SOME THINGS I FORGOT TO MENTION

A magnum of nice old champagne. Which has nothing to do with this except that someone was kind enough to share it at a friends birthday recently and I thought I'd commemorate it with a photo — that and the subject here is OLD STUFF. I've been bad about posting links to stories I've had out recently. So— some VERY LITTLE THINGS that have cropped up here and there over the last couple of months (none of which will age as well as the '61 Moet). Click dates for links.

GQ 8.08 "Provide anything but hookers and drugs" — and other advice from hotelier Klaus Ortlieb.

GQ 11.09 In defense of drinking on the job. The fact that I can't remember writing this is proof that if nothing else I occasionally follow my own advice.

GQ 1.09 Tips for running a great restaurant from the boys at Frasca in Boulder. OK, this one's not technically old yet but it will be soon!

DEPARTURES 12.08 A story about the Apple stores. In case you are just waking up from a coma.

From Best Life, brief telephone conversations with pretty ladies in which I ask them about what attracts them to other men.
11.08 KIM RAVER And 12.08 Mad Men's CHRISTINA HENDRICKS

Talking about Swedish rock and Bjorn Borg underwear in Stockholm in SPIN 7.08