January 2011
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We’re a restaurant that’s about: ‘Let’s play the music loud, let’s have fun,...
– Gabe Stulman - NY Times
Gabe is hospitality embodied.
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The Pheromone Party
Scent is a strange sense, it can take you on journeys and conjure up memories that are astonishingly powerful. Scent can remind you of hideous things, pleasant memories, or be deeply arousing. It’s possible that I’ve fetishized scent since getting into Baudelaire in college (Le Voyage is what did it for me, if you’re curious). So it was with great amazement that I listened to a...
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PT Barnum and Marcus Aurelius. This unlikely combination popped into my head driving yesterday when I thought: If you could choose any two historical figures to get a decent approximation of yourself, who would you choose?
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A study published in 2007 by researchers at the University of Texas School of...
– Stanford Magazine, Separation Anxiety
The high altitude at which Concorde cruised meant passengers received almost...
– Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde - Wikipedia
I wish I had flown on a Concorde.
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Camp, used as a descriptive word for certain kinds of behavior, has a meaning...
– C.A. Tripp, The Homosexual Matrix
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