Press Club: Bring your (designer) wallet

 

 

It’s in what’s supposedly a six-star hotel – The St. Regis – though the service lags about three stars behind. Decent but over-priced booze in a stuffy atmosphere that makes me want to pretend, in hushed tones, that I have some influence in the universe. (“I tell you Davis, if we can get Chip to think outside the box, we’ll corner the kimchi market.”) 

(From Beijing Boyce XI, first emailed on February 23, 2006)

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