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Category Archives: Travel
De De Mollner’s Sunset Strip (With a Few Detours Along the Way)
Blowhard, Esq. writes: After reading Paleo Retiree’s ultra-groovy interview with De De Mollner about her days as a go-go dancer in 60s L.A., I couldn’t help but wonder about some of the Sunset Strip locations she mentioned. A few of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Photography, Travel
Tagged Amoeba Music, Capitol Records building, Chateau Marmont, Cinerama Dome, Ciro's, Crossroads of the World, Dan Tana's, Falling Down, Hollywood, Hollywood & Vine, KHJ Studios, Los Angeles, Lucy's El Adobe, Martoni's, Mel's Drive In, Musso & Frank Grill, Nickodell's, Pandora's Box, Paramount Pictures, Sunset Sound, Sunset Strip, The Brown Derby, The Comedy Store, The Trip, The Whiskey, Tower Records, Trocadero, West Hollywood
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Notes on Los Angeles, Part II: Mostly Architecture
Sir Barken Hyena writes: The L.A. visit continued with a walking tour of glorious, or at least much photographed, Downtown Los Angeles. We had some highs and some lows with this one. One “high” was certainly the LA City Hall, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Travel
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Notes on Los Angeles, Part I
Sir Barken Hyena writes: Lady Hyena has been getting restless lately, never a good thing, so I took her and myself for a few days in the Big City: The City of Angels in this case, a place we’ve only … Continue reading
Posted in The Good Life, Travel
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The Law Rock
Blowhard, Esq. writes: From 930 until 1262, medieval Icelanders lived in a society with no national government — no king, no army, no taxes. Hell, there wasn’t much local government either. The basic unit of organization was the family farmstead. There … Continue reading
The L.A. Conservancy’s Art Deco Walking Tour
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Recently, I attended a walking tour offered by the Los Angeles Conservancy, a charitable organization tasked with “preserving and revitalizing greater Los Angeles’ architectural heritage.” (Don’t laugh.) These tours are offered every weekend of such places as the … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Food and health, Travel, Architecture
Tagged Los Angeles, Santa Muerte, art deco, Union Station, Biltmore, Pershing Square, Claud Beelman, Parkinson & Parkinson, building codes, gay cruising, Hart Crane, L.A. Conservancy, John B. Parkinson, Donald D. Parkinson, Beaux Arts, Mission Revival, Romanesque Revival, Title Guarantee Building, SCE Company Building, Oviatt Building, UMAMIcatessen, Umami Burger, Sun Realty Building, Eastern Columbia Building, Ricardo Legorreta
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Adventures in the Hermit Kingdom
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Yet again, tensions are flaring between the North and South on the Korean peninsula. Following a nuclear test in North Korea in February, the West increased its sanctions and then the U.S. flew a couple stealth bombers … Continue reading
Posted in Personal reflections, Politics and Economics, Travel
Tagged 60 Minutes, Aquariums of Pyongyang, Brandt travel guides, DPRK, Escape from Camp 14, graphic novels, gulag, Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong-Il, mutual assured destruction, North Korea, Nothing to Envy, nuclear war, Pyongyang, South Korea, The Cleanest Race, The Day After, This is Paradise!, USSR, VICE, worst kickline ever
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Architecture Conundrums: Solvang
Paleo Retiree writes: Back in the day, one of the main things that any self-respecting arts education drilled into wannabe artsfans was an aversion to kitsch. And not just an aversion to it, but a vehement, cell-level hatred. It’s fake. … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Architecture, Travel
Tagged alpacas, architecture, California, charcuterie, Denmark, food, kitsch, Petersen Village Inn, Root 246, Santa Ynez Valley, Succulent Cafe, wine
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The View from My Train
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Took the Amtrak from Orange County to San Diego over the weekend. On the way back home, I snapped this snap of Solana Beach. No wonder everyone wants to live in California.
Posted in Photography, The Good Life, Travel
Tagged Amtrak, California, cliche for a reason, San Diego, Solana Beach
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“Damsels in Distress”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Like Fabrizio, I recently watched Whit Stillman’s latest mocking eulogy for WASP culture and enjoyed it quite a bit. In the DVD commentary Stillman says the budget and shooting style was like his first film Metropolitan and this movie feels like … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Personal reflections, Travel
Tagged Greta Gerwig, New York, WASPs, Whit Stillman
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Letter from China: Amateur Anthropology
Fenster writes: It is hard for the mind to grasp itself since it is inside looking out. Consider the case of that poor neuroscientist I wrote about here, who had to reason through that he was a sociopath on the … Continue reading
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