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Tag Archives: Lloyd Fonvielle
Juxtaposin’: Background/Foreground
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:
Lloyd’s Memorial
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Head over to Lloyd’s blog for the program from his memorial service, some beautiful remarks by his friend the Reverend Paul Zahl, and a recording of “Dark Harbor,” a song Lloyd co-wrote.
Weekend Read
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Our friend Lloyd’s final project before his death was an adaptation of a spec script he wrote during his Hollywood days that has just been published on Kindle: Las Vegas in the 1950s — a glamorous black chanteuse . … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, Movies, Music
Tagged Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Las Vegas, Lloyd Fonvielle, pulp fiction, Shakespeare
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Majestic Micro Movies: The Film Essays
Blowhard, Esq. writes:
RIP Lloyd Fonvielle 1950-2015
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Lloyd Fonvielle — writer, artist, friend to many of us here, our fifth Beatle — died earlier this week at his home in Las Vegas. His creativity, humor, intelligence, and generosity will be deeply missed. I heard a … Continue reading
Free Weekend Reads
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Friends o’ the blog Kirsten Mortensen and Lloyd Fonvielle are making their latest short stories available for free through the weekend. You get can get Mortensen’s Elmore Leonard homage Free Money here and Lloyd’s South Seas supernatural pulp thriller Black Pearl … Continue reading
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Paleo Retiree writes: Razib’s blogging is now to be found here. “Rescuing the female body from commercialization and commodification is one of the great tasks that lies before our civilization,” writes Lloyd Fonvielle. Read our interview with Lloyd here. Is … Continue reading
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Tagged fitness, health, Jim Kalb, Lloyd Fonvielle, Nassim Taleb, politics, Steve Sailer, Wilhelm Ropke
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Paleo Retiree writes: Bill Kauffman praises Jesse Walker’s new book. World’s toughest women? Should AP classes be open-access? Is anti-racism worse than racism? The Golden Age of the Moustache. Lloyd Fonvielle thinks “Two Weeks in Another Town” may be “the best … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Kauffman, cocktails, Lloyd Fonvielle, Martin Doudoroff, race, racism
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I Can’t Even Remember What It Was I Came Here To Get Away From: An Interview With Lloyd Fonvielle
Blowhard, Esq. writes: If you’re a regular visitor here, you’ve probably seen one of us mention friend-of-the-blog Lloyd Fonvielle before. I met Lloyd about a year and a half ago on Facebook where he’s a lively and generous presence. We struck … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books Publishing and Writing, Interviews, Movies, Photography
Tagged Ben Johnson, Disney, Elmore Leonard, Ernest Hemingway, George Balanchine, Hollywood, James Agee, Kevin Jarre, Las Vegas, Lincoln Kirstein, Lloyd Fonvielle, Los Angeles, Michael Chapman, New York, New York TImes, North Carolina, self-publishing, Shelby Foote, shithead Hollywood executives, The Mummy, The Odeon, Tommy Lee Jones, Toni Bentley, Virginia Madsen, Walker Evans, William Eggleston, Woody Allen
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Paleo Retiree writes: Should all Americans be given a basic monthly income? Con artist of the year. “I’m 40 years old going on 65,” says an ex-lineman. “God knows what I’ll feel like when I’m actually 65 years old.” Why … Continue reading