Author Archives: Blowhard, Esq.

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About Blowhard, Esq.

Amateur, dilettante, wannabe.

“The Night Manager” (2016)

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Finally caught up with this wonderful BBC series. If Guy Ritchie’s THE MAN FROM UNCLE does classic Bond better than the recent Bonds, then THE NIGHT MANAGER does realistic Bond better than the recent Bonds. All of the … Continue reading →

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Non-Naked Ladies of the Week: The Playboy Bunny

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: May these bunnies put a spring in your step. Happy Easter.

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Quote Du Jour: The Irreconcilables

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: There can be no more formidable symptom of our time, and none more menacing to popular government, than the growth of Irreconcilable bodies within the mass of the population. Church and State are alike convulsed by them; but, … Continue reading →

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Art Du Jour

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes:

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Quote Du Jour: From Pulp Fiction to Sober Reporting

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: The Old Bailey Session Papers [the law reports for London’s main criminal court] originated close to an earlier genre of popular literature, the sensation-mongering chapbooks, which were pamphlet crime reports that date back to Elizabethan times. The chapbooks … Continue reading →

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Naked Lady of the Week: Kira the Little Redhead

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: We’re reaching back into vault of remembrance of faps past today for this week’s selection. Kira the Little Redhead wasn’t just a diminutive, freckle-faced ginger with big boobs and an endless appetite putting on, and then taking off, … Continue reading →

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Movie Still Du Jour

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Barbara Nichols as the cigarette girl in SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957).

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Rant Du Jour: Why Rob from “High Fidelity” Sucks

Posted on February 24, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: We’re all arts sophisticates around here, right? We love the good things in life like pro wrestling, Michael Bay movies, and Mickey Spillane novels. We cultivate our refined taste and enjoy bantering with like-minded aesthetes. Ergo, you’d think … Continue reading →

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Quote Du Jour

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: At provincial assize courts in the Elizabethan-Jacobean period (1558-1625) the average duration of a trial, including time for jury deliberations, has been reckoned at between fifteen and twenty minutes. These were cases of felony, which still in Elizabethan … Continue reading →

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“Feminine Beauty” by Kenneth Clark

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: What I appreciated most about this book, aside from the subject matter, was its modest approach. Clark, best known as the writer and host of the TV series “Civilization”, is a highly cultured man but he wears his … Continue reading →

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