Monthly Archives: March 2014

L.A. Burrito Blogging Part 2: La Azteca Tortilleria

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: When a Mexican restaurant is located in East L.A., on Cesar Chavez Blvd., across the street from a Catholic Church, and next door to a botanica burning enough incense to summon Quetzalcoatl himself, chances are you’re gonna … Continue reading →

Posted in Food and health, Photography, The Good Life, Travel | Tagged burritos, La Azteca Tortilleria, Los Angeles, mexican food | 7 Comments

Quote Du Jour: “Fuck the Prose”

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: A lot of my students just can’t tell a story. They can write sentences but they don’t know how to make a story go from there all the way through to the end without people dying of … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Publishing and Writing | Tagged creative writing, genre fiction, Hanif Kureishi, literary fiction, MFA | 2 Comments

Every Man for Himself

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: The world the movie shows us is a world waiting to be transformed. It’s a peculiarly American landscape: what it shows us isn’t exactly what it means — or values. Like the heart-stirring, oddly affecting plainness … Continue reading →

Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Movies, Sex | Tagged Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Frank Capra, It Happened One Night, James Harvey, Romantic Comedy | Leave a comment

The Metro Theater

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: Blowhard, Esq.’s recent post on the glorious Art Deco Pantages Theater brought to mind another theater of the same era in New York that has unfortunately been a casualty of New York’s notorious real estate developer wars: … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Movies, Personal reflections | 1 Comment

איפה וולדו?

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Fenster

פנסטר כותב: Where’s Waldo?

Posted in Photography | 1 Comment

Art Du Jour

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Frank Frazetta, “King Kong,” 1979 Click on the image to enlarge.

Posted in Art, Sex | Tagged Frank Frazetta | 1 Comment

Photo Du Jour

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: July 1939, Gordonton, North Carolina. Photo by Dorothea Lange. Click on the image to enlarge.

Posted in Photography, The Good Life, Travel | Tagged Americana, Dorothea Lange, North Carolina | 7 Comments

Gin Soaked Boy

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I drink a bit too much for someone with my family history. Suffice it to say here that there have been some things in the family past involving Swedish genes, three-day alcoholic benders in cheap Worcester hotels, sub-zero … Continue reading →

Posted in Food and health, Personal reflections | 13 Comments

MIB

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: For you out-of towners. An interesting vestige of the Bloomberg Nanny State Years: the well-known municipal ordinance mandating that all winter outerwear, boots, shoes, gloves and hats be the color black. Something to do with the absorbtion of … Continue reading →

Posted in Women men and fashion | 2 Comments

Music Du Jour: Traffic

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: The English rock band Traffic formed during the druggiest of the drug years of the mid and late ’60s and, probably not coincidentally, experienced a super-checkered history, with members joining up and falling out, substance-abuse problems, ego … Continue reading →