Friday, August 29, 2008

Going away this weekend...



...or are you having, in the words of the Times, a "staycation?" As the paper notes:

It is a ridiculous word, but that hasn’t stopped the sprouting of so many Web sites with perky “I ♥ N.Y.” staycation ideas — Circle Line, a museum visit, a tenement tour and bialy on the Lower East Side.

And, admittedly, it’s a very fun word to say. Staycation. How was your staycation? My parents went on staycation, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. Our son-in-law threw his back out on staycation.

As is so often the case, this new thing is nothing new in many parts of New York City. It’s just that it was never named by those level-headed working men and women who do not need a tarted-up pseudoword to enjoy a nice week without work.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousAugust 29, 2008 at 9:26 AM

    As always, NYTimes is always late on delivering news. WNYC covered this topic so may times, first one back in July (or maybe even before that I'm not aware of). I can't wait for that periodical to fold.

    http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/05/22
    http://www.wnyc.org/arts/articles/106358
    http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2008/07/17/segments/103704

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