Category Archives: Personal reflections

Why Do So Many People in Trendy Coffee Shops Use Macs?

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Whenever I enter or pass by an upscale or hipster coffee shop these days, it’s not at all uncommon for every single person I see there who’s on a computer to be using an Apple product. Does … Continue reading →

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Vintage Photo Du Jour

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Eddie Pensier

Eddie Pensier writes: Grandma and Grandpa Pensier, early 1930’s. Best guesses as to location: London or Buenos Aires. Can any Uncouth readers identify the automobile?

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Gilded Age Gallery

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: I enjoyed Mark Siegel’s Sailor Twain, a dark fantasy-romance graphic novel set during the late 19th century on a Hudson steamboat, quite a bit. I had planned on writing a longer review until I realized that, er, all I … Continue reading →

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Seeing What is in Front of One’s Nose

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I wrote here that, just as the Left is right to struggle with the possibility of too much diversity, the Right is left to struggle with the possibility of too much inequality. It’s a struggle all right, and … Continue reading →

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Tonight . . . Let it be Middlebrau

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes: I recently wrote about where I was when I heard that Kennedy was shot: in a high school assembly awaiting a recital by a famous violinist.  Classmates from the era and I struggled to put a name to … Continue reading →

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Mom Jeans Haiku

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Over heart-shaped rear Denim stretched like blue-hued bliss No low-rise bullshit

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You Can Now “Like” Us on “Facebook” So Please “Do So”

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq. writes: Go here for our new Facebook fan page. Now you can get the entertaining, thought-provoking, obscene, Nobel-prize winning content you’ve come to expect right in your Facebook feed to horrify share with your mothers, grandmothers, and spinster aunts.

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Umami Burger, and Some Reflections About Culture and SoCal

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Though L.A. partisan Blowhard, Esq. has been urging the Question Lady and me to give Umami Burger a try for a couple of years, we’ve never found time during our L.A. visits to indulge. So how convenient … Continue reading →

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Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Blowhard, Esq.

Blowhard, Esq writes:

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Hashing, Blockchains, Cryptography and Bitcoin

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Sir Barken Hyena

Sir Barken Hyena writes: What a zippy headline! Rolls off the tongue like honey. But a lot of people will be saying those words in the coming years, as Bitcoin is now poised to launch into the mainstream, to go … Continue reading →

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