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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Book Notes: Catching Up with Moldbug
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Whenever the topic of Moldbug came up in online discussion, I would confess to friends that I was never able to make it through an entire post. Too long-winded, too arch, too many references that admittedly went right … Continue reading
Architecture and Color
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What I’m Streaming Now: “Funny Little Frog”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: This song, the second single from Stuart Murdoch’s “God Help the Girl” side project, is a nearly perfect pop song to my ears. I also loved the movie Murdoch wrote and directed based on the album. It’s on … Continue reading
Quote Du Jour
Blowhard, Esq. writes: The *establishment* composed of journos, BS-Vending talking heads with well-formulated verbs, bureaucrato-cronies, lobbyists-in training, New Yorker-reading semi-intellectuals, image-conscious empty suits, Washington rent-seekers and other “well thinking” members of the vocal elites are not getting the point about what … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Economics
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Nassim Taleb, The Cathedral
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Bronze Is Not the Most Durable of Monuments
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Near three months, without excepting the holy season of Lent, were consumed in skirmishes and preparations, before the Latins were ready or resolved for a general assault. The land fortifications had been found impregnable; and the … Continue reading
Architecture and Color
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“Woman on the Run”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This 1950 noir, directed by Norman Foster, and written by Foster and Alan Campbell, from a story by Sylvia Tate, is intriguing for the way in which it uses its thriller premise to mine the complexities … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers, Uncategorized
Tagged Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Film, Film Noir, movies, Norman Foster, Ross Elliott, San Francisco, Woman on the Run
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Quote Du Jour: Orwell on “Fascism”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal … Continue reading
More on Free Speech
Fenster writes: As I have written before I am not a free speech absolutist. This is part of a broader pattern, since I aspire to be an anti-absolutist in all things. Or most all things. I would not want to … Continue reading
Classical Off-notes
Fenster writes: Bit by bit I find myself returning to classical music. I was never an expert but I was enough of a fan in my youth. Back then it was not uncommon for classical music to form at least … Continue reading
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