the collected musings of ms. rachel b. doyle

LOVE LOVE LOVE the hot pink cabs in Bangkok! These dream...

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:29:00 -0800

LOVE LOVE LOVE the hot pink cabs in Bangkok! These dream chariots are cheap as chips too.

350,000 Tourists Stranded In Thailand

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:35:22 -0800

well, looks like I'm stuck in Thailand!

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:00:00 -0800

American citizens travelling or living in Thailand should be aware that the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has entered and forced the closure of Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang airports in Bangkok. All incoming and outgoing flights have been cancelled. We do not know when flights will resume. While we have conveyed our deep concern with these closures to the Thai authorities and remain hopeful that the airports will reopen in the near future, ultimately it is a situation that can only be resolved by those involved.

The dowside:

My plane (I had a connecting flight to Chiang Mai via Bangkok) rerouted to Phuket - the southernmost part of Thailand - for one day, and then to Pataya, where I then had to get on a 14 hour bus to the Northern capital. This bus had NO BATHROOMS. And a 40-year-old crusty German backpacker stole my mobile (what is this, the nineties?)! Um, yeah: hell.

The upside:

Chiang Mai is awesome! Also, the Thai Foreign Ministry has arranged for credited compensation of 2000 Thai baht credit per day for hotels and meals at hotels. So, since I’m staying with a friend of my sisters, I’m just going to use my credit to eat at fancy hotel restaurants. Score.

Maxi Geil & Playcolt - Making Love in the Sunshine This kind...

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:15:00 -0800

Maxi Geil & Playcolt - Making Love in the Sunshine

This kind of love is like Das Kapital: I know who wrote it & can quote it but never read it at all // This kind of love is like the Red Brigade: what was so scary once is now a little bit quaint! // This kind of love is like the SLA: it took a debutante to make me wanna move this way // This kind of love is like a guillotine: I just lost my head to a cause greater than me. (via Fluxblog, years ago)

Not gonna lie, I had the most perfect Sunday ever, sweating it...

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:35:57 -0800

Not gonna lie, I had the most perfect Sunday ever, sweating it out naked in the awesome Badeschiff sauna & amazing pool-in-the Spree with a bunch of equally enthusiastic (and probably hungover) Germans and Russians. More pix (of the venue, you pervs!) here. Afterwards: Burgermeister, natürlich!

Falling for Berlin, from the Irish Times

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:37:00 -0800

Falling for Berlin, from the Irish Times: My friend Louise East just wrote the best, and definitely the most hilarious travel piece I’ve ever seen written on Berlin. Brilliant!

utahrd: Cuvrystrasse, Kreuzberg

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:51:59 -0800

utahrd:

Cuvrystrasse, Kreuzberg

The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine A classic punk...

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:07:00 -0800

The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

A classic punk cover! I have a polaroid somewhere of myself and Ari Up, who came to my NYU punk class with Vivien Goldman decked out in yellow with ass-length dreads.

Letters to God from Adorable, Misguided Children

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:45:00 -0800

Letters to God from Adorable, Misguided Children

"…because love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love."

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:33:22 -0800

“…because love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.”

- Kundera, The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting

ultrasur1: Kim Jong-illness Dictators: Now In Technicolor!

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:15:58 -0800

ultrasur1: Kim Jong-illness

Dictators: Now In Technicolor!

MTA to NYC: Pay More, Ride Less, Drop Dead

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:35:00 -0800

MTA to NYC: Pay More, Ride Less, Drop Dead: Line closings and $3 fare hikes are being considered today in NYC; my former Balthazar coworker-cum-Blackbook scribe Foster Kamer weighs in on the madness that would ensue if this proposal were actually enacted.

Zoot Woman - Half Full Of Happiness Private confusion now public...

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:59:00 -0800

Zoot Woman - Half Full Of Happiness

Private confusion now public view
Problems in the way of “solving you”

I just heard about this amazing service called BookSwim,...

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:40:45 -0800

I just heard about this amazing service called BookSwim, it’s like Netflix for books. photo via lookmom

"He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the..."

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:54:29 -0800

“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”

- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Popular Science, November 1937. Found via Modern Mechanix via...

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:20:26 -0800

Popular Science, November 1937. Found via Modern Mechanix via Google image.

(via mollylambert)

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:12:16 -0800

(via mollylambert)

Elastica - Never Here Then I started to worryI thought of our...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:30:00 -0800

Elastica - Never Here

Then I started to worry
I thought of our lives left on the shelves
Too much TV and curry
Too much time spent on ourselves.

noraleah: I love a Russian doll: so simple, so timeless, so...

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:24:48 -0800

noraleah:

I love a Russian doll: so simple, so timeless, so coy. Sara Zucker writes that a slew of dolls were created by leading fashion designers for Vogue Russia’s 10th anniversary. I wouldn’t mind the Giles Deacon (the spiked babushka) or Dries Van Noten (in a signature watercolor print) in my stocking this (Orthodox) Christmas.

The Emotionally Unavailable Alcoholic’s Guide to Holiday Dating

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:23:00 -0800

The Emotionally Unavailable Alcoholic’s Guide to Holiday Dating:

23. Avoid any man with a tribal armband tattoo. He is a mirage from 1998.
24. Avoid any man who makes an exaggerated point of being Irish. He thinks he is a character from The Departed.
25. Avoid any man who writes music. He doesn’t go outside enough.

(via buttercuppunch)