truly the glamorous side of touring, spending almost more time on airplanes than on the ground.
luckily i like being on/in airplanes(being ‘on’ an airplane might be uncomfortable, as the wind would be 600 miles per hour and it would be roughly 40 degrees below zero. that would be chilly and mildly unpleasant).
some good things about airplanes:
a-you can read crappy books and not feel guilty.
b-you can watch crappy movies and not feel guilty.
c-you can look outside and occasionally see interesting things like mountains.
d-endless supplies of orange juice.
e-interesting people you can avoid talking to.
and so on.
i’ll leave nyc thursday, be in france on friday, spain on saturday, then back to nyc on sunday.
and i’ll be flying pan am, if you want to stalk me.
or eastern.
or branniff.
i’m not actually sure yet, as they all offer pretty compelling travel packages.
oh, that’s right, i’ll be flying twa.
poor twa.
what’re they going to do with the eero saarinen twa terminal at jfk?
it’s the coolest terminal in the world.
i hope they don’t screw it up, even if i don’t know who ‘they’ might be.
it’s sad that the cool airlines who sort of made air-travel seem glamorous in the 50’s and 60’s have all gone belly up. twa and eastern and pan am all seemed so cool and they all featured so prominently in bad movies from the 60’s and the 70’s.
and now they are all gone.
too bad american airlines is still around. american airlines is kind of like the new york city bus-line of the skies.
shouldn’t someone at american airlines make an effort to make it nice?
or nicer?
the other domestic airlines are all relatively ok, what happened to american airlines that it always feels gross?
ok, enough travel whining.
i have to go eat pancakes.
see, i’m quite dull when i don’t write about politics.
oh, i saw the movie ‘queen’ or ‘the queen’ last night.
it was pleasant, but i kind of forgot about it within 5 minutes of leaving the theater.
are tony blair and the queen really such good pals?
moby