Monthly Archives: September 2012

Question Lady Question

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Question Lady

The Question Lady writes: Do you expect to get all your digital entertainment for free? Or are you willing to pay for some of it — and why?

Posted in Personal reflections | 5 Comments

City Living and the Line at the Apple Store

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Back in NYC for less than 24 hours after a couple of months away and already my brain is jangled, and my mind and eye are overstimulated … On my walk this morning I stopped by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Photography, The Good Life | Tagged Apple, Apple Store, iPhone | 2 Comments

Ballplay

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m currently enjoying a media blackout phase. Consequently, I’m trying to stay away from the television. Still, I sometimes have a nature show or something running in the background as … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal reflections, Sex, Sports, Television, Women men and fashion | Tagged Advertising, Baseball, David Ortiz, Forearm Spooge, Masturbation, Men, OkCupid, SkyMall, Sportscrap, The Matrix | 16 Comments

Linkathon

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Will S. shares a good link and a good joke. He also tries to make some sense of all the gal-teachers-having-sex-with-male-students stories that we’ve been seeing in the news recently. Interesting population-analysis guy Peter (“Cliodynamics”) Turchin is … Continue reading →

Posted in Linkathons | Tagged Bruce Weber, Colin Quinn, Naomi Wolf, Paleo, Peter Turchin, Steve Sailer, Toni Benthley, Toni Bentley | 4 Comments

A Gallery of Vegas Weird

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Alright, so the whole city is bizarro, but here are a few of the odder sights I saw on my trip. First, one of the minibar offerings in my hotel room.

Posted in Photography, Travel | Tagged animation, BDSM, Beauty & the Beast, Bettie Page, Blue Man Group, Caesars Palace Forum Shops, Donny & Marie, Fashion Show, Las Vegas, lingerie, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, monkey suit, mother ship, oxygen bar, pimp fashions, showgirls, singing Mormons, Stoli, The Palazzo Canal Shoppes, The Venetian, vibrators | 13 Comments

Hooker Style, Cont.

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Back here, Blowhard Esq. explored some of what tourist life is currently like in Vegas, with a special emphasis on what he called “hooker style.” My eyes having thus been opened, I was able to spot an … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Sex, Women men and fashion | Tagged hooker style, little black dress | 15 Comments

Question Lady Question

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Question Lady

The Question Lady writes: What does “existential” mean to you?

Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments

“Journey’s End”

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Based on a play by R. C. Sherriff, the 1930 “Journey’s End” is a good example of a movie which benefits from its stage origins. It’s less a war film than a waiting-through-a-war film: for most … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged All Quiet On the Western Front, Colin Clive, David Manners, Dawn Patrol, Ernest Hemingway, Great War, Ian MacLaren, James Whale, Journey's End, Laurence Olivier, movies, R. C. Sherriff, Richard Barthelmess, War Films, Westfront 1918, World War I | 2 Comments

Cocktail Du Jour

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I asked the bartender at a steakhouse where we ate recently what made this such a good Manhattan. “A few drops of Grenadine swirled in the shaker and then poured off,” she said. “Is that really all?” … Continue reading →

Posted in Food and health, The Good Life | Tagged California, cocktails, retro, Santa Barbara | 4 Comments

Retro: Barber Shops

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: These days I often find myself enjoying retro things. Is it my age that makes me so partial to old things, and to new things done in old styles? (If I’ve achieved true fuddy-duddyism, I have to … Continue reading →