Okay, kids. I need to pack this computer up and drive to Santa Fe. By the time I make it there, I think we're going to be in the transition window during which you shouldn't see any new posts. Soon enough, though, the MatthewYglesias.com URL will start directing you to the new Atlantic site. I hope you like it.
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A Weekend of Significant Transition
27 Apr 2007 09:02 am
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what a time to be alive...
So true, Adam. I once tried to look up Matthew's New Years predictions from last year to see how disastrously wrong they were. I couldn't find them anywhere... Too many sites, and poorly designed archives.
Too many sites, and poorly designed archives
You should totally demand your money back.
You drive? A car? I am imagining your undisclosed location being New Orleans, and you enjoying the glorious scenic drive thru Dallas and Amarillo. I haven't done it since the 80s on my way to LA. Southern route thru the Mojave, Tucson, Deming, El Paso, Odessa is also great. Better than Big Sur or the Tetons, spending a day driving thru Texas reveals the Real America.
Matt:
In Santa Fe, make sure that you go to a place called Cafe Pasqual's for breakfast. It was hyped on on episode of Rachael Ray's godawful TV show, which of course predisposed me toward dislike -- but my wife and I went there one morning on a recent vacation, and I have to say I was blown away. Really fantastic -- and it's breakfast. You never really think that there's that much new to be done with basic ingredients like eggs, sausage, bread, etc., but this place defies all expectations. I had some sort of poached-egg-on-a-potato-pancake thingy that I still think about fondly, many months later.
Also, there's a really great Japanese-style spa on the outskirts of town called Ten Thousand Waves, where you and your significant other (I'm assuming you're traveling with one) can rent, for one or two hours, a private bath. It sounds skeevy. IT IS NOT. These baths are gorgeous, with giant stone whirlpool tubs, saunas, showers, fluffy terrycloth robes, open-air views of the woods and mountains. It's all done up in the style of an elegant rural Japanese ryokan -- incredibly tasteful and extraordinarily rejuvenating. There's even a little intercom buzzer in your "bath" room; if you buzz it, you can request that someone bring you some tea or fresh juice or even a carton of their exotically flavored homemade ice cream.
Have a great trip. Santa Fe is really great -- you may even find yourself threatening to move there instead of Portland.
Best,
Jeff Turrentine
Austin, TX
Café Pasqual's
121 Don Gaspar Ave (just off the plaza)
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-983-9340
Ten Thousand Waves
www.tenthousandwaves.com
you enjoying the glorious scenic drive thru Dallas and Amarillo.
???? What the hell is so scenic about that drive? You are talking about Dallas and Amarillo, Texas, right?
Agreed that the El Paso-Tucson route is OK (still not great, tough), but if you swing onto I-8 outside of Tucson and go to San Diego instead of LA, it really becomes special.
is this a kids blog?
It's faster if you take the information superhighway.
I am so ashamed of myself right now.
what! no matt for awhile. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
No, no, it isn't New Orleans. Matt has already indicated he is three hours behind Eastern time . . . which makes me surmise the undisclosed location is actually in Arizona, where they are on Mountain Standard (not Pacific Daylight) time, and not too crazy of a drive to Santa Fe.
Matt, if you are in Phoenix, let me recommend taking the Beeline Highway through Payson to Holbrook, and then taking I-40 east from there. A lovely drive through the Mogollon Rim country. You may even see a billboard or two blaming forest fires on environmentalists.
Matt, if you are in Phoenix, let me recommend taking the Beeline Highway through Payson to Holbrook, and then taking I-40 east from there. A lovely drive through the Mogollon Rim country.
That's a nice drive - you can stop at Petrified Forest on the way. However, I'd recommend taking Route 60 to Socorro and then north. You can stop at the Very Large Array on the way. OK, I'm a geek; sue me.
"Okay, kids. I need to pack this computer up and drive to Santa Fe ... during which you shouldn't see any new posts."
If you're not able to blog while driving, you're not worthy of being depicted in cartoon form.
If you're not able to blog while driving, you're not worthy of being depicted in cartoon form.
Yeah. Instapundit blogs from the road all the time. Just another reason right-wing blogs are better than left.
Also, now that you're getting the big bucks, you can spring for some guest bloggers next time you go on vacation, right? I mean, the Atlantic springs for Sullivan's guest bloggers, right? So you should get equal treatment. Maybe you could get a mix of, say, Henry Abbott and James Fallows.
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The thing that really sucks is that with all these moves it's almost impossible to coherently look in your archives. You've got some posts in one place, some posts in another, some posts in yet another.
Posted by Adam Herman | April 27, 2007 9:12 AM