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  • Imaginary Socialites vs Real Socialites

    So it’s come to this: An Imaginary Socialite and A Social Climber check into the hotel to pretend they are Andy Warhol and Nico shooting Chelsea Girls. Well, I’m sure it’s not the first time.  There is nothing new under the sun here at the Last Outpost of Bohemia.  We’re used to fashionistas slumming it,…

  • Hotel News You Can Use

    HOW TO set up a cash-money ISP at a hotel Here’s a neat way to make a buck at a hotel. Bring along your EVDO wireless broadband card, use a router to turn it into a local WiFi network, and set the SSID of the network to: "8bucks-a-day-wifi-$YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER_HERE." Other guests call you up and offer…

  • Hotel Potty Humor

    Another Sunday, and time once again to pat ourselves on the back for being the very first hotel blog and for being even remotely interesting to boot.  Now, however, we’re pleased to announce that the field of hotel humor bloggin appears to be entering its golden age, with sites springing up like shit-house mushrooms.  The…

  • Chelsea Mystery Lunatic

    In his memoir, SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, David Goodwillie describes a Chelsea character, but we can’t for the life of us figure out who it could be.  Below is the excerpt. Any guesses as to who the cigar smoking man who walks into rooms with closed doors might be? Here he…

  • Chelsea Hotel Is Like An Old Rolling Stones T-Shirt

    We’re tired of all of those people on tripadvisor.com bad-mouthing us so we decided to check Yelp.com.  That’s where the young people post their reviews of the Chelsea.      A tourist named Jay Chan H. stayed here recently at the rock bottom price of $195.00 a night.  "Everything is tired and worn," he says,…

  • Hedda Lettuce Helps Out

    According to the Wall Street Journal, bloggers face a difficult decision: to go on vacation once in a while, or to just keep blogging everyday until the undertaker pries their cold, dead fingers from their keyboards.  Well, we faced that choice this month, and decided to keep on blogging!   For the first time in several…

  • Featured E-mail of the Week

    From a rocker in Maryland:Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy the blog…it’s alot of fun to read, I find myself laughing outloud at work…and sometimes I really need that! Thanks once again for linking the blog I wrote about the Chelsea…even if you did take it a little out of context!! ….…

  • D-XRISTO: ABSOUTELY FRENCH!

    Renaissance man D-Xristo! stopped by the Chelsea to visit his friend, and fortunately for posterity his friend had a video camera.  He is French, goddammit!What do you do?I am an art model, pet sitter, actor and singer songwriter under the name of D-XRISTO! What brought you to the Chelsea? My best friend and talented photographer…

  • Welcome to the Chelsea Hotel: Old, Crappy & Eerie

    There’s a review of the Chelsea on the tripadvisor site that really takes us to task.  “Chelsea Hotel: Old & Crappy” the review is called. The reviewer talks about the old furniture and speculates that Stanley’s purpose in retaining it is to give the place “the feel of when the stars stayed here.” I have…

  • Venturing Down The Chelsea Memory Hole

    Last week, there was a lot of discussion about AOL’s decision to release details about user’s web searches.  Despite efforts by AOL to remove the data, the database is still online. We decided to look into the AOL memory hole to see who was planning to visit the Chelsea.  We expected to find artists and…