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Monthly Archives: December 2013
The Beach Boys’ Sixth Studio Album: All Summer Long
Sax von Stroheim writes: From journalists to mythologizers to metaphysicians. Not their first great album, but the first album that could arguably be considered their greatest.
Posted in Music, Performers
Tagged music criticism, Southern California, Southern California Teenage Life, The Beach Boys
3 Comments
Hark! How the Bells
Fenster writes: When tree trimming this year I dispensed with iPod Christmas songs and just put on Pandora. I was about to set up a holiday station when I noted Pandora just started up with holiday songs by default. Well, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Philosophy and Religion
2 Comments
Why Do So Many People in Trendy Coffee Shops Use Macs?
Paleo Retiree writes: Whenever I enter or pass by an upscale or hipster coffee shop these days, it’s not at all uncommon for every single person I see there who’s on a computer to be using an Apple product. Does … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Humor, Personal reflections, The Good Life, Trends
Tagged Apple, coffee, computers, trends
11 Comments
Vintage Photo Du Jour
Eddie Pensier writes: Grandma and Grandpa Pensier, early 1930’s. Best guesses as to location: London or Buenos Aires. Can any Uncouth readers identify the automobile?
Posted in Personal reflections, Photography
6 Comments
Sexy Ad Campaign Du Jour
Paleo Retiree writes: Thanks to Diesel for this very hot set of posters I ran across the other day: Suicide Girls goes Bollywood on a Harley is my best stab at describing the feel of the concept. Can you do … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial art, Sex, The Good Life
Tagged Advertising, Diesel, iPhone, Nick Knight, photography, sexy
8 Comments
How Terribly Strange to be Twenty
Fenster writes: I had coffee this morning with an old friend with kids about the same age as mine, late teens. As we talked about little-kids-little-problems/big-kids-big-problems we touched on an aspect of life at that age that we’d more or … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics
Tagged Crystal Fairy, Kenneth Lonergan, Margaret, Michael Cera, Sixties
3 Comments
Restaurant Scene Du Jour
Blowhard, Esq. writes: To piggyback on Paleo Retiree’s recent post, I caught this couple at the table next to me a few months ago. They were on their phones most of the time I observed them. There wasn’t much conversation.
Posted in Food and health, Photography, The Good Life
Tagged Las Vegas, modern love, smartphones
4 Comments
Publicity Archives
Sherbrooke writes: Photographer Whitey Schafer distills the attractions of film noir. Thou shalt not!
Posted in Movies, Photography
4 Comments
Another Right Pundit Tackles Inequality
Fenster writes: Another right-leaning pundit acknowledges inequality as an issue, which is better than the historic brush-off.