Friday July 16, 2004

Paging Mr. Okrent

I’ve just been alerted to a July 4 article in the New York Times ‘Sunday Styles’ section about the Maritime Hotel, which reads in part:

With its two rooftop restaurants, a spacious outdoor terrace and a subterranean club, the Maritime is a sort of hot-spot multiplex. Its crowds are so thick, and so famously on the make, that the snarky Web site Gawker.com has made a running item of their awfulness. One early June entry cited ”loud-talking account executives,” ”nasally bobbleheads” on cellphones and ”vomiting schoolchildren, in from Bayside and Bayonne.”

Hey, that bit of Gawker snark is actually a quotation of snark minted right here at Encyclopedia Hanasiana. Thanks to Chris Davis at my former roost, The Memphis Flyer, for spotting this — God knows I never read the Times; what, is that printed on paper? — and setting the record straight, at least down South, where my base remains energized.