I’ve lived in my fair share of small apartments, but none of them were nearly hip enough to submitted in the smallest, coolest apartments contest.
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May 2005
“POTTY PLATES: A theme restaurant where food is served on toilet-shaped plates is packing them in, as customers look for humor with their victuals.”
I simply cannot believe I missed out on eating at this place last year. I’d heard rumors of its existence but never checked it out. Friends in Kaohsiung who’re reading this: ever been there? What’s it like?
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It is one of the most secretive regimes in the world, part of George Bush’s “axis of evil” and is believed to be close to building a nuclear arsenal. Next year, however, North Korea will open its borders to an eclectic mix of models, showbusiness personalities and captains of industry taking part in the real-life version of Hollywood’s Cannonball Run.
(Incredulous emphasis mine.)
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Had the pleasure of seeing the Washington Nationals beat the Brewers in the bottom of the ninth last night. Great game.
And then this morning I suffered a rather amusing indignity. I stopped at Starbucks on my way into the office. (By the way, in case you didn’t know, I’m back at Burness Communications, my old place of employment, as a Web consultant. Anyhoo.)
I order a breakfast sandwich—a new offering from our favorite bohemian corporate goliath. They’re actually not bad there. And the teenage girl asks for my name. I tell her. And I even spell it out for her. She scribbles it on a piece of paper with a Sharpie pen.
A few minutes later, when my sandwich has been microwaved in that that huge thing that’s supposed to look like a pizza oven or something, she picks up the paper, and in front of the entire line of waiting customers, yells, “breakfast sandwich for NEWMAN. Hello, NEWMAN? Is there a NEWMAN here”?
Gimme a goddamned break.
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OhmyNews: “One visa-less American has spent two months in prison awaiting deportation from Korea”
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…New York. My favorite:
Thug kid: Yo man, Welsh is the place to be. They drink as much as the Irish, but they don’t got the rep for it yet. –Times Square
Related: Overheard at Costco in Taipei.
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AHamburgerToday: “a new weblog dedicated to hamburgers. And cheeseburgers. And anything burger-related.”
Richard Wanderman writes a great Weblog called Richard’s Notes. We use the same design template and he gave me some great advice in setting mine up.
“Get Rich Slowly” is a nice compendium of personal finance advice.
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Welcome to the all-new Newley.com. I hope you like what you see. I’ve implemented a new design. The layout’s still simple. No fancy stuff.
(I’m still working out some of the kinks, so if anything looks weird, please let me know. I know that some visitors who’re using Internet Explorer are having trouble seeing the links along the left side of the page—they sometimes get pushed to the bottom. If you do use Internet Exploder Explorer, do yourself a favor and download Firefox!)
Anyway, while the site’s design is different, the biggest changes are under the hood, so to speak. Instead of Blogger, which I used to manage my Weblog before, I’ve switched to WordPress. I like it a lot. It’s a lot more powerful—I can use it to administer my entire site, as opposed to just the Weblog page. I’ve also switched to a new Web host. I signed up with DreamHost. They’re great.
Here’s a quick rundown of new newley.com features:
—comments for all the posts. I’m thrilled about that—now you can all respond directly to my inane musings and call me out on them;
—a search feature, which works well;
—categories for all of the posts;
—an RSS feed (though I’m still trying to get it to work);
Let me know what you think! I am here to serve you, after all, dear readers.
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I'm Newley Purnell, an American journalist in Bangkok. I report for Bloomberg BNA, ABC News Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more.
