Monthly Archives: April 2014

Architecture Du Jour

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Kizhi Church, Russia Click on the image to enlarge.

Posted in Architecture | Tagged Russia, traditionalism | 1 Comment

Debating Diversity

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I had a boss once who was an old-time basketball guy. He’d coached tons of kids, black and white, male and female. Sometimes he’d talk about how the old coaching techniques were irrelevant to the modern day … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal reflections, Politics and Economics | Tagged debating, diversity, race | 14 Comments

Art Du Jour (ANZAC Day Edition)

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: Garry Shead, Light Horse at Gallipoli Related A previous ANZAC-themed ADJ, by Sir Sidney Nolan.

Posted in Art | Tagged anzac, Australia, gallipoli, garry shead, World War I | 10 Comments

Linkage

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Pat Buchanan thinks nationalism is the thing of the future. Related. Why hasn’t America gotten the sidewalk cafe right? There was a “campaign” to get the caps lock removed from the standard keyboard? The activist inclinations … Continue reading →

Posted in Linkathons | Tagged Bryan Singer, Pat Buchanan, Ray Harryhausen, Rupert Everett | 4 Comments

Pizza, Five Ways

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: The best pizza in the world, as everybody knows, no longer exists. It is the pizza of your childhood*. That first magical bite sets the flavor, which you spend the rest of your life attempting to recapture. … Continue reading →

Posted in Food and health, The Good Life, Travel | Tagged Chicago, five ways, food, New York City, pizza | 17 Comments

At Action Park

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I was tickled to see some reminiscences of Action Park show up in my Facebook feed this morning. Do any UR readers remember Action Park? You probably need to have grown up in the New York/New Jersey area … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Personal reflections | Tagged 1980s, Action Park, New Jersey | 7 Comments

Juxtaposin’

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: A current ad for T-Mobile (music by the band Said the Whale) The Merrymakers, Monument of Me (1995)

Posted in Music | 2 Comments

“The Great Beauty”

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: A fanciful jaunt through modern-day Rome seen through the eyes of a nearing-the-end-of-the-road libertine, “The Great Beauty” consciously evokes Fellini, though it’s free of Fellini’s attenuation and his lordly high-handedness. Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino has the advertising-soaked sensibility … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, The Good Life | Tagged Film, Italy, movies, Paolo Sorrentino, Rome, The Great Beauty, Toni Servillo | 7 Comments

Quote Du Jour: Joan Didion on J. Paul Getty

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: In a way [J. Paul Getty] seems to have wanted only to do something no one else could or would do. In his posthumous book, As I See It, he advises us that he never wanted “one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture | Tagged architecture critics, fuck you money, Getty Villa, J. Paul Getty, Joan Didion, museum, philanthropy | 2 Comments

Loners

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In those days the one girl D.W. ever appeared with outside the studio was Lillian Gish, although none of us even dared whisper that their association was anything but platonic. Nobody had ever heard D.W. address … Continue reading →