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About Paleo Retiree

Onetime media flunky and movie buff and very glad to have left that mess behind. Formerly Michael Blowhard of the cultureblog 2Blowhards.com. Now a rootless parasite and bon vivant on a quest to find the perfectly-crafted artisanal cocktail.

“3 Days to Kill”

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I don’t have much feeling for, let alone interest in, current movies, and recently I’ve been seeing no more than two or three new movies each year. So you’d be nuts to take my reactions to current … Continue reading →

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Cocktail Du Jour

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Our Cocktail Du Jour series is mainly intended as a way to celebrate the pleasures of leisure, class, elegance, funkiness and getting a little high, as well as an ongoing tip of the hat to the cocktail renaissance … Continue reading →

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Ads Everywhere 6

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: That’s an ad on the plastic credit-card style room key we’re using at a Tucson hotel. In addition to being a little insulting, the visuals make the key hard to read where its main function goes: I … Continue reading →

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Creepshot or Not?

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: This young lady was walking along the sidewalk in front of me … Her sundress was hiking up … Does my snap of her qualify as a Creepshot? Some arguments pro and con, or so it seems … Continue reading →

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Linkage

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: A visit with J.P. Donleavy, now 88 and still legendary for his rowdy comic novel “The Ginger Man.” The Manolo thinks that an impoverished young woman just starting her first job should, despite her lack of means, … Continue reading →

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Farmers Market Find Du Jour

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: One of the big pleasures for me of spending a lot of time in SoCal is the availability of cherimoyas, a fruit that looks like a hand grenade, whose flesh tastes like mango-pineapple-vanilla custard, and that was … Continue reading →

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“Timecop”

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Slick, clever, pretty amusing if also occasionally not very convincing Jean-Claude Van Damme time-travel action thriller from 1994, directed by Peter Hyams from a comic-book series. Van Damme’s a cop who’s assigned to police misuse of new … Continue reading →

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Music Du Jour: Traffic

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: The English rock band Traffic formed during the druggiest of the drug years of the mid and late ’60s and, probably not coincidentally, experienced a super-checkered history, with members joining up and falling out, substance-abuse problems, ego … Continue reading →

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Dance Number Du Jour

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: I think it’s safe to say that a sizable majority of the people who post here are big fans of Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea in Amarillo, Texas). Has there ever been another performer so poised yet … Continue reading →

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Linkage

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Lincoln: Saint who set free the black people, or dastardly creator of the suffocating, over-centralized modern state? Love this Mickey Spillane paperback bookcover. Some wonderful Japanese prints of nudes. Russian women apparently enjoy being objectified. Imagine that. … Continue reading →

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