Blowhard, Esq. writes:
- I recently had dinner with Lady and Sir Barken Hyena at animal in West L.A. All three of us recommend the shrimp and rabbit sausage spring roll in the green curry sauce.
- Awesome gallery of vintage beer ads from around the world.
- Is Obama worse that Nixon?
- What would Orwell think?
- Count me as a member of this group.
- Friend o’ the blog Lloyd Fonvielle turned me on to this excellent horror series, originally published as seven separate stories, that’s now available in one volume for only 99 cents on Kindle. Hey, speaking of horror, I see Polly Frost’s Deep Inside, will be reissued by Tor this summer.
- One of my favorite art resources on Facebook lately is The Traditionalist. Lots of classical/monarchical/let’s-remember-a-time-before-things-went-to-shit type art. Here’s a sampling of some recent posts. (Click on the images to enlarge.)
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- Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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- Aachen Cathedral
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- David with the Head of Goliath by Caravaggio
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- Louis Carl Ludwig Douzette
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- Utsikt på Dresden i måneskinn by Johan Christian Claussen Dahl
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- Himeji Castle
- A blog’s gotta have a theme. (NSFW, H/T Paleo Retiree)
- Here in California, we’re experts at knowing how to ruin a good thing.
- She was a young columnist for Seventeen magazine, graduated from Harvard, a war photographer, an Emmy award-winning news producer, and novelist, but since none of her four published books have been reviewed by the New York Times, y’know, sexism.
- I’ll give $1,000 to anyone who can tell me what the hell the quote means.* (*Void where prohibited. Offer is hereby rescinded. If you try to collect anything I’ll tell you to fuck right off.)
- My latest food addiction is the fresh mango salsa from Whole Foods. (I realize using the phrase “Whole Foods mango salsa” ups the Douche Quotient on this blog about 20 points, but whatevs, it’s delicious.) Mangoes, red onion, garlic, cilantro, jicama, three kinds of peppers, and crushed red chili. Sweet, tangy, savory, and a little heat all in one refreshing bite. I eat it right out of the container, no chips or Chilean sea bass necessary.
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
Uncouth Reflections 
Actually, the more I think about it, that “lizard people” thing actually clears up a lot of stuff for me. That, and Tuesday Weld being the Druid Priestess of the Illuminati…
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Looking at the I Rate Your Panties blog brings up the same question as Guess Her Muff: where in the world do the people running the site get all those pictures??
Peter
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Tough job, but somebody’s gotta cull through all those porn Tumblrs.
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The salsa looks tasty, and I thought Whole Foods was pretty good, if pricey, when I was in the US for a few months last year.
As long as I’m jumping on the douche bandwagon, I might as well add this about the reviled Nixon: last year my son said to me, “Papa, you think the best US president during your lifetime was Nixon, right?” Which surprised me, since I’d never asked myself that question, but he was right. I was born four days into the Kennedy administration, for the record.
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If I ever have a side project, I’m naming it “Douche Bandwagon.”
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And who, in your view, was the worst? Or, indeed, is the worst?
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Johnson has done the most enduring harm. The most recent two are giving him a run for his money.
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Operation Enduring Harm: I like that. Tell me, does anyone suspect that LBJ was behind the JFK assassination?
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