Monthly Archives: June 2015

Quote Du Jour: Bullshit Dumps

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Baseball men often like to attribute the success or failure of a team to clutch performance. Those of us who study baseball systematically know that his is largely untrue, that the number of runs a team scores is … Continue reading →

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Without Half Trying

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Getting out of a cab is one of the things most women don’t do right. But most women aren’t Velda. Without half trying she made a production out of it. When you saw her do it … Continue reading →

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Right-thinking New Urbanism

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster quotes: Coming from a mainstream conservative source, such writing (on New Urbanism) has been as scarce as hen’s teeth. For close to two decades, conservative pundits like Wendall Cox, Randal O’Toole, and Joel Kotkin have relentlessly bashed this trend. … Continue reading →

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Notes on “Stranger by the Lake”

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: In “Stranger by the Lake,” writer-director Alain Guiraudie mines some of the thematic veins explored by William Friedkin in “Cruising”: it’s a picture about the danger and exhibitionism inherent in male-on-male courtship. The setting is a lake in the south … Continue reading →

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Monologue o’ th’ Day

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Fenster

Fenster writes: Another monologue, another film adapted from a play–Jules Feiffer’s Little Murders. Like last week’s, another long-winded treatment of a father, though Lou Jacobi is decidedly less mannered than Christopher Walken.

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Review: “Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation”

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Sir Barken Hyena

Sir Barken Hyena writes: I really enjoyed this documentary on the construction of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Solid background material is interspersed with meditative shots of the construction in action, and on site interviews with figures major and minor tie it all together. … Continue reading →

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Ad Du Jour

Posted on June 4, 2015 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Is this the closest Catherine Deneuve ever came to starring in a sci-fi opera? An ad from Women’s Wear Daily, February 9, 1971. Click on the image to enlarge.    

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Juxtaposin’: Aloha Edition

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Do “cultural appropriation”-obsessed SJWs know about the Tiki craze? Is that their version of the Holocaust?

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Couldn’t Do It Today

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: A friend notes that it’s a comedy in which rape is dismissed as “assault with a friendly weapon.”

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Linkage

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: The real Pussy Galore. A great rant from Fred Reed. Steve Sailer takes a look at the excruciatingly slow progress of California’s High Speed Rail. Some girls are just born wild. Elon Musk: genius … at milking the … Continue reading →

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