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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.

Quote Du Jour

Paleo Retiree writes: The best thing I’ve read today comes from Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: With 300 million possible entrants in the race, how did we end up with two guys who would both refuse to bring a single case … Continue reading

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Linkathon

Paleo Retiree writes: Fair to say that docs about food topics are one of the most vital cultureforms around these days? Is Apple going to hell? I wrote about some of my own misgivings about Apple’s direction here. “Birth tourism” … Continue reading

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Tennis Highlights

Paleo Retiree writes: One of my favorite video forms of the YouTube era is the cutdown tennis match. Real-life tennis matches are just too damn long, you know? I played high school tennis; I’ve hung out with some excellent players; … Continue reading

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Linkathon

Paleo Retiree writes: Smart stuff from Lloyd Fonveille about the Marlene Dietrich / Josef von Sternberg films. Some great pix too. Jill Duffy reviews the food at the Berlin and Kiev airports. These days, are there still many people who … Continue reading

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“Gradiva”

Paleo Retiree writes: A beyond-pretentious and dirty-minded Alain Robbe-Grillet art-sex movie from 2006. He made it at the age of 84! — gives an aging, dirty-minded man hope. An art historian in Morocco looking into Delacroix’s visit to North Africa … Continue reading

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City Living and the Line at the Apple Store

Paleo Retiree writes: Back in NYC for less than 24 hours after a couple of months away and already my brain is jangled, and my mind and eye are overstimulated … On my walk this morning I stopped by the … Continue reading

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Linkathon

Paleo Retiree writes: Will S. shares a good link and a good joke. He also tries to make some sense of all the gal-teachers-having-sex-with-male-students stories that we’ve been seeing in the news recently. Interesting population-analysis guy Peter (“Cliodynamics”) Turchin is … Continue reading

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Hooker Style, Cont.

Paleo Retiree writes: Back here, Blowhard Esq. explored some of what tourist life is currently like in Vegas, with a special emphasis on what he called “hooker style.” My eyes having thus been opened, I was able to spot an … Continue reading

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Cocktail Du Jour

Paleo Retiree writes: I asked the bartender at a steakhouse where we ate recently what made this such a good Manhattan. “A few drops of Grenadine swirled in the shaker and then poured off,” she said. “Is that really all?” … Continue reading

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Retro: Barber Shops

Paleo Retiree writes: These days I often find myself enjoying retro things. Is it my age that makes me so partial to old things, and to new things done in old styles? (If I’ve achieved true fuddy-duddyism, I have to … Continue reading

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