over the edge.
News from Focsany, Romania came in recently about an unfortunate cheater. Man Loses Wife & Mistress Over Gifts A Romanian man lost his wife and mistress in one night after buying both a personalized gold necklace then mixing up the gifts. Petru Cioaba, from Focsany, bought identical necklaces for his […]
I was a guest speaker at a class at UMass yesterday. Old pal BJ Roche, who I have known for decades, invited me to speak to her feature writing class. The students were mostly interested in writing for magazines, none said they wanted to be travel writers. I showed them […]
Looking for History is a new book that came to me from old friend and super-reader Kent St. John. It is subtitled “dispatches from Latin America’ and written by Alma Guillermoprieto. The first chapter is about Eva Duarte, who became the Evita we have all heard about from the Madonna […]
Television often lives up to its billing, surprising as that is to say. Last night’s viewing included several well done reality shows. First up was “boss swap,” where two car dealers exchanged sales managers. The first dealership was, improbably, run entirely by women. The second shop specialized in exotic cars, […]
I was walking down 50th St. and smelled the sweet, unmistakable smell of burning reefer. Then I saw these two gents passing a big doobie back and forth here at their construction site.
Kent St. John, our Senior Travel Editor at GoNOMAD.com, has jumped on the blogging train full tilt. His new blog will be called Be Our Guest, and provide readers with details, photos and other tidbits about his travels and about the life of a travel editor. His next few months […]
Kirstie Alley has the last laugh and deserves it. The former Cheers siren, who is famous for National Enquirer photos and her weight, landed a new TV series on Showtime that focuses on the subject of weight. She refuses to run away from herself and has written a new series […]
We met Jen Leo today at the NY Times Travel show. IT was great to put a person with a name, we’ve been in touch for a while about the interview we ran with Jen and about her wonderful writtenroad.com blog. Jen is going to be a poker player this […]