Via Until a few weeks ago, you could walk into The Diner on 18th Street NW and spot, usually somewhere at the counter, a bald, bearded super-blogger, poring over his lunch. Andrew Sullivan, whose long-running blog The Daily Dish currently resides at The Daily Beast and Newsweek, has left his longtime home in Adams Morgan for New York.
But don’t feel totally bad. Sullivan kind of hates it there. In a post today, Sullivan, who is on a 10-day trip back to D.C. for doctors’ appointments, says the services in New York are even more dismal than they are in Washington. His attempt to install a high-speed Internet connection in his new apartment went horribly awry. Much as we D.C. residents loathe Comcast, Time Warner Cable is even more gag-inducing, it seems:
We bought the most expensive cable package to expedite my work at home—and it just decides to crawl like dial-up every few minutes. My mifi cannot get a signal that’s stable. My iPhone is suddenly iffy—calls are dropped and online access is far slower than in D.C. And if you keep your wifi open, it gets grabbed by squeegee hotspots that are hard to get rid of. Not a good time to lose Google maps either.
It was so bad, apparently, that Sullivan had to leave his new spread and head to the NewsBeast office to watch last week’s presidential debate, over which he has famously been freaking the fuck out ever since.
And the lousy Internet service isn’t the only bad thing about New York. Sullivan writes that his new apartment is 20 percent the size of his old place in D.C., and the sidewalks are full of loud, pushy New Yorkers.
In the mean time, The Diner’s milkshakes are still pretty solid.
