Author Archives: Blowhard, Esq.

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About Blowhard, Esq.

Amateur, dilettante, wannabe.

The Camera Loves…

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: …Yvonne De Carlo. Click on the image to enlarge.

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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 →

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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 →

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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.

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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.

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UR Redesign

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: All of us here at UR agree we’re wonderful, highly talented people who put out a superior product day in and day out whenever we feel like it. We’re like The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, and The New Yorker … Continue reading →

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Quote Du Jour

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: If you can go past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of the human intelligence; if you can stand the hailstorm of flash bulbs popping at the … Continue reading →

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Movie Still Du Jour

Posted on March 1, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT Click on the image to enlarge.

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Movie Still Du Jour

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in Howard Hawks’s HIS GIRL FRIDAY Click on the image to enlarge.

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Architecture Du Jour: Los Angeles’s Pantages Theatre

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: As I implied earlier, this past weekend I was at the Pantages Theatre to see the touring company production of Book of Mormon. As wonderful and hilarious as the show was, it was almost upstaged by the venue itself, an … Continue reading →

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