Morning Links: The Zion Curtain, Pynchon and Baedeker, and more
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.12.09 | 10:00 AM ET
- Utah may tear down the “Zion Curtain” and make it easier to get into bars. Will that boost the state’s tourism?
- See Europe ... in New York City.
- Kurt Andersen in Nicaragua: “[T]he country has become one of those Places on the Verge, discovered by cognoscenti but not yet overrun.”
- Yes, Los Angeles has a bike culture. Matthew Segal immerses himself.
- MetaFilter celebrates Baedeker travel guides—“the de facto travel guide for international men of leisure”—and how they served as a research tool for Thomas Pynchon.
- Man sues US Airways for $1 million after it allegedly lost his Xbox and gave him “an unconscionable runaround.”
- Man jumps into Niagara Falls and survives, only the third person ever to do so.
- Welcome, Big World Magazine.
- Finally, another U.S. Senator, another embarrassing airport incident. If only someone had caught Sen. David Vitter’s alleged outburst on video like Cathay Pacific caught the Airport Auntie.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 03.12.09 | 10:25 AM ET
How come the voters of Louisiana seem to keep sending nutty politicians like Vitter and Jefferson to Washington? Or are these their best candidates? If so, I really don’t want to know who the bad ones are.