Featured E-mail of the Week

From a rocker in Maryland:
Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy the blog...it's alot of fun to read, I find myself laughing outloud at work...and sometimes I really need that! Thanks once again for linking the blog I wrote about the Chelsea...even if you did take it a little out of context!! …. Maybe next time I'm in town you could ask Stanley to give me a discount...HA HA! Keep up the good work. And thanks for giving me my Chelsea fix when I'm home. This is why we write the blog: to help the people in Maryland make it through the workday!

A librarian from Brooklyn weighs in: I really enjoy reading about the Chelsea on your blog. I loved that there was an entry that looked into the AOL searcher profiles, awesome idea!! I also just watched the Entourage episode about the Ramones project. Cool!

A new reader who enjoys torturing librarians writes:
I notice some of my favorite writers listed on your site. Here's a fun game to play:

Call up your local library and tell them that you're looking for a book. Tell them it's a kids book...by Charles Bukowski. Then just wait a few seconds for the long pause. Then say "Yeah, I think it's called 'Notes from a Dirty old Man to little kids' or something like that."
I have a friend who is a librarian and she hates me for doing this stuff to her.

A reader from Canada:
I kind of like the idea of the Chelsea Hotel being old and crappy. None of this refurbished business.
Of course, in my head, I'm writing in a room there, the curtains are dusty, the room is clean but it's not the Hilton....which is exactly why I would be there. 
n'est pas?  Our point exactly!  Old and Crappy is best!