Category: Shift Memos

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To Lockhart Steele:

[Technically, this is last night's Shift Change Memo.]

Just got into L.A. If there's any doubt in your mind that writing Gawker kills brain cells, consider this: I just took a five-hour flight to attend a two-hour FishbowlLA launch party, and I'm leaving at 7AM tomorrow to take another five-hour flight back to New York. That's ten hours of flying for two hours of partying. And somehow, I've convinced myself that this ratio seems reasonable.

Thank god Rachel's blogging FishbowlNY now, or we'd have two posts every ten hours. (Incidentally, I think some of our readers haven't noticed the "posted by" line at the bottom of each post and think I'm inexplicably claiming to be Canadian.)

So on my five-hour flight over, I had a lot of time to think. The usual questions emerged: (1.) How exactly does American Airlines manage to keep the air in the cabin so consistently stale? Do they pump the carcinogens directly into the air ducts, or do they just let the air age in a tank for a few years with a few hundred dirty socks and a dead armadillo of indeterminate origin? (2.) I'm almost certain there's some Venn diagram overlap between the in-flight available food options on AA and Vietnam-era Army MREs. I'm not saying there's any clandestine recycling going on--but I'm not saying there isn't, either.

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