UD | Open This, You Might Learn Something

If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version 09/30/13   Table of Contents Five Books That Belong on Your Coffee Table Coffee tables and books. They go together like... two things that go together really well. Which is why we’ve flipped through thousands of tomes to find you five books worthy of being displayed in your den. Or living room. Or office. Or wherever you’re keeping your coffee table these days.     ARTS & CRAFTS The Secret to Every Great Cocktail   There are around 78,023 bartenders in Manhattan (give or take). But only one of them creates the life-affirming cocktails at Michelin-starred eatery Per Se. That’s the bartender you want to know. On a related note, that’s the bartender who just put all of his recipes in a book. Cheers.   411: Craft Cocktails, drop a lime in something here     IN LIVING KOLOR The Best Pictures Nobody’s Ever Seen   A lion driving a car: that’s a page in this book. A racehorse observing a dinner date: that’s a page in this book. A topless model playing life-size chess in Saint-Tropez: that’s a page in this book. You should probably get this book.   411: Elliott Erwitt’s Kolor, see something wonderfully weird here     MISTER ANDERSON The World According to Wes Anderson   Rushmore. The Royal Tenenbaums. Fantastic Mr. Fox. Those are Wes Anderson movies. And this is the tome where Wes Anderson explains those movies. Also, this is the tome where Wes Anderson displays never-before-seen illustrations and gets deep. Not meaning-of-life deep, but still...   411: The Wes Anderson Collection, read about the Royal treatment here     SWANS SONG A Book About Travel, Sex and Adventure   Within these slipcovered 300 pages: large, lustrous images of jetsetters from the ’50s through the ’80s doing jetsetter things. Like lounging on yachts and gallivanting around palaces and, you know, being in France. So, yeah, use it for inspiration.   411: Swans: Legends of the Jet Society, remember the good old days here     NICK OF TIME Or if You Don’t Have a Coffee Table...   ... Nick Offerman will help you build one with your own two hands. Also, he’ll help you grow a mustache. And grill a steak. And seduce members of the fairer sex. Because he’s got a new book in which he waxes poetic on how to do all of those things. In Ron Swanson you trust.   411: Paddle Your Own Canoe, see how-to here UrbanDaddy is pure editorial. You can't buy love from the Daddy. About Us   |    Archives   |    My UD   |    Perks   |    Contact   |    Jobs   |    Advertise   |    Tips Email Issues   |    Privacy Policy   |    User Agreement   |    Unsubscribe   |    Editorial Policy 900 Broadway, Suite 808 New York, NY 10003 © 2013 UrbanDaddy. All Rights Reserved.

UD | Eat. Pray. Gin.

If you have trouble reading this email, go to the online version September 29, 2013 Bilbo Bagan If Indiana Jones Went to Myanmar... VITALS Bagan Lodge Myat Lay Road New Bagan Nyaung Oo Township Myanmar +95 0 616 5456 official website Flying. It’s a thing you do from time to time. And it’s about time you got rewarded for it. British Airways agrees, so with their Executive Club Frequent Traveller Programme, you’ll earn points for flights and purchases. Points that you can redeem for trips and upgrades. You know what to do. Not to get all spiritual on you, but... we’re about to get all spiritual on you. Well, sort of. It’s the kind of spiritual that requires hot-air balloons, massages and gin. Like what you’ll find at Bagan Lodge, an 82-room paean to adventure and extreme pampering in the most temple-filled area of Myanmar, taking reservations now. In terms of places to find awe-inspiring thousand-year-old pagodas, Myanmar’s pretty high on the list. There’re over 2,200 in this tiny town alone, actually. And in terms of nearby places from which to conduct your spiritual awakening/Indiana Jones–ing escapades, there’s... this place. It’s the kind of porch-laden, rattan-everything colonial clubhouse where you’d expect to find a troupe of British imperialists sipping gin back in 1924. Except this is 2013, so expect more swimming pools, jacuzzi tubs and wi-fi. Also: less actual imperialism. Your itinerary will proceed as follows: wake up. Eat a muffin. Claim a pool chair. Find the lobby’s travel desk. Inquire about hot-air-balloon voyages over temple fields. Book voyage. Return to pool chair. Sip gin. Embark on hot-air-balloon voyage. Gaze wistfully upon ancient things. Become enlightened. Gin has that effect on you. Note: Bagan Lodge, taking reservations now, more info here, see the slideshow UrbanDaddy is pure editorial. You can't buy love from the Daddy. About Us   |    Archives   |    My UD   |    Perks   |    Contact   |    Jobs   |    Advertise   |    Tips Email Issues   |    Privacy Policy   |    User Agreement   |    Unsubscribe   |    Editorial Policy 900 Broadway, Suite 808 New York, NY 10003 © 2013 UrbanDaddy. All Rights Reserved.