Simply The Best: September 2024
- Creeper Cam Is Back: Alexander Bachuwa Launches the Vlog
- Grand Hyatt Barcelona: Good, Bad, & Annoying
- Guns & Butter: Andorra Travel Guide (Country Count Edition)
- I Missed My Ride: Not So ‘Direct Bus’ Andorra
- Etiquette of Things: Keep Your Dirty Hands to Yourself
- Why So Much Decaf in My Hotel Room?
- Andbus to Andorra: ‘And’ It Showed Up
Looking to Avoid Prison? Read the Blog, Mr. Mayor
Cenk Öcal, who as general manager of Turkish Airlines in New York was said in the indictment to have served as the point person for Mr. Adams’s numerous seat-upgrade requests, seems to have understood this all too well, dangling business-class seats in front of the mayor as both carrot and stick. After Mr. Adams was elected mayor, Mr. Öcal began angling for a spot on his transition committee:
“It would suit me well to be lead Or Senior Advisor,” Mr. Öcal wrote in a text to an Adams staffer, according to the indictment. “Lead Plz :).” He later texted, and then added — deploying perhaps the most horrifying generic threat imaginable to someone terrified of being relegated to the back of the plane — “Otherwise seat number 52 is empty.”
As an attorney, I find these texts to be incriminating. As a travel blogger, I empathize with the mayor by quoting Kamala Harris, “We’re not going back . . . to peasant class.” The following is not legal advice: If you’re going to be busted over airline upgrades, make the charge worth it by flying Emirates, SQ, or Cathay. The latter comes with this prison jumpsuit:TPOL’s Out Of the Office Again
Creeper Cam Is Back: Alexander Bachuwa Launches the Vlog
There was a time in my life that I walked around with a video camera. It was known as the creeper cam by virtue of its ability to capture stealth moments in HD. In total I had 3 of these Sanyo-made devices. As phones took over, the desire to carry an extra device faded as did my creepiness. Incidentally, this was around the same time I started my blog in 2014 (see TPOL Is Ten And #MasterOfWon). Although TPOL loves writing about travel, there’s more to Alexander Bachuwa than points. Accordingly, I have started a YouTube channel appropriately named Master of Won. This is not an amateur operation. I have a film producer who takes my content and produces magic that should generate fractions of hundreds of pennies (see TPOL’s Way Out of Poverty Is Not Vlogging). The inaugural clip is coming soon. For now, answer this question: do you find this guy creepy?