"He's a television chef who's so cool he needs other people to tell you how cool he is!
"And he's a ... liberal journalist-blog-thing.
"Together, they're like hammering spikes of pure early twenty-first century microcelebrity into your eye sockets!"
I'm not sure there is any voting, and the site says the casting call is now closed, so I'm not sure Ackerman submitted in time. Great idea, though. Ackerman should work some back channels to make it happen.
How the fuck are you supposed to vote? You are supposed to login and rate the thing? That's bullshit.
BOTBOTBOTBOT.
Ackerman's allegedly in the top 20, but I don't understand the ranking, because he's got more stars than some of the people above him.
Maybe upping the number of times his video is played and leaving worshipful comments would help.
Maybe he got it in by the deadline, which is now upon us, silly.
Although the rules do say "Your video should consist of a recent or past trip you took alone or with friends and family. It should give the viewer an inside look into the location and/or food you enjoyed."
I'm not sure the video meets that requirement, but hey.
BTW, I absolutely loathe Bourdain and hope the PKK takes him hostage.
You log in, which I did, and you rank by clicking on the appropriate star, which I did. If I get an assload of spam, I hope Bourdain gets cancer of the ass.
He should have included the slide of himself getting punched in the chest while in body armor by Labs. That woulda spiced things up.
Body Armor by Labs is the new Body by Victoria.
I'm telling you, I have the video.
The real story at that link is that Bill Murray remains the coolest guy ever.
Spack-man appears to have surged to the top. He's the only one with four stars but has far fewer plays (~700) than some of the others in the top 20 (6000+?!).
15: The past tense in that excerpt scared me. I thought for a second that there was no more masturbating to Gary Busey.
15: Oh, I like this one:
Michael Flatley: The Lord of the Dance lorded his nouveau richeness around the hotel. The native South Sider affected a brogue, wore heavy masacra and complained about the "inferior" wine list. The authors say he gawked up and down at every woman he encountered. And when he wanted to visit his parents, he chartered a helicopter to the south suburbs.
How awesome to take a helicopter! He could have been borne on a litter by leprachauns!
Speaking of helicopters, I was flabbergasted when someone I met on my trip to Paris told me they had used this. If I was in New York, I would totally do that shit. Damn.
20: If you buy a business class ticket on Continental, they throw the helicopter ride in free.
Sometimes I really, really want to be rich.
20: Ten minutes to Newark? (Sounds like a rip-off of Escape from New York.) Wow. I wonder what the baggage limits are.
Sometimes I really, really want to be rich.
You don't even have to be rich! It's like the price of a round-trip cab ride to the airport. The future is awesome. Helicopters for all!
I am afraid of helicopters. Wasn't it a helicopter shuttle to the airport that crashed into the PanAm building?
I wonder what the baggage limits are.
One checked bag and one carry-on bag per person, together weighing no more than 50 lbs.
25: Wasn't it a helicopter shuttle to the airport that crashed into the PanAm building?
Helicopters sometimes crash, it's true.
Chris is just trying to keep the cost down so he can hog all the helicopters to himself.
Wasn't it a helicopter shuttle to the airport that crashed into the PanAm building?
You're probably thinking of this.. A helicopter tipped over before takeoff, killing a few.
From the link in 29: "In February 1955, the one way fare from LaGuardia to Idelwild was $4.50." (This is a trip via helicopter, for those not inclined to click.)
I took a helicopter ride over the Badlands. The chopper was mostly a plexiglass bubble so you had the effect of watching the ground move away beneath your feet. Scary, but fun.
Just a little roadside attraction: $35 for 15 minutes.
26 et seq.: I'm beginning to be glad my baggage for the planned summer trip will be too much for the service. Hate to miss an opportunity to shout "Get to the choppah!" though.
I'm flying from Newark to Chicago in two weekends from now, but pretty sure I'll stick to public transit.
I'm flying from Newark to Chicago in two weekends from now, but pretty sure I'll stick to public transit.
The train to Newark is outrageously overpriced (and doesn't arrive early enough for the first flights of the day). It's as if they'd prefer everybody took a helicopter.
Thanks, Spackerman--voting for you finally forced me to open a dedicated spam email account.
29: The X and I took a chopper from the Pan Am building to Idlewild the day after Christmas in 1965 to go on our honeymoon. That was one scary ride, and even scarier in retrospect when I think of all of the things that can go wrong with a helicopter (including hung-over pilots).
White Man's Burden: Bringing helicopter service to the benighted.
mailinator.net is a great alternative to creating a spam-catcher email account to verify accounts that you don't care if anybody 'steals'.
40: You know, having registered, it doesn't seem they care whether you verify your account at all. Just that you go through the process of filling out the registration form with some sort of information, along with a username and password you can (even, say, temporarily) remember.
Hm....
FWIW, Spackman's falling in the rankings. No Mineshaft love?
