"Imagine going to the pub with a sufferer from square bracket compulsive disorder: “Two pints..."

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:17:20 +0000

“Imagine going to the pub with a sufferer from square bracket compulsive disorder: “Two pints of Kronenbourg [lager] and a packet of [sea] salt and [balsamic] vinegar crisps, please. Oh, and can I have a dry [house] white [wine], a [Cornish] pasty and a packet of dry roasted [peanuts]?””

- David Marsh in a post to the Guardian’s style blog about the use of square brackets.

"Ddid you know that there still is a Pan Am lounge in West Berlin? It used to be a penthouse..."

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:23:12 +0000

“Ddid you know that there still is a Pan Am lounge in West Berlin? It used to be a penthouse apartment for pilots and flight attendants. Today, it’s a party and event location and they’ve kept the original style of the 60ies.”

- David Noël in On This Day Today: 1966. (The whole thing is worth a read for the story of a Pan Am plane crash in East Germany.)

The lounge, on Budapester Straße 43 near Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn has a Flash site (which I didn’t bother looking at), but it’s also covered Ultraswank. It seems to be private, but they (used to) occasionally host jazz nights. Seems like it might be worth looking out for.

notes.husk.org

"Imagine going to the pub with a sufferer from square bracket compulsive disorder: “Two pints..."

"Ddid you know that there still is a Pan Am lounge in West Berlin? It used to be a penthouse..."