March 2012
21 posts
I hate the word "expat" and never use it to... →
“A former Newsweek Researcher recalls two of her colleagues being dispatched to a...”
– The three-martini lunch: totally a real thing. (via newsweek)
Three martini lunches, ha. You should have been to the office parties.
In which Republican presidential candidate Rick... →
inothernews:
Rick Santorum — a jackass in any language.
What’s the big deal, Rick? George Bush Jr. can’t speak English either and he made it through two terms as president.
“I wanted to write about the New York of people who come here and make new lives,...”
– Salman Rushdie in his Paris Review interview (via timpiste)
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Replace New York with The Internet
(via msg)
Which is why, when people ask me where I’m from, I don’t say, “the US”, I say, “New York”.
