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[Indian Wells Beach, Amagansett, 12:32pm yesterday]

A Beach tipster from summers past emails, "With so much going on already, I would figure you guys would be on top of you game. Instead, a very uncomfortable silence from The Beach." Fear not, friends. As the above photo hints, operatives have been combining the South Fork for weeks now, gathering intel on the season ahead (not to mention gawking at the sheer number of houses for sale). Are we ready for summer 2008? Spoiler: yes. Yes we are.

So, yes, The Beach will be back, but we've used the winter season to upgrade our own real estate. This Thursday, God, the Internet, and our contractors willing, we'll be relaunching at Gridskipper with all you've come to expect from The Beach, plus quite a bit more. Get the rosé on ice—this is going to be fun.

Blogs define the undefinable -- that's why they're blogs and not logs or frogs. Monsieur, you might ask, mais, qu'est-ce que c'est le gridskipping? Indeed, all these years and nobody's had the balls to just ask. Is it because Gridskipper is a loan word that only cool, edumacated people know and practice, or is it because just like the word zeitgeist, gridskipping is nothing more than a zeitgeist for a generation of jaded travelers? Someday, when Martian archeologists are dusting nuclear fallout dust from our petrified servers and piecing together the human spirit for a touching museum exhibit on Earth people, they just may come upon these motheaten annals of travel debauchery and wonder, as we sometimes do, just what this was all about. In their search for real answers, the future bubble-helmeted historians might sift through the Rosetta stone that is Wikipedia, or maybe even a real dictionary. But for the sake of them and future generations of Chinese people, let me lay it out for you in this handy-dandy time capsule format. Forgive me for just cutting and pasting stuff from off the net, but that's all that writers are good for these days.

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So clean! So precise! So worthy of your name! Any chance you could help them out on theirs? Around about 11 last night, it all started to get a little complicated for them:

• Frommers
• Honda Fit
• Mini
• Toyota Corolla
• Unscrew America
• Uwishunu.com

But if you'd also like to get a little something extra to include on line 31, give some thought to advertising with Gridskipper.

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I'm not sure where you are, but here everyone's getting a little stopped up with all the pollen and construction dust floating around. But there's something else in the air, I think? Ah yes, it's a little something we call love for our sponsors:

• Avenue Q
• Frommers
• Honda Fit
• Mini
• New York Times Travel
• Toyota Corolla
• Unscrew America
• Uwishunu.com

If you also want to get in on some springtime devotion of your own, look into advertising with Gridskipper.

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And maybe they do have some, just a little. A few of those crunchy Mini Eggs. And perhaps the bulk of a large, solid-chocolate bunny. And, OK, several trays of Peeps, all nice and stale the way you like them. Apply to them directly to see what you can work out:

• Avenue Q
• Mini
• New York Times Travel
• Register.com
• Toyota Corolla
• Travel Ad Network
• Unscrew America
• Uwishunu.com

If you want the details of your own candy stash to become a little more public, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

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And we love how they share their dollars with us. It's worth considering giving them a share of yours:

• Avenue Q
• Mini
• New York Times Travel
• Register.com
• Toyota Corolla
• Travel Ad Network
• Unscrew America
• Uwishunu.com

If you also want to get some traction with your own sixteen bits, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

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And even if they did, we still wouldn't know what they were driving at. Please support them and their varied endeavors:

• Alaska Airlines
• Kenneth Cole
• Mini
• New York Times Travel
• Register.com
• Toyota Corolla
• Unscrew America
• Uwishunu.com

If you would also like to see what six or seven diamonds feels like, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

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. . . to be sexy with us. But it helps! Please make use of their fine products and services:

• Alaska Airlines
• Kenneth Cole
• Le Meridien
• Mini
• New York Times Travel
• Register.com
• Toyota Corolla
• Unscrew America
• Uwishunu.com

If you're looking for a place to show your own company's unique talents, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

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• Alaska Airlines
• Kenneth Cole
• Le Meridien
• Mini
• Register.com
• Toyota Corolla
• Toyota Yaris
• Uwishunu.com

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And they'll do a lot more than just take you out to lunch. Our fine sponsors deserve your vote, and by vote, we mean dollars:

• Alaska Airlines
• Kenneth Cole
• Le Meridien
• Mini
• Register.com
• Toyota Corolla
• Toyota Yaris
• Uwishunu.com

If you think you deserve a nomination from our attractive core demos, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

C'mon you two, stop fighting. Can't you see that you're in love? Our sponsors want you to unite, not divide:

• Alaska Airlines
• In Bruges
• Le Meridien
• Register.com
• Toyota Corolla
• Toyota Yaris
• Uwishunu.com

If you also can't bear for this thrilling campaign amore to end, EVER, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

Figure at least one of those bids has got to find some traction, somewhere. Fear our sinister consortium:

• In Bruges
• Le Meridien
• Register.com
• Toyota Corolla
• Travel Channel
• Uwishunu.com

If you long for the shelter of a corporate cabal, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

They've been campaigning hard, and they're not going to stop now:

• In Bruges
• Register.com
• Travel Channel
• Uwishunu.com

If you find yourself short a delegate or too heading into the home stretch, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

But just because our sponsors have a mysterious $7.1 billion in their bank accounts, that's no reason they don't need yet more of your own precious funds. Patronize their products and/or services:

• In Bruges
• Sundance Film Festival
• Travel Channel
• Uwishunu.com

If you're looking for a place to safely launder a few hundred million dollars of newly liberated currency, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

Keep Gridskipper Working, obviously. We don't tolerate suppressive persons in our readership either, as we've canceled that in our area. Join us in the way and the happiness:

• In Bruges
• Register.com
• Travel Channel
• Uwishunu.com

If you too are the only one capable of helping out a traffic accident victim or a curious travel consumer, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

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The man's a national treasure, after all. Though we're all disappointed that Tom & Katie didn't pass on his real last name of Mapother to lil' Suri. Hardly worth leaning on the guy, though. Our sponsors will only deal with celebrities through legitimate means:

• Amazon Anywhere
• Frommer's
• Uwishunu.com
• Register.com

Love the famous from a respectful distance via advertising with Gridskipper.

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They like the cut of his gib! Barack Obama stands for change, which is one of the most lovely unexamined contradictions of our time. He's got my vote, as I'm tired of my brand of coffee and my flavor of toothpaste. Change is the new constant! Except where our sponsors are concerned, who will always be there for you, commercially speaking:

• Amazon Anywhere
• Frommer's
• New York Times Magazine
• Patron
• Uwishunu.com

Strike a blow for flux and consider advertising with Gridskipper.

And why shouldn't they be? Even a grainy jailhouse mugshot of a post-intox Mischa Barton makes her look just adorable! We should all be so lucky, if caught while blitzed. Our sponsors are perfectly respectable but nevertheless are willing to drive you home semi-sober:

• Amazon Anywhere
• Frommer's
• New York Times Magazine
• Patron
• Uwishunu.com

If you want to chip in for cab fare or at least a tank of gas for your designated driver, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

Man do our sponsors know how to have a good time. They totally rocked that holiday party, and though you might think they crossed the line with you, they really didn't mean it like that. And could it be that you were a little interested too? Let them off the hook and give 'em some holiday love:

• Amazon Anywhere
• Frommers
• New York Times Magazine
• Patron
• Uwishunu.com

If you also like to let loose around the holidays--or any other time--consider advertising with with Gridskipper.

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Since our sponsors are abstract corporate entities, they can't have friends. But though you cannot "friend" them, and really shouldn't "fan" them in the interests of decorum, they want you to know that they'll always be fans of you, the reader and consumer, in the most financially positive yet nonbinding sense. If you're already a Gridskipper fan, why not share the fannish love:

• Frommer's
• New York Times Magazine
• Patron
• Register.com
• Uwishunu.com

And if you want to express your fanship in a contractually appropriate commercial relationship, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

Our sponsors are nice folk. Good people. Wholesome. Salt o' the earth. They've not a mean bone in their corporate bodies:

• Frommer's
• Mandalay Bay
• New York Times Magazine
• New York Anime Festival
• Patron
• Register.com
• Uwishunu.com

If you'd like to help heal our damaged national psyche after this week of splenetic rage, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

We spend a lot of time around here recommending the best, the greatest, the top picks, and the coolest places. Don't be fooled by this perpetual hurricane of positivity -- lurking just beneath is a veritable Gulf Stream of negative angst. What better time to release our inner mean than this week, just before the holiday cheerfest begins in earnest? Therefore, through Friday, we'll be peppering our usual friendly suggestions with the occasional tirade of hateful anti-recommendations. Check back for regular Mean Week posts on a variety of subjects and places, and join us for a good wallow in the bile.

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Our sponsors are avidly following your comments! Remember, this makes you their friend, but makes them your follower. Keep it straight:

• Dewars
• Frommer's
• Mandalay Bay
• New York Times Magazine
• New York Anime Festival
• Patron
• Register.com
• Uwishunu.com

If you might also want to properly separate society into followers vs. friends, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

Other than posting the odd note on our ghost town of a Facebook group, we never paid much attention to the social media side. But now we've established ourselves as a Facebook entity of sorts, which allows you to be a "fan" of us. Sure, it's borderline mortifying, but only if you had some particular emotional investment in the philosophic sanctity of Facebook in the first place. Once we get a decent population of Facebook fans, we plan to start using that outlet not as a way to spam you with links back to this site (well, not all the time anyway), but to discuss ideas and topics you'd like to see covered. So take a look and establish your fanhood. We won't take advantage of this new relationship. Much.

Gridskipper [Facebook]

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We can't either, quite honestly. But if you must make the Puritans cry with your crass disrespect for their sacrifice, the least you can do is share the bounty:

• Dewars
• Frommer's
• Mandalay Bay
• New York Anime Festival
• Patron
• Register.com
• Uwishunu.com

If you also might spare a corncob and a gobbler for needy neighbors, consider advertising with Gridskipper.

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